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3.00 Credits
Major works of fiction from the 19th century and earlier. Offered as ENGL 290 and WLIT 290.
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3.00 Credits
Major works of fiction of the 20th century. Offered as ENGL 291 and WLIT 291.
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3.00 Credits
The course offers an introduction to the Francophone World from a historical, cultural, and literary perspective. The Francophone World includes countries and regions around the globe with a substantial French-speaking population (and where French is sometimes, but not always, an official language): North America (Louisiana, Quebec, and Acadia); North Africa (Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, and Egypt); the Middle-East (Lebanon, Syria); the Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti); Southeast Asia (Vietnam); and Europe (France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Luxembourg). FRCH 295 provides a comprehensive overview of the Francophone World, while focusing on a particular area or areas in any given semester. Offered as ETHS 295, FRCH 295, and WLIT 295.
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3.00 Credits
Focus on major cities of the world as catalysts and reflections of cultural and historical change. Interdisciplinary approach utilizing the arts, literature, social sciences. Examples include Berlin at the turn of the century; Paris in literature and film; Tokyo in history and literature. Offered as WLIT 300 and WLIT 400.
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3.00 Credits
Three-week immersion learning experience living and studying in Paris. The focus of the course is the literature and culture of the African, Arab, and Asian communities of Paris. Students spend a minimum of fifteen hours per week visiting cultural centers and museums and interviewing authors and students about the immigrant experience. Assigned readings complement course activities. Students enrolled in FRCH 308/408 do coursework in French. WLIT 308/408 students have the option of completing coursework in English. Graduate students have additional course requirements. Offered as FRCH 308, WLIT 308, FRCH 408, and WLIT 408.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the love poetry of ancient Greece and Rome and its impact on the later European tradition in such poets as Petrarch, Chaucer, and Shakespeare. Readings will focus especially on questions of generic convention, audience expectation, and the social setting of love poetry in the different ages under consideration. No knowledge of the original languages required. Offered as CLSC 314 and WLIT 314.
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3.00 Credits
This co-taught seminar will explore and compare mystical elements in selected literary and theoretical works from the West and the East. Comparisons will focus on a number of interrelated sub-themes such as mind, language, alienation, innocence, experience, life, death, cosmogony, cosmology, good, evil, God/gods, and nature (the ecosystem). Offered as MLIT 315, WLIT 315, MLIT 415 and WLIT 415.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students the opportunity to read a significant number of ancient Greek tragedies in modern English translations. We shall read, study, and discuss selected works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and attempt to understand the plays as literature composed for performance. We shall study literary elements within the plays and theatrical possibilities inherent in the texts. As we read the plays, we shall pay close attention to the historical context and look for what each play can tell us about myth, religion, and society in ancient Athens. Finally, we shall give occasional attention to the way these tragic dramas and the theater in which they were performed have continued to inspire literature and theater for thousands of years. Lectures will provide historical background on the playwrights, the plays, the mythic and historical background, and possible interpretation of the texts as literature and as performance pieces. Students will discuss in class the plays that they read. The course has three examinations and a final project that includes a short essay and a group presentation. Offered as CLSC 316, WLIT 316, WLIT 416.
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3.00 Credits
The erotic drive is a fundamental impulse in human beings, indeed in the animal world in general. Primordially, the erotic find expression in sexual desire and in associated behaviors, which in antiquity -- as in other myth-oriented cultures -- amounts to a production of poetry to aid in seduction, to praise an object of desire, or simply reflect the nature of love and/or sexual desire in general. Highly sexualized language appears in both ancient and modern texts that take into account a variety of foundational texts in Western culture. From Plato, who wrote a whole dialogue (Symposium) describing different kinds of love, to Christian interpreters of sacred texts, eroticism was a term that defined both pagan and religious experiences. This course will explore fictional as well as theoretical inquiries into the nature and purpose of erotic desire and its evaluation as aesthetic phenomenon. It will focus on texts such as Longus's Daphnis and Chloe, Abelard's Letters, Aucassin and Nicolette, mystical voices, Freudian theory and modern contribution such as Roland Barthes and Georges Bataille. Modern theoreticians as those mentioned here illustrate how the libidinal (whether understood as subjective drive or in Freudian terms) is inseparable from the aesthetic. Offered as: CLSC 315 and WLIT 317.
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3.00 Credits
Inspiration is an inextricably essential part of the aesthetic genesis, and it has instantly become one of the most frequented themes of artistic creation. Where does inspiration come from? Are artists "chosen ones" that implicitly stand out from the "non-inspired" rest? Trying to answer these questions and others related to the phenomenon of creativity, one direction that this course should take and focus on is the theme of "divine" or "transcendent" as a source of inspiration in art and literature. The course will start with the mystical teaching and theories of Pythagoras that influenced Plato and the Neo-Platoists that will be carried on further in the general tradition of Christian literature. In this respect, the course will examine creativity in readings that include both Ancient and Medieval writers whose writings place the subject of inspiration at the center of their own aesthetic invention. Among the authors included in the course will be Pseudo-Dyonisius, Gregory Palamas, Jacopone da Todi, Caterina da Siena, Dante, Petrarch, and Meister Eckhart. Offered as: CLSC 317 and WLIT 319.
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