Elective: Literary Mindscapes

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How do composers construct interior literary worlds of the mind, and what does a mindscape reveal that an external world cannot?

Students explore how composers construct literary mindscapes that represent consciousness, memory, perception and the inner life as worlds in their own right

A focused account of the Literary Mindscapes elective, where the constructed world is the interior of a mind. How consciousness, memory and perception become a world with their own rules, why form must mimic the movement of thought, and how to argue the concept without reducing it to a character's feelings.

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