| source UC Davis (X) |
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department Comparative Literature (X) |
Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: completion of Subject A requirement. An introduction, through class discussion and frequent written assignments, to some of the great books of western civilization from The Epic of Gilgamesh to St. Augustine’s Confessions. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt (cannot be used to satisfy a college or university composition requirement and GE writing experience simultaneously).—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: completion of Subject A requirement. An introduction, through