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Examines philosophical, political, and aesthetic conceptions of freedom from French and American revolutions to postcommunism. Topics: aesthetic education and the space of freedom, the myth of America from a cross-cultural perspective, love, and modern ethics.
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This Longfellow Institute seminar works with original source materials in several different languages. Special focus is on the historiographic and critical treatment of non-Anglophone texts, on general and theoretical problems of an ongoing multilingual American tradition, on the recuperation and editing of texts, and on issues of translation.
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Explores the impact of classical literature and culture on the formation of modern critical theory. Topics include: construction of power; trafficability of art; ritual theory; sexuality; gender studies; irony; orality and literacy.
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Examines the relationship between urban experience and debates on modernity/postmodernity in art, architecture and social theory. Topics: nostalgia and modernization, cultural archeology and architecture of transition, memorial, museum and public art, national identity and cosmopolitan imagination, metropolis and megapolis.
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Explores contradictions of the modern experience in literature, philosophy, arts and architecture. Topics for 2010: nostalgia and modernization, public freedom and cross-cultural memory, archeology and the creative mapping of the urban space, culture and politics. Special attention to the relationship between critical theory and creative practice. Reading from Benjamin, Simmel, Shklovsky, Nabokov, Kafka, Arendt, Certeau, Lyotard, Derrida.
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Examines the Baroque as a literary style, hystorical period, and mode of thought. Focuses on 17th century European, Colonial American, and contemporary "Neo-Baroque" texts. Analogies between the literary, visual, and musical arts are explored.
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Analysis of the failure of models and testing of limits in reflection about change, as well as the dialogue among literary, theological, socio-political, artistic, and philosophical discourses. Topics include authority, freedom, equality, sentiment, reason, fanaticism, tolerance. Readings include works from St. Augustine, Rousseau, Diderot, Kant, Proust, Koselleck, Rorty, Beauvoir, Sartre, Kofman, Beckett. The seminar will design and develop a General Education course on these themes for undergraduates; it will also contain an arts component.
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Literary studies studied from the perspective of the practices that have shaped ideas concerning literature, writing, speech, and communication: from scrolls and codices to the rise of printing and typewriting to digital writing.
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Explores theories of intertextuality developed by Kristeva, Jauss, Bloom, Gilbert and Gubar, Genette, and others, and asks why the debates they have provoked have had such resonance in contemporary literary studies. A series of literary texts ranging from classical antiquity to the present will provide test cases for the various theories. Attention to such questions as influence, imitation, allusion, quotation, and plagiarism.
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Explores major philosophical and aesthetic discourses on irony as well as literary manipulations of the trope in western European tradition. Topics discussed include irony and rhetoric, parody, laughter, irony, and the post-modern.
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The course examines narratives of journey, exile, and displacement in modern Arabic literature that trespass geographical, political and linguistic boundaries, and create new literary spaces that define and reshape modern Arab identities. Theoretical readings will include Prattt, Said, Rushdie and Kaplan.
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Considers language difference both as a literary theme and as a potent cause of war in the political arena. Historical foci include Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Africa. Literary issues include translation, heteroglossia, cinematography, and multilingualism. Works of literature include Sophocles, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Dove.
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An historical and critical examination of key issues and debates in poetic theory, rhetoric, and literary interpretation. Topics include mimesis, catharsis, expression, performance, allegoresis, typology, semiotics, hermeneutics, verisimilitude, genre, decorum, and the sublime.
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Examines creative and critical discourse from and about the African, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Jewish, and Korean diasporas. Explores the relationship between diaspora and constructions of artistic and cultural identities, transculturation, translation, and multilingualism.
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Explores the theory and practice of metaphor in literature, philosophy, and science. Topics include: the aesthetic, heuristic, and epistemological functions of metaphor; metaphor's relation to allegory, irony, and other "major tropes"; metaphor in lyric poetry. Readings include Aristotle, Gracian, Jakobson, Freud, Ricoeur, Blumenberg, Kofman,Derrida, de Man, and Kuhn.
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Modernism's theories of itself - manifestoes, polemics, strident declarations, urbane repudiations of the old-fashioned-tested against Modernist practice, in literature, music, and painting. I welcome students from disparate graduate programs in the university.
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Trends and debates in the comparative study of mystical literature. Primary works by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim authors from the Middle Ages through the 16th century. Also modern authors (Borges, Eliot, Goytisolo) and literary theorists (DeCerteau).
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"In the history of philosophy," Deleuze writes, "a commentary should act as a veritable double and bear the maximal modification appropriate to a double." Examines the thoughts of Spinoza (The Ethics) and Leibniz (The Monadology, Discourse on Metaphysics) in the context of Deleuze's commentaries.
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Candidates for the doctoral degree in Comparative Literature may pursue advanced studies under the individual supervision of these instructors.
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Candidates for the doctoral degree in Comparative Literature may pursue advanced studies under the individual supervision of these instructors.
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Examines Renaissance literary criticism and theory in the context of the arts of poetry and rhetoric. Topics include imitation, genre, decorum, and the conceit. Readings from Petrarch to Gracian and Boileau.
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