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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Considers selected writings of Adunis ('Ali Ahmed Sa'id), Mahmoud Darwish, Abdelatif La'abi,and Etel Adnan, published originally in Arabic, French, and English. Topics include language (idiom, statement, utterance, translation, repetition, rhythm) and history (loss, violence, mourning, inheritance, future, legacy). Course is taught in English. Cross-listed with ARLC 152.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. Considers the rapport among language, relation, and literature. Focuses upon the relations among context and modes of address (the Qur'an, Levinas, Austin, Derrida); the name and the positing force of language (Darwish, Plato, Nietzsche); and language, violence, and poetic statement (Ibn Arabi, Heidegger, Benjamin).
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Each segment deals with a significant cultural "event" whose implications(historical, political, literary) cross national and cultural boundaries. In order to present a diversity of national and linguistic views, segments are where feasible team taught. F. The French Revolution and Napoleon; G. The Holocaust; M. Millennium and Apocalypse.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. An introduction to the novel and its role within nationalism as a representative summary or mirror of the nation. Crosslisted with AST 163.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; written work, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. Introduction to the comparative national histories of Vietnam and the Philippines by way of great literary works in various genres: poetry, short fiction, and novels. All materials are read in English. Cross-listed with AST 166 and VNM 166.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Explores how the theoretical concepts of postcolonial criticism inform and challenge the literature of Southeast Asia and South Asia, as the literature itself pushes the limits of the criticism. Addresses themes of nation, identity, space, gender, home, diaspora, alterity, history, sexuality, transnationalism, neocolonialism, tourism, and education. Cross-listed with AST 167.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. Critical studies on a director or group of directors that deal with a substantial portion of their works. F. Fassbinder; I. Fellini; T. Truffaut. Cross-listed with MCS 121 (E-Z).
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): MCS 020 or upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Considers non-Hollywood cinemas in the national, historical, political, and cultural contexts which produced them. E. Experimental and Avant-Garde Film; F. French New Wave; G. New German Cinema; I. Italian Neorealism; T. Third World Cinema; V. Global Perspectives on the Vietnam War. Cross-listed with MCS 173 (E-Z).
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Considers film in the context of the other arts. Compares the treatment of various themes or problems in film and other media. E. Film and Literature in the Avant-Garde. Cross-listed with MCS 174 (E-Z).
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A study of the construction and continuing appropriation of biographical images (textual and visual narratives) in selected religious traditions. Special attention is given to problems of intertextuality and the medium of presentation in the communication of "religious" meaning.Cross-listed with RLST 178.
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