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3.00 Credits
Staff. This course includes both a general survey of classic writings in Western aesthetics as well as readings on the major trends in literary criticism in the twentieth century. A recurring theme will be the literary canon and how it reflects or influences values and interpretative strategies. Among the topics covered are feminist literary criticism, structuralism and poststructuralism, Marxist criticism, and psychological criticism. Authors include Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Hegel, T.S. Eliot, Bakhtin, Sontag, Barthes, Foucault, Derrida, Virginia Woolf, de Beauvoir, Showalter, Cixous, Gilbert and Guber, Kolodny, Marx, Benjamin, and Freud.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Allen. This course takes a number of different areas of Literary Theory and, on the basis of research completed and in progress in both Arabic and Western languages, applies some of the ideas to texts from the Arabic literary tradition. Among these areas are: Evaluation and Interpretation, Structuralism, Metrics, Genre Theory, Narratology, and Orality.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Copeland. Benjamin Franklin Seminar. This course looks at a number of strands in the broad epic tradition: narratives of warfare, quest narratives (both geographical and spiritual), and the combination of the two in narratives of chivalry and love. We will start with Homer, reading good portions of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey",and then see how Homeric themes are reprised in Virgil's narrative of travel, conquest, and empire, the "Aeneid". We will then look at St. Augustine's "Confessions", which has some claim to being considered an "epic" of spiritual discovery, and consider how Augustine reflects back upon his classical narrative sources. From there we will move to one medieval epic of warfare, conquest, and empire, the "Song of Roland", which emerges from the same kind of oral poetic culture that produced the ancient Homeric epics. In the last part of the course we will read some Arthurian romances, which take up certain themes familiar from epic, but place them in a new context: the medieval institution of chivalry, where the ancient warrior is replaced by the medieval knight, where the collective battle is replaced by the individual quest, and where the psychology of sexual desire is now foregrounded as a motivation for heroic self-realization.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This course explores an aspect of literary modernism intensively; specific course topics will vary from year to year. Past offerings have included seminars on the avant-garde, on the politics of modernism, and on its role in shaping poetry, music, and the visual arts.
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3.00 Credits
DeJean. We will compare the three powerful traditions of women's writing that developed in the 16th and 17th centuries: in Italy, in England and in France. We will read works by, among others, Veronica Franc Fonte, Aphra Behn, Margaret Cavendish, Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette and Madeleine de Scudery. We will concentrate on works in prose and, in particular, on the two genres whose development was shaped by women writers: novels and treatises defending women's rights. We will think about what it meant to be a woman writer in these countries and at this period. We will also try to understand the conditions that made it possible for these traditions to develop. French and Italian workswill be read in translation.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Ben-Amos. In this course we will explore the mythologies of selected peoples in the Ancient Near East, Africa, Asia, and Native North and South America and examinehow the gods function in the life and belief of each society. The study of mythological texts will be accompanied, as much as possible, by illustrative slides that will show the images of these deities in art and ritual.
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3.00 Credits
Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Gold. This is a topics course. 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. In this course, we will examine a broad corpus of texts from a range of modern literary-theoretical schools, including formalism, structuralism, deconstruction, reader-response theory, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, and post-colonialism. Through detailed readings of these works, we will address such issues as: the nature of language and its relationship to reality; the problems of identity and ideology; the notions of cultural authority and difference; and the politics of literature and "theory." Secondary readings will be drawn from British, German, and French/Francophone literary traditions. Taught in English.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This is a topics course. The titles may be "Italian and Anglo-American Criticism, "Horror Cinema," or "Arcades Project.".
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This is a topics course. The titles may include "Vampires:The Undead," "Political Theatre," "Writing Down Under," "Diaspora Culture," or "Caribbean Literature."
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