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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 3 credits Origins, development, and characteristics of the Romantic movement. Seminal ideas of the German Romantik. Readings from such authors as Novalis, Kleist, Hoffmann, Pushkin, Gogol, Leopardi, Chateaubriand, Hugo, Musset. Prerequisite: English 1 or 1.7.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Importance of such movements as Expressionism, Surrealism, and Futurism in shaping twentieth-century literature. Emphasis on the wider aesthetic, critical, and ideological backgrounds. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 45.) Prerequisite: English 1 or 1.7.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Survey of twentieth-century fiction, drama, poetry of sub- Saharan Africa.Works by such authors as Achebe, Ekwensi, Emecheta, Ngugi, Oyono, Laye, Dadie, Clark, Sembene, Senghor, Soyinka.This course is the same as Africana Studies 24.8. Prerequisite: English 1.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Representative works in the context of Buddhism and Hinduism. Readings from the Vedas, epics, the Bhagavad Gita, Dhammapada, classical drama, Panchatantra, Bhakti poetry, and Tagore and other modern authors. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 75.) Prerequisite: one of the following: English 1 or 1.7, or Core Studies 9.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits The new Latin American literature from its origins to independence and maturity. Such twentieth-century writers as Carpentier, Fuentes, Garcia Márquez, Guimaraes Rosa, and Paz. Impact abroad of the new masters of Latin American literature: Neruda's on North American poetry, Borges's onthe New Criticism, Cortázar's on the cinema. (Not open tostudents who have completed Comparative Literature 60.) Prerequisite: one of the following: English 1 or 1.7, or Core Studies 9.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Black culture and writing in the Caribbean. Reflections on alienation and independence. Literary liberation movements, Negrism, Indigenism, and Negritude as first step towards emancipation from a European cultural vision. Writers from the English-, French-, and Spanish-speaking countries will be examined. All readings will be in English. This course is the same as Africana Studies 29 and Puerto Rican and Latino Studies 38. (Not open to students who have completed Puerto Rican and Latino Studies 54.) Prerequisite: English 1.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits each term Topics vary from term to term. Course description may be obtained in the department office before registration. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 48 for credit twice.) Prerequisite: English 1 or 1.7, or permission of the chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Relationship of literature to psychological theories in specific readings. Freudian, Jungian, and/or other psychological techniques applied, compared, and evaluated as tools of literary criticism.This course is the same as English 50.3. Prerequisite: English 1 or 1.7.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Major approaches to literature since 1960.Topics may include semiotics, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, narratology, new historicism, feminist theory, psychoanalytic criticism, Marxism, and social constructionism.This course is the same as English 50.12 Prerequisite: English 2 or 2.7.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Literary works and theoretical paradigms relating to the culture of European imperialism and its aftermath. Diversity of works from many parts of the formerly colonized world to introduce the global significance of postcolonialisim. Topics include: race and representation, Orientalism and the production of knowledge, Empire and exoticism, gender and nationalism, and multiculturalism and diasporic identities. This course is the same as Africana Studies 28.5 and English 50.13. Prerequisite: English 2 or 2.7.
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