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3.00 Credits
Humanities & Social Science Sector. Class of 2010 & beyond. Staff. What makes men and women different What is the nature of desire This course introduces students to a long history of speculation about the meaning and nature of gender and sexuality -- a history fundamental to literary representation and the business of making meaning. We will consider theories from Aristophanes speech in Platos Symposium to recent feminist and queer theory. Authors treated might include: Plato, Shakespeare, J. S. Mill, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Michel Foucault, Gayle Rubin, Catherine MacKinnon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, bell hooks, Leo Bersani, Gloria Anzaldua, David Halperin, Cherr_e Moraga, Donna Haraway, Gayatri Spivak, Diana Fuss, Rosemary Hennesy, Chandra Tadpole Mohanty, and Susan Stryker.
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3.00 Credits
Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Todorov. This course introduces students to the study of comparative literature as a rigorous intellectual discipline. There are no prerequisites, and this class has been designed for students who are considering majors in related fields and those who seek a broader, theoretically rooted understanding of reading and enjoying literature. Our readings will include both literary and theoretical texts; we will be reading novels, essays, poems, and plays that come from a range of periods and of literary traditions.
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3.00 Credits
Humanities & Social Science Sector. Class of 2010 & beyond. Staff. This course examines the notion of style, the shapes for the arts, and also for how we present our selves and our actions. Pervading every aspect of art and life, the innocent heading "style" enshrines a host of contradictions. Individual freedom versus social constraint, beauty versus function, innovation versus imitation, feminine versus male identity, art versus fashion: ranging from the ancient world to modern America, a team from art history, literature and music show how what is "merely a matter of style" may in fact be a matter of the greatest moment.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. St.George. From medieval processions to the Mummer's Parade, from military reenactments to Mardi Gras, communities do more than "write" or "read" history in order to feel its power and shape their futures. Drawing upon traditions in theater, spectacle, religion, and marketing, they also perform their history--by replaying particular characters, restaging pivotal events and sometimes even changing their outcomes--in order to test its relevance to contemporary life and to both mark and contest ritual points in the annual cycle. This course will explore diverse ways of "performing history" in different cultures, including royal passages, civic parades, historical reenactments, community festivals, and film.
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3.00 Credits
Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Staff. This is an introduction to literary study through a survey of works from a specific historical period--often the 20th century, but some versions of this course will focus on other times. (For offerings in a given semester, please see the on-line course descriptions on the English Department website.) We will explore the period's important artistic movements, ideas, and authors, focusing on interconnectedness of the arts to other aspects of culture. This course is designed for the General Requirement; it is also intended to serve as a first or second course for prospective English majors.
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3.00 Credits
Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Schlatter. Theatre, History, Culture I. This course will explore the forms of public performance, most specifically theatre, as they emerge from and give dramatic shape to the dynamic life of communal, civic and social bodies, from their anthropological origins in ritual and religious ceremonies, to the rise of great urban centers,to the closing of the theaters in London in 1642. This course will focus on the development of theatre practice in both Western and non-Western cultures intersects with the history of cities, the rise of market economies, and the emerging forces of national identity. In addition to examining the history of performance practices, theatre architecture, scenic conventions and acting methods, this course will investigate, where appropriate, social and political history, the arts, civic ceremonies and the dramaturgic structures of urban living.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This course examines theatre and performance in the context of the broader urban, artistic and political cultures housing them from the Renaissance to the mid-19th century. Encompassing multiple cultures and traditions, it will draw on a variety of readings and viewings designed to locate the play, playwright, trend or concept under discussion within a specific socio-historical context. The evolution of written and performed drama, theatre architecture, and scenography will be examined in tandem with the evolution of various nationalisms, population shifts, and other commercial and material forces on theatrical entertainments. Readings consequently will be drawn not only from plays and other contemporary documents, but also from selected works on the history, theory, design, technology, art, politics or society of the period under discussion.
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3.00 Credits
Bernstein. Students wishing to take this course must submit a writing sample as part of the selection process. May be repeated for credit with a different instructor. This is a nontraditional "poetry immersion" workshop. It will be structured around a series of writing experiments, intensive readings, art gallery visits, and the prodcution of individual chapbooks or web sites for each participant, and performance of participants' works. There will also be some visits from visiting poets. The emphasis in the workshop will be on new and innovative approaches to composition and form, including digital, sound, and performance, rather than on works emphasizing narrative or story telling. Permission of the instructor is required. Send a brief email stating why you wish to attend the workshop (writing samples not required).
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Minuchehr. Post-Revolutionary Iranian cinema has gained exceptional international reception in the past two decades. In most major national and international festivals, Iranian films have taken numerous prizes for their outstanding representation of life and society, and their courage in defying censorship barriers. In this course, we will examine the distinct characteristics of the post-revolutionary Iranian cinema. Discussion will revolve around themes such as gender politics, family relationships and women's social, economic and political roles, as well as the levels of representation and criticism of modern Iran's political and religious structure within the current boundaries. There will be a total of 12 films shown and will include works by Kiarostami, Makhmalbaf, Beizai, Milani, Bani-Etemad and Panahi, among others.
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3.00 Credits
Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Allen. The purpose of this course is to present a variety of narrative genres and to discuss and illustrate the modes whereby they can be analyzed. We will be looking at shorter types of narrative: short stories, novellas, and fables, and also some extracts from longer works such as autobiographies. While some works will come from the Anglo-American tradition, a larger number will be selected from European and non-Western cultural traditions and from earlier time-periods. The course will thus offer ample opportunity for the exploration of the translation of cultural values in a comparative perspective.
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