CO 351 - Advanced Topics in Comparative Literature

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Colorado College

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Topics to include periods, genres, themes, movements or other groupings of texts. (May be taught as a January half-block.) Block 1: Advanced Topics in Comparative Literature: Beginnings and Endings. Prerequisite: 200 or 300-level lit course in CO, EN, or other literatures or consent of instructor. (Also listed as English 380.) 1 unit - Department. Block 4: Advanced Topics in Comparative Literature: The Other Chaucer. Introduction to Middle English and close reading of selections from Chaucer's minor poems, including the Book of the Duchess, Troilus, and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women, and Parlement of Fowles. Prerequisite: 200 or 300-level lit course in CO, EN, or other literatures or consent of instructor. (Also listed as English 312.) 1 unit - Evitt. Block 4: Advanced Topics in Comparative Literature: The Other Chaucer. Introduction to Middle English and close reading of selections from Chaucer's minor poems, including the Book of the Duchess, Troilus, and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women, and Parlement of Fowles. Prerequisite: 200 or 300-level lit course in CO, EN, or other literatures or consent of instructor. (Also listed as English 312.) 1 unit - Evitt. Block 6: Advanced Topics in Comparative Literature: James Joyces "Ulysses". Prerequisite: 200 or 300-level lit course in CO, EN, or other literatures or consent of instructor. (Also listed as English 386.) 1 unit - Simons. Block 7: Advanced Topics in Comparative Literature: Literature of the Borderlands. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Also listed as American Cultural Studies 253 and English 380 and Southwest Studies 253.) 1 unit - Padilla. Block 8: Advanced Topics in Comparative Literarture: Dante's "Divine Comedy". Reading Dante's Divina Commedia can be a harrowing experience: its intertexts and allegory shadowy at best when viewed through a mirror darkened by 700 years of human experience. The primary goal of this course is to make reading the Divine Comedy less infernal: to provide you with the basic medieval cultural matrices that will help you make sense of the substance of this immense poem without robbing you of the change to be, as Borges describes, "carried away" by the Commedia. Revel in the brilliance and perversity of Dante's literary imagination. Prerequisite: 200 or 300-level lit course in CO, EN, or other literatures or consent of instructor. (Also listed as English 313.) 1 unit - Evitt.

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3.00

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www.coloradocollege.edu

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(719) 389-6000

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North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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