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Explores the myth of Oedipus and its appropriations in theory and literature. It begins with an examination of the myth as it appears in Sophocle's Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus and it proceeds to trace the adaptation of the myth in contemporary works (novels, films). The myth of Oedipus will be examined as a literary subtext but also in its political, philosophical, and psychoanalytic manifestations. Authors include: R. Girard, A. Green, S. Freud, J. Lacan, S. Zizek, H. Loewald, M. Klein, T. Mann, M. Koumandareas, N. Kazantzakis, F. Kafka, W. Shakespeare, Vargas Llosa, W. Allen, P. Pasolini.
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This course will introduce students to representative tragedies and comedies, focusing in particular upon their development as literary genres; continuities and variations of character, plot, and theme; stage and performance conventions; and the classical tradition. Readings will include Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Racine, Eilde, Ibsen, and Vogel.
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Through fiction and film originally in Spanish, French or English and theories of the postcolonial and postmodern, we explore how images of the Caribbean have been constructed and complicated: as lands of abundance, scenes of historical violence and natural disaster, destinations for colonial and modern-day tourists. Readings include Carpentier, BenÃtez Rojo, Santos Febres, Chamoiseau, Condé, Kincaid, Brathwaite.
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Just what is the European renaissance and when and how did it happen and who decided? Let's look at the renaissances of Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Giotto, of Erasmu, and Thomas More and Holbein, of Machiavelli and Castiglione and Raphael. Are these renaissances intellectual, aesthetic, visual, rhetorical? Did they happen in the fourteenth century, the fifteenth, the sixteenth? Or in the nineteenth when they were first clearly described?
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Considers contemporary western thinkers (British, American, French and German) whose works are situated in or comment on Greece (both Classical and Modern). It examines novels, short stories, travelogues, and poems that exemplify the relationship of these authors to Greek culture. Authors include: Byron, Shelley, Durrell, Miller, de Bernieres, Freud, Camus, Le Corbusier, Woolf, Twain, Wharton, Forster and others.
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1.00 Credits
Authors throughout the ages have been fascinated by ancient mythology and have incorporated elements of it into their texts, often modifying commenting on or even destroying the original myth in the process. This course will investigate the values, dangers and limitations of myth-making/using in literature. Primary texts will include major works by Milton, Goethe, Kleist, Racine and Kafka. Texts will be supplemented by secondary readings and multimedia elements. Students will learn to question and engage critically with the historical, cultural, literary and scientific frontiers that separate myth and reality. Assignments will include two short papers and a final paper.
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Interested students must register for ENGL 0610F S01.
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Interested students must register for JUDS 0050A S01 (CRN 14060).
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Interested students must register for POBS 0810 S01.
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Interested students must register for JUDS 0260 S01.
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