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4.00 Credits
Middle Eastern Studies This course surveys the history and texts of diverse and polycentric literary and artistic traditions of the Middle East and North Africa during the last two centuries. Students explore works of fiction, poetry, visual art, autobiography, memoir, film, and historiography. Students also review the major literary, cultural, and philosophical currents that shaped the modern Arab world. Analysis and reading are informed by recent developments in cultural and critical theory. Authors studied include NaguibMahfouz, Yusuf Idris,Mahmoud Darwish, Hanan al-Shaykh, and Hoda Barakat.
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4.00 Credits
The triumph of the first great modernist pioneers in English (Yeats, Pound, Eliot) created a schism in American poetry, dividing poets and their readers into distinctive camps. Soon a modernist canon emerged, and it is now generally accepted that the greatest of these, in addition to the pioneers, are Wallace Stevens, who experimented with a poetry of linguistic event and philosophic meditation; Marianne Moore, whose aesthetic meditations in syllabic verse helped to move poetic discourse toward prose; and William Carlos Williams, who straddled both camps, experimenting with new kinds of rhythm closer to American speech. All three share a concern with visual art, and many of their best poems prefigure a fixation on painting, film, and photography in American poetry today. Readings include Gertrude Stein, Hart Crane, W. H. Auden, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Theodore Roethke, Robert Duncan, James Merrill, Sylvia Plath, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters, Vachel Lindsay, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Frank O'Hara, and Bob Dylan.
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4.00 Credits
Medieval Studies This course considers the culture and literature of Byzantium, from the city's founding in 330 C.E. to its fall to the Turks in 1453. Texts include writings by Greek church fathers; chronicles on the Byzantines by Greeks, Muslims, and Westerners; treatments of such important events as the iconoclast controversy and the Crusades; and principal works of medieval epic, romance, and lyric poetry from this region. The focus is the city now known as Istanbul and its surrounding territories, along with the Byzantine presence in the Balkans and parts of Italy, Russia, and northern Africa. Study concludes with the influence on later civilizations of what Yeats called "the holy city of Byzantium."
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4.00 Credits
Africana Studies, American Studies What special problems arise when the presentation of ourselves into literary culture contributes to or challenges an already diminished social presence and power? In what ways would we want to create and imagine ourselves, remember our history, and construct our future? This twosemester course explores African American literature from the Colonial era to the Harlem Renaissance and examines the various forms- including poetry, autobiography, essay, novel, and play-and voices that African Americans have used to achieve literary and, consequently, social authority. Authors include Wheatley, Douglass, Jacobs, Chesnutt, Du Bois, Hopkins, Toomer, Larsen, Hughes, McKay, Hurston, Locke, Schuyler, Thurman, Hughes, Fauset, Hurston, Wright, Baldwin, Ellison, Baraka, Sanchez, Giovanni, Reed,Morrison,Wilson, and Whitehead.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies, GSS, SRE Women who wrote of the home and marriage and who detailed the chatter of the drawing room were not merely recording the trivial events of what was deemed to be their "place." ManyAmerican women writers of the 19th and 20th centuries used domestic novels as insightful critiques of American society and politics. Students read a range of work, including Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe's handbook of housekeeping, The American Woman's Home ( 1869), and the novels and short stories of Harriet Jacobs, Kate Chopin, Nella Larsen, Jessie Fauset, Frances E. W. Harper, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather.
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4.00 Credits
Victorian Studies Students read and discuss essays by Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Henry Mayhew, and Oscar Wilde addressing Victorian issues such as crime, art, and science; and detective stories and novels by Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, and other inventors of the detective genre. The syllabus emphasizes such pairings as Thomas Henry Huxley writing on the scientific method and Doyle's Study in Scarlet, Pater's The Renaissance and Doyle's "The Sign of Four,?nd Wilde's "De Profundis" and Sheridan LFanu's "The Murdered Cousin.
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4.00 Credits
RES The magical and terrible spaces of St. Petersburg have inspired Russian writers and artists and confounded the Russian quest for an integral national identity ever since Peter the Great founded the city in 1703. This course examines the "myth" of St. Petersburg in Russian literatureand culture, with consideration of how the city has been constructed as a literary, artistic, and folkloric text and has determined the course of Russian culture and selfhood. Special attention is given to the nature of the city as a "sign," withappropriate strategies for "reading" the city.Readings range from the classic texts of Pushkin, Gogol, and Dostoevsky to 20th-century prose, poetry, memoir, and the carnival performances associated with the city's 300th anniversary celebrations. The course is conducted in English.
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4.00 Credits
Africana Studies, French Studies Even though literature from francophone Africa is not yet a century old, it has already produced many important and enduring works. Students examine books written in the postcolonial period (up to the 1990s) and explore how this literature has evolved in its themes and aesthetics. Works are read in translation. Students wishing to take the course as part of French studies will read texts in the original and participate in tutorials.
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4.00 Credits
Africana Studies, American Studies, SRE Students explore the use, in African American literature, of humor, particularly satire, as a tool for identifying and deconstructing the absurdities of race, assimilation, and historic memory. The course begins with the newly emboldened writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Students read George Schuyler and Wallace Thurman and examine how the political comedy of those writers was furthered by Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. Through close reading of the works of Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Charles Johnson, students identify how African and southern American folklore informed the modern comic tradition. Chester Himes's Pinktoes and Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo provide an opportunity to explore gender and status in relationship to satire. Trey Ellis's Platitudes, Paul Beatty' s The White BoyShuffle, and Percival Everett's Erasure reveal why a disproportionate percentage of black America's strongest writers continue to be drawn to the satiric form.
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4.00 Credits
Africana Studies, American Studies, Human Rights, SRE The goal of this course is to gain an understanding of the autobiography as the core medium of black American literature for its first two centuries and as a vehicle of artistic and political power through the civil rights movement and into the modern era. Students begin with The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano and follow the evolution of the slave narrative through works by Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass. Using Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery as a bridge between the worlds of bondage and freedom, students continue their study through an examination of Langston Hughes's The Big Sea, RichardWright' s Black Boy, Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land, Assata Shakur's Assata, Maya Angelou' s All God'Children Need Traveling Shoes, and John Edgar Wideman's Brothers and Keepers.
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