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The course introduces widely-read writers and highlights major themes of Greek fiction from the late 19th to the late 20th century, with particular reference to Vizyinos, Papadiamandis, Karavitsas, Lyberaki, Tachtsis, and Galanaki. It examines questions such as: the rise of prose fiction in modern Greek; the developments of the 1880's and the challenge to realism, nationalism, and gender stereotypes; experiments with the factual testimony; cultural satire and gender discourse interplay in fiction of everyday life; the reconstruction of history in contemporary women's fiction. The texts will be available in English translation, but students with advanced Greek will be urged to read in the original language. Requirements: at least one previous course in literature plus some knowledge of Modern Greek. Lectures, discussion, class presentations, and three short essays.
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Focuses on three acknowledged classics of Chinese fiction-Three Kingdoms, The Journey to the West, and The Dream of the Red Chamber-works which demonstrate the range of the genre as they represent historical, fantastical, and sociopsychological subjects. Topics include the role of fiction in Chinese society, the masterworks as mirrors of Chinese culture from the 14th through 18th centuries, and the comparative theory of the novel.
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Narrative fiction from the Meiji Period (1868-1912) to the present in the context of modern Japanese cultural and intellectual history. In addition to more canonical writers such as Natsume Soseki and Mori ogai, examines the legacy of women writers such as Higuchi Ichiyo and Enchi Fumiko; proletariat writers such as Hayama Yoshiki, Kobayashi Takiji, and Hayashi Fumiko; and more contemporary mass-audience writers such as Yoshimoto Banana and Yamada Eimi.
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How is it that Faulkner became one of the most influential North American authors in the Third World? To answer this, we read Faulkner's "The Bear" against two of his citational novels, Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury. We then turn toward a number of Faulknerian novels from the Arab world and Latin America. We discuss theoretical texts that describe the legacies of various colonialisms.
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A reading of three major Modernist authors, with a focus on the following issues: role of the artist, representation of consciousness, weight of the past. Texts include substantial portions of Proust's Recherche, Joyce's Portrait and Ulysses, Faulkner's Sound and the Fury, Light in August and Absalom, Absalom! Prior background in these authors desirable, especially Ulysses. Senior seminar. Reserved for: Seniors. Preference given to concentrators in Comparative Literature, English, Modern Culture and Media. Instructor's permission required.
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Readings of novels in the Bildungsroman tradition and the theoretical questions of the genre: the historicity and constitution of the self; problems of the representation of a life; the category of the unity of a life as a factor of identity; notions of progress, development and completion. Considerations of the successes and failures of this model. Readings to be selected from Rousseau, Chateaubriand, Sterne, Goethe, Novalis, Flaubert, Musil, Kerouac.
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Because the captivity narrative implies both a feminized subject and a writing subject, it provides a link among political, social, and literary phenomena common to all modern Western cultures. Examines various novels consumed by members of such cultures (including gothic romances, Bildungs romanen, boys books, girls books, ethnographic journeys, and prison diaries) as versions of the captivity narrative.
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Explores the manifold ways in which narrative literature sheds light on the relationships that we have in life, both knowingly and unknowingly. The novel form, with its possibilities of multiple voices and perspectives, captures the interplay between self and other that marks all lives. Authors include Laclos, Melville, Brontë, Kafka, Woolf, Faulkner, Borges, Burroughs, Vesaas, Morrison, and Coetzee.
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For Jorge Luis Borges, in his story of the same title, the South is a spectral region, hovering between imagination and reality. The literatures of the U.S. South and South America enact his notion of the South. We examine the remarkable similarities between the two literatures-similarities that result from literary influence and from social, cultural, and historical circumstances. Prerequisites: previous upper-level literature course(s), relevant to your studies at Brown. Instructor permission is required and will be given after second class.
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A series of works revealing the enigmatic features of visionary or ecstatic writing. Writers will be chosen from among Blake, Novalis, Breton, Burroughs, Monique Wittig, Angela Carter, Peter Ackroyd, Jamaica Kincaid.
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