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Katerina Clark. tth1-2.15 Hu (0) Study of principal movements in the avant-garde from the first half of the twentieth century, including futurism, Dada, expressionism, constructivism, and surrealism. Discussion of avant-garde works from a range of media and genres in the literary, visual, and performing arts. Definitions of the avant-garde, and its relationship to postmodernism.
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Richard Maxwell. mw 11.35-12.50 Hu (0) Movement through landscapes and cityscapes as a key to understanding them. Simulation of travel, using movie cameras and other visual-verbal means, as a way to expand historical, aesthetic, and sociological inquiries into how places are inhabited and experienced. Exploration of both real and imaginary places traversed in works by Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, César Aira, Georges Rodenbach, Patrick Keiller, Georges Perec, and Andrei Tarkovsky.
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Benjamin Harshav. w 1.30-3.20 Hu (0) The construction of fictional worlds in literature, as exemplified in close readings of stories by Joyce, Gogol, and especially the fictions of interpretation in the work of Franz Kafka. All readings in English; papers may be written on texts in other languages.
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Richard Maxwell. mw 11.30-12.45 Hu (0) Introduction to lyric poetry in Europe and North America, c. 1900-1940, along with several nineteenth-century precursors, emphasizing the ambition of certain works (as though lyric had taken over the function of epic). Poets studied include Baudelaire, Valéry, Rilke, Pound, MacDiarmid, and Brecht. Some knowledge of French or German useful.
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AlaAlryyes. For description see under Literature.
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Pericles Lewis. For description see under English Language & Literature.
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Benjamin Harshav. w 1.30-3.20 Hu (0) The life of Marc Chagall (1887-1985) examined in the context of twentieth-century artistic and political movements. His contributions to revolutionary culture in Russia and the Yiddish avant-garde theater; his Christian iconography and Bible illustrations; his relations with modernist trends of his time. Special attention to the modes of analysis of modern art and the languages of art between surrealism and fictional mythology.
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Barry McCrea. m9.25-11.15 Hu (0) Literary plots involving social and erotic progress examined in works from the seventeenth century to the present. Topics include social ambition or decline, the marriage plot and its alternatives, the narrative role of family or social outsiders, and sexuality and narrative form.
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David Gabriel. t9.25-11.15 Hu (0) Study of the hero from his appearance at the dawn of literary culture to his present incarnation as the superhero of popular media. Emphasis on the medieval and classical periods. Ways in which heroic narratives relate to each other. Texts include literature from the Germanic, Celtic, Greek, Latin, Indian, and Chinese traditions.
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David Gabriel. t9.25-11.15 Hu (0) Accepted notions of the Western and Eastern worlds examined in literature, film, and other cultural products from regions and peoples who defy or disturb traditional classifications. Exa mples include indigenous peopl es of North America, Central Asia in the post-Soviet world, and countries that occupy a liminal space between East and West, such as Albania and Turkey. Strategies for understanding the culturally unfamiliar without appropriating or negatively affecting it.
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