Underworld Journeys
Course #: ITAL 220L
Description:
Storytellers have always spun tales of mortals who managed to visit the beyond. Often these journeys are of critical importance to those left alive, instrumental steps to founding empire or earning salvation. This interdisciplinary course explores depictions of heaven and hell in European literature, film, and the arts. Because the desire to understand the afterlife cuts across geography and time, this topic affords us the opportunity to conduct comparative explorations of a range of national traditions, as well as various time periods: the ancient world, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and modernity. Our focus is how these infernal and paradisal spaces reflect, critique, and animate the real world.
Notes:
HUMAN 220L and MDNLNG 220L are the same course.
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