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1.00 Credits
Intermediate level consideration of various topics in comparative literature. Topics might include a single genre, a period or a theme. Texts usually in English but with reference to non-English materials within the competence of students. (May be offered as a January half-block.) Block 1: Topics in Comparative Literature: Frankenstein's Legacy - Literature, Philosophy and Pop Culture. With Mary Shelley's novel as a starting point, we will examine the Frankenstein narrative as it develops from early 19th-century culture and science through 20th-century pop culture and film. We will pay particular attention to the way in which differenct times and discourses are able to bend this narrative to their own purposes. What anxieties about death, science, gender, identity, etc. inform the various representations and re-creations of this literary fantasy of an early 19th-century, teenaged girl (Also listed as English 280.) 1 unit - Davis. Block 2: Topics in Comparative Literture: Modern Theatre. A study of the 20th-century movements in playwriting and theatre practice. Topics will include realism (Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov) and the revolts against it, such as the work of Brecht, Artaud, Pirandello, and various artists of "alternative" theatre. (Also listed as Drama 223.) 1 unit - Lindblade. Block 3: Topics in Comparative Literature: Rhetoric. This course explores the foundations and growth of major concepts, issues, theorists, and approaches to the study of western rhetoric from the classical to the contemporary periods. It is designed to introduce students to ideas about the process of symbolic influence from a variety of media: public speeches, essays, group interaction, television, radio, computers, and film. While the readings in the course reflect a survey of Western theories of persuasion, the class discussions will, in part, attempt to relate these historical and contemporary theories to modern texts. As such, the course is one of theory and application; and is designed to help students improve their skills as rhetors (those who seek to influence), become more critical recipients of rhetorical messages, and understand more fully the pervasive nature of rhetoric in all aspects of their daily lives. 1 unit - Olive. Block 3: Topics in Comparative Literature: Latino/a and Latin-American Theatre. Examines Latino/a and Latin-American theatrical works as forms of resistance and as politically charged art forms. Considers plays and performances that challenge governments, inequities, and the status quo using humor, passion, spectacle, and simplicity. Considers performance art, theater of the oppressed, agitation/propaganda, activism, post-colonialism, existentialism and feminism from a variety of Latin and Central American perspectives. Contextualizes Latin and Latin-American performance in political and social landscapes. All plays taught in English translation from Spanish or Portuguese. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Also listed as American Cultural Studies 200 and Drama 321.) 1 unit - Sifuentes. Block 4: Topics in Comparative Literature: Contexualizing Christmas: Comedy, Pastoral, and Saturnalia. This course proposes to read literary texts and view films and television shows associated with the Christmas season as products of long traditions, including ancient pastoral of Greeks, Romans, and the Old Testament; comedy as theorized by Cornford and Frye; and the Roman winter solstice holiday of Saturnalia, a time of visiting friends, giving gifts and lighting candles. Beginning with theorists and classical antiquity we will read the modern texts critically in order to understand how they create meaning. In what sense is Frosty the Snowman a variant of Frazer's dying vegetation god How does the Greco-Roman tradition of literary shepherds help explain the significance of Shepherds in Luke's version of the Christmas story. What exactly is the source of nostalgia into whic
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1.00 Credits
Introduction to the major twentieth-century theories of literature, including such approaches as formalism and structuralism, hermeneutics, reception theory, feminist theory, psychoanalytic approaches, post-structuralism and new historicism. Study of important theoretical texts as well as literary works from a variety of language traditions, exploring the ways in which theory informs possibilities of interpretation. (Also listed as English 250.) 1 unit - Scheiner.
