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This course offers an introduction to the fascinating tradition of post-classical literature The overarching concern of this course is to track the debate between paganism and Christianity as it is reflected in our literary sources. At the same time, it aims at improving students' language skills by introducing them to an array of literary and historical texts. The course will involve study of excerpts from post-classical Greek texts as well as some reading in English translation. It is open to all interested students with a working knowledge of Greek, classical or koine.
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We will read selections from Herodotus' Histories, with an emphasis on Book 7. We will discuss the text from a broad perspective, examining it both as a work of history and as a work of literature. Particular attention will be paid to the relationship of historical writing to other forms of literature (both poetic and "scientific") as well as to oral tradition and oral storytelling. At the same time, the Histories will be explored as a major source for Greek and Persian history.
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Readings from the archaic lyric poets and explorations of their literary,cultural and historical contexts.
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Passion is a common word with a long, complicated history; the diverse meanings we associate with it engage our experience on the most ethereal and abstract as well as the most visceral and profane levels. In this course we will study a range of films from the past eight decades with the aim of understanding how the films situate their subjects, how they narrate and illustrate passion, and how they engage personal, social, and political issues in particular aesthetic contexts.
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An introduction to comparative literature, this course will investigate the many forms of cultural transmission: literary, historical, intellectual, political, religious. Readings of major works of the Greek, Roman, Arabic, and European traditions. From Greeks and barbarians to the Library of Alexandria, the foundation of Rome, the sacred texts of Christianity and Islam, and the traditions of learning in medieval Europe, we shall examine the different ways in which pagan, Jewish, Christian and Muslim cultures of Europe and the Near East have understood themselves as products of transmission.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
In the 16th century European literature embarks on a remarkable double journey that is still in progress: into the darkest corners of the mind and the far places of the earth. Through close readings of a number of major works we shall explore this quest for knowledge of the self and of others, paying especial attention to Europe's encounters with the Americas and the Near East. The real and the imaginary are never exactly the same but they do sometimes change places.
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A first course for students in reading Egyptian hieroglyphs. Serious work in ancient Egyptian grammar, vocabulary, etc. (i.e., the staples of a classical language course) plus work on the relation between hieroglyphs and the painting, relief and sculpture of ancient Egypt.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A continuation of "Read Like an Egyptian" (COM 222, Fall '10), with extensive work on The Middle Egyptian verbal system. In addition to the standard work necessary in a classical language course, this course will explore further relations between Middle Egyptian and the cultures of the ancient Nile Valley. Students will read an ancient Egyptian classic, "The Tale of Shipwrecked Sailor."
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This course takes a cross-cultural and cross-temporal approach to the question of exile, following its depiction across centuries and continents in novels, stories, poems, and essays from both East and West. We will read classic works alongside contemporary novels, and narratives of homecoming alongside narratives of no return, always looking closely at the concepts of home, identity, language, and memory. In exploring what these texts share and how they differ, we will discover how their authors have imagined, responded to, and perhaps transcended the experience of exile.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course explores oral traditions and oral literary genres (in English translation) of the Balkan and East European world, both past and present. Topics include traditional rituals (life-cycle and seasonal) and the music and song associated with them, contemporary forms of traditional and popular culture, and oral traditional narrative: prose (folktale and legend) and poetry (epic and ballad). Discussion and analysis will focus on the roles and meanings of Balkan and East European oral traditions as forms of expressive culture.
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