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Readings in theory of translation, and in monuments of literary translation from Renaissance times to the present, will be assigned to students needing further background in these areas. Students will each complete two projects: (1) by mid-semester, a critical treatment of a published translation or a comparison of such translations; (2) for the final seminar presentation and paper, the student's own translation into English from some literary text in a language familiar to the student.
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Readings in the history and theory of translation from the Renaissance to the present, along with selected major examples of literature in English translation. Students will write two papers: (1) an analysis of a theoretical issue in translation, with ample attention to the historical context of that issue; and (2) either a discussion of an important translation as a criticism of the original work; or a critical comparison of several translations of an original work; or an annotated translation into English of a literary text from a language familiar to the student.
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Study and practice of translation as art and a potent form of literary criticism. Translation is an act of interpretation, which informs the language of the translator and the text as a whole: context, intent, and language. Discussion will include the impact of cultural difference, tone and time on translation, and the role of analytical as well as intuitive understanding of the original in the translator's endeavor.
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Focuses on how the historical fiction that has flourished over the past three decades challenges the notions of objectivity and totalization, while providing alternative viewpoints for the reconstruction and reinterpretation of the past. Authors to be considered include E. L. Doctorow, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Günter Grass, José Saramago Isabel Allende, LÃdia Jorge, Coover. Attention will also be paid to theoretical texts by Hayden White, Dominick LaCapra, Walter Benjamin, Linda Hutcheon, and Roger Chartier.
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Medieval literary creation, patronage, and community formation. How did poets, prose writers, manuscript compilers, commentators, and scribes cater to their patrons' interests? What cultural leverage did they wield in courts and cities? What specialized functions did various prose and verse genres fulfill in public life? Focus on Chrétien de Troyes, Froissart, Dante, Chaucer, and Christine de Pizan, Charles d'Orleans and Villon.
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The texts and contexts of women writing in English, Spanish and French, during the sixteenth and especially seventeenth centuries. Often dubbed "Tenth Muses," these first early modern women writers to gain public prominence wrote iconoclastic texts and/or epitomized socially sanctioned scripts for women. Authors include: Anne Bradstreet, Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Sor Juana, Mme de Lafayette, Maria de Zayas.
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Emphasizes two of the Enlightenment's most durable artists-Mozart and Jane Austen-situating them in the context of other writers of their times (such as Kant, Casanova, and Adam Smith) and modern appropriations of their work (in criticism and performance). Sub-themes are desire, reason, education, and forms of otherness. Class hours include viewing time.
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Explores the engagement of Latin American literature and criticism with non-Latin American bodies of literary and cultural theory (which may include poststructuralism, postcolonialism, postmodernism and cultural studies), addressing tensions between the autochthonous production of theoretical frameworks and their import from other contexts. Readings include the Latin American Subaltern Studies group, Revista de CrÃtica Cultural, Rama, GarcÃa Canclini, Sarlo, Richard and others.
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Though much criticized and discredited especially since poststructuralism, mimeticism as a theoretical problem has lost none of its critical interest. This course revisits aspects of well-known debates on the mimetic, examines ideologically related issues, and explores mimeticism's relevance in cross-cultural representation as well as in literary studies.
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