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Begins with the intensive study of a selection of writings by Immanuel Kant focused especially on force and conflict in politics and aesthetics. This study, along with relevant readings from more recent work, will provide the basis for an approach to this topic in nineteenth-century poetry. Readings of Kant (Critique of Judgment, "Toward Eternal Peace," The Conflict of the Faculties), Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben and will lead to several "case studies" of nineteenth-century poetry, including works by Friedrich Hölderlin, Charles Baudelaire, and Matthew Arnold.
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Explores the status of universals in classical, Hellenistic, Scholastic, and Renaissance metaphysics. Also explores the literary implications of this philosophical problem. Readings include Plato, Aristotle, Chrysippus, Augustine, Cicero, Seneca, Abelard, Avicenna, Aquinas, Scotus, Ficino, Cusanus, Pico, and Suárez.
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Investigates the intersections between acts of literature and acts of judgment, between language and the law. How is literature to be judged, when is it "good" or "bad"? Does literature lie, and if so, does it matter? Does it hide a crime? And, in turn: does literature provide its own particular kind of judgment, one that may make evident the very fictional status of the law? Readings span from the Bible to contemporary post-colonial readings (Rousseau, Tolstoy, Zola, Freud, Kafka, Arendt, Benjamin, Henry James, Primo Levi, Coetzee, Sadegh Hedayat).
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0.00 Credits
Interested students must register for ENGL 2900K S01 (CRN 15446).
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1.00 Credits
No description available.
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1.00 Credits
Although it has been 25 years since Edward Said's Orientalism first began to generate a new academic field for the critical study of colonial culture, it would be naïve for us to speak of Orientalist literature and scholarship solely in the past tense. This seminar explores the enduring legacies of Orientalist discourse, by examining Said's initial critique, and the emergence of forms of self-conscious neo-Orientalist discourses.
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An investigation of the discourse of the arts in the modern European tradition. Topics include the relation between the Ancients and the Moderns, evaluations of the possibilities and limitations of differing media, the role of language in discussions of the "other" arts, and conceptions of synaesthesia and correspondence. Texts selected from Perrault, Winckelmann, Lessing, Diderot, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Hoffman, Baudelaire, and others.
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The term 'postcolonial' has in recent years become one of the most controversial in literary and cultural studies. How is the 'post' in postcoloniality related to other 'posts', and what are the affinities and differences between theories of postcoloniality and other contemporary theories, such as feminism, Marxism, and deconstruction? Special emphasis on the problem of communities, including communities that take the form of nations, ethnicities, genders, and intellectuals.
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Intensive study of Walter Benjamin's essays on modern culture and literature (in particular Goethe, Baudelaire, Proust, and Kafka). Explores the consequences of his thinking for problems in contemporary literary and cultural theory. German and/or French helpful but not required.
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0.00 Credits
Interested students must register for MCM 2310F S01.
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