ENGL 3350 - Literature and War

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher.
Description
From Homer’s Odyssey and Virigl’s Aneid, to Julius Caesar’s account of his wars in Gaul, to monster fighting in Beowulf or the idealized chivalric combat of the high middle ages, to the revolutionary upheavals of early modernity or the horrors of industrialized conflict, war has been a persistent setting and theme for Western literature. Can there be a “just” war? Can violence be controlled without more violence? This course examines texts that explore the relationship between violence and civilization.