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3.00 Credits
PQ: FREN 20400 or 20500, or consent of instructor. This course includes close readings and discussions of major literary and dramatic works by twentieth-century authors (e.g., Gide, Claudel, Mauriac, Aragon, Genet, and Proust). Topics might include absurdism, existentialism, gender and sexual identity, social upheaval, the post-modern condition, and the rise of cinema. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
While foreigners assume that the Caribbean is exotic, this course explores this assumption from a Caribbean perspective. We examine the links between Caribbean and Old World imagination, the relationship between exoticism and Caribbean notions of superstition, and the way in which the Caribbean fictional universe derives from a variety of cultural myths. All work in English. A weekly session in French is required of students who are majoring in French or Comparative Literature. D. Desormeaux. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Reading knowledge of French and adequate aural skills. Montesquieu's eighteenth-century reputation rested upon a relatively small body of published work: the Lettres Persanes, the Condsiderations sur les causes de la grandeur des romains et de leur decadence, and De lÃesprit des loix . Taken together, these works explore a set of themes that helped to shape the agenda for a pan-European Enlightenment. This course examine s Montesquieu ? writing from the perspectives of historical context and literary form to better understand the Enlightenment. Students may present research papers at a two-day conference at the end of the course. Readings in French. Class discussion and written work in French or Englis h. R. Morrissey. Winter
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3.00 Credits
PQ: FREN 20300 and enrollment in summer Paris study abroad program. A travers l'oeuvr e de Rabelais nous aborderons les grands thèmes de la Renaissance et, de fa on plus générale, de la modernité. La première partie du cours aura pour but de présenter le contexte social, politique, économique, et religieux de la première moitié du XVIe siècle en reliant les thèmes choisis à des problèmes plus modernes. Car Rabela is nous pe rmet d'aborder les grands thèm es de la s ociété fran aise conaborderons ainsi l' écriture du corps , l'organisati on sociale de l'Anc ien régime, les premières théories économiques, la découverte du Nouveau M onde, et l'ex plo ration de l ?ltérité. P. Des
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3.00 Credits
This course is a close reading of Boccaccio's Decameron. We also briefly survey other novella collections and modern critical approaches to the study of the genre. We read the Decameron, some selections from the anonymous Novellino, and Franco Sacchetti' s Trecentonovelle . Classes conducted in Italian. Students who are majoring in Italian do all work in Italian . E. Weaver. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines various examples of aesthetic experimentation in the fusion and diffusion of private and public discourse in twentieth-century Latin American novels. Authors may include Severo Sarduy, Diamela Eltit, Rafael Humberto Moreno Durán, ángeles Mastretta, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and Gabriel GarcÃa Már quez. K. Austin. Spri
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3.00 Credits
This course is a close reading of Cervantes's Don Quijote that discusses its links with Renaissance art and Early Modern narrative genres. On the one hand, Don Quijote can be viewed in terms of prose fiction, from the ancient Greek romances to the medieval books of knights errant and the Renaissance pastoral novels. On the other hand, Don Quijote exhibits a desire for Italy through the utilization of Renaissance art. Beneath the dusty roads of La Mancha and within Don Quijote' s chivalric fantasies, the careful reader comes to appreciate glimpses of images with Italian designs. All work in English; students who are majoring in Spanish do all work in Spanish. F. de Armas. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores some key examples of the literatures of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean (i.e., Cuba, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo) during the twentieth century, including those of its migrant and exile communities. We discuss questions concerning the literary elaboration of the region' s histories of slavery and colonialism, militarization, and territorial displacements. Authors may include Fernando Ortiz, Antonio Pedreira, Lydia Cabrera, Luis Palés Matos, René Marqués, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Rosario Ferré, Pedro Pietri, and Julia Alv arez. A. Lugo-Ortiz. Spr
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This course examines the history of Spanish film and explores fundamental concepts for the critical study of narrative in visual media. We discuss the specific social and political conditions of film production in Spain, and we focus on the detailed analysis of a selection of films. M. Santana. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar examines the historical and cultural significance of the Spanish transition from dictatorship to democracy in the 1970s and 1980s. Our focus is on the literary production associated with the narrating of that historical process. We analyze the role of fiction in the representation and commemoration of past events by discussing texts considered as representatives of various modes of historical fiction (i.e., historical novel, historiographical metafiction, novel of memory) to explore both the poetics and the politics of these narratives. M. Santana. Winter.
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