Looking for the Beast: Animals as Spectacle in Literature, Film, and Culture
FRE 417/COM 455
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This course focuses on the ways literature, film, but also cultural events and spaces (circus, zoo, museum) present animals as objects of admiration and subjects of performance. We will consider the fascination that animals inspire in humans, which might lead to question the distinction between "us" and "them". What is at stake, what are the consequences, for us and for them, when animals are seen or shown as an elusive Other who still beckons a closer encounter? How do the poetic power of language, or the evocative nature of images, affect their agency and our empathy, and eventually our mutual relationship?
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Section S01
- Type: Seminar
- Section: S01
- Status: O
- Enrollment: 4
- Capacity: 15
- Class Number: 22866
- Schedule: T 01:30 PM-04:20 PM - Friend Center 108