| Call Number | 00571 |
|---|---|
| Day & Time Location |
TR 5:40pm-6:55pm 409 Barnard Hall |
| Points | 3 |
| Grading Mode | Standard |
| Approvals Required | None |
| Instructor | Christopher C Baswell |
| Type | LECTURE |
| Course Description | The literary mode we call “romance” has been enormously popular and influential from its origins in Hellenistic antiquity to current science fiction, and at all levels of textual ambition from popular culture to canonical literature. Within this mass of material, one constant element is romance’s encounter with boundaries. This course will explore such boundary moments in texts from the 5th to the 20th centuries: boundaries and transgressions of desire (romances of marriage and adultery), of time (the reimagining of antiquity), of national foundation, of geography (settings in a fantasy east), of gender, and of class, indeed the boundary of the human and the monstrous. |
| Web Site | Vergil |
| Department | English @Barnard |
| Enrollment | 27 students (30 max) as of 5:06PM Saturday, May 10, 2025 |
| Subject | English |
| Number | BC3288 |
| Section | 001 |
| Division | Barnard College |
| Campus | Barnard College |
| Section key | 20231ENGL3288X001 |