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1.00 Credits
Readings in the apparitions and articulations of the arts in fiction, philosophy, criticism and poetry. Focus on the interaction between language and other media, the figure of the artist, problems of expression and performance. Readings from Diderot, Hegel, Balzac, Hoffmann, Baudelaire, Poe, Nietzsche, Wagner and Mann.
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This course will explore the tensions and negotiations of modernity and tradition in Indian and Pakistani Muslim literature from high colonialism to post-coloniality. Beginning with a brief look at the pre-colonial Indo-Muslim literary field, the course will turn to projects of literary reform in the wake of the Great Rebellion of 1857, when Muslims became a special object of attention for the British colonial regime in India. We will then read some literary expressions of the first high moment of pan-Islamism and Indo-Muslim self-assertion in its intersection with literary modernism in the early 20th century. Subsequently, the dramatic impact of social realism at the height of anti-colonial nationalism will be an important focus of the course, as will the traumatic literatures of Partition and the disillusionment with decolonization. All course materials will be in English. No prerequisites.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
The pervasiveness of visual obsessions in contemporary Japanese culture prompts us to rethink the impact of modernity in terms of visuality. Through the examination of a wide range of filmic, literary, and visual art forms produced in Japan from the 1920s to the 2000s, this course explores the question of visuality as a historically and technologically conditioned way of seeing. The issues to be considered in this class include: the construction of "Japanese" aesthetics, orientalism, ocularcentrism, the problems of interiority and the subject, the relation between habit and the everyday, and cultural nationalism. This course will introduce important theoretical concepts about vision and modernity, asking students to interrogate these concepts through the close examination of specific Japanese texts and films discussed in class. Writers, filmmakers, and visual artists include: Tanizaki Jun'ichirô, Edogawa Rampo, Abé Kôbô, Karatani Kôjin, Ozu Yasujirô, Kurosawa Akira, Ichikawa Kon, Suzuki Seijun, and Murakami Takashi.
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1.00 Credits
This course will focus on a close study of the work of Karl Marx and its legacy for critical theory. The first part of the course will be dedicated to a reading of Marx's most important texts, with special emphasis given to his theories of economy, of ideology, alienation and fetishism. The second part will be dedicated to a reading of some of Marx's most important readers: Lukacs, Gramsci, Althusser, Zizek and Derrida. Instructor's permission required.
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Explores Renaissance accounts of genius, genial inspiration, and melancholia, and their accompanying ideas of intellection and immortality. Primary materials include Dürer, Montaigne, Rabelais, Ficino, Ariosto, Erasmus, Saint Teresa, and Luther. Secondary or contemporary texts include Warburg, Panofsky, Saxl, Klibansky, Wind, Benjamin, Kierkegaard, and Sebald.
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We shall read widely in writings by, and about, selected American presidents, but also focus on the ways in which presidents have used literature as a dictional source in their own writing and thinking. We will attend also to the relationship of culture to power as evidenced in other textual media, such as film.
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1.00 Credits
Why do people migrate? How do literary genres, including poetry, fiction, autobiography and memoir, characterize immigrant experiences? How is the experience of "coming from somewhere else" similar and different for each subsequent generation of immigrants? How does literature indicate the impacts of migration on the culture, politics and economics of the countries of immigration and emigration? How do literatures of immigration imagine the past, present and future of networks and communities of immigrants? Focusing on twentieth-century literary texts and the socio-historical context of mass migration, the first half of the course examines immigration literature in the U.S., the second half of the course explores literatures of immigration beyond the U.S., and the course concludes with an inquiry into immigration in our presently globalizing age.
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0.00 Credits
Interested students must register for ENGL 1900E S01.
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0.00 Credits
Interested students must register for ENGL 1560Y S01.
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1.00 Credits
Pairs a series of literary works from the last two centuries juxtaposed around themes of empire, decolonization, modernism, and gender. Course is repeatable for credit.
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