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An introduction to major works of Scandinavian writers, painters and filmmakers over the past 150 years. Figures include Kierkegaard, Ibsen, Strindberg, Munch, Hamsun, Josephson, Södergran, Lagerkvist, Vesaas, Cronqvist, August and Vinterberg, as well as children's books by Astrid Lindgren and Tove Jansson.
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The invention of the Renaissance as a cultural formation and as a part of the western cultural imaginary. We will consider the so-called "discovery of man," humanism and the recovery of the classical past, the production of scriptural identity or the "bibliographic ego," courtiership, the formation of the early modern state and the discovery of the "new world" through readings of major English and continental writers of the period.
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A reading of the major literary monuments, from early waka to Genji to the fiction of Oe Kenzaburo. Surveys Japanese literary production from the 8th century to the present, examining the formation of literary genres, aesthetic values, and reading habits of successive eras in the context of political, social, and cultural development. No prerequisites.
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Raises questions of intertexuality between French and Latin American literature, focusing on how each represents the other. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, questions aesthetic categories of the real, the surreal and the marvelous/magical real; and literary responses to World War II and the Dirty War, the 1968 student protests in Paris and Mexico City, feminist movements, and globalization.
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Short works of fiction from the Western Middle Ages: stories of marvels, animal fables, satirical anecdotes (fabliaux), saints' lives, novellas of love and chivalry. Examines narrative strategies and interchanges among these literary forms. Readings: many anonymous tales, Marie de France's Lais, selections from the Roman de Renart, Boccaccio's Decameron, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
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The course approaches the history of ideas in Mexico by examining four critical moments/moments of crisis in the country's development. We focus on the issues and burdens of the past as conceptualized in historical, essayistic, and literary writings of the Conquest, the Baroque, the Mexican Revolution, and the iconoclastic 1960s. In English.
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An interdisciplinary journey-combining history, literature, art, film, architecture, cartography-through representations of the many worlds that comprised the colonial Hispanic New World. We traverse the paradisiacal Antilles, the U.S. Southwest, Tenochtitlan/Mexico City, Lima, PotosÃ. We read European, indigenous, and Creole writers, including: Columbus, Las Casas, Bernal DÃaz, Aztec poets, Guaman Poma, Sor Juana. In English. Excellent preparation for study abroad in Latin America. Enrollment limited to 20 first year students. FYS WRIT
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This course offers a comparative selection of oral and written folktales from Arabic, Chinese, African, North American, and European traditions in translation in order to study the formation and reception of storytelling in different socio-cultural contexts (Western and non-Western, contemporary and traditional). We will consider storytelling and associated performance practice in the light of a variety of theoretical disciplines (e.g., rhetoric, folklore, sociolinguistics, performance studies, literary criticism, narratology). There will be lectures, presentations, and videorecordings.
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An introduction to women poets and prose writers from early court cultures, with emphasis on what these authors show us about their social environment and civilization. What did the pen or writing brush enable them to express and achive? How were they able to negotiate the gaps between a male classical literary language and their own vernacular speech? What kinds of literary approaches and conventions were perfected by them? How did they view their personal social status? What educational, moral, and spiritual concerns did they voice? Readings: works by Murasaki Shikibu, Sei Shônagon, Heloise, Marie de France, Christin de Pizan, plus shorter texts written by both men and women between 700 and 1450 C.E.
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