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  • CLT 430A: French Social Thought

    4.00 Credits
    University of Rochester

    This course examines the singular contribution of French thinkers to the development of the social sciences (or the “sciences of man,” as they are known in France) in the twentieth century. We will examine the theory of gift exchange in Marcel Mauss, the rise of structural anthropology in Claude Lévi-Strauss, the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, and the theories of religion and culture of René Girard and Marcel Gauchet. We will also study post-structuralist thinkers such as Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy when their work touches on issues of society and religion. Class taught in English.
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  • CLT 433: Chinese Visual Culture: Medium and Materiality

    4.00 Credits
    University of Rochester

    This course explores the cultural politics of Chinese visual culture through an examination of its mediums. We’ll consider how in pre-20th century China paintings structured relations of gender and of inner and outer worlds; how the inscription of calligraphy on land mediated image and writing, nature and culture; and how the mass production of artworks intersected with conceptions of nature and social organization. We’ll then consider the new media culture of the 1920s-1930s, iconoclasm and idolatry during the Cultural Revolution, and the emergence of experimental and documentary art in recent decades. Our concern will be how mediums, as assemblages of images and surfaces with specific material qualities and practices function within real social spaces and create virtual spaces of representation and imagination.
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  • CLT 438: Studies In International Literture

    4.00 Credits
    University of Rochester

    The course will deal with some 20th century American and European (especially East European) poets in a manner that foregrounds the transfer of particular styles beyond the languages in which the poems were originally written. We will pair some names together and through that discuss how post-1945 poetry translations inspired or influenced the ways of writing and the ways of thinking about poetry, both in USA and in Europe. Through close reading of the poems written in English and translated into English we will also talk about how some of the local cultural contexts become part of the contemporary international tradition. The poems discussed will include work by C. P. Cavafy, Derek Mahon, Zbigniew Herbert, Aleksander Wat, W. H. Auden, Miron Bialoszewski, Wislawa Szymborska, Miroslav Holub, Charles Reznikoff, John Cage, Bertolt Brecht, D. J. Enright, Frank O’Hara, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery.
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  • CLT 446B: Facing Facts:Non-Fictn Wrtng

    4.00 Credits
    University of Rochester

    This century's major periods of social and political upheaval in Spanish America are well documented by a variety of texts that claim to tell the truth about historical events. Many of these texts acquire the status of "literature" and not mere "reporting." This course will ask the following questions: How have Spanish American writers constructed factual, truth-telling texts? What impact has photography had on the writing of nonfiction? What expectations do we as readers bring to documentary literature? How are the lines drawn -- and blurred -- between factual and fictional discourses? Readings will be chosen to represent revolutionary Mexico, labor struggles of the 1920s, revolutionary Cuba, the repression in the Southern Cone, the Central American insurgencies, and the survival of indigenous cultures. Short essays; research term paper. Class taught in English.
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  • CLT 447: The Holocaust In Film & Lit

    4.00 Credits
    University of Rochester

    How does one represent the unrepresentable? This is the key question we will explore as we look at films and literature about the Holocaust. As we look at fictional films, novels, documentaries and memoirs, we will discuss topics including memory, trauma, truth and representation. This course offers a look at the ways in which artists and their audiences negotiate the themes of loss, horror and redemption within the context of the Holocaust and its aftermath.
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  • CLT 449: Dungeons & Dragons: Myths and Legends in German Literature

    4.00 Credits
    University of Rochester

    With the recent revival of Wagner’s Ring Cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, the continued popularity of J.R.R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings novels and recent film adaptations of Beowulf and Tristan and Isolde , it’s easy to see that people still regularly like to “get medieval”. In this course we’re going to look at the German origins of these modern texts by reading the original source material: The Nibelungenlied , Parzival , Tristan as well as many other important medieval works. We will also look at modern variations on those texts, from Wagner and Tolkein to modern role-playing and video games that use the medieval period as their settings.
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  • CLT 464A: The Cuture Of Zen

    4.00 Credits
    University of Rochester

    Zen Buddhism was the core around which many of Japan’s greatest cultural achievements evolved. From the medieval period on, with its importation from China, the culture of Zen served as the primary context for much of Japanese metaphysics, architecture, landscape and interior design, medicine, ink painting, noh drama, haiku poetry, as well as the entire cultural complex known as the tea ceremony. Along with the Zen doctrinal and textual roots of these remarkable achievements, this course will examine the vibrant culture fostered in the medieval Zen monastic temple institution known as the Gozan and its dispersal into the culture at large.
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  • CLT 482B: Nietzsche & The Nietzscheans

    4.00 Credits
    University of Rochester

    Friedrich Nietzsche continues to be one of the most influential modern philosophers, yet controversy surrounds almost every aspect of his life and work. This course will help students go beyond the controversy in order to consider Nietzsche's texts discerningly and how he approached the problems of truth, power, and morality. Close examination of his most important writings will be complemented by inquiry into Nietzsche's effects on twentieth-century philosophy. Other thinkers include Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Sarah Kofman, Jacques Derrida and Giles Deleuze.
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  • CLT 484: Translation&World Literature

    4.00 Credits
    University of Rochester

    The focus of World Literature in Translation is to examine what makes a translation "successful" as a translation. By reading a series of recently translated works (some contemporary, some retranslations of modern classics), and by talking with translators, we will have the opportunity to discuss both specific and general issues that come up while translating a given text. Young translators will be exposed to a lot of practical advice throughout this class, helping to refine their approach to their own translations, and will expand their understanding of various practices and possibilities for the art and craft of literary translation.
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  • CLT 491: Reading Course In Comp Lit

    0.00 Credits
    University of Rochester

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