Course Details
Country:
Greece
Institution:
American College of Thessaloniki
Course Title:
Comparative Literature
Course Number:
English 340
Course Description:
The module aims to engage students in a comparative study of literary representations of sexuality from antiquity to present times. Terms such as ‘sex’ and ‘sexuality’ are often used interchangeably, without considering their many different connotative meanings at different historical periods, or in different cultural contexts. How do texts construct sexuality? Sin has been linked to sex and sexuality for centuries; how do we understand ‘sin’ today? What is the role of various social, political, cultural, and religious institutions in constructing and perpetuating an ideology of ‘normalcy’ and morality with regard to sexual behavior? Also, how has science been influencing the putative ideology? Finally, where does art come in? How have literature and film helped shape or challenge our views on sex, gender, sin? The course is divided into three parts: a) philosophy and sexuality, b) class, gender, sin, and sexuality, and c) Freud, psychoanalysis and sexuality, which will bring
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ENGH 309
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