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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Examination of concepts and assumptions present in contemporary views of literature. Theory of meaning and interpretation (hermeneutics); questions of genre (with discussion of representative examples); a critical analysis of formalist, psychoanalytic, structuralist, post-structuralist, Marxist, and feminist approaches to literature. - B. O'Keeffe Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 18 students. 4 points
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3.00 Credits
Explores the imagery of eating, drinking, spitting, choking, sucking (and other unmentionables) in relation to insults and excessive behaviors. Readings from Greek poetry (e.g., Homer, Aristophones) to modern theory (e.g., Kristeva, Powers of Horror, Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World), including modern novels and films. Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Explores the representation of institutional power and personal authority in world literature and international cinema through the lens of contemporary theory and with an emphasis on the fantasies of "Big Brother". Readings and screenings include Orwell, Nabokov, Kafka, Lucan, Winterson as well as Coppola, Hitchcock, Chaplin and Godard. - P. Usher General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
With an emphasis on equality and social justice, this course examines and compares significant 19th c./20th c. literary approaches to friendship as intermediary between individualism and communal life. Discussion of culturally formed concepts and attitudes in modern or postcolonial setting. Reading of Dickens, Hesse, Woolf, Ocampo, Puig, Fugard, Emerson, Derrida, Rawls. Prerequisites: CPLS BC3001 Intro to Comp. Lit.; completion of intermediate language courses. Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Compares the diverse images of Europe in 20th-century literature, with an emphasis on the forces of integration and division that shape cultural identity in the areas of travel writings and transculturation/cosmopolitanism; mnemonic narratives and constructions of the past; borderland stories and the cultural politics of translation. Readings include M. Kundera, S. Rushdie, H. Boell, C. Toibin and others. - E. Grimm Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Explores the cultural forces that defined the rise and fall of Italian fascism as well as the rise of Nazism, with a particular focus on the relationship between Germany and Italy and the similarities and differences between the two dictatorships. Readings addressing the question of literary representation and its political message will include "official" newspaper stories, trials, and propaganda films in addition to personal narratives such as diaries and autobiographies. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
The Spanish Civil War (1936-39), which culminated with the beginning of Francisco Franco's long dictatorship, foreshadowed the WWII European conflict. It generated unprecedented foreign involvement, as well texts and images by artists from both within and outside Spain--from film (documentary and fictional), through painting (Picasso), to narrative and nonfiction. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). 3 points
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3.00 Credits
The Spanish Civil War (1936-39), which culminated with the beginning of Francisco Franco's long dictatorship, foreshadowed the WWII European conflict. It generated unprecedented foreign involvement, as well texts and images by artists from both within and outside Spain - from film (documentary and fictional), through painting (Picasso), to narrative and nonfiction. - W. Rios-Font General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of the 19th-century bourgeois fascination --as evidenced in narrative texts produced and consumed by that class--with marginalized figures from the fringes of acceptable society. Texts consist mainly of novel/short stories featuring protagonists from the poor urban massess, transgressive females such as the adulteress and the prostitute, and the lineage-less figure so popular in the 19th-century narrative, the orphan outcast. - TBD Prerequisites: Not offered in 2008-2009. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
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3.00 Credits
Examines how heroes in literature and film 'come into being' through the journeys they make. Readings by Virgil, Chrétien de Troies, Luiz Vaz de Cam es, Aphra Behn, Voltaire and others; films by Jean-Luc Godard, Francis Ford Coppola, Ridley Scott and others. - P. Usher Prerequisites: Not offered in 2008-2009. 3 points
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