Comparative Literature 141H - Good & Evil

Spring
2021
01
4.00
Hilary Fink
TU TH 10:00AM 11:15AM
UMass Amherst
74018
Fully Remote Class
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)
Open to Commonwealth Honors College Students only.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.