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3.00 Credits
Readings and discussions in German. “Enlightenment“, a European intellectual and social reform movement of the 18th century, advocated reason as the primary basis of authority and the means to scrutinize previously accepted doctrines and traditions. Thinkers in England, France, and later in Germany began to question the authoritarian state, and the orthodoxy of the Church. They attacked intolerance, censorship, and social restraints and argued in favour of the emancipation of the bourgeois individual on the basis of universally valid principles. This course offers an introduction to German Enlightenment through close readings of philosophical and literary texts. The analysis will focus on concepts of freedom, humanity and education, the significance of feelings and emotions for the constitution of individuality, and the critique of reason in late Enlightenment. Authors include: Gottsched, Lessing, Herder, Goethe, Mendelssohn, Kant.
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3.00 Credits
The course will be taught in German. In this course we will explore one of the most fascinating German authors of the 20th century. Exceptional in its stylistic elegance, its irony and coldness, Mann's prose addresses major topics of modernism such as the tension between rationality and passion, between artistic and bourgeois existence, between modernity and myth. In close readings of selected novellas and novels (excerpts), we will analyze Mann's rhetorical style, his narrative technique of leitmotif and the intertextuality of his prose; further we will examine the substantial relationship of Mann's writing to philosophy (Schopenhauer, Nietzsche), medicine, psychoanalysis, and music (Wagner, Schönberg).
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3.00 Credits
Taught entirely in Italian. An overview of the key texts, authors, and movements in the Italian literary tradition, from the Middle Ages to the present. Recommended for all Italian majors and minors, and for Romance Languages majors who include Italian. Completion of Italian 210.252 Intermediate recommended; the Survey of Italian Literature may be taken concurrently with Advanced Italian 210.352.
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Taught in English. This course examines the question of the Holocaust and its representation in the filmic media. We will analyze such themes as post-traumatic documentary (e.g., Night and Fog, Alain Resnais 1955), the resistance to representation (Shoah, Claude Lanzmann 1985), Holocaust drama and the ethics of entertainment (e.g., Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg 1993), the question of filmic adaptation (e.g., The Grey Zone, Tim Blake Nelson 2002—based on Primo Levi’s The Drowned and the Saved 1986), and the new genre of confessional first person video-diary (e.g., Two or Three Things I know About him, Malte Ludin 2005). On this last theme we will also host the two-day symposium “The Holocaust: Children of the Perpetrators Confront Their Parents’ Nazi Past through Documentary Film,” in March 09. The symposium will feature three international documentary filmmakers and their recent films The End of the Neubacher Project, Marcus Carney 2007, Fatherland, Manfred Becker 2006, and Two or Three Things I know About him, Malte Ludin 2005, in which the filmmakers —children of Nazi perpetrators—are asking the question “who am I in relation to my father’s deeds?” The symposium will further include a number of experts on the topic of Holocaust, commemoration, and documentary film. Students will be involved in the preparation and, if interested, in the panel-discussions of the symposium. All films will be screened with English subtitles; this class is reading-intensive and writing-intensive; weekly response papers will be written about the films and the course topic at large. Cross-listed with Film and Media Studies, Political Science, History, and Jewish Studies
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3.00 Credits
The class will be conducted in English. In the wake of Copernicus, the still dominant geocentric model of the cosmos was challenged in Italy by two equally brilliant but very different thinkers: Giordano Bruno, iconoclastic philosopher and theorist of magic, and Galileo Galilei, who has been called the “father of modern science.” Both of these revolutionary intellectuals faced strong opposition from within the Catholic Church: Bruno was executed as a heretic, while Galileo was forced to formally recant his heliocentric views. We will study the principal writings of both thinkers, focusing on both the literary qualities and the historical context of their works. We will also examine the cosmological visions of earlier writers, including Dante. Additional section will be offered for Italian majors (and others with a strong command of the language) in which we will read and discuss texts in Italian.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines Dante's Inferno and Virgil's Aeneid with the goal of showcasing both enduring and new reasons of relevance in the two masterpieces.
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3.00 Credits
The main objective of this course is to examine and discuss specific authors and topics in literature in Spanish from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. The course is designed to cover a selection of Hispanic texts from Spain and Latin America. Literary genres to be studied will include narratives, poetry and drama. The bulk of each class session will be dedicated to the discussion of the assigned readings. This course is taught in Spanish. This course is required for the Major in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the fundamental aspects of Spanish Peninsular literature in reverse chronological order from the twentieth to the tenth centuries. The course will offer a general survey of the literature of Spain. Students will be asked to read, analyze and comment on representative texts from the Spanish canon.
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2.00 Credits
This course seeks to provide an overview of Cuban literature using the short story as a point of exploration. Class discussions will focus on close readings of the various texts in an effort to elucidate the anthropological, political, and artistic implications embodied within the individual short stories. The ultimate goal is to expose students to prominent Cuban authors that are otherwise overlooked within the scheme of the Latin American Canon. Readings will be in English.
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3.00 Credits
Taught in English. This course examines how al-Andalus (Medieval Iberia) is depicted in 20th-21st century literature and how these portrayals relate to modern day conflicts, such as conflicts in the Middle East and struggles for identity in increasingly hybrid nations. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies and WGS
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