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3.00 Credits
Exploration of how and why landscape imagery is deployed in the western literary tradition as a map of cultural values, aesthetic ambitions, ideological critique, and /or artistic authority. Readings will include Aristophanes' Frogs, Plato's Phaedrus, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Proust's Under the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, and H.D.'s poems. These will be supplemented with images from different periods of landscape painting. Secondary readings will take advantage of the recent explosion of interest in landscape and topographical imagery in many fields, including cultural geography and landscape architecture. - N. Worman General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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The novella, older than the novel, painstakingly crafted, links the worlds of ideas and fiction. The readings present the novella as a genre, tracing its progress from the 17th century to the 20th. Each text read in the comparative milieu, grants the reader access to the intellectual concerns of an era. - A. MacAdam 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Analysis and discussion of the relation of literature to painting, photography, and film. Emphasis on artistic and literary concepts concerning the visual dimension of narrative and poetic texts from Homer to Burroughs. Explores the role of description, illustration, and montage in realist and modern literature. - E. Grimm General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the scientific and technological practices through which the Spanish Empire established and legitimated itself during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Chronicles and travel literature will show how knowledges such as cartography, metallurgy, and botany grounded technological expansion and its deployment of indigenous peoples and resources. - O. Bentancor Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). 3 points
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4.00 Credits
Designed for students writing a senior thesis and doing advanced research on two central literary fields in the student's major. The course of study and reading material will be determined by the instructor(s) in consultation with students(s). - E. Grimm 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Independent research, primarily for the senior essay, directed by a chosen faculty adviser and with the chair's permission. The senior seminar for majors writing senior essays will be taught in the Spring term. 4 points
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3.00 Credits
Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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4.00 Credits
The course is an interdisciplinary investigation of the cultural and political phenomenon of Eastern European dissent in the 1970s and 1980s, which culminated in the collapse of communism in the region. Using sources ranging from political essays to drama, other fiction, and film, students will explore the development of the region's oppositional movement's ideas and ideals. The actual prefix of the course, for registration purposes, is HSSL W4203. - B. Abrams, C. Harwood Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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3.00 Credits
Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the study of literature from a comparative and cross-disciplinary perspective. Readings will be selected to promote reflection on such topics as the relation of literature to the other arts; nationalism and literature; international literary movements; post-colonial literature; gender and literature; and issues of authorship, influence, originality, and intertextuality. - N. Worman General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). 3 points
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