Michel Houellebecq - Seminars / Workshops / Lectures

LITERATURE AS COMMUNICATION (3 credits) with Martin Hielscher

Explores literature as model of communication, stimulates creative writing, and discusses the philosophical aesthetics of Theodor W. Adorno. Includes a workshop with a guest author such as Nicholson Baker, Julian Barnes, Marcel Beyer, Michel Houellebecq, Shelley Jackson, or Colum McCann.

Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno and Robert Hullot-Kentor (Editor) Aesthetic Theory. University of Minnesota Press. Paperback, 448 pages, December 1998, ISBN: 0816618003. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.