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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Broad introduction to subject matter and types of plays in Renaissance, with consideration of historical and literary influences on plays. Readings include works of such dramatists as Tasso, Machiavelli, Lope de Vega, Racine, Jonson, Shakespeare. May be concurrently scheduled with course C222. Undergraduate students read all works in translation. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Seminar, four hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Study of symbolist and decadent movements in 19th- and 20th-century English and French poetry and prose, including authors such as Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Wilde, Yeats, and Eliot. May be concurrently scheduled with course C252. Undergraduate students may read all required French texts in translation. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Seminar, four hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Study of specific poets and poetics related to them during first half of 20th century. Texts may include poets such as W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Paul Valéry, R.M. Rilke, Gunnar Ekel f, and Wallace Stevens. May be concurrently scheduled with course C253. Undergraduate students may read all works in translation. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. In "Reading North by South," Neil Larsen claims that North American interest in Latin American Boom literature was of sinister intent, being largely product of U.S. Cold War politics, investing in fiction that could produce images of areas ripe for development. From poetry perspective, dynamic was quite different. In 1930s, North American poets became involved in labor of love, reading, circulating, and translating recent or contemporaneous poetry by their counterparts to south, producing lingua franca with unexplored consequences for poetry north and south of border. Study of poetry translations by writers from both hemispheres and examination of consequences of these preliminary translations for later development of poetry on both sides of continental divide. Concurrently scheduled with course C255. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Time and again in modern literature, corpses become conduits or catalysts for revelation. What are ghosts that fiction frequently cannot put to rest, and what is their connection to national history or nation language or narrative Readings from James Joyce, John Banville, Henry James, Toni Morrison, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Juan Carlos Onetti, Juan Rulfo, and Carlos Fuentes, with films by Alejandro Amenabar, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Kenji Mizoguchi. May be concurrently scheduled with course C256. Undergraduate students read all works in translation. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Seminar, four hours. Reading of theoretical accounts of nature of traumatic memory and consideration of relationship between memory and history, meanings of both writing and reading about traumatic events, and discussion of ethical (personal and communal) commitment to memory. Reading of memoirs of survivors and questioning of importance of authenticity in regard to representations of past. Is memory necessarily based on actual past What is role of testimony in maintenance of collective memory How is value of testimony judged What are criteria on which authenticity is claimed Concurrently scheduled with course C257. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Knowledge of art history valuable but not required. Assuming that literature and visual arts are in some degree expressions of cultural and philosophical patterns of eras, study of relationships between writers and movements in painting, architecture, and sculpture. Interdisciplinary investigation of similarities and differences between plastic and verbal arts in comparative study. May be repeated for credit with instructor and/or topic change. May be concurrently scheduled with course C260. Undergraduate students read all works in translation. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Analysis of use of historical events, situations, and characters in literary works of Renaissance and/or modern period. Texts and individual assignments range from Renaissance historical narratives (Italian humanists, Machiavelli) to 19th- and 20th-century novels by authors such as Stendhal, Verga, Tomasi di Lampedusa, Carpentier, and Kundera. Use of fictional methods by historians. Emphasis on how aesthetic, ideological, and political factors influence authors' choice and use of historical material. May be concurrently scheduled with course C261. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Study of modern European and American works that are concerned both in subject matter and artistic methods with growing self-consciousness of human beings and their society, with focus on works of Kafka, Rilke, Woolf, Sartre, and Stevens. May be concurrently scheduled with course C263. Undergraduate students may read all works in translation. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Study of modern European novel's development from 19th to 21st century. Use of authors such as Hardy, Strindberg, Lagerkvist, Gide, Proust, Mann, Joyce, Kafka, Woolf, Nabokov, Grass, Christa Wolf, and Enquist to focus on development of themes such as shifting authority, gender conflicts, change versus stability, formal experimentation, and self-consciousness in narrative. May be concurrently scheduled with course C264. Undergraduate students may read all works in translation but are encouraged to read in original language whenever possible. P/NP or letter grading.
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