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Course Description

Summary

Creativity itself--elixir and torment, liberation and bondage, enchantment, exhilaration and irresistible adventure--has from time immemorial inspired great works of literature. Our readings will embrace a spectrum: protagonists caught in the throes of creative fixation; the artist who tries madly to impose himself, according to his own "impossible" terms, on society; the artist or art work that becomes a "grail" to an obsessed scholar, biographer or translator. Among the authors we will read are Ovid, Balzac, Dostoevsky, James, Kafka, Bernhard, Ozick, Tsypkin, Coetzee. Writing intensive, and writing will be evaluated.