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  • 3.00 Credits

    Movements and genres of modern European poetry, from the Symbolists to the present. Included will be such poets as D'Annunzio, Cavafy, Rilke, Blok, Mayakovsky, Valery, Eluard, Pavese, Seferis, Akhmatova, Mandestram, Marinetti, Trakl, Mistrale, Vallejo, Morgenstern, Apollinaire, Loren, Transtromer, Brodsky, Milosz, and others in translation. (OC). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Language,Culture&Communication Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
  • 3.00 Credits

    A study of archetypal figures and thematic motifs. Their recurrent appearance in different literary periods and genres and their lineage will be examined in order to increase understanding of the works themselves and of the ages which produced them. A selection will be made from classical myth, Biblical narrative, and historical sources. Thus the figures may vary from Oedipus and Cain to Faust and Don Juan. Motifs or story patterns may include such devices as the spiritual quest, the journey into Hell, or the patricide prophecy. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Language,Culture&Communication Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
  • 3.00 Credits

    A careful examination of five or six significant modern novels in translation, with particular emphasis on their influence on the development of the novel, and their reflection of contemporary cultural issues. The works of such authors as Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Gide, Joyce, and Mann will be included. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Language,Culture&Communication Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
  • 3.00 Credits

    A careful reading of selected plays from Ibsen to the contemporary theater, designed to develop appreciative criticism and an understanding of the plays in their relationships to movements to modern drama, theater, background, social forces and trends of thought. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Language,Culture&Communication Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
  • 3.00 Credits

    A study of masterworks of ancient Greek and Roman literature with special attention to the development of epic, tragedy, comedy, and lyric poetry. Authors studied will include Homer, Virgil, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Terence, and Plautus. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Language,Culture&Communication Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is an interdisciplinary approach to the concepts of urban development and literary, visual and cultural responses to the process of urbanization mainly in Rome and Paris. The readings will illustrate how the city shaped the writers' creativity, as well as how their works interpret urbanization. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Seminar Language,Culture&Communication Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
  • 3.00 Credits

    Reflections on myth, history, and literature, based on analyses of literary texts. The individual hero may change from term to term. The course, for example, might center on the transition from Faust to anti-Faust. In this instance, some of the writers or works might include: The Faustbook, Marlow's Doctor Faustus, Goethe's Faust, Byron's Manfred, a Faust opera, Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus, Gunter Grass' The Tin Drum. All reading in English translation. (OC). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Language,Culture&Communication Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
  • 3.00 Credits

    Examination of problems and issues in selected areas of comparative literature. Title as listed in Schedule of Classes will change according to content. Course may be repeated for credit when specific topics differ. (OC). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Language,Culture&Communication Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
  • 1.00 - 3.00 Credits

    Readings or analytical assignments in Comparative Literature in accordance with the needs and interests of those enrolled and agreed upon by the student and instructor. 1.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours 1.000 TO 3.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study Language,Culture&Communication Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
  • 3.00 Credits

    A study of the genre of mystical writing as it was developed and practiced throughout the Middle Ages and in 14th century England particularly. Attention will be given to the historical, religious, and cultural contexts that enabled and were created by mystical texts. In addition, the course will explore how traditional and contemporary trends in the fields of religious and literary studies can be brought to bear on the genre of mystical writing. (OC) 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Language,Culture&Communication Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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