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1.50 Credits
This course examines correspondences and affinities between literature and film in aesthetic, cultural and social contexts. Throughout we will look not only at specific case studies of literary adaptation or cross-reference, but consider the larger questions of culture value implied in these transactions. Writers and filmmakers to be considered include Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Carson McCullers, Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski, and Robert Altman. Offered occasionally.
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A seminar designed to explore the aesthetic achievement and social impact of film as an art form. Subjects for study include such topics as specific film genres, the work of individual film-makers, and recurring themes in film. Each year the seminar concentrates on a different area - for example, "Film and Politics," "The Director aAuthor," or "Violence and the Hero in American Films.?ffered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Mainstream genres can be seen as expressions of American culture's popular mythology. This course will concentrate on selected genres to examine the social values, issues, and tensions that underlie these narratives and their characteristic ways of resolving fundamental societal conflicts. Offered occasionally
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This course will examine film as art and as medium in the context of the rise of 20th-century "mass culture." Wewill take up such topics as the role of film in producing the ideas of "mass culture;" the cinematic representationof the "masses;" film as an instrument of thestandardization of culture and as a mode of resistance to it; film and modernism; film and postmodernism; representations of fascism in cinema; and "subculture"considered as an effect of mass culture. Offered every third year.
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1.50 Credits
This course examines major themes of Victorian culture: social conscience, faith, aestheticism, veneration of nature and loss of sacramental vision. Readings will include the prose essays of Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin and Pater, and the poetry of Tennyson, Browning, the pre- Raphaelites (D.G. Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Morris, Swinburne) and Wilde. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Themes Across Traditions. A. Bradley This course considers the idea of the underground -both literal and figurative-in writing across traditions.How has the social and literary construction of the underground developed over time What moral, political, and aesthetic weight do subterranean themes carry Topics may include claustrophobia and escape, sin and damnation, dreams and imagination, secrecy and subversion in works by Dante, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Lewis Carroll, Jules Verne, Sigmund Freud, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Walter Mosley. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Ellison, perhaps the preeminent African-American author of the 20th century. In addition to studying his classic novel Invisible Man, we shall consider the manuscripts of his long-labored, untitled, and unfinished second novel as well as his short stories and essays. In particular, the course will examine how Ellison's ideas about American identity and the craft of fiction have shaped contemporary understanding of the function of literature in democracy. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
This course will examine how writers from outside the metropolis have adapted a Western literary genre, the Bildungsroman or "novel of formation," to narrate thedifficult process of growing up. Reading these novels will provide introduction to a number of key issues in postcolonial studies, including identity and racial difference, nationalism and diaspora, and cultural mimicry and hybridity. Readings will include novels by James Joyce, George Lamming, V.S. Naipaul, Paule Marshall, Salman Rushdie, Buchi Emecheta, Jamaica Kincaid, and Romesh Gunesekera. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
This course will explore the green spaces of pastoral, a diverse literary mode traditionally devoted to shepherds and country life. We will examine its classical origins in Theocritus and Virgil and from there traverse a range of periods and forms. Our readings will include poems, plays, and novels by Shakespeare, Milton, Andrew Marvell, William Wordsworth, George Eliot, Robert Frost, Jamaica Kincaid, and others. We will consider how the tradition has been innovated, challenged, and expanded over time and how pastoral has been defined and approached by critics and theorists, including more recent "ecocritics." Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Warner A powerful, pervasive, and long-standing theme in literature focuses on the ethical responsibilities of scientific leaders. In fact, literature provides and exceptionally rich site for investigating the overlap between scientific discovery, morality, and the leadership roles played by scientists in human history. What are the ethical duties of the scientist How can these duties be formulated How have scientists used their knowledge and position to influence society, whether for good or ill To what degree should moral, religious, and political considerations affect scientific research The course will examine these and related questions in a wide range of literary works, from the Renaissance to the present day. Offered occasionally.
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