First-Year Seminars 110BK - Books Within Books

From Shakespeare's plays within plays to;Rowling's diary of Tom Riddle, from;Velázquez to;Escher, writers and artists have consistently;embedded moments of self-referentiality within;their;works to raise representational questions such as;the relationships between illusion and reality,;between truth and fiction, between past, present;and future time, between words and worlds,;and so on. We will explore these and other;paradoxes by examining a variety of artistic;forms;including poetry, stories, plays, painting, and;film.

First-year students only, by placement.