Comparative Literature 10 - What is Comparative Literature

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Dartmouth College

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08F: 2 09W: 10A 09S: 11 09F, 10W, 10S: 10A Particular offerings of this course seek to introduce the student to the aims, assumptions and methodologies of reading and the study of literature. This course is designed as an introductory course to the Comparative Literature major and other literature and humanities majors. It is recommended that students complete English/Writing 5 before enrolling in Comparative Literature 10. In 08F and 09S, Love Stories. Love stories attract two clichéd assessments: "they're all the same;" "no two are alike." They thus afford an ideal opportunity to explore fundamental issues in comparative study: how do culture, history, and genre affect representation Do "universals" exist How does rhetoric (metaphors and other comparative figures) create feeling What roles does desire play in reading Readings include treatises, novels, drama, and poetry; Ovid, Chrétien de Troyes, Shakespeare, Duras, Freud, and others. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. In 09W and 10W, Male Friendship from Aristotle to Almodovar. This course examines representations of male relationships in literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and film. Ranging from classical texts such as the Bible and Cicero's "De Amicitia," to the cinema of Almodovar and Truffaut, we will study the rhetorical and social construction of male friendship and its relationship to gender, class and cultural politics. Texts will be drawn from the following literary and critical works: Aristotle, Martial, Montaigne, Balzac, Twain, Whitman, Nietzche, Freud, D.H. Lawrence, Waugh, Ben Jalloun, Alan Bennett, and Derrida. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. KritzmanIn 09F, Beyond Fidelity and Betrayal: The Mysteries of Adaptation. Stories undergo many metamorphoses when they are adapted from books and other media to the screen. Of particular interest are cases of migration across varying historical milieus, languages, or genres. Questions for investigation include: how does each artist shape the narrative, cultural and material givens of a story In what ways does a story convey not only its content but also the context from which it springs Dist: LIT. Higgins. In 10S, Narratives of Theft and Theft of Narratives. Both as gifts, as memories, and as things stolen, objects anchor not only people's lives but also national imaginaries. In this course we will study the work objects do in constituting identities through collections both personal and national. We will analyze how objects drive narratives and in particular, why so many narratives revolve around diverse forms of theft. Texts will include chronicles of the New World, accounts by 18th and 19th century naturalists, the legend of Prometheus, Borges' stories, Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code, Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida, and biographies of some of the US's main "robber barons." Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Sp

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www.dartmouth.edu

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(603) 646-1110

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Quarter

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