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department Comparative Literature (X) |
CPLT 515 01 (10499) T 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 Introductory proseminar for all first-year graduate students in Comparative Literature (and other interested persons). Critical readings of formative texts in the theory and practice of the discipline, from the late eighteenth century to the present. Topics to be covered include the nature of literature; translation; national identities and identities beyond the nation; interpretation and evaluation; the humanities and the human; media. The course is taken for a grade of Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory.
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CPLT 519 01 (10500) Th 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 The possibility that a text may be written or read in two or more different languages simultaneously opens a set of productive difficulties for translation, interpretation, sociolinguistics, genre study, and allied disciplines. Working with examples from antiquity to the present in a variety of languages, we try to get at the implications of this problem. Readings from Weinreich, Ferguson, Saussure, Derrida, de Man, Deleuze, Khatibi, and from Augustine, Montaigne, Folengo, Bunyan, Tsvetaeva, Kafka, Joyce, Nabokov, and Celan.
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CPLT 523 01 (10501) T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 This course is an experiment combining literature, cognitive science, and linguistics. It is an attempt to understand the fundamental difference between speaking and other forms of inscribing information (writing, digitalization, etc.) through a study of the history and neuroscience of the act of reading. Since the subject of the course is militantly interdisciplinary, the seminar brings in frequent guests from departments across the university, including cognitive scientists from Haskins Laboratory. Texts include literary texts (Kafka, Poe, Gogol, Proust), classics in linguistics, and recent work being done on the study of literacy's effects on the brain using fMRI imaging. Students have the opportunity to do their own research under the directorship of eminent experts in relevant fields. A course for graduate students and advanced undergraduates.
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CPLT 536 01 (10503) /GMAN327/HUMS287/GMAN536 T 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 A course treating Kafka as a distinctive and indispensable Imaginary as well as a particular author, mutating into a plethora of adaptations, whether by Beckett, Bernhard, Welles, Murakami, or Pamuk, and into the graphic novel as well.
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CPLT 541 01 (10505) /PHIL708 M 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 The course presents a comprehensive theory of works of literature as the highest sign-complexes in human culture. From rhythm and sound patterns through metaphor and fictional worlds to genre and representation, a work of literature combines elements of structure with a network of necessary and possible or contradictory constructs. The seminar develops a conceptual network for the descriptive analysis of individual works of poetry and fiction. The theory focuses on questions of fictionality and art in language, yet goes beyond linguistics and philosophy of language, on the one hand, and narratology, on the other. It is grounded in close readings of poems and narrative texts by Kafka, Joyce, Eliot, Dostoevsky, and others.
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CPLT 542 01 (10332) /CLSS837 W 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 This course takes a "thematic" approach to literary criticism in antiquity, with special emphasis on the culture(s) of criticism in the Roman world. The home base for the course is the literary-theoretical and rhetorical works of selected Roman authors, especially Cicero (Brutus, Orator), Varro, Horace, and Seneca. The larger historical picture is filled in by looking both backward to Greek sources, especially to Plato and Aristotle, and forward to Quintilian, Tacitus, Longinus, and others. Weekly discussions center on topics that arise from the theoretical pronouncements and debates of ancient writers, as well as from the actual practices (and meta-linguistic commentaries) of the poets themselves. Topics include theories of imitation in antiquity; theories of style (order, structure, metaphor, language, word choice, etc.); definitions of a "poem" and of the poet's place in society; genre theory and canon formation (especially in Rome); what grammarians do and how they structure modes of evaluation.
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CPLT 571 01 (11163) /RUSS675/RUSS326 T 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 Close, comparative, contextualized examination of literary and other forms of cultural production associated with U.S. slavery and Russian serfdom. Special attention is paid to the relation between bondage and national, cultural, and personal identity, the role of bondage in definitions of "aesthetic experience" in the pre- and post-emancipation periods, the relation between literacy and the literary, literature of protest in the two countries, and connections between geographical and subjective space within cultures of enslavement. We examine works by Pushkin, Aksakov, Gogol, Simms, Cooper, Crevecoeur, Radishchev, Karamzin, Goncharov, Tolstoy, Kennedy and the "plantation novelists," Stowe, Melville, Turgenev, slave and serf autobiographers, freedman's textbooks, Fet, Lanier, Page, Chesnutt, and Bunin; historical treatments by Kolchin, Genovese, and others; theoretical works by Said, Jameson, Saidiya Hartman, Bakhtin, and others. Requirements: in-class presentations; research paper. No knowledge of Russian required.
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CPLT 578 01 (10508) /PHIL711/ENGL984 T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 An introduction to theoretical issues of textual analysis, and the difference between structuralist and metapragmatic approaches to language and culture. We review debates over performativity, the langue/parole distinction, indexicality and metaindexicality, and the nature of text. We then see how these traditions for analyzing the social dimensions of language inflect various attempts to theorize modern forms of discourse and power, including the public sphere, concepts of genre and media, religion, and the practice of criticism itself.
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CPLT 585 01 (14210) /GMAN585/GMAN336 TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 A survey of the major works of German vernacular literature from 1150 to 1250, including courtly love poetry, heroic epic, Arthurian romance, crusader songs, and religious narratives. Examination of the development of the German language, the development of vernacular literature, the broader context of Latin culture, and the problems of manuscript transmission. Readings in the original Middle High German. Hartmann von Aue's Der arme Heinrich is read in its entirety.
