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Course Criteria
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
The impact of colonialism on European fiction from the rise of empire to its decline and fall, focusing on authors who wrote from direct contact with the peoples of Africa and Asia, such as Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, T.E. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and Isak Dinesen. Topics will include romantic images of conquest, imperial ideology in literature, differing attitudes towards acculturation, and the changing symbolism of exotic settings.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
The travel diary, whether prompted by pleasure, pilgrimage, official duty, scientific exploration, or profit, emerges as a prominent genre in virtually all times and cultures. Readings include literary accounts of actual travels, such as the autobiographical "slave narratives" recounting involuntary displacement - typified by The Life of Olaudah Equinao - and purely fictive work, such as the medieval Mandeville's Travels, and metaphoric narratives of spiritual quests.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
Focuses on the thematics and controversies of Foucault's work, both through examination of his texts (e.g. History of Sexuality, Discipline and Punish, The Order of Things, and others) and through discussions of his interlocutors writing on subjects such as sexual politics, knowledge production, history, feminism, literature, race and bipower.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
Challenges the presumed supremacy of the "modern subject," the sovereign rational mind personified by Descartes. Rival theories of self in Machiavelli, Luther, Montaigne, Hobbes, Pascal, and Spinoza are explored alongside the richly embodied "persons" pictured in painting (Titian, Rembrandt, Velázquez), conduct literature (Castiglione, La Rochefoucauld), drama (Milton, Molière, Calderón), psychological fiction (La Fayette), and satiric prose (La Bruyére).
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
The course examines Modernism as it developed in major European cities. Apart from focusing on major venues of modernism (Zurich, Berlin, Paris) it centers on marginal geographical spaces with specific emphasis on Athens, Greece. It further explores the rise of such movements as Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism and Surrealism and proceeds to explore the reaction of Greek modernists to these movements.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
Examines texts, (poems, novels, films, short stories, music) written during times of political oppression. Much of the material will focus on the period 1967-1974 and the rule of the Greek Junta; texts from other literatures written under similar oppressive regimes will be considered. The course aims to explore the relationship between literature and censorship, exile, trauma, and revolt.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
Wright's Native Son, Burrough's Naked Lunch, Derrida's Specters of Marx, and Rimbaud.
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1.00 Credits
This course explores the cultural, political, and social definitions of nationhood primarily focusing on the literature of Italy and Greece but also on non-native works about the two countries. The course will begin with an examination of the definitions of Mediterranean identity as they emerged in the region. What is the symbolic significance of defining the nation as Mediterranean (as opposed to European)? It will then proceed to explore the Greek/Italian literary and historical heritage as defined by non-native writers: the importance of Greco-Roman mythology in the works of Freud and Lacan, the fascination of the Romantics with Greece and Italy etc. Finally, the course will examine the ways in which Greek and Italian writers, poets, and filmmakers adopted or reacted to these non-native appropriations in the process of re-defining their own modern identity. Primarily for seniors and graduate students.
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1.00 Credits
A fateful collaboration between philosophy and literature was centered in Germany roughly between 1788 (Schiller's 'Gods of Greece') and 1807 (Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit). A survey of the major literature of this period, organized thematically, will serve as an introduction to this complex phenomenon. Authors include (in translation) Fichte, Goethe, Hölderlin, Novalis, Schelling, Schiller, and Tieck.
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1.00 Credits
This course explores the literary and filmic imagination of three Eastern Mediterranean cities, Alexandria, Istanbul, and Athens. It examines the history, culture and politics of these cities and the ways in which they emerge in literature, film, poetry and travelogues. How is the city defined in these works? How are social tensions addressed, such as those between Greeks and Turks and Arabs or between Christians, Muslims and Jews? How are thematic and historical issues resolved, such as those involving antiquity and modernity, tradition and modernization, colonialism and nationalism, religion and secularism? How are these cities defined in the works of western writers?
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