In this course, we will read a wide range of literature that can broadly be called “tragic.” We will explore issues such as fate and free will, power dynamics, difficult choices, individual trauma, and suffering and redemption. Our texts will include the Oresteia trilogy, Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan, King Lear, Goethe’s Faust: Part I, Wuthering Heights, Hedda Gabler, Anna Karenina, Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly, and Jung Chang’s Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. (Group III)

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