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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
Medieval drama, which was performed in churches, monasteries, inns and marketplaces, was the pop culture of the Middle Ages. With a focus on major plays from medieval France, Germany, the Netherlands, and England, this course uses an interdisciplinary approach to reconstruct how these plays were staged in their original settings. Additional topics include the architecture of theater spaces and stage types; the use of music in drama; the nature of acting, mimesis and performativity in the Middle Ages; and the importance of the "theater" of medieval art. Students end the class with a historically accurate performance of a medieval play.
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3.00 Credits
Same as Chinese 330
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3.00 Credits
What is the relationship between freedom and luck? How do men and women respond to large forces beyond their control? Is character a struggle against outside events, or is it a submission to destiny? What happens when two ethical principles, taken absolutely, collide together? What is the nature of evil, and how does good respond to it? In ancient Greece, Renaissance England, 17th-century Europe, modern Europe, and post-colonial Africa, the form of tragedy has grappled with these questions, generating both a rich body of imaginative literature and equally compelling philosophical reflections about tragedy. This course explores great works of tragic literature by authors such as Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Racine, Ibsen, Dostoevsky, Miller, and Soyinka, and examines philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Weil, and Arendt in order to explore the questions raised by tragedy.
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
This comparative course examines and enjoys the substances and forms of humor and comedy in different times and places. Some attention to jokes, gags, and comics precedes a wide-ranging examination of literary comedy. A study of various plays and comic texts illuminates different forms of comedy, such as farce, satire, romantic comedy, comedy of manners, absurdist comedy, and contemporary political comedy. Authors include Aristophanes, Plautus, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Molière, Fielding, Gogol, Wilde, Stoppard, and Dario Fo.
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3.00 Credits
Our focus is our own pleasure in reading. How do we assure that this pleasure survives into the next century now that the visual, the sound bite, the video clip permeate our lives? We attempt to answer this question by rediscovering one of the great love stories of all times, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Daniel Pennac's Reads Like A Novel, a recent work about the pleasures of reading for pleasure, guides us as we isolate elements of Tolstoy's story that compel us, that teach us about our own needs and desires as readers. The class considers novels whose love stories are molded by the characters' own reading: Austen's Northanger Abbey, Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1856), Proust's Swann In Love, Skarmet's Burning Patience, Bernhard Schlink's The Reader. Far from being immune to or eclipsed by history and politics, the pleasure of reading is shown to reflect the reader's appreciation of the larger fabric of society, where passion is set against war, prostitution, mental illness, adultery, and prejudice.
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3.00 Credits
Genre as a comparative laboratory. A close examination of the nature, function, and pleasures of given literary genres, such as epic or postmodern narrative.
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3.00 Credits
Same as Film 340
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3.00 Credits
Same as Hindi 350
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