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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary explorations of the modern urban experience featuring social sciences, literature and film. Convergences and differences in the presentation of urban life in literature, film, the visual arts, urban planning, and social sciences. City populations, bureaucracy, power groups, alienation, urban crowds, the city as site of the surreal, are central themes. Against the background of classic European urban images, American cities and literary works are foregrounded.
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A survey of three court traditions-Heian Japan, medieval Iceland, and early modern England-in which the relationship between the literary genres and the specific social context from which they emerge is highlighted in the form of particular literary conventions. Topics include the question of patronage, the function of particular literature as shibboleth, the idea of spectacle and play, the politics of literature, and the trope of irony as courtly emblem.
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Some of the most intractable questions of contemporary philosophy were vigorously debated in eighteenth-century Germany. What are the limit of reason? Does its supposed neutrality and universality mask its own set of prejudices? Are there any universally valid claims in truth or ethics? How, why, should Christian, Jew, and Muslim tolerate their differences? We will read literary and philosophical works by Hamann, Herder, Jacobi, Kant, Lessing, and Mendelssohn.
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How the historical fiction that has flourished over the past four decades challenges the notions of objectivity and totalization, while providing alternative viewpoints for the reconstruction and reinterpretation of the past. Novels by Grass, Doctorow, Delillo, GarcÃa-Márquez, Allende, Cristina GarcÃa and LÃdia Jorge. Theoretical texts by White, LaCapra, Benjamin, Ricoeur, and Chartier. Films to be discussed include The Official Story andEuropa, Europa. Prerequisite: two previous literature courses. Instructor's permission required.
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1.00 Credits
Compares representations of Havana and San Juan in contemporary fiction and film to literary inscriptions of Cuban Miami and Puerto Rican New York. Explores mapping the city as mapping identity, and city-writing as reconstruction and creation. Views cities through the eyes of children, tourists, and urban detectives; authors include Antonio José Ponte, Roberto G. Fernández, Mayra Santos Febres and Ernesto Quiñones.
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An exploration of the growth of European knowledge of Asia from the rise of the Mongol empire through the Great Game and its aftermath. Primary sources include three kinds of accounts provided by travelers who set their hearts on Asian exploration: personal narratives, official reports and dispatches, and scholarly studies of the exotic cultures.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
In this course, we will examine the co-articulation of theories of history with theories of language and aesthetics. Focus will be on the interdependence between an emerging interest in history and the origin of language, and approaches to literary history, genre definition, and general aesthetic categories. Readings to be selected from Vice, Rousseau, Herder, Lessing, Schiller, Negel, Novalis, Lukacs, Adorno, Derrida and De Man.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
Examines architectural figures in a variety of texts, looking at how images of buildings structure texts and outline spaces for subjectivity. Themes include houses, foundations, monuments, ruins, walls, and doors. Texts selected from Descartes, Goethe, Hegel, Austen, Coleridge, Poe, Baudelaire, Hawthorne, Huysmans, Pater, and Kafka.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
An examination of the tradition of illustrated narratives in several premodern cultures: the early 11th-century Japanese Genji Monogatari, the medieval English Canterbury Tales, and the ancient Indian epic the Mahabharata. Discussion focuses on the nature of iconography and symbolism; the historical privileging of text over image; the significance of parallel visual and verbal representation and its implications for culturally-specific theories of reading. Seminar.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
A broad survey of Freud's writings, with particular emphasis on psychoanalysis' relevance to literary theory and cultural analysis. Readings include Freud's major works, as well as secondary sources focused on applications to literary studies.
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