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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Holod. Istanbul, Samarkand, Isfahan, Cairo and Delhi as major centers of art production in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. Attention will be given to urban and architectural achievement as well as to the key monuments of painting and metalwork. The visual environment of the "gunpowder empires".
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Breckman. This course concentrates on French intellectual history after 1945, with some excursions into Germany. We will explore changing conceptions of the intellectual, from Satre's concept of the 'engagement' to Foucault's idea of the 'specific intellectual'; the rise and fall of existentialism;structuralism and poststructuralism; and the debate over 'postmodernity.'
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Allen. Prerequisite(s): Proficiency in ARAB 035. Readings in Arabic texts taken from a variety of literary genres from all periods. The course aims to improve reading skills and vocabulary by introducing students to extensive passages taken from Arabic literature.
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Behl. Prerequisite(s): Two years of Hindi instruction. This course is designed to introduce students to the different literary traditions of premodern and modern Hindi. Readings include Braj and Avadhi poetry, modern Hindi poetry, short and long narrative fiction, and drama. Selections will be drawn from early authors as well as from the developing literary traditions of modern standard Hindi. Contemporary Hindi writers are included, as well as some Hindi critical and commentatorial prose. Depending on student and faculty interest, topics may change from year to year; students may repeat the course for credit with the permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Advanced study of changing topics in comparative literature and literary theory.
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3.00 Credits
Kirkham. Boccaccio's life and work in the context of Italian and European culture and society.
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de la Campa. This course begins with an overview of major statements on poetics and literary theory from Plato to the 20th century. We will then study in detail more contemporary theoretical statements with a view to acquiring a broad knowledge of modern literary criticism. Throughout the semester we will attempt to identify topics and issues that are of particular relevance to students working within the Hispanic literary and critical tradition. Among the authors studied will be Plato, Aristotle, Longinus, Dante, Castelvetro, Lessing, Arnold, Taine, Saussure, Barthes, Derrida, de Man, Althusser, Butler and Latour.
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Laddaga. The course will be an investigation of the most influential styles of conceptualizing the relationship between artistic or literary productions and political practices in Latin America between the 1950s and the present. We will pay special attention to the genesis and structure of the notion of "liberation," and to its subsequent crisis. We will also try to determine th predicament of political art and literature in times of globalization. We will read texts by, among others, Pablo Neruda, Julio Cortazar, Glauber Rocha Reinaldo Arenas, Osvaldo Lamborghini, and Diamela Eltit, and analyze images o several artists, from Antonio Berni and Helio Oiticica, to Doris Salcedo and Cildo Meireles.
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Society Sector. All classes. Agha. The course looks at varieties of human expression - such as art, film, language- as communicative practices that connect persons together to form a common culture. Discussion is centered around particular case studies and ethnographicexamples. Examination of communicative practices in terms of the types of expressive signs they employ, their capacity to formulate and transmit culturalbeliefs and ideals (such as conceptions of politics, nature, and self), and to define the size and characteristics of groups and communities sharing such ideals. Discussion of the role of media, social institutions, and technologies of communication (print, electronic). Emphasis on contemporary communicative practices and the forms of culture that emerge in the modern world.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Sender. Popular culture has been variously dismissed as mere trivia, "just entertainment;" it has been condemned as propaganda, a tool of mass deception; and its consumers have been dubbed fashion victims and couch potatoes. This course considers these critiques, as well as those that suggest that popular culture offers valuable material for the study of social life. We will consider the meanings and impact of popular culture, including its effects on how we see ourselves, others, and American life; who makes distinctions between high, middlebrow, and low or mass culture; and how power and resistance structure the production and consumption of popular texts.
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