Instructor: E. Grimm
With an emphasis on equality and social justice, this course examines and compares significant 19th c./20th c. literary approaches to friendship as intermediary between individualism and communal life. Discussion of culturally formed concepts and attitudes in modern or postcolonial setting. Reading of Dickens, Hesse, Woolf, Ocampo, Puig, Fugard, Emerson, Derrida, Rawls. – E. Grimm
Prerequisites: CPLS BC3001 Intro to Comp. Lit.; completion of intermediate language courses.