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4 credits. Alternate years Considers the intersections of sexual diff e rence and cinema. Topics include: theories of enunciation and sexual diff e rence; female authorship and the idea of “ women’s cinema”; gender and genre; woman as spectacle; thfemale spectator; and feminist film theory. Representations of sexual diff e rence in films by selected male directors are studied as a means of examining the institution(s) of cinematic e x p ression. The bulk of the course is devoted to studying women directors as they attempt to work within and against that institution. Also off e red as CIN 3025 and WOM 3025.
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4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly) From ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Spain, and colonial North Africa to contemporary Latin Europe and the Middle East, the rich cultures of the Mediterranean have fascinated writers. A comparative survey of the literatures of the Mediterranean basin from Homer, Herodotus, St. Augustine, and Virgil to Flaubert, Maupassant, Vittorini, Goytisolo, and Camus.
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4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence III Focuses on the prose works of postcolonial Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean writers. The historical, social, political, and cultural contexts of the Caribbean are emphasized, especially points of commonality among the multiethnic Caribbean people.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly) No American geographical fact is more significant than “the West”—less place than an idea, an imaginative provocation. Many American writers have been provoked to represent the West, and students read from among their work, including such writers as Raymond Chandler, Sandra Cisneros, Jack London, Nathanael West, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Willa Cather, and many poets.
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4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence III Explores the “Wright School” as it is depicted in Richard Wright 痵 NativSon ( 1940) and as it is reflected/contested in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man ( 1952) and James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain ( 1953) and Notes of a Native Son ( 1955). Students also explore, in individual or group projects, subsequent writings of the 1960s by these writers.
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4 credits. Special topic (offe red irregularly). Sequence I Centers on close readings of Don Quixote and selected exemplary novels. Using Cervantes as a model text, the class attempts to define the “novel” as an evolving genre in European narrative.
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4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence II A study of four major novels, their respective national obsessions, and contrasting historical contexts (British: Dickens’ Great Expectations; American: Hawthorn e ’s Scarlet Letter; French: Balzac’s Eugenie Grandet; Russian: Dostoevsky’s The Possessed). Texts a re read in conjunction with historical background material.
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4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence I Examines the literature of England written in French, English, and Latin from the N o rman Conquest of 1066 (when England was taken over by a Francophone elite) to the 15th century. Epic, romance, history, and the literature of spiritual devotion are read in their literary relations and social contexts. All readings are in translation.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence I A study of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, for students who want an introduction to medieval studies and for those who wish to extend their k n o w ledge of the Middle Ages.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence I The principal nondramatic genres—lyric poetry, prose fiction, political theory, social commentary, religious devotion—of Elizabethan and Jacobean England, read in their social and cultural contexts.
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