Spring 2027

Memory and Literature From Proust to Knausgard

Examines memory theories and literary representations in novels by Proust, Sebald, and Knausgard, focusing on trauma, identity, and the ethics of remembering.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2017: 3.71 GPA, 78.6% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Spring 2019: 3.82 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Analyze literary texts in terms of how they represent memory processes such as traumatic recollection, involuntary memory, forgetting, and nostalgia.

  • Identify and examine major features of contemporary interdisciplinary theories of memory, both individual and collective, including concepts such as sites of memory, collective memory, and postmemory.

  • Reflect creatively on how memory functions in their own individual experiences and socio-cultural contexts.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2017: 3.71 GPA, 78.6% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Spring 2019: 3.82 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Memory studies, trauma, identity, and Holocaust literature
  • Narrative forms and ethics of remembering in Proust, Sebald, and Knausgard

Skills

  • Analyze literary texts representing memory processes
  • Examine interdisciplinary theories of memory
  • Reflect creatively on personal and cultural memory

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