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In the wake of the French Revolution, the idea of revolution, of dramatic change driven by ideas, gained prominence in the world of art and literature. From the emotionalism of Romantic art and literature to the experiments in perception and representation of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, the nineteenth century was a period of immense change in art and a period in which the notion of the Modern emerged, so crucial to our own time. We begin with the question, "What is art " then move on to study nineteenth-century answers in painting, poetry, fiction, and essays. Works studied include paintings by David, Delacroix, Ingres, Goya, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin, and texts by Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Merimee, Flaubert, and Pater.
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What defines "art" today How do we view it, talk about it, imagine it This course maps the development of visual art and related literary movements in the twentieth century from Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein to the most recent "sensations" of 1999. We will consider the major ideas driving twentieth-century art, its relationship with society and history, its public face and self-definitions. Movements studied will include Cubism, Surrealism, Expressionism and the later American movement, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, and finally the two great umbrella paradigms, Modernism and Postmodernism. Authors studied may include Stein, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Kafka, Surrrealist and Expressionist poets, Raymond Carver, E.L. Doctorow, and Angela Carter among others.
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In reading books, hearing songs, or watching films we tend to focus on the"content" of the work, on what it seems to be "about." Still we recognize that the form through which that content is communicated makes a big difference in how we respond to the work, even in what the work means. Two different versions of what seems to be the same story may differ greatly because of different formal characteristics. Similarly, the meaning of a song is likely to be very different than the meaning of the same words without the music. A writer, in choosing to present material in a specific form, is thus making an important decision. Examines one specific form and consider the ways in which it shapes a variety of different works. Possible forms include the short story, the bildungsroman, the sonnet sequence, science-fiction, and the mystery novel. ( Allows repetition for credit.) C I
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Certain themes and concerns have such a powerful hold on the human imagination that they have appeared over and over again in the literature of very different cultures and in very different periods. Some examples are obvious and include such themes as love and marriage; war, religion and faith. More surprising themes that nevertheless occur repeatedly are horror and the monstrous; the journey; utopias and dystopias; stories of the Holocaust; and the crippled hero. Chooses one such theme, which will vary from semester to semester, and traces it in the creative work of a variety of times and places. Emphasizes the way different cultures share certain preoccupations but differ in the way they treat them. ( Allows repetition for credit.) C D I
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Explores the literature that speaks of and for a particular nation, ethnic group, or cultural situation. Includes the literature of Italy, Africa, or Latin America; colonial and post-colonial literature; or the literature of East Asia. Emphasizes the way in which the works read reflect the characteristics concerns of the culture. ( Allows repetition for credit.) D I
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Explores a specific genre, period, movement, or theme of African American literature and culture such as the oral tradition; slave narratives, theory and criticism; the Harlem Renaissance; Black women and resistance; the Civil Rights Movement. ( Allows repetition for credit.) C D I
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Explores a specific genre, period, author, or theme in American Literature. Includes Literature of the Vietnam war; Literature and Baseball; American Frontier Fictions. ( Allows repetition for credit.)
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Explores a specific genre, period, author, or theme in British Literature. Could include: non-Shakespearean renaissance drama; the Gothic tradition; contemporary British working class fiction. ( Allows repetition for credit.)
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Explores a specific issue or theme in cultural studies. Could include: diasporic literatures; literary responses to colonialism; third world feminism; the politics of literary canons and traditions. ( Allows repetition for credit.) C I
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Permits a small number of students to pursue a particular topic in a seminar format. Topics may range from a subgenre (such as the theatre of the absurd) to a particular author, to a large field not covered in other courses (such as modern approaches to literary criticism). Limited to 12 students. ( Allows repetition for credit)
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