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3.00 Credits
Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Staff. An introduction to classical mythology through close analysis of selected texts. Topics include: the definition of myth; its social, political, and religious contexts; the variety of methodologies available for its study (e.g. comparative anthropology, structuralism, psychoanalysis); the literary development of myths, divine and heroic; the Roman adaptation of Greek myths;and the relationship of myth to historical, philosophical, and scientific modes of thought. No prior background is required. Students come to the study of mythology from a variety of disciplines. This course should be particularly useful to those interested in literature, the fine arts, anthropology, folklore, and religion.
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Staff. Readings and reflections on significant texts of the Italian literary and artistic tradition exploring a wide range of genres, themes, cultural debates by analyzing texts in sociopolitical contexts. Readings and discussions in Italian.
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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. What do Bruce Willis and Homer have in common Why do so many films seem so familiar Is popular culture meaningless If so, why all the controversy over The Lion King, Braveheart, or Murphy Brown This course will answer all this and more. It will provide an introduction into both classical literature and the interpretation of popular culture; but it will not entail sitting through hours of The Last Days of Pompeii, Spartacus, Helen of Troy, or other films your parents remember fondly. Students will read a number of well-known texts from antiquity, one or two 20thcentury works, and view 8-12 (mostly) recent popular films. By examining the texts and films first within their cultural contexts and then against one another, we will address a number of different themes and issues that will also expose students to different reading tactics. Topics include: the myth of the hero, the evolution of detective fiction, the politics of children's literature and film, narrative strategies, and the uses of tradition. Texts include: Homer's Odyssey, Sophocle Apuleius' Golden Ass, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Euripides' Hipp Chandler's The Big Sleep, short stories by Raymond Carver, critical essays. Probable films include: Die Hard, either Terminator 2 or Aliens, Angel Heart, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and Mighty Aphrodite.
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3.00 Credits
Majithia. This is a topics course. The topic may be "Global Fiction and Film.". The spread of globalization or the acceleration of transportation and information technologies, alters our notions of time and space. described variously as colonial, postcolonia and global recent film and literature from South Asia suggest models for understanding the following process: imperialism, nationalism, displacement, hybridity, migrancy and travel. the resulting increase in the traffic in texts re defines genres, canons, high/low cultures as well as popular and mass culture. The new reprentationas and circulations of fictions, films and adaptations produce novel ways of thinking about community, borders and belonging. while the class will focus on South Asian texts, we will draw on film, literature and theretical frameworks from other contexts to consider the licenses and limits of comparison for this study.
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3.00 Credits
Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Allen, Gold. This course is team-taught by four professors with specialities in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish literatures; all four attend all the sessions of the course. The course deals with the modern literature within each tradition and focuses on poetry, the short story and the novel (among which have been in recent year: Al-Tayyib Salih's SEASON OF MIGRATION TO THE NORTH, Yehoshua's THE LOVER, Hedyat's THE BLIND OWL, and Kemal's MEMET MY HAWK). The readings are all in English. The course is conducted in a seminar format. Students are expected to participate in classroom discussion of the materials assigned for each session, and evaluation is partially based on the quality of that participation. A short paper is assigned on the poetry and the short stories, and there is a final examination.
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3.00 Credits
Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Verkholantsev. Despite the title, Russian 213 is not simply about saints and devils in Russian culture. Our primary goal is to trace cultural continuity and understand the dependence of the 19th and 20th century Russian literature and art on cultural paradigms and categories of pre-modern Russia. In Russia, where culture and conscience had been nourished by Eastern Orthodoxy and Indo-European paganism, the 19th-century search for spirituality was invariably connected with Orthodoxy and religious pursuits. The interest in Russian history kindled a fascination with medieval Russian literary and artistic productions. Writers and artists turned for inspiration to medieval themes and genres. In "Saints and Devils," we will examine the literary images of the holy and the demonic in works from various periods and we will learn about the historic trends that have filled Russia's national character with religious and supernatural spirit. All readings and films are in English and include such authors as Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Leskov, Bulgakov, and Nabokov, as well as films by Tarkovsky and Eisenstein.
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3.00 Credits
May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Allen. This course provides a survey of the genres and major figures in Arabic literary history from the 6th century up to the present day. Selected works are read in translation; poetry is discussed first, then belles-lettrist prose. Selected suras from the Qur'an are read as the centerpiece of the course. Each set of texts are accompanied by a collection of background readings which place the authors and works into a literary, political and societal context. This course thus attempts to place the phenomenon of "literature" into the larger context of Islamic studies by illustrating the links between Arab litterateurs and other contributors to the development of an Islamic/Arab culture on the one hand and by establishing connections between the Arabic literary tradition and that of other (and particularly Western) traditions.
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3.00 Credits
Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Staff. Prerequisite(s): GRMN 215 or the equivalent. Develops students' basic skills of literary interpretation. Exposure to various reading techniques (e.g. close reading, reading for plot, etc.) and to literary terminology and its application. Readings will include selections from prose, drama and lyric poetry.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This basic course in literature provides an overview of French literature and acquaints students with major literary trends through the study of representative works from each period. Students are expected to take an active part in class dicussion in French. French 221 has as its theme the presentation of love and passion in French literature.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This basic course in literature provides an overview of French literature and acquaints students with major literary trends through the study of representative works from each period. Special emphasis is placed on close reading of texts in order to familiarize students with major authors and their characteristics and with methods of interpretation. They are expected to take an active part in class discussion in French. French 222 has as its theme the Individual and Society. Students who have taken 221 may also take French 222 for credit.
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