Comparative Literature 141 - Good&Evil:East-West
Spring
2013
03
3.00
Kimberly Canuette Grimaldi
M W F 10:10AM 11:00AM
UMass Amherst
10614
The imaginative representation of good and evil in Western and Eastern classics, folktales, children's stories, and 20th-century literature. Cross-cultural comparison of ethical approaches to moral problems such as the suffering of the innocent, the existence of evil, the development of a moral consciousness and social responsibility, and the role of faith in a broken world. Contemporary issues of nuclear war, holocaust, AIDS, abortion, marginal persons, anawim, unwanted children. (Gen.Ed. AL, G)
This course is open to Freshmen, Sophomores and Juniors.