ENGL 365 The Renaissance Amphibium

Prerequisite: Junior standing and completion of the Literary Analysis requirement or ENGL 210, ENGL 222, or ENGL 223 or permission of the instructor. As they move between two worlds—the infinite possibilities of spirit and the nightmarish limits of the physical—writers, artists and philosophers of the Renaissance offer images of what it means to be human. Those imaginings anticipate many modern assumptions and dilemmas. Readings may include Boccaccio, Erasmus, Rabelais, More, Montaigne, and Shakespeare. (H1, CT)