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4.00 Credits
Introduces concentrators to the study of traditions - their performance, collection, representation and interpretation. Both ethnographic and theoretical readings serve as the material for class discussion and the foundation for experimental fieldwork projects.
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4.00 Credits
The development of folklore and mythology as fields of study, with particular attention to the methodological approaches suited to their areas of enquiry. Surveys the study of folklore and mythology in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but focuses especially on theoretical contributions to the study of folklore, mythology, and oral literature in recent decades. Readings from Bauman, Bronner, Dundes, Georges, Lord, Oring, Propp, Tedlock, and Zumwalt among many others.
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4.00 Credits
No course description available.
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8.00 Credits
No course description available.
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4.00 Credits
Vietnamese society reflects the impact of Confucian values, Socialist ideology and more recently market forces and global trends. The course will explore Vietnamese society from families' reproductive choices to the commemoration of the dead; it looks at how market forces and globalization are reshaping ideas of masculine and feminine behavior; young people's search for love and the impact of conjugality on families; and the phenomenon of Vietnamese brides of foreign spouses.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the role Chinese literary texts have played in articulating the place of the individual as part of, or against, the authority of community and state. Beginning with the celebrations of social integration in the early parts of the Classic of Poetry (early first millennium BC), we will follow the increasingly complex role literature came to play, both as a critic of authority and as establishing a domain of private life.
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4.00 Credits
A historical overview of cultural and social issues in contemporary Arab society as reflected in modern fiction. Attention will be given to the development of the novel and short story as literary media that treat themes such as the conflict between tradition and modernity, anti-colonialism, nationalism, civil war, poverty, alienation, religion and politics, and changing gender roles. Readings will include works of Tayeb Salih, Naguib Mahfouz, Muhammad Choukri, as well as prominent women authors, such as Hanan Shaykh and Sahar Khalifeh.
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4.00 Credits
Medieval poets created both new poetic forms and new figures of poets. Singers, writers, composers, lovers, dreamers, rhetoricians, moralists, and preachers: poets could be all of those. This course studies how their poetry grew from and elaborated upon the impulse "I have to sing" to become a highly self-conscious art of writing.
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4.00 Credits
Studies the Essais and the Journal de voyage in view of discovery: experience of the "self" through alterity. Comparative readings include Rabelais, Thevet, Lery, travel writing and cartographic matter.
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4.00 Credits
Contrary to its superficial reputation of arrogant and imperialistic rationality, the French 18th century was also a cultural site of experienced, cultivated, and theorized diversity, multiplicity, and heterogeneity. We focus on lesser-known writers (Bordelon, Chassaignon, Potocki, others) as well as better-known ones (Diderot) in order to witness the emergence of a philosophy of multiplicities and a literature of monstruosities. We suggest that the French 18th century was already "postmodern.
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