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3.00 Credits
Taught as TH 341 at host institution. An in-depth study of Italian drama from the end of the 19th century to modern times. Plays by Verga, Chiarelli, Pirandello, Betti, De Filippo, Fabbri, and Fo are analyzed with special emphasis on plot, theme, character, structure and technique. Social and existential problems of our time, as seen by the playwrights, are given particular consideration. Prerequisite: One previous course in English literature or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Taught as ARBS 310 in Cairo, Egypt. Focuses on one theme or topic in the classical and/or modern period such as political poetry, village and city, literature of place, Arab women writing. See class schedule for specific theme or topic offered. May be repeated once for credit if content changes. Taught in English, with assigned texts in English translation.
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4.00 Credits
Tokyo course # Lit 231 - In this course we will study Japanese literature and the art of fiction. We will introduce representative works of Japanese fiction and poetry, with an empahsis on the modern period. We will learn about imagery, metaphors, narrative voice, characterization, allusions, persona, intertextuality, etc., as we study Japanese literature with a critical mind. Readings include works by Soseki, Mishima, Enchi Fumiko, Kawabata, and others.
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3.00 Credits
Romain Britain, Romanization; the coming of the Saxons, the formation of the post Roman British Kingdoms; the background to the earliest Welsh poetry, Taliesin, the poems, the Gododdin, the Welsh Bard, Medieval Welsh Prose Tales; Mythic and Folklore elements in the four Branches of the Mabinogi, Style and treatment: from oral to literary tale.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the Chinese poetic tradition and the development of drama from the classic period up to modern times. Poetry: major works from the two classic anthologies, The Book of Songs and The Songs of Chu; masterpieces of the four great Tang poets --Wang Wei, Du Fu, Li Bo, and Bo Juyi; major lyrical works; modern poetry. Drama: Yuan and Ming drama; Peking opera; modern drama.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the Chinese narrative tradition from the Tang dynasty up to the present time: rise of storytelling in the Tang dynasty; popular short stories in the Song dynasty; classic novels of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties --The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Men of the Marshes, The Journey to the West, The Golden Lotus, and The Story of the Stone (The Dream of the Red Chamber); modern short stories.
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4.00 Credits
The course alternates between a consideration of comparative studies in Japanese narrative and East-West comparative poetics. Readings are chosen from the primary materials of literature East and West. See lecturer for current reading lists.
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3.00 Credits
Western writing about Japan over the past 350 years has tended to trivialize and stereotype the country and its people. The Japan described by American writers from 1800 to 1941 often revealed America's goals there and its self-image. Misconceptions about Japan abound in American fiction from 1942 on, but American attitudes are so shallowly rooted that they can be corrected if the will to do so is found. This course discusses images of Japan and Japanese people appearing primarily in works of American fiction. Students read selections from numerous novels and selected works of scholarship. The main purpose of the course is to supply readers with the skills necessary to analyze and, to some extent, deconstruct the ways in which popular writers constructed Japan and its people.
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4.00 Credits
Survey of literature from the earliest surviving Japanese books to the final flourishing of classical poetics in the fifteenth century.
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4.00 Credits
"1). To provide a coherent and comprehensive framework for the analysis of plays- dramatic and theatrical, 2). To understand the diverse and complex forms that 20th century drama explores and defines, 3). To establish influences and relationships between the different dramatic movements, 4). To analyze drama not only as a literary form but also as a system of signs on the stage. The classes contents are; 1). Semiotics of the text, semiotics of the performance, 2). Dramatis personae and figure, dramatic dialogue; functions and verbal communication. Stage directions., 3). Structures of time and space; conventions and changes. Historical contents 4). Realism, Theatre of the Absurd, Postmodern Theatre, Feminist Theatre. Approved for University Lit Req"
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