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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Stern. Readings in medieval Hebrew literature, with special attention to poetry, narrative, and the interpretation of the Bible, and to the varieties of Jewish experience that these literary works touch upon. All reading in translation.
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Stern. An introduction to the different types of Jewish literature written in the first six centuries C.E. Primary attention to the literature of Rabbinic Judaism (Midrash, Mishnah, Talmud), but readings will also include some non-Rabbinic and sectarian documents. All readings will be in translation.
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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Considering works of nineteenth-century fiction, primarily British, this course focuses on a specialized group of novels to examine a particular author or a particular theme in depth. Past offerings have included: "Readings in Dickens,"and "Magic, Mystery, and Madness," which studied works by Bronte, Le Fanu, Wilke Collins, Conan Doyle, Stevenson, or "Evolutionary Fictions and Facts."
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Krishnan. We will explore how novels work, asking what they do to us and for us. Why are some narrators unreliable, withholding or confused while others "know" everything Critical works may include THE POLICTICAL UNCONSCIOUS; Mary Poovey, UNEVEN DEVELOPMENTS; E.Said, CULTURE AND IMPERIALISM; E Sedgwick, THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF THE CLOSET. Novels may include Austen, PERSUASION; Woolf, MRS DALLOWAY; Joyce, PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN; Kincaid, AUTIOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course explores an aspect of the 20th-century novel intensively; specific course topics will vary from year to year.
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3.00 Credits
May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course will introduce you to the "roots" of the western dramatic tradition by surveying a number of well-known tragedies and comedies from Greco-Roman antiquity. Although the syllabus varies slightly from year to year, students can expect to read such influential works as Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" and Aristophanes' "Clouds." In addition to reading the plays themselves, students will gain insight into the reception of dramatic performances in the ancient world. Individual authors and works will be presented within their historical contexts and we will attend to matters such as staging of drama, the evolution of theatrical performance, and interpretation of ancient drama as social and/or political commentary.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the basic materials and methods of theatre history and historigraphy, as applied to a particular topic, organized around a specific period, national group, or aesthetic issue. This course is concerned with methodological questions: how the history of theatre can be documented; how primary documents, secondary accounts, and historical and critical analyses can be synthesized; how the various components of the theatrical event--acting, scenography, playhouse architecture, audience composition, the financial and structural organization of the theatre industry, etc.--relate to one another; and how the theatre is socially and culturally constructed as an art form in relation to the politics and culture of a society in a particular time and place.
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3.00 Credits
Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Gold. The content of this course changes from year to year; and, therefore, students may take it for credit more than once. This course is designed as a first course in Hebrew and Israeli literatures in their original forms: no re-written or reworked texts will be presented. It aims to introduce major literary works, genres and figures, Texts and discussions will be in Hebrew. Depending on the semester's focus, fiction, poetry or other forms of expression will be discussed. This course is meant to provide methods for literary interpretation through close reading of these texts. Personal, social, and political issues that find expression in the culture will also be examined. Past topics include: "Poems, Song, Nation;" Israeli Drama," "The Israeli Short Story;" Postmodernist Israeli Writing;" and "Israel through Poets' Lenses."
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. COML 267 is a topics course. The topics for the semester may be "Feminism, Performance and the Rhetoric of Violence," "Sexuality on Stage," "Feminisim in Performance: Writing Performance," or "Dramaturgy.".
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Richter/MacLeod. Cinema played a crucial role in the cultural life of Nazi Germany. As cinema enthusiasts, Goebbels and Hitler were among the first to realize the important ideological potential of film as a mass medium and saw to it that Germany remained a cinema powerhouse producing more than a 1000 films during the Nazi era. This general requirement course explores the world of Nazi cinema ranging from infamous propaganda pieces such as The Triumph of the Will and The Eternal Jew to entertainments by important directors such as Pabst and Douglas Sirk. More than sixty years later, Nazi Cinema challenges us to grapple with issues of more subtle ideological insinuation than we might think. The course also includes film responses to developments in Germany by exiled German directors (Pabst, Wilder) and concludes with Mel Brooks' The Producers. All lectures and readings in English. Weekly screenings with subtitles.
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