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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Every other year Major literary works are examined as a reflection of Asian cultures and as an influence on western culture. CLL 150 focuses on China and Japan.
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Semester Hours: 3 Fall, Spring Designed to treat special subjects or authors at the discretion of the department, but with the student's interest in view. Such subjects as existentialism, death and the literary imagination, or subjects of a like nature are presented. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: May be repeated when topics vary.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Once a year Medieval literature of England, Germany, France and Spain, with emphasis on the epic, lyric, romance and drama.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Once a year Origins and evolution in Italy. Further developments in France, Spain and England.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically A comparative study of the main aspects of classicism and rationalism in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically Study of the European novel from the end of the 17th to the end of the 18th century. Focus on the development and decadence of feelings, sentiments, and emotions and how they reflect political and social events of the period.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically A survey of European and American short-story writing over the roughly one-hundred year period from the late eighteenth century to the appearance of Chekhov's mature works. Chekhov's stories represent a culmination of certain Western European as well as Russian traditions of the diminutive prose form. The evolution of the Russian short story will be traced from its formal beginnings (inspired by French Sentimentalism) through the works of the major nineteenth century prose writers such as Pushkin and Gogol. Turgenev emerges as a pivotal figure, having patent affinities with Western writers and providing a structural model for Chekhov's stories. The texts from this tradition will be read together with stories by E.T.A. Hoffman, Kleist, Maupassant, Melville, Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically The French philosopher and social thinker Michel Foucault once wrote that each should "cultivate [his or her] legitimate strangeness." This course explores characters in world literature from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present who are caught between cultures, classes or even countries, individuals who are already deemedto be "strange" or difficult to categorize or pigeonhole because they belong to more than one social world. Needless to say, those who acknowledge and actively cultivate any hybrid identity or sense of difference run the risk of a more radical break from the society in which they live; often their multifaceted identities coincide with a multiculturalism that cannot be acknowledged by the monolithic community that surrounds them. We will examine a range of characters in works from Europe, the United States, South America and Asia who exemplify this dynamic of an outsider consciousness, paying particularly close attention to details of language, structure and different methods of literary analysis and theor
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically In this course, we will trace the issues of mechanization and artificial intelligence in literature and popular culture from the industrial revolution through the age of the Internet and the "hive mind" of rave music. What is the proper response to the possibility if the "dehumanization" of individual identity and mass culture In attempting to answer this question, writers often find themselves asking what is really human, and how the natural can be effectively distinguished from the manufactured. We will discuss both the resistance to technology and the often difficult embrace of it, reading authors such as Mary Shelley, E.T.A. Hoffman, Karel Capek, Franz Kafka, Stanislaw Lem and William Gibson. We will watch fil ms (Metropolis, Blade Runner, The Mat rix and A. I.) that make specific reference to the literary readings of the course, comparing and contrasting them with their source material. We will also examine the topic of false or manufactured identities in cyberspace as a variation on the theme of artificial intelligenc
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Fall, Spring, Summer Introduces students to the notion of world literature by presenting works from different countries and cultures, languages and traditions in a comparative context, with emphasis primarily on cross-cultural comparisons between Western and non-Western literatures. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: WSC 2.
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