ENGL 199

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Credit: 1 TO 5 hours.

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ENGL 199 class schedule data for fall 2019
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	10065	Independent Study		ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending		Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/19-12/11/19 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required
	40419	Lecture-Discussion	CHP	10:00AM -10:50AM	MWF	331 Armory	Hansen, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/19-12/11/19 Degree Notes: Camp Honors/Chanc Schol course. Credit: 3 hours Section Title: The Art of Revenge Section Info: The Art of Revenge: Why We Get Aesthetic Pleasure from Anger and Retribution. Both popular-culture and so-called high art agree on at least one thing: vengeance sells. Revenge tragedies provide us with some of our most fascinating, compulsively watchable, and endlessly reimagined stories. To put it simply, our culture loves revenge. For some reason, we adore watching an injustice occur and then seeing an intricate, carefully conceived, and heinously violent plan unfold that works to reestablish justice on a retributive basis. We don’t always ask why we like the things that we like, though. In fact, we often avoid delving into such questions because they reveal to us that our pleasures often seem woefully uncivilized and wholly unethical. This course will be dedicated to exploring precisely the reasons that lie behind our enjoyment of those tales of violent revenge. In a sense, every great revenge saga revolves around an avenger who seeks to restore justice in a way that not only reestablishes order, but also produces a sense of visual, social, and ethical symmetry. Hence, every great avenger, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Tarantino’s Beatrix Kiddo, becomes an artist, a character who seeks to bring order to chaos, a master-planner who thrives on balance and proportion. As the artist orchestrates a grand design for revenge, we take pleasure in watching. Restriction(s): Restricted to Chancellor's Scholar-CHPHonors students.