Through a series of writing assignments students in this course will strive to write for love while reflecting on the relationship between wooing-author and swooning-reader. (Image courtesy of the instructor.)
Instructor(s)
Rosa Martínez
MIT Course Number
21L.000J
As Taught In
Fall 2015
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course is designed around analyzing intimate bonds and the permutations of heartbreak. Through the analysis of a set of relations in novels, short stories, poetry, music videos, and live theatre, we will consider the transformative states of the lover’s (un)becoming, for how consciousness is constituted by bonds yet how the lover transcends crisis in the moment of the epiphany that surfaces in love’s very failure; indeed, love itself becomes narcissistically yet optimistically illuminating, even in its oppressive hold.
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