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3.00 Credits
A survey of Chinese civilization from the Shang dynasty to the present with emphasis on the historical, artistic, philosophical, literary, musical, sociopolitical background. Shang dynasty (1766 B.C.) to early tenth century. FL258 and 259 need not be taken in sequence. M. Chen
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Chinese civilization from the Shang dynasty to the present with emphasis on the historical, artistic, philosophical, literary, musical, sociopolitical background. Tenth century to the present. FL258 and 259 need not be taken in sequence. M. Chen
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3.00 Credits
Study of a special topic in which the interrelatedness of literature and other cultural representations is explored from a comparative and/or theoretical perspective. Interdisciplinary in nature, the course will bring together works of different cultural origin and background. Intended for majors or minors in the department. Prerequisites: Completion of department courses numbered 202, 203 or 206; or by permission of instructor. A. The Fantastic in Fiction. An introduction to the Fantastic in literature and art as a mode of representation whose ambiguous structure oscillates between the real and the imaginary. The magical is ingrained in ordinary experience thus expanding the concept of reality, and emphasizing literary discourse as the locus of indeterminacy. Specific attention will be focused on selected writers and theorists, but the course will also provide a diachronic and theoretical background for the discussion of the Fantastic. Readings from authors such as E.T.A. Hoffmann, Kafka, Borges, Cortazar, Garcia Marquez, Torrente Balester, Calvino, Buzzati, Gautier, Nerval, Maupassant, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, and theorists such as Freud, Bessier, T. Todorov, and Roh. J. Anzalone B. Exoticism. This course will examine the cultural construction of the "exotic" as it emerges primarily, but not exclusively, in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary texts. The course will address questions such as: How are the relationships between colonialism, imperialism, and exoticism dramatized via literature How does the hegemonic (i.e. France) and the non-hegemonic (i.e. Spain, or Latin America) positioning of a culture shape its particular notion of the exotic How do cultures that are viewed as exotic exoticize other cultures What role do other derminants such as gender, race, or class play in the construction of the exotic Readings from authors such as Baudelaire, Flaubert, Nerval, Gautier, Dario, Casal, Tablada, Villaespesa, and Valle-Inclan. H. Jaouad C. The Fascist Aesthetic. The emergence and significance of the fascist aeesthetic are explored via close study of the fundamental ideology of totalitarianism in twentieth-century Europe. Concepts such as the soldierly male, the leader principle, racial eugenics, community, modernity, and the fascination with violence will be examined in film, literature, and the visual arts. Readings from among writer such as Drieu la Rochelle, Celine, Tournier, Junger, and D'Annunzio, and from such theorists of totalitarianism as Adorno, Freud, Zhelev, and Arendt. M. O'Brien D. The Fate of Forbidden Knowledge in Literature and Science. An investigation of the perplexing ethical questions raised by this renaissance shift in attitude toward the Faust legend. The flirtation with forbidden knowledge will be studied by drawing on religious, mythological, literary, philosophical, and scientific texts. Taking recent developments in genetic engineering as a case in point, we will ask to what extent the pursuit of knowledge can enhance or be damaging to human experience. These and other questions will be explored to show how literary texts can contain moral issues of lasting concern for the scientific community and for society at large. The Department
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3.00 Credits
An examination from an interdisciplinary perspective of Hispanic society in the United States. Major Latino groups (e.g., Cubans, Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans) will be studied and special attention will be given to the interaction between these groups and United States mainstream society. We will focus on the historical, sociological, literary, and political aspects of cultural change in contact situations. Particular attention will be paid to issues of prejudice and discrimination. V. Rangil
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3.00 Credits
Study through literary and historical texts, and via artistic representation of the experience and consequences of social change in France over a century and a half of upheaval. Beginning with the outbreak of revolution in 1789, we will analyze the effects on French culture of the long and tormented path leading to the establishment of Republicanism. Particular attention to the trials and tribulations of the Third Republic during the Dreyfus Affair and in the period between the world wars in order to discern the evolution of specific cultural tendencies over time. Taught in English. J. Anzalone
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to modern Japanese culture and society, emphasizing the period 1945 to the present, and considering topics including education, family and neighborhood, gender and work, and discrimination. The course analyzes social change in Japan over time in the course of Japan's modernization and internationalization, paying attention to the interplay between Japan's traditional cultural values and modern society. (Designated a non-Western culture course.) M. Inamoto
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3.00 Credits
A course surveying twentieth-century Chinese literature, film, and popular culture, introducing some important cultural and intellectual issues of contemporary China. Students will consider the impact of cultural changes in Chinese society, their causes, and their representations in fiction, poetry, popular literature, film, and music. Students will gain a critical understanding of the intricate relationsip between self and society, social change and alienation, family and gender relationships, nationalism and orientalism, revolution and memory, media and propaganda, and love and violence in China. (Designated a non-Western culture course.) M. Chen
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3.00 Credits
An examination of Dante's Divine Comedy from an interdisciplinary perspective, including literature, history, politics, philosophy, and theology. Course topics will include concerns of the medieval world such as allegory, love, justice, secular and spiritual authority, images of women, education, and the relationship between philosophy and religion. Supplementary readings will provide a context for the medieval world, its life and literature, and will also demonstrate how Dante's text reflects the Zeitgeist of the Middle Ages. The course will also take into account Dante's Divine Comedy in relation to the visual arts by viewing several illustrations from Botticelli and Renaissance illustrators to Gustave Dore, and selected modern and contemporary paintings inspired by Dante's poem. (Fulfills Humanities requirement.) G. Faustini
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of women writers and female stereotypes since the French Revolution as seen primarily through novels and plays of such writers as de Sta l, Sand, Flaubert, Stendhal, Colette, Claudel, de Beauvoir, Duras, and Sarraute. Historical, sociological and artistic documents will also be examined for what they reveal of the changing consciousness of women in France. Offered every third year. A. Zuerner
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3.00 Credits
Study of some of the key features of the cinema of France, beginning with an historical overview of the development of the idiom, from the silent films of the Surrealists and René Clair, to the Golden Age of sound in the thirties and concluding with the New Wave and its posterity. The course will also study film as a language and use it as a means for exploring cultural identity. Students will view a selection of films by Clair, Dali/Bunuel, Vigo, Renoir, Carne, Duvivier, Truffaut, Godard, Eustache, Tanner, and Rohmer, among others, and read criticism by directors, critics, and theorists. Prerequisite: for credit in the French major, FF203 or 206. J. Anzalone
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