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CVSP 207A

Love:
Human and Divine
 
Semester: Fall 2009-10
Prof. David Wrisley
Office hours: Tu 130-230; Th 2-4 , or by appointment
Room 200W Nicely.
Contact: Tel: 4025.
 
Course Description:
 
CVSP 207A (Love: Human and Divine) is a discussion-based humanities course focusing on seminal primary texts which treat the question of love across cultures and time (from Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance). The readings cover a variety of genres (philosophical dialogue, lyrical poetry, mystical treatise, prosimetra (chantefable), satire, romance, love “autobiography” and epic) as well as a variety of European, Mediterranean and Middle  astern/Asian contexts.
 
CVSP 207A counts as a sequence I CVSP course or a humanities elective.
 

Course Syllabus

 
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