Crime in 19th and 20th Century Fiction

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Interrelations of law, criminality, guilt, punishment, and identity through the prism of literature. Topics: transgression, confession, the criminal and the detective, identity and social order in law and literature. Sophocles/Anouilh, Kleist, Foucault, Kalka, Dostoevsky, Zola, Poe, Capote, Ellroy, Freud, Films: Heavenly Creatures, The Silence of the Lambs, I Confess. Prerequisite(s): BUS 1010 or FYWR 1020 .