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3.00 Credits
This course is an intensive reading of Pale Fire by Nabokov. M. Sternstein. Winter.
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This course is an examination of Chaucer's art as revealed in selections from The Canterbury Tales. Our primary emphasis is on a close reading of individual tales, but we also pay attention to Chaucer' s sources and to other medieval works that provide relevant background . C. von Nolcken. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
Required of students entering the Fundamentals program; open to other students with consent of instructor. This course is a reading of The Brothers Karamazov. Text in English. S. Meredith. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
This course concentrates on Farabi, Ibn Tufayl, Averroes, and Maimonides. R. Lerner. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
The sudden moment of illumination is a rare and sudden cognitive experience. In its high modernist version it is irrelevant to its cause, while later on it is mediated by diverse phenomena that range from works of art to libido. This course traces the presence of these awakenings in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. We also refer to several very brief poems and essays by Hugo von Hoffmanstahl, James Joyce, Czeslaw Milosz, Zbigniew Herbert, and Adam Zagajewski. B. Shallcross. Autumn.
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6.00 Credits
The spell exercised by Witold Gombrowicz over his readers has to do, at least in part, with the brilliant linguistic enactment of philosophical discourse in his fiction. Through a reading of his novel Ferdydurke, we analyze how he moves away from traditional philosophical approaches to (inter)subjectivity, order, and chaos to articulate his own creative dissolutions. Gobrowicz's A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes serves as the ironic and provoking introduction to the course and, for those uninitiated, to philosophy. B. Shallcross. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Consent of instructor. Written in the wake of the Crimean War (1856) and the emancipation of the serfs (1861), Tolstoy's War and Peace represents Russia' s most important national narrative. This course focuses on both the artistic and the intellectual facets o f War and Peace . Readin g War and Peac e we not only learn a lot about Russian history and culture, but we also have a rare chance to visit th e writer ? workshop and witness the creation of a completely original, organic work of art. All work in Englis h. L. Steiner. Spring
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3.00 Credits
This course examines Dante' s Infern o in its cultural (i.e., historical, artistic, philosophical, socio-political) context. In particular we stud y Dante ? poem alongside other crucial Latin and vernacular texts of his age, including selections from the Bibl e, Virgil 's Aene id, Augustin e's Confessi ons, Ov id's Metamorph oses, and the stilnovist and Siculo-Tuscan poets. Political turmoil, economic transformation, changing philosophical and theological paradigms, and social and religious conflict all converge in the maki ng of Da nte's masterpiece and, thus, form a crucial part of our discussions. Although reading is not extensive, it is difficult. All work in En glish. R. West. Au
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3.00 Credits
This course is an immersion in the texts of the New Testament with the following goals: through careful reading to come to know well some representative pieces of this literature; to gain useful knowledge of the historical, geographical, social, religious, cultural, and political contexts of these texts and the events they relate; to learn the major literary genres represented in the canon (i.e., "gospels," "acts," "letters," "apocalypse") and strategies for reading them; to comprehend the various theological visions to which these texts give expression; and to situate ones elf an d one's prevailing questions about this material in the history of interpr etation. M. Mitchell. W
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3.00 Credits
Reading knowledge of Italian helpful. This course is a reading of Boccaccio' s Decameron , with attention to such themes as death, love, lust, and marriage; men and women; parents and children; Christianity, survival, power, wealth, and ecclesiastical authority; cleverness and stupidity; nature and fortune; and storytelling, wit, and wisdom . N. Tarcov, G. Most. Spring.
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