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3.00 Credits
The course explores the unique period in Czech film and literature during the 1960s that emerged as a reaction to the imposed socialist realism. The new generation of writers (Kundera, Skvorecky, Havel, Hrabal) in turn had an influence on young emerging film makers, all of whom were part of the Czech new wave. - C. Harwood 3 points
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Explores the intertwining of religion, politics, and literature during the seventeenth century, focusing on the English Revolution (1640-1660). What was the role of religion, and the nature of religious differences in post-reformation England Beginning with brief selections from Herbert's The Temple but focusing on writings by religio-political radicals and self-proclaimed prophets such as Gerrard Winstanley and Anna Trapnel but especially Milton (e.g., probably Areopaglitica, Paradise Regained), we will consider the proliferation of religious divisions and sectarian options, anti-Catholicism, the question of Jewish readmission, and the relation between religion and "nation." - A. Guibbory Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
A close reading of works by Dostoevsky, ( Netochka Nezvanova; The Idiot, " A Gentle Creature") and Tolstoy ( Childhood, Boyhood, Youth; " Family Happiness", Anna Karenina; " The Kreutzer Sonata") in conjunction with realted English novels (Bronte's Jane Eyre, Eliot's Middlemarch, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway). No knowledge of Russian is required; all works read in English. - L. Knapp Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Adultery is a driving concern of the works read. Authors include Pushkin, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Chekhov; Lafayette, Flaubert; Hawthorne, Chopin. As we study the nineteenth-century novels that define the novel of adultery as a literary category, as well as some precursors and later offshoots, we articulate a morphology of the novel of adultery. We also focus on the narrative techniques used to represent the consciousness of the protagonists, in an effort to determine how the subject matter and the poetics of the novel of adultery interact. No knowledge of Russian is required; all works read in English. - L. Knapp Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
(Lecture) Key texts of 15th- and 16th-century humanism in their rhetorical and philosophical contexts, including works by Petrarch, Erasmus, More, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Sidney, and Montaigne. - A. Prescott 3 points Registration in the course is limited. Students need to sign up outside the English Department office, room 417 Barnard Hall.
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3.00 Credits
How did Renaissance writers imagine Eros What obstacles does he meet How does he relate to other kinds of love To loss and to wit Readings include Plato, Ovid, and Petrarch for background, then Stampa, Ariosto, Rabelais, Labé, Marguerite de Navarre, Ronsard, Rabelais, Wyatt, Marlowe, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, and Donne.--A. Prescott 3 points
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3.00 Credits
What are the intellectual antecedents of contemporary critical, cultural, and social theory Where do the vocabularies and questions that occupy us most urgently today, or that we occupy--history, the subject, the other, the aesthetic, culture, society, discourse, and so on - come from, and how does this history illuminate their current challenges and relations How do we interpret the tension between theory and the current aggressive return of "history" This course will look back at certain thinkers of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries (Rousseau, Kleist, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Bergson, Bakhtin, Freud, Weber) who offer indispensable continuities with and counterpoints to the methodologies of academic literary theory from the New Criticism to the more recent practices of cultural studies. Though some knowledge of feminist, Marxist, and poststructuralist theory would be helpful, only minimal acquaintance will be presumed; selected 20th-century readings that illustrate lines of connection will be provided. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Examines representations of the mafia in American and Italian film and literature. Special attention to questions of ethnic identity and immigration. Comparison of the different histories and myths of the mafia in the U.S. and Italy. Readings include novels, historical studies, and film criticism. - N. Moe 3 points Readings and discussion in English. Optional readings in Italian.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of major myths from the ancient Near East to the advent of Christianity, with emphasis upon the content and treatment of myths in classical authors (Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, Vergil, Livy, Ovid). - E. Scharffenberger General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Examines ancient Greek and Roman works of comedy in conjunction with 20th-century texts composed in English. Explores how fantasy and satire grapple with political, social, and cultural issues and the remarkable continuity within this particular comic tradition. Authors include Aristophanes, Petronius, Lucian, Apuleius, Seneca, Tom Stoppard, Thomas Pynchon, Douglas Adams, and John Waters. - E. Scharffenberger General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). 3 points
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