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Required weekly seminar for all departmental PhD students teaching for the first time at Princeton. A wide range of topics is discussed, including: creating lesson plans, facilitating discussions, delivering lectures, grading papers, designing course syllabi, teaching with translations, using technology in the classroom, developing a statement of teaching philosophy, and preparing a teaching portfolio. We will also examine recent discussions of teaching in the Humanities in current issues of Profession. Course leads to partial fulfillment of the McGraw Teaching Transcript.
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This course will be a forum in which incoming graduate students in Comparative Literature can become acquainted with professors associated with this department, their research interests and critical methodologies. Students from other departments are, of course, more than welcome to join us. We will spend two weeks apiece on six different topics chosen by our visiting professors; these topics will be of general interest to students working in a variety of national literatures and time periods.
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A study of interrupted, inconclusive writing that answers to a demand Maurice Blanchot calls "l'exigence fragmentaire." Course introduces some major figures in Twentieth-century French letters (Blanchot, Leiris, Barthes) as well as some less celebrated writers (des Forêts, Hocquard), and modestly to expose facets of two giant thinkers, Benjamin and Adorno.
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Psychoanalytical approach to the place of siblings in the formation of the social group and its gendering.
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What is rhyme? And does it have a reason? Today we take the association of rhyme with poetry to be self-evident. But in the classical world, rhyme was known above all as an ornament of prose, and it was the troubadours who first made of rhyme a fundamental poetic device. This seminar will seek to understand the implications of this fact through close study of Arnaut Daniel, the troubadour whom Dante's Guinizelli called the "better craftsman of the mother tongue." Topics to be discussed include rhythm, meter, and consonance, ancient precedents to medieval rhyme, rhyme & prose, the linguistics analysis of rhyme, and rhyme across languages.
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This course will approach some questions on the dynamics of culture and politics and the ways in which they have been addressed in twentieth-century Latin American literature and critical theory. The course aims to analyze the changing relationships between intellectuals and the State at different historical moments (i.e., the modern State, revolutionary processes, dictatorships, neoliberalization and globalization) and to explore the main concepts that have led to recent debates on culture and politics in Latin American Studies (i.e., the lettered city, transculturation, testimonio, critical regionalism, local thinking, etc.).
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A course on literary relations in the early modern period, from the continent to Shakespeare. After some attention to theories of intertextuality, reading, translation, and influence, we will focus on several major European authors from antiquity and the Renaissance, particularly as they emerge in the astonishing industry of Elizabethan translation, e.g., Golding's Ovid, North's Plutarch, Harington's Ariosto, Holland's Livy, and Florio's Montaigne. We will consider these works in triangulation: the foreign original, the Elizabethan English version, the re-emergence of both in Shakespeare's plays.
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The portrait is one of the oldest and most widespread representations of the human subject. In this seminar we will focus on problems of form and social context as well as philosophical quandaries regarding representation of the subject. The types of portraits considered will be drawn from a variety of cultural contexts, both Western and non-Western. There are no prerequisites per se but students are expected to bring their expertise in (foreign) language and interpretation to bear on course materials. The course is open to graduate students in Comparative Literature and related departments.
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A study of 20th century writing in European languages relying to some degree on the principle of constraint or 'strict form'. Queneau, Calvino, Mathews, Perec, Roubaud and other members of Oulipo will constitute the central focus, but depending on students' linguistic competences works by e.g., Harig, Kharms, Nabokov, Cortazar may be included. Attention will be focussed on underlying principles as well as on practice and product.
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The seminar focuses on reading novels that self-consciously set themselves the theme and the task of reading the city, as well as selections from some poets-Wordsworth, Baudelaire-and theoreticians, inevitably Walter Benjamin.The city to many 19th and 20th century novelists was a place of the most acute social relations, for good or for ill. The city was the place where one most fully encountered an ordered society that one had to learn to read-perhaps to enter, or to "crash." Yet at the same time it was the place of maximal class stratification, class-conflict, and incipient anarchy.
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