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Complicates the question of influence in Latin American literary and intellectual self-fashioning, specifically with regard to France. Explores the productivity and perplexity of this relationship through romanticism and articulations of the real (as realism, surrealism and magical realism). Approaching the twenty-first century, considers Latin American perspectives on French theories of feminism, postmodernism and globalization.
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The purpose of this course is to examine a number of central issues in medicine-disease, pain, trauma, madness, the image of the physician-- from the distinct perspectives of the sciences and the arts. Literary texts will be drawn from authors such as Sophocles, Hawthorne, Buchner, Strinberg, Gilman, Tolstoy, Kafka, Anderson, Hemingway, Ionesco, and K. Harrison; theorists will include Foucault, Sontag, Scarry and others.
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Focuses on the complex and highly ambivalent relationship between literature and money in nineteenth-century European literature. Works by Poe, Balzac, Dickens, Baudelaire, Stevenson, Hardy, and Zola. Relevant philosophical writing by Smith, Marx, Nietzsche, and Derrida.
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1.00 Credits
Although the era of European colonialism has long ended, the problem of languages especially in the form of unresolved conflicts between the use of European languages and non-European languages remains ever pressing in societies that went through colonization and decolonization. This historical state of being caught between languages, designated here by the word bilingualism, is intimately linked to a constellation of literary, cultural, and social phenomena, ranging from specific narrative techniques, film subtitling, and practices of translation, to the status of so-called foreign accents and native speaker, and to the existential conditions of mimicry, double consciousness, alienation, passing, and melancholy. Texts featured may include criticism and theory by Achebe, Bakhtin, Derrida, Dubois, Fanon, Freud, Glissant, Khatibi, Kristeva, Memmi, and Ngugi, as well as fiction by authors such as F. Dostoyevsky, V. Woolf, K. Ishiguro, J. Lahiri, Chang-rae Lee, and others.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
Literature's obsession with the modern city, in 19th- and 20th-century American, English, and French fiction and poetry, in writers such as Blake, Whitman, Balzac, Dickens, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Eliot, Williams, Bellow, Morrison. Opportunities for work in other literatures and genres, e.g., in Germany, Brecht.
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This course will examine the literary responses to capitalism in terms of five organizing tropes: regionalism, urbanization, consumerism, aestheticism, and modernism. Our investigation will begin sometime in the early 19th-century with the moment that consolidated conditions favorable for industrialization and conclude in the first decade of the 20th-century with literary modernism and the collapse of the cultural myths of progressive enlightenment and democracy. Readings include texts by Wordsworth, Malthus, Sue, Mayhew, Marx, H. Rider Haggard, Stowe, Carroll, Zola, Wilde, Stoker, Freud. Three papers and a final essay.
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1.00 Credits
Readings in the major works of Joyce, Beckett and Farrell, without forgetting Jonathan Swift and William Butler Yeats.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
A contrastive and integrative study of the range of Marx's writings and works by writers such as Shakespeare, Dickens, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Woolf, and Stevens. Examines Marx's leading concepts in philosophy, history, economics, ideology, and aesthetics in relation to the particularities of literary forms. One or two short papers and a longer final study of a literary work chosen from the student's major field.
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1.00 Credits
Examines the life and works of Nikos Kazantzakis. Apart from his more famous novels, The Last Temptation of Christ and Zorba the Greek, students will also read the novels Christ Recrucified, Freedom or Death, Saint Francis (The Pauper of God), The Fratricides, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel as well as the author's autobiography Report to Greco. The course also examines Kazantzakis's philosophical writings (Saviors of God), his travel memoirs (Spain, Italy, Sinai, Japan, England, Russia, Jerusalem and Cyprus), and his plays Prometheus, Christopher Columbus, and Buddha. Special emphasis will be placed on the influence of Nietzsche, Bergson, Marx, Freud as well as Buddhism and Christianity on Kazantzakis.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
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: COLT 0710, RELS 0040 (0088) or 0100 (0006), or permission of the instructor. DVPS
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