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1.50 Credits
This course examines the poetry and prose writings of the great 14th-century Italian poet, Dante Alighieri. We will follow Dante's epic journey from Hell to Paradise and study his works within the context of major classical literary sources, especially Virgil and Ovid, the lyric poetry of the Proven al troubadours, and representative texts of the late medieval intellectual tradition, especially the Bible and writings by Augustine and Aquinas. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff This course offers an in-depth study of the three foundational poems of the classical epic tradition: the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid. We will devote the greater part of the course to the three classical poems, with relevant secondary readings; in the final weeks of the term, we will look at responses to Homer and Virgil by modern poets such as Derek Walcott and Christopher Logue. All readings will be in English. Offered every third year.
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1.50 Credits
Warner A study of the revolution in human consciousness known as Romanticism. The course concentrates on the British Romantics, but also studies Romanticism as an international phenomenon. Writers studied include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Emerson, Thoreau, Lermontov. Offered every third year. 119. 19th-Century Russian Novel. Warner This course examines the explosive growth of the Russian novel. Students will read major works by Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy and will become familiar with such themes as Slavophilism, realism, revolution versus tradition, and national identity. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Bilger This course will survey the not-so-brief history of the English novel, from its emergence as a distinct genre in the 18th century to its postcolonial and postmodern transformations in the late 20th century. Readings will include novels by Defoe, Richardson, Austen, C. Bronte, Dickens, Hardy, Joyce, Woolf, Beckett, Rhys, and Coetzee. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
The first half of the 20th century produced an exceptional body of powerful and innovative fiction. Modernist fiction is notable for its stylistic originality, formal experimentation, psychological depth, sensuality, wit, nostalgia and irony. Authors will include Conrad, Joyce, Ford, Woolf, Lawrence, Kafka, Proust, Gide, Mann and others. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
War Poland. Faggen This course will consider the great literature of post-war Poland in the context of the major historical and social forces that have contributed to its development. Among the authors read will be Herbert, Milosz, Gombrowicz, Szymborska, Kolakowski, Lem, Baranczak, Swir, Singer, and Zagajewski. All major genres will be included with particular attention to the stunning body of poetry, some of the 20th century's very best. Offered occasionally. 125. 20th-Century English and Irish Poetry. Farrell This course will introduce English and Irish poetry of the 20th century, with special attention to the central figures of Hardy, Yeats, and Auden, but also including, among others, Houseman, Hopkins, the poets of World War One, Dylan Thomas, Larkin, Hughes, and Heaney. Offered every other year. 126. 20th-Century Black Poetics. A. Bradley This course explores major figures and forms in black American poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. Topics will include vernacular versus. "standard"English; the influence of the blues, hip hop, and other black musical forms; poetry as protest; the spoken word movement; and the representation of racial identity in verse. Special consideration will be given to the poetry of Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton, Amiri Baraka, Rita Dove, Etheridge Knight, and Yusef Komunyakaa. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Farrell Since 1945 the novel has increasingly become an international genre, with a reading public and lines of influence between writers that transcend the boundaries of language and nation. This course will consider a selection of the most important and influential works written in this period in America and abroad. Texts will include Invisible Man, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Go Down, Moses, On a Winter's Night a Traveler..., The Kiss of the Spider Woman, A Clockwork Orange, Labyrinths, Beloved, V., Midnight's Children, and Pale Fire. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
We will begin with a close analysis of a contemporary popular film, in an effort to determine typical conventions of cinematic expression, and then proceed through a study of multiple movements and genres in the history of film, from German Expressionism to the French New Wave, from Hollywood to documentary to avant-garde and independent filmmaking. Overall, the course is intended to provide students with a broad introduction to film analysis and to the field of Film Studies. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
This course surveys the history of cinema as art and mass medium, from the introduction of sound to the rise of the "New Hollywood." Topics such as cinematic responseto World War II, the decline of the studio system, and "new waves" of European filmmaking are studied insocial, cultural and aesthetic perspectives. Offered every other year.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the history of cinema as art and mass medium, from 1965 to the present. Topics such as the rise of independent filmmaking in America, the conglomeration of the studios, and European resistance to Hollywood's domination on the world market are considered in social, cultural, and aesthetic terms. Offered every other year.
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