HMS-400A The Comic Apocalypse

3 Credits

This course examines authors responding to the major social, cultural, and spiritual upheavals of the twentieth century with humor, ranging from exuberant release to mocking despair. Representative writers such as Celine, West, Miller, Beckett, Heller, Vonnegut, and Pynchon are examined for their use of mordant irony and sense of the absurd.