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3.00 Credits
Conducted in English. An exploration of French cinema of the 1930s and the movement that produced some of the most influential masterworks of world cinema; focus on close analysis of films. Lecture Tuesday 1:30-4pm, Screening Monday 7:30-10pm. $40 Lab fee
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3.00 Credits
Medieval French lyric poetry contains many powerful expressions of a poet's relationship to society. This course will study the diversity of responses to the questions confronting any medieval poet writing about the world he (or sometimes she) lived in. Our readings over four centuries of medieval French literature will reveal the many worlds in which these poets lived and wrote. Close reading of texts in modern French translation, with emphasis on their social and cultural contexts.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth and closely supervised initiation to research and thinking, with intense training in oral and written expression, which leads to the composition of a senior thesis in French. Two preparatory meetings are proposed in November 18th and December 2nd (3-5:30) so that each student can plan his or her research topics ahead. Please contact Pr. Jacques Neefs at jneefs@jhu.edu in late October or beginning of November.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: AS.212.333 or AS.212.334 or with instructors permission. Taught in French. This course explores different uses of dreams and the imagination in contemporary narrative, working on both fictional and critical texts from the French surrealist corpus (“Manifeste du Surréalisme”, extracts from Breton, Crevel, Aragon’s narratives) and the Latin American “boom” (preface to Carpentier’s “The Kingdom of this World”, Cortázar, Borges, García Márquez or Piñera’s short stories). A comparative approach will allow us to discuss how fantasy in literature can enlighten and widen our perception of reality. The Latin American texts will be studied in the context of their reception in the French literary scene.
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3.00 Credits
Seminar taught in French and English. Charles Baudelaire is widely regarded as the decisive figure in 19th Century literary and artistic Modernity. In this seminar we will read his magnificent Les Fleurs du mal and Spleen de Paris and his equally remarkable art criticism, as well as various critical discussions of his achievement. Cross-listed with Humanities Center
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3.00 Credits
Readings and discussion in English. Many of the issues we grapple with today regarding higher education have a long history dating back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the first modern universities were founded in Germany. What is the relation of research to teaching? How do we define scholarship? What is the difference between professional training and academic study? How do we distinguish secondary education from higher learning? What obligations does the university have vis-à-vis the state, which often finances it in whole or in part? What protections does the state owe the university when it pursues research that runs counter to the interests of state? What purpose does the ivory tower serve in an age in which higher learning is no longer limited to the classroom but is widely available (via books, radio, television, the internet)? In this class we will explore the rich literature from the nineteenth century on the idea of the university and the value of learning. We will conclude the course with an examination of the German roots of Johns Hopkins. Cross-listed with History
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3.00 Credits
Taught in English. Gender as we know it is not timeless. Today, gender roles and the assumption that there are only two genders are diligently contested and debated. With the binary gender system thus perhaps nearing its end, we might wonder if it has had a beginning. In fact, the idea that there are two sexes and that they not only assume different roles in society but also exhibit different character traits, has emerged historically around 1800. Early German Romanticism played a seminal role in the making of modern gender and sexuality. For the first time, woman was considered not a lesser version of man, but a different being with a value of her own. The idea of gender complementation emerged, and this idea, in turn, put more pressure than ever on heterosexuality. In this course, we will explore the role of literature and the other arts in the making and unmaking of gender. Authors discussed will include Thomas Laqueur, Michel Foucault, Friedrich Schlegel, Dorothea Schlegel, Karoline von Günderode, Novalis, Goethe, Kleist, and Bettina von Arnim. Cross-listed with WGS and English
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1.00 Credits
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1.00 Credits
This course will examine the impact of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy on literature and literary criticism around 1900. Students will read selected texts by Nietzsche as well as fictional and poetic works that allude implicitly or explicitly to Nietzsche’s writing. Authors to include: Thomas Mann, Rilke, Benn, Hofmannsthal, and Stefan George. While the course will focus on the exchange between literature and philosophy, it will also attempt to formulate key aspects of a theory of modern art based on Nietzsche’s work.
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3.00 Credits
Taught in English. This class will examine the history of Holocaust films in regard to the possibilities of genre (documentary versus feature), the use of historical and archival materials, as well as general questions of representation and trauma. I CINEMA OF THE VICTIMS II CINEMA OF THE PERPETRATORS III CINEMA OF THE SECOND AND THIRD GENERATIONS WITNESSES Students will be writing weekly response papers to all screenings, and will choose to work with films in the original languages German, English, Italian, and French. This class will be writing-intensive. Cross-listed with Film and Media Studies, Political Science, History, and Jewish Studies.
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