Comparative Literature 141H - Good & Evil
Fall
2019
02
4.00
Hilary Fink
M W F 1:25PM 2:15PM
UMass Amherst
35972
Elm Room 227
hfink@umass.edu
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, DG)
This course is open to Commonwealth Honors College students only. 14 seats are reserved for first-year students to enroll during NSO.