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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence I Literature from the songs of the troubadours and the rise of romance to the work of Dante is examined in connection with movements in European intellectual life and social history. Readings are in translation.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence III A team-taught course in British society and cultural development from World War I to the present, examined from the different perspectives of literature and history. Topics include: war and social change; construction of class and gender; evolution of the state; intellectuals and politics; popular culture since 1945; feminism; immigration and race. Readings in history and the works of such authors as Virginia Woolf are complemented by the viewing of films. Also offered as HIS 3180.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Every year. Sequence III Examines the emergence of national identity as represented in South Asian literature in the aftermath of colonialism. The class explores contemporary literary texts along with selected archival documents. Topics include nationalist literature, colonial discourse, and postcolonial fiction. Writers include Rukun Advani, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie. Taught in English.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence I Considers the literature of the Italian Renaissance in connection with such movements as humanism and Neoplatonism. Readings include works by P e t r a rch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Castiglione, and Ariosto in translation, but work in the original language is encouraged when possible.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence I One of the gre a t e s t English writers and the central poetic influence in the language, Milton is read in the context of the classical literary, political, and religious traditions that he inherited, disputed, and transcended. Special focus is on the relationship of “prophesy” andmythmaking to the radical and dissenting imagination.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly). Sequence III Focuses on one of modern i s m ’s most innovative fiction writers, Franz Kafka of Prague (1884–1924). Students explore the re l ationship of Jewish to European-Christian culture in Kafka’s work, the literary sources and historical contexts of his allegories, and the influential concept of the “Kafkaesque.” Thegoal is to become familiar with the multiple interpretations generated from works like The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offe red irregularly). Sequence II Examines the idea of reason in British literature from Dryden to Wollstonecraft. Readings include traditional genres and forms of writing that escape traditional literary taxonomies.
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3.00 Credits
Sequence III See HIS 3305 in the History section for description.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offe red irregularly). Sequence III The coming of age of poetry in the Americas through the work of the great modernists: Wallace Stevens, Vicente Huidobro, Ezra Pound, Cesar Vallejo, T.S. Eliot, Octavio Paz, William Carlos Williams, and Pablo Neruda. Taught in English. Latin American poets may be read in translation or in Spanish.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years. Sequence II What constitutes the genre of the novel and its various subgenres Which historical contexts most shaped the novel’s development, and how What was the novel’s role in culture and society This course asks these questions about the 19th-century novel in the U.S. In addition to many of the novels from the period, students read various theoretical and historical considerations of the novel.
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