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3.00 Credits
Intermediate level consideration of various topics in comparative literature with particular emphasis on comparisons between literature and other disciplines. Topics might include a particular period or theme. Texts usually in English but with reference to non-English materials within the competence of students. (May be offered as a January half-block.) Block 2: Topics in Comparative Literature: Greek Lyric Poetry and Philosophy. This course explores the fact that both lyric poetry and philosophy, as we know them in the West, have their roots in the culture of archaic Greece. Through close reading of texts by such poets as Archilochus, Sappho, Alcaeus (7th and 6th centuries BCE). Xenophanes (6th century BC), and Simonides (6th to 5th centuries BCE) and equally close reading of texts by such Presocratic philosophers as Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Empedocles (largely 5th century BCE), we will examine the variety of ways in which these writers articulated and constituted their individual place in the space between culture and nature. We will turn to Plato's Ion and Symposium to see how the lyric and the philosophical are explicitly united in the writing of perhaps the greatest thinker in the Western tradition. In an effort to isolate what is distinctive about the lyric impulse and the philosophical impulse, we will also read from the Iliad of Homer (8th century BCE), the Oresteia of Aeschylus (5th century BCE), and Longus' Daphnis and Chloe (ca. 200CE ). The course will conclude with close reading of several 20th century and contemporary Greek poets-including Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) and George Seferis (1900-1971), among others-whose work embodies the continuing dialogue between lyric poetry and philosophy. Exploring village life at harvest time as well as the ancient and modern polis, this course will be taught in Greece. After a short stay in Athens, we will spend roughly a week on the island of Lesbos (home of Sappho and Alcaeus, and the setting of Daphnis and Chloe), a week in the Peloponnesos, and a final week in Athens (where we expect to give our students the opportunity to meet and interact with contemporary Greek writers.) Prerequisite: Consent of instructor (taught in Greece) ~$500*. (Also listed as English 280 and Philosophy 203.) 1 unit - Lee, Mason. Block 4: Topics in Comparative Literature. Prerequisite: Spanish 306 or consent of instructor (taught in Chile) ~$3000 plus food*. (Also listed as Spanish 316.) 1 unit - Bizzarro, Skarmeta. Block 5: Topics in Comparative Literature: Freedom and Empire-- The Drama of Ancient Politics. Are all the most serious problems of politics in principle resolvable Can we even make fundamental progress toward resolving them Or are we faced with a tragedy of irresolvable conflicts The comedy of flawed efforts to resolve them This course explores particular aspects of this general question through the reading of dramatic literature from various times and places, including especially the plays of Shakespeare and Aristophanes. (Also listed as Classics 222 and Political Science 234.) 1 unit - Grace. Block 7: Topics in Comparative Literature: Childhood in Japanese History. In this course we will examine the construction of childhood in Japan, primarily through literary texts about and for children. We will supplement this with a variety of texts from other fields (history, sociology, anthropology, art, and music). Through an analysis of the printed text and cultural artifacts, we will come to an understanding of the process of how childhood in Japan has evolved into its current status. (Also listed as Japanese 250 and Asian Studies 250.) 1 unit - Ericson. Block 8: Topics in Comparative Literature: Literature and the Environmental Imagination. (Also listed as English 280.) 1 unit - Tynan.
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3.00 Credits
Deepening of comparative reading and critical writing begun in 100. Specific topics, themes or genres as well as texts to vary from year to year. Designed to promote the "practice" and encouragement of more sophisticated textual work, greater perception of literary issues, and clarity of writing. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor or Comparative Literature 100. (Also listed as English 380.) 1 unit - Davis.
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3.00 Credits
Preparation for the senior thesis; opportunity for students to discuss their work, the work of their colleagues, and theoretical texts of common interest in a workshop setting. Examination of what it means to engage in the study of Comparative Literature and, in particular, of current issues and debates within the discipline. Contextualizing of students' work within a larger, disciplinary framework. Prerequisite: Junior standing, reading knowledge of a language other than English, and a 300 level course in English, or other literature, or consent of instructor. 1 unit - Scheiner.
