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3.00 Credits
HU Staff In this course we will study, under the rubric experimental, a set of narrative texts (mostly literary, but some cinematic) produced in Britain in the twentieth century. The strangest textual effects, the riskiest narrative strategies, the most disquieting subject matter these indicators of the experimental are the more pronounced when they first appear in ostensibly comprehensible form, in relation to the conventional. The experimental proves to be a species of the uncanny as Freud defines it
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature) R.Mohan The decisive role that Fanon attributes to violence in the colonial context has had an inexorable afterlife in postcolonial societies. Course texts explore this dialectic of violation and violence, but they present it as a mutating, complex phenomenon, drawing its energies from multiple histories and traditions that are not always centered on the colonial experience. (Satisfies the social justice requirement.)
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3.00 Credits
HU T.Tensuan We will be looking at works that situate acts of violence as part of ongoing narratives of oppression, exploitation, and dispossession. How do scenes of violence illustrate sites of cultural conflict and transformation
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature and Gender and Sexuality Studies) R.Mohan
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature) D.Sherman A study of the literature of the sublime as, variously, a crisis of representation or the shattering of forms of knowledge; temporal and spatial disruption raised to a metaphysics of place and person; a deeply gendered and problematic poetics of (male) desire; a psychological structuring of the traumatic encounter with the Other; a recuperative gesture in a poetics of memory.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Gender and Sexuality Studies) T.Tensuan
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature) M.Mcinerney This course questions the connections between mythology and eschatology, vision and violence, prophecy and poetry, memory and millennialism. Centered on readings of John, Langland, Dante and Blake, it will require the reading of images as well as texts, including medieval manuscript illuminations, allegorical paintings, and Blake's Illuminations.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature) K.Benston An inquiry into narrative process via scrutiny of moments, styles, themes, and perspectives that threaten to subvert, disable, or radically transform the very forms in which they appear. Texts for thus scrutinizing narrative and its internal transgressions will include novels, short-stories, films, plays, paintings, and theoretical ruminations.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature) K.Benston An examination of theoretical issues and presentational strategies in various verse structures from Ovid to Bishop. Close readings of strategically grouped texts explore the interplay of convention and innovation with close attention to rhetorics of desire, external and internal form, and recurrent lyric figures, tropes, and topoi.
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3.00 Credits
HU G.Stadler
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