LIT 269. Alcohol and Literature

Understanding the changing experience of alcohol dependency through the study of literary masterpieces. From religious ecstasy to pleasurable release to isolated self-destruction in Euripides’ Bacchae, Zola’s L’Assommoir, Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, Yate’s Disturbing the Peace, Kennedy’s Ironweed, and other short stories and poems. (Offered Fall 2006.)
Prerequisite: English 101 and 102.
3 hours, 3 credits
 
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