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3.00 Credits
Topics to include periods, genres, themes, movements or other groupings of texts. (May be taught as a January half-block.) Block 1: Advanced Topics in Comparative Literature: Beginnings and Endings. Prerequisite: 200 or 300-level lit course in CO, EN, or other literatures or consent of instructor. (Also listed as English 380.) 1 unit - Department. Block 4: Advanced Topics in Comparative Literature: The Other Chaucer. Introduction to Middle English and close reading of selections from Chaucer's minor poems, including the Book of the Duchess, Troilus, and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women, and Parlement of Fowles. Prerequisite: 200 or 300-level lit course in CO, EN, or other literatures or consent of instructor. (Also listed as English 312.) 1 unit - Evitt. Block 4: Advanced Topics in Comparative Literature: The Other Chaucer. Introduction to Middle English and close reading of selections from Chaucer's minor poems, including the Book of the Duchess, Troilus, and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women, and Parlement of Fowles. Prerequisite: 200 or 300-level lit course in CO, EN, or other literatures or consent of instructor. (Also listed as English 312.) 1 unit - Evitt. Block 6: Advanced Topics in Comparative Literature: James Joyces "Ulysses". Prerequisite: 200 or 300-level lit course in CO, EN, or other literatures or consent of instructor. (Also listed as English 386.) 1 unit - Simons. Block 7: Advanced Topics in Comparative Literature: Literature of the Borderlands. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Also listed as American Cultural Studies 253 and English 380 and Southwest Studies 253.) 1 unit - Padilla. Block 8: Advanced Topics in Comparative Literarture: Dante's "Divine Comedy". Reading Dante's Divina Commedia can be a harrowing experience: its intertexts and allegory shadowy at best when viewed through a mirror darkened by 700 years of human experience. The primary goal of this course is to make reading the Divine Comedy less infernal: to provide you with the basic medieval cultural matrices that will help you make sense of the substance of this immense poem without robbing you of the change to be, as Borges describes, "carried away" by the Commedia. Revel in the brilliance and perversity of Dante's literary imagination. Prerequisite: 200 or 300-level lit course in CO, EN, or other literatures or consent of instructor. (Also listed as English 313.) 1 unit - Evitt.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced consideration of various topics in comparative literature with particular emphasis on comparisons between literature and other disciplines. Block 6: Topics in Comparative Literature: Shakespeare and the Philosophers. In this upper-division interdisciplinary seminar, students will explore the philosophical contexts for Shakespeare's plays. Themes this course will explore include individual authority and the construction of power, the rise of science, self-fashioning, and the efficacy of the individual, doubt and loss of the world. Readings will include selections from the most influential contemporaries and near contemporaries of Shakespeare. We'll explore Machiavelli's The Prince, Bacon's New Atlantis, Montaigne's Essays, and Descartes' Meditations in conversation with Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Othello, Macbeth, and The Tempest. Prerequisite: 200 or 300 level lit course in CO, English or other lit or consent of instructor. (Also listed as English 326 and Philosophy 303.) 1 unit - Evitt, Genova.
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3.00 Credits
This course will combine the practical experience of translating literary texts with reading and discussion in the rich field of translation studies. The first third of the block will be devoted to exploring the questions that translation raises about language, literature, authority, and power, both through readings and through exercises in translation and in translation criticism. The second third of the block will consist of translation workshops and discussion of the more practical issues of translation. We will end the block with a discussion of translations themselves as a cultural force, and with individual research projects on translation. or AN 258, and a 300 level course in a foreign language (or equivalent); or consent of instructor. Prerequisite: Comparative Literature 210 or English 250 or Anthropology 258 and a 300 level Language course (or equivalent) or consent of instructor. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
In-depth study of important 20th-century movements of thought about literature and art. Topics vary from year to year and may include Russian Formalism, semiotics, New Criticism, phenomenology and hermeneutics, reader response criticism, psychoanalytic theory, feminist theory, post-colonial theory, queer theory and gender theory., and another, 200-level literature course, or consent of instructor. Prerequisite: 210 (or English 250) or consent of instructor. (Also listed as English 306.) 1 unit - Sarchett.
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3.00 Credits
Opportunity for advanced students to do guided research, specialized topics or thesis preparation. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor or Comparative Literature 300, May be arranged any block. 1 unit.
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