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CPLT 598 01 (10550) /ENGL971 Th 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 An intensive research-oriented course on British literature, 1914-1926, with some attention to European, Irish, and American influences. Major figures to be considered include Joyce, Lawrence, Shaw, O'Casey, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Strachey, Woolf, and Forster. Students pursue group research projects on poetry, drama, the novel, or intellectual history. The final syllabus depends on student interests.
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CPLT 674 01 (10562) /SPAN660 W 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 A close reading of Cervantes's masterpiece with emphasis on its significance for modern fiction. The relationship of author, characters, and reader; reality and fantasy in fiction; literary imitation vs. literary invention. Conducted in English.
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CPLT 698 01 (10564) /PHIL704 M 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009
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CPLT 708 01 (10574) /ITAL560 T 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 This course focuses on the literary debates, theological arguments, and scientific shifts taking place between the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1437) and the Council of Trent and beyond, by reading key texts by Valla, Cusa, Pulci, Luther, Erasmus, Ariosto, Campanella, Bruno, Galileo, and Bellarmino. It examines issues such as the crisis of belief, the authority of the past, the emergence of freedom, new aesthetics, and the effort toward a new theological language for modern times.
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CPLT 756 01 (10577) /ENGL728 W 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 Readings of fiction and other prose works of three authors who seminally contributed to the development of the poetics of the novel, setting up modes of fabulation that had a lasting influence on European and world fiction. Focus on how Defoe, Sterne, and Walter Scott negotiated boundaries between fiction and "reality"-crossing disciplines and complicating such categories as persons, things, description, knowledge, science, rhetoric, history, nation, and also on how their writings have proven a fundamental influence on our own critical and theoretical approaches and systems.
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CPLT 783 01 (10579) /LITR343/GMAN660/GMAN304/GMST304 Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 This course is open to both graduate and qualified undergraduate students with a reading knowledge of German. The seminar concentrates on Goethe's
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CPLT 784 01 (10585) /GMAN354/PHIL607/GMST354/GMAN647/HUMS345/LITR349/PHIL411 W 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 This course is open to both graduate and qualified undergraduate students with a reading knowledge of German. The seminar concentrates on Adorno's Ãsthetische Theorie and its position within the Frankfurt School and in the literary and philosophical discussion of postwar Germany.
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CPLT 840 01 (10591) /FILM840/GMAN652/HSAR687/RUSS712 W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 From 1918 to the mid-1930s, Moscow and Berlin both became central gathering points for left-wing modernists. Although each city developed its own modes of modernism, they did so in sustained dialogue, given massive Russian emigration to Berlin after 1918, the Weimar obsession with early Soviet aesthetics (and cinema), intellectuals visiting in both directions, and the large-scale emigration of German leftists to the Soviet Union after 1933. The final week or two of the course end by considering the shaping influence of Soviet intellectuals (and German emigrants returning from Moscow) on East Berlin "late modernism" of the 1940s and '50s. Centered on literature and film, the course also considers a wide array of art forms (including painting, photography, architecture, music, and aesthetic theory). Works by modernists such as Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Vertov, Kosintsev, Trauberg, Alexandrov, Shklovsky, Nabokov, Babel, Tretiakov, Mayakovsky, El Lissitsky, Rodchenko, Malevich, Tatlin, Shostakovich, Lukács, Benjamin, Brecht, Richter, Ruttmann, Dudow, Beckmann, Schwitters, Grosz, Heartfield, Döblin, Moholy-Nagy, van der Rohe, Weill, Krenek, Eisler, Busch. Texts are available in English translation; knowledge of Russian and/or German still very helpful. Where able, students should read texts in the original. At the first meeting, students help shape the final syllabus.
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CPLT 899 01 (10598) /FREN893 W 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 This seminar interrogates the nineteenth-century French Realist and Naturalist novel in light of various efforts to define its practice. How does theory constitute Realism as a category or object? How does Realism articulate the aims of theory? And how did nineteenth-century Realist and Naturalist textual practices intersect with other discourses besides the literary? Novelists to be studied include Balzac, Stendhal, Sand, Flaubert, and Zola. Theorists to be studied include Auerbach, Barthes, Girard, Jameson, and Lukács. Some attention is also paid to Realist painting. Reading knowledge of French required.
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CPLT 900 01 (10601) HTBA Fall 2009
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CPLT 901 01 (10603) HTBA Fall 2009
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CPLT 903 01 (10609) /HSAR726/HUMS282/FILM450/LITR354/FILM625 T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 An analysis of such common practices as adaptation, remake, prequel, sequel, quotation that operate in film, above all, but also in fiction, television, painting, and in every art. Examples are taken from various media, as repetition is examined from the point of view of semiotics (Barthes, Eco), cultural history (Benjamin), and philosophy (Deleuze).
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CPLT 917 01 (13861) /FILM601 Th 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009
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CPLT 949 01 (10168) /AMST645/AFAM723 M 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009
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CPLT 987 01 (10180) /AFST949/FREN949/AFAM805 Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 African history as represented in historiography, novels, and films. Limited to French and Francophone Africa. Themes include empire and epic; orality and literacy; the slave trade; contact, conquest, and resistance; the Congo Free State; the role of colonial intermediaries; the two world wars; decolonization and neocolonialism; and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Reading knowledge of French required.
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Preference to freshmen. The personal and social functions of literary narrative. How do works of literature serve as ways for people to communicate with each other? Are fiction readers part of a broad, transhistorical community of readers? How does that membership shape the way authors write their own life stories? Writers include: Ruth Ozeki, Ondaatje, Calvino, and Gordimer.
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