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Course Criteria
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Studies love and desire as the interplay between men, women, and money in mercantilized societies, in seventeenth century Japan, eighteenth century England, nineteenth century France, and twentieth century Africa. Novels featuring female protagonists by Saikaku, Defoe, Flaubert, Emecheta and Bâ, readings in economic and feminist theory, and visual art--Japanese woodcuts, Hogarth, nineteenth century French painting, West African arts.
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Justice, rigorously applied, yields injustice. This paradox has haunted Western aspirations toward legal and political justice from antiquity to the Renaissance. It necessitated the formulation of a complementary principle, equity, whose job it was to correct or supplement the law in cases where the strict application of it would lead to unfairness. We will read Sophocles, Shakespeare, Dickens, Kafka, and others.
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Shakespeare wrote two great, intense plays about ancient characters who were irredeemable failures: Coriolanus and Timon of Athens. What can failure teach us? What kind of strength does a language of failure possess? We will also read the ancient sources themselves (Livy, Lucian, Plutarch), and modern adaptations of these stories (Bertolt Brecht, T.S. Eliot, Günter Grass, Wyndham Lewis).
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Examines many forms of storytelling in Asia, from the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Arabian Nights Entertainments to works of history and fiction in China and Japan. The material is intended to follow the evolution of non-western narratives from mythological, historical and fictional sources in a variety of cultural contexts. Topics will include myth and ritual, the problem of epic, tales of love and the fantastic, etc.
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A celebration and critique of the marvelous in South American and related literatures (U.S., Caribbean). We follow the marvelous from European exoticizing of the New World during the colonial period to its postcolonial incarnations in 'magical realism' and beyond. We attend particularly to the politics and marketing of the marvelous, in writers including Borges, Chamoiseau, Columbus, GarcÃa Márquez, Fuguet. Reading in English or Spanish. DVPS WRIT
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Close readings of short narratives with special attention to how formal and thematic elements interact to produce the effects of uncertainty, anxiety and incoherence peculiar to "the uncanny." Topics include: the representation of the self in images of the arts; the representation of speech; instabilities of identity and spatial and temporal boundaries; doubles, monsters, and automata. Texts selected from: Walpole, Shelley, Hoffmann, Kleist, Poe, Dostoevsky, Freud, Wilde and Kafka.
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Investigates the age-old tension between order and chaos as a central dynamic in the making and interpretation of literature. Texts will be drawn from drama, fiction and poetry from Antiquity to the present. Authors include Sophocles, Shakespeare, Racine, Beckett, Prevost, Bronte, Faulkner, Morrison, Blake, Whitman, Dickinson, and Rich.
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Modernism has been called a 'Renaissance of the Archaic'. We will read from the major works of Anglo-American modernism (Eliot, Joyce, Lawrence, Pound), focusing on their attitudes toward the primitive and the archaic. In addition, we will examine anthropological theories from the Victorian period to Durkheim, explore primitivism in modernist music and painting, and read about recent controversies surrounding modernism and primitivism.
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National literatures often define the 'Self' (collective or personal) in relation or in opposition to the 'Other' (the enemy/the racial other). This course examines narratives in which this tension is played out with particular emphasis on the cases of Greece and Turkey. It will also consider the literature of Cyprus as a contested region where this tension is played out.
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1.00 Credits
Explores the notion of the nation as expressed in literature, poetry, film and popular culture. It primarily centers on two case studies (Greece and Israel) and considers multiple definitions of the nation as well as the concept of national/historical memory. It also examines the display of cultural memory (in national museums, commemorations, memorials etc). Other areas of interest include: the national appropriation of literature and literature's function in the national institution, Western definitions of the Balkans. The Rise of Eurocentrism, and though the course primarily examines critical and theoretical texts, poems, films, and literary texts will be considered in the context of a theoretical approach to the nation.
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