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We will read a number of Shakespeare's plays from The Comedy of Errors to The Winter's Tale in relation to the sources, analogues, and genres (classical, continental and English) on which he drew. We will consider both formal and historical questions. Issues to be addressed include genre, the Shakespearean text, gender, sexuality, status, degree, and nation. Some attention to what has come to be called "global" Shakespeare. Written work to include a mid-term and two papers.
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Explores the key role of the Mediterranean as a filming location, story setting, and overarching cultural metaphor in shaping cinema history. As Western civilization's archetypal "corrupting sea"--the marine theater of mortal danger and temptation--the Mediterranean also defined a number of cinematic genres, forms, and themes. We will review and analyze selected examples, from art films (Les dites caryatides) to multiplex blockbusters (V for Vendetta), and trace their pre-cinematic literary and philosophical genealogies. Not open to first year students.
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The Tale of Genji (circa 1000 CE), authored by Murasaki Shikibu, a woman of the Heian court, has been canonized over the centuries as the greatest work of Japanese literature. No work in the Japanese tradition has exerted as much literary influence as this mammoth work of prose fiction detailing the private lives of Genji, the brilliant son of the emperor, those with whom he consorts, and his descendents. We will read Genji in its entirety, along with antecedent works, other texts of the period, works influenced by Murasaki's opus, other historical materials, and secondary commentary. There are no prerequisites for this course and it is open to all undergraduates.
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In East Asian Buddhist culture, the mirror is a symbol of the mind in both its intellectual and emotional aspects. These masterworks detail the lives and loves of Prince Genji, cynosure of the medieval Japanese court, and Jia Baoyu, the last hope of an influential Chinese clan during the reign of Manchus. We examine both works as well as the sources of Genji and literary aesthetics of the Tang dynasty. Prerequisites: CO 71, RS 83 or 88, or permission of the instructor.
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This course examines the cycle of tales commonly known as The Arabian Nights, the history of its translation, contemporary oral performances in the Arabic-speaking world, the literary emergence of the vernacular language in relation to Classical Arabic, and Western appropriations of the tales in music, film and the novel. Knowledge of Arabic is not required but special provisions for reading Alf Layla Wa-Layla will be made for students of Arabic language. Prerequisite for the Arabic-language section: AB 30 and concurrent enrollment in CO 142, Sec. 2.
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This senior seminar will explore the different ways in which writers have filtered and shaped their personal experience into an autobiographical mode. Readings will include works of St. Augustine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Sartre, Vladimir Nabokov, Mary McCarthy, and Maya Angelou. There will be short writing assignments which will focus on the texture of prose, and on the sensory precision essential to any effective rendering of memory.
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Jorge Luis Borges proclaimed that South American writers can "wield all themes" without superstition, with irreverence. This course examines the ways in which 20th century writers from Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil appropriated European fantastic and existentialist fictions, taking them in new directions. Readings, in English or original languages, include Borges, Cortázar, Onetti, Lispector. Prerequisite: previous college literature course(s).
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The Caribbean has inspired conflicting cultural and political claims, and a wealth of visual images. We will rethink the formation, representation and self-presentation of the Caribbean countries, steering our explorations through postcolonial and postmodern theory to questions of appropriation, language and identity. Readings from Columbus and Shakespeare to Danticat, Santos Febres and Kincaid; essays by Glissant, James Benítez Rojo and others.
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Examines Gothic phenomena in relation to three episodes of modernity; the rise of the modern bourgeoisie, the expansion of empires, and the emergence of an information society. Begins with fiction written in England, France and the United States, plus some Marx and Freud. Turns to Gothic moments in film and critical theory and considers how the Gothic operates between the 1930s and the present day.
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