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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An examination of the basic issues in comparative literature studies of non-Western literatures and cultures. From Renaissance travelogue literature to postmodern mythologies of the Orient, critical and theoretical issues are discussed in the light of the dynamic interactions between the East and the West.
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Seminar, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Covers comparative histories of feminist literary movements, gender and immigration, autobiography, translation, and subjectivity. Asian literature will be circulated in the original language to students with reading ability (not required). E. Chinese and Chinese American Writing; J. Japanese and Japanese American Writing; K. Korean and Korean American Writing; V. Vietnamese and Vietnamese American Writing. Cross-listed with WMST 142 (E-Z).
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 20 hours per quarter; term paper, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. Explores French portrayals of Asia in literature, cinema, the other arts, and popular culture. Topics include colonialism, orientalism, gender, race, and language. Cross-listed with FREN 143.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 2 hours; discussion, 1 hour; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): RLST 005 or RLST 005H or RLST 101 or RLST 105 or RLST 106 or consent of instructor. Readings in canonical Buddhist narratives and examination of the themes of emptiness and impermanence in Buddhist-inspired literature. Examples are drawn from classical and modern Asian prose and poetry as well as from the work of contemporary American authors. Cross-listed with RLST 144.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. Survey of modern Japanese thought from a theoretical and intellectual historical perspective. Topics include philosophical discussions of modernization, "Westernization," "nationalism," colonialism aimperialism, "comfort women," Japanese war crimesin continental Asia, the American bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, post-World War II remembrance and denial. All readings are in English. Crosslisted with JPN 145.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Investigates the origins and historical development of contemporary Western culture's two most popular genres. Although the focus is on literary texts ranging from Aristophanes to the present, the course also considers the many other cultural media through which the comic and the satiric find expression-among them, caricature drawing, photography, comic books, film, and television. Attention is given to debates about the related functions of irony, laughter, violence, and sexuality.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Investigation of the novel as a preeminent register of cultural values and common literary themes, derived from the various national literatures and literary epochs. The novel form is examined in terms of selected, related works by some of its greatest practitioners. E. The Existential Novel; F. The Carnivalesque. Credit is awarded for only one of CPLT 147F or HNPG 037J.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Analysis and interpretation of short narrative texts from the linked perspectives of universal themes and shared literary concerns. The finest short prose, including the anecdote, short story, tale, and novella, by some of the world's greatest writers is explored in depth.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; written work, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Consisting of readings, discussions, and lectures, treats plays and theories from the German, Scandinavian, Russian, and French repertoire among others. Covers Naturalism to Expressionism (1880- 1918).
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 24 hours per quarter; screening, 6 hours per quarter. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Considers two distinct and related literary and historical moments-Palestine and Algeria. Topics include the relations between language and context; literature and literary historiography; genre and idiom; violence and the body; and the state and institutional practices of reading. Cross-listed with ARLC 151.
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