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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
A course designed to permit the study of special topics in the area of world cinema. Topics might include the work of an individual director or of several directors, national surveys, film as social, political, and cultural history, or critical approaches.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores popular fiction, known as "small talk" in Chinese. Fiction initially circulated as an unofficial complement to the official canon of Confucian classics. Nonetheless, "small talk" has grown big since the late imperial period and eventually become the predominant genre in Chinese literary culture. What has made popular Chinese fiction popular at different time periods from the late imperial to the Republic period Does fiction critique socio-cultural conventions while entertaining the reader Has it approached gendered roles in innovative ways Does it expand imagination beyond the everyday and elitist aesthetics We will discuss these questions among others. The reading will be drawn from popular genres such as martial arts fiction, fantasy tales, romance novels, and social novels. In addition to examining popular fiction in the Chinese context, the course will touch upon creative borrowing by Western writers, such as Kafka. No prior knowledge of Chinese language or literature is require
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3.00 Credits
This course examines Chinese language films that are well known to general audiences in America or film festival devotees. The films to be discussed in the class consist of popular as well as arthouse films by Chinese, Hong Kongese, Taiwanese and overseas directors made in the period from the last two decades of the twentieth-century into the new millennium (2007). We will explore the representative genres and structuralist aesthetics of the fast changing cinematic images of China and look into the dialectical construction of public and private space of Chinese film in view of a globalized audience. No previous knowledge of Chinese or Cinema Studies is required. All films are subtitled in English. May be elected as Rhetoric and Film Studies 368 A.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
O'Neil In this course we will study the literary reactions to Nazism, Fascism, war and military occupation in France and Italy of the 1940s. Readings may include French Resistance poetry, plays by Anouilh and Grumberg, novels by Celine, Brasillach, Sartre, Silone, Bassani and Irene Nemerovsky.
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4.00 Credits
Selected problems of developments in a non-English literature. Such topics as Medieval Courtly Literature, Scandinavian Drama, European Romanticism, Twentieth Century German fiction, Existentialism, the Enlightenment, the Picaresque and Symbolism may be studied. All material will be read in English translation.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Staff Directed reading and preparation of a critical paper or papers on a topic suggested by the student. The project must be approved by the staff. The number of students accepted for this course will depend on the availability of the staff. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Zalloua This course will expose students to the major contemporary theoretical approaches to literary studies. We will examine a broad array of critical schools and perspectives, including reader-response theory, feminism, poststructuralism, and postcolonial studies. We will pay special attention to the recent "Ethical Turn" in literary studies influenced by the works of French philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. May be taken for credit toward the French major.
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