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An examination of the philosophical significance of metaphor and its literary function in poetry ranging from makurakotoba in the Man' yoshu to kenningar in Skaldic poetry, to the use of the trope in a number of modern poets. Critical writings include works by Aristotle, Ki no Tsurayuki, Shelley, Christine Brooke-Rose, Max Black, Donald Davidson, Paul Ricoeur, and Jacques Derrida.
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A study in the trope of irony and the ways in which it complicates the possibility of understanding. Focus on Socratic irony, the dialogue, and Romantic irony. We will also consider the epistemological implications of irony and the role it plays in contemporary criticism. Readings from Plato, Quintillian, Diderot, Hegel, Schlegel, Kierkegaard, Baudelaire, Lukács, Booth, De Man, Rorty and Derrida.
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Forsaking the dominant Eurocentrism in comparative literary studies, this seminar will search for the common links between the diverse literatures of North and Latin America, approached in relation to one another rather than to "Old World" models. Authors to be considered include Margaret Atwood, Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, William Faulkner, Gabriel GarcÃa-Márquez, Clarice Lispector, Machado de Assis, Toni Morrison and João Guimarães Rosa.
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Explores how proximities and interactions of text and image construct and complicate meaning. It brings together a constellation of theoretical and historical readings that have bearing on particular problems generated at the nexus of word and image. Readings by Horace, Abd al-Qahir Jurjani, Lévi-Strauss, Ricoeur, Derrida, Mitchell and others will anchor a cross-disciplinary investigation of European and non-European paradigms of the relationship between text and image in various literary and visual cultures since late antiquity. We will examine specific examples of the interaction between word and image in several Islamic manuscripts.
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Through readings of recent critical discussions of the lyric genre, we will explore more general methodological problems of literary theory. Questions to be raised include: the role of form, structure and tropes in analyzing poetry; problems of subjectivity and voice; the relation between poetry, history and politics; the function of reading; and the problematic "objectivity" of criticism. Readings from Jakobson, Benveniste, Jauss, Johnson, De Man, Lacoue-Labarthe, Agamben and Badiou. Focus on poets Baudelaire, Shelley, Yeats, Höderlin, Celan.
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Introduction to Old Occitan language and troubadour poetry. From the 12th to the 14th century, the troubadours of southern France, northern Italy, and Catalonia spurred many new developments in European literatures. During the second half of the semester the seminar will branch out toward poets who adapted troubadour modes and styles in other languages.
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Examines European modernism in a wider geographical and cultural context. Apart from considering major literary and theoretical texts of modernism it aims to reassess the concept with the inclusion of neglected but highly active territories of modernism. Major themes include: movements and manifestoes, modernism and national identity, modernist form, tradition and the mythical subtext, Marxism and psychoanalysis.
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Interested students must register for ENGL 2560Y S01 (CRN 15849).
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