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Masochism is defined as a, aestheticized positive, consensual investment in power relations. As such, it directly engages the relationship between politics and aesthetic forms, but as a sexualized relationship. Masochism articulates relations of gender in ways that seem to challenge traditional structures. Readings include novels and films, as well as theoretical engagements with masochism.
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This course takes as its point of departure Walter Benjamin's famous diagnosis of modernity as a paradoxical condition under which the exception has become the rule. We will consider the aesthetic and political implications of such a state of exception in nineteenth- century literature. Authors include Baudelaire, DeQuincey, Arnold, Melville, Whitman, Benjamin, Derrida, Nancy and Agamben.
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Coming to grips with 17th-century sensibilities means tackling God, a compulsory theme for believers and unbelievers alike. A series of close readings devoted to a wide variety of authors (Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and Milton; Descartes, Corneille, Pascal, and Racine; Bidermann, Spinoza, and Calderõn) provides an introduction to this most central if now neglected feature of the early modern imaginary landscape.
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Major writers of European Modernism, including Eliot, Joyce, Pound, Rilke, put a new emphasis on the status of primitive society and archaic pre-history. We will read their works with reference to the anthropology and ethnography of their period, and we will consider the controversies that have surrounded modernist primitivism.
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A comparative study of a variety of discourses dealing with the relation among the senses, the arts, and the problems of comparativity, interdisciplinarity, and intermediality. Topics will include ekphrasis, synaesthesia, mysticism and the theory of correspondence, the Gesamtkunstwerk, and the limits between media. Readings from Condillac, Lessing, Kant, Swedenborg, the German Romantics, Baudelaire, Wagner, Balzac, Lacoue-Labarthe, Nancy, Panofsky, Tschumi and others.
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Interdisciplinary explorations of the modern urban experience featuring social sciences, literature and film. Convergences and differences in the presentation of urban life in literature, film, the visual arts, urban planning, and social sciences, including sociology, political economy, urban ecology. City populations, bureaucracy, power groups, alienation, urban crowds, the city as site of the surreal, are central themes. Against the background of classic European urban images. American cities and literary works are foregrounded.
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This course is an introduction to the thought of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. We will focus on his most important work, his "Grammatology", though a series of some of his essays will also be part of the readings. Other readings will include the works of authors crucial to Derrida's thought and to an understanding of the "Grammatology": Heidegger, Nietzsche, Freud, Saussure, Rousseau and Levi-Strauss.
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1.00 Credits
The debates about taste, judgment, beauty, sentiment, and sensation in the eighteenth century gave rise to the discourse of aesthetics as we know it today, but they also exerted a powerful influence on how knowledge, virtue, and subjectivity were imagined in the post-enlightenment period. In this course, we will examine some of the founding texts of aesthetic theory from the era (including Locke, Smith, Burke, Lessing, and Kant), and then turn to consider how aesthetic questions informed and were taken up by Goethe's narrative of subject-formation in his Bildungsroman, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. In English.
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Complicating standard narratives about intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution, explores writings whose relationship to the state is neither affirmative nor oppositional. Focusing on journals and on recent work in cultural theory, history, anthropology, and political science, addresses the evolution and potential of civil society; articulations of marginality; revisions of socialism and the Soviet legacy; and the mobility of theory. Spanish required.
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Figures of loss and defeat proliferate widely in the accounts of colonization, national liberation, and decolonization in South Asia, Africa, the Arab world, and the Americas. We will attend to the particularity of loss by juxtaposing readings in literature and postcolonial theory with readings on mourning and melancholia, drawn from a range of disciplines.
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