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21L.024[J] Literature and Existentialism

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(Same subject as 21G.061[J])
Prereq: None
Units: 3-0-9
URL: https://lit.mit.edu/21l-024-literature-and-existentialism/
Lecture: T1-2.30 (56-114) Recitation: R1-2.30 (2-147) or R2.30-4 (2-147)

Studies major literary works associated with the 19th- and 20-century philosophical movement known as existentialism. Through close reading of these works, students explore how existentialist writers grappled with the question of death; the nature of free will; emotions like boredom, disgust, and radical doubt; and the fate of the individual in a modernity marked by war, illogic, and absurdity. Includes novels, short stories, and aphorisms by Sartre, Camus, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Hesse, Chopin, and Nietzsche; plays by Beckett and Stoppard; and films by Bergman, Tarkovsky, and others. Enrollment limited.
C. Doyle
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