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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Study of the literature and society of the Caribbean. Emphasizes the Anglophone Caribbean within a comparative framework of French/Haitian, Spanish, Dutch, and Surinamese Caribbean modes. Topics vary yearly, from a concentration on Caribbean poetry to other cultural forms and presentations. Readings of literature, history, and political theory supplemented with performance, music, film, and video. Subjects include women writers, orality, novels of childhood, and pioneer literary figures.
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4.00 Credits
Addresses topics in modern and contemporary popular culture. Topics vary yearly and may include the detective novel, television, popular music, folklore, visual culture, and romantic fiction.
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4.00 Credits
Comparative study of major works of Renaissance literature. Authors include Erasmus, More, Machiavelli, Ariosto, Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Cervantes. The new secular view courses Department of Comparati ve Literature of the world that emerges in their works and the ways in which these authors conform to and defy inherited moral, social, and literary conventions receive special attention.
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4.00 Credits
Study of the co-emergence of philosophy and various literary genres (epic, lyric poetry, dialogue, tragedy, comedy) in ancient Greece and Rome, as well as the development of literary and rhetorical theory. We undertake close readings of primary texts, including those of Homer, the Presocratic philosophers, Plato, Aristotle, Sappho, Euripides, Aristophanes, Lucretius, Cicero, Horace, Longinus, and Quintilian, as well as various modern and contemporary commentators.
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
Addresses topics in 18th-century literature that are important for comparative study. Offers practical experience in close critical reading and introduces the generic, thematic, and literary historical approaches as methodological and theoretical problems in comparative literature.
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
Addresses topics in 19th-century literature that are important for comparative study. Topics vary yearly and may include the following: the double, the image of Napoleon, detective fiction as a 19thcentury genre, and decadence.
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
Addresses topics in 20th-century literature that are important for comparative study. Topics vary yearly and may include modernism, comparative postcolonial literature, and contemporary culture.
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4.00 Credits
The most influential 20th-century contributions to theories of cultural analysis are examined. Readings are organized into a series of prominent debates: cultural studies, postmodernism, the male gaze, Third World literature, national liberation. Readings from Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Frantz Fanon, Gail Rubin, Laura Mulvey, Fredric Jameson, Aijaz Ahmad, and Claude Lévi-Strauss.
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4.00 Credits
Uses the tools of cultural studies to investigate cultural intersections of the modern period. Focus on the street in literature and film includes questions of cultural space, race, identity politics, gender, and territoriality in the metropolis. Represents cultural studies, film studies, black studies, and women's studies.
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4.00 Credits
The aim of this course is the preparation and the writing of the senior honors thesis. (Students must have a 3.65 or better GPA, both overall and in the major.) We examine several critical/theoretical approaches, as many (and more) as are necessary to meet the needs of each student. Each student makes a presentation of his or her thesis proposal along with the critical position to be taken. Each critical position is then studied by the class so students can make a contribution toward their classmates' theses. In addition, we review thesis research and writing methods.
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