Finding Time: Proust & Comparative Literature
GERMAN 241
Subject & Catalog Number
Jointly Offered with:
Faculty of Arts & Sciences as COMPLIT 241X
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Description
The seminar provides an opportunity to read through, absorb, and reflect upon Marcel Proust’s monumental novel, In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu, 1913–1927), considered alongside key essays by French, German, and English literary critics and theorists. Major themes include but are not limited to: involuntary memory; topologies of time; love, sexuality, jealousy, and manipulation; aesthetics of music, literature, and the visual arts; nature and the mind; individuality and social hierarchies.
Course Notes
German 241 is equivalent to Comp.Lit. 241x. Credit may be earned for only one of these courses.
School
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits
4
Cross Reg
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
Department
Germanic Languages & Lit
Course Component
Lecture
General Education
N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data
N/A
Divisional Distribution
Arts and Humanities
Course Level
Primarily for Graduate Students
