2016 - 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0680-3270-01 | On Minor Literature in the Twentieth Century | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The course will be based on the concept of "Minor Literature" created by Deleuze and Guattari in their book on Kafka. We will to read Modernist Literature in the 19th and the 20th century – Buchner, Rimbaud, Kafka, Joyce, Beckett, Celine – in the light of this concept, and to understand what is "Minor writing" in comparison with "Major Literature".