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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the study of contemporary Latin American literature and culture. Placing special emphasis on the changing relationships between aesthetics and politics, the course will analyze the emergence of different contemporary genres and themes and will provide students with essential tools to read critically and analyze the most important problems that have configured contemporary Latin American writing. The authors we will read include J.M. Arguedas, Roberto Bolaño, Julio Cortázar, Diamela Eltit, Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, José Martí, Rigoberta Menchú, Juan Rulfo, J.E. Rodó, and Fernando Vallejo, among others.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will introduce concentrators to the field of Comparative Literature. It will be divided into four segments, each with an articulation of some (not all) of the basic types of comparative work undertaken in this department. Specifically, we will examine the growth of a world literature, the emergence of a fictionalized geography of the novel, the vexed relationship of word and image, and the importance of theories and methods of translation to comparative literature. We will also focus upon the preparation of junior papers and the eventual choice of a thesis topic.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A course in the foundational texts of contemporary critical theory. The relationships among literature, philosophy, aesthetics, and linguistics will be investigated as they come to the fore in the intellectual development of the following, among others: modern philology, New Criticism, hermeneutics, structuralism, speech act theory, Marxist and cultural criticism, historical-epistemological aesthetics, rhetorical criticism, and poststructuralism.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The study of lyric poetry, from Wyatt to contemporary verse, through the close reading of specific poems as well as theoretical texts and works on prosody, that illuminate the interplay of form, subject, and language. In addition to English and American poetry, French, German, Spanish, and Latin American poems will be read; reading knowledge of one of these languages is strongly recommended, although all foreign language texts will be made available in translation. Open to graduate students as 700-level reading course.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Medieval culture, literature and literary theory, as well as Modern critical debates currently being staged, highlight the diversity of cultural production in the European Middle Ages. This course explores such topics as Medieval textuality and reading, text and image, subjectivity and spirituality, premodern sex and gender, and myths and realities of Medieval nation-building.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to analyze and understand the cultural meanings of the Gothic mode through a study of its characteristic elements, its historical, aesthetic, and political origins in eighteenth-century English and German culture and thought, its development across Western national traditions, and its persistence in contemporary culture, including film, electronic media, clothing, social behavior, and belief systems, as well as literature. Films, artifacts, web sites and electronic publications will supplement readings.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course examines how Arab writers have used the craft of fiction to address major social and political issues such as displacement, labor migration, war, social repression, and dictatorship. The course covers novels from Egypt, the Sudan, Lebanon, Palestine, Algeria, and Iraq. Topics covered include the Lebanese Civil War, the Palestinian struggle, Islamic fundamentalism, and Iraq under the Baathist regime. The course will also look more broadly at experiences of exile and migration and the postcolonial world as reflected in modern Arabic writing. All readings are in English translation.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course explores French and American poets reading each others' works from 1970 on: from Emmanuel Hocquard's discovery of Charles Reznikoff, to Norma Cole's translations of Anne Portugal. Students will become acquainted with the French and American poets currently grouped around small publishing houses and centers for Franco-American exchange in both countries. They will develop their own tastes for the poetry created in this multi-faceted milieu: for the "mechanical lyricism" of Pierre Alferi, for Hocquard's "reverse elegies," for Lyn Hejinian's "rhythm of cognition."
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An introduction to Tolstoy through his select short fiction and/or drama, critical essays, and all of [War and Peace] in the context of various theories of the novel. Our thesis--which is open to debate--is that Tolstoy's radical ideas on narrative have their counterpart in his radical ideas on history and the self, which, taken together, offer a coherent view of the human condition at odds with most Russian writers and philosophers of his time.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
In-depth discussion and analysis of conceptions of the sensory in writings by philosophers, poets, art critics and theorists, and artists, from the early modern to contemporary periods. We will investigate the ways in which the sensory is understood as the necessary basis for conceptual thinking of diverse kinds, including systematic and dialectical philosophy (Kant and Hegel), sign theory (Saussure), imaginative and figural writing, and theory and practice of the plastic arts (Rilke, Mallarmé, Adorno, Greenberg, Serra, Stella, Scully, Buchloh, Warhol, among others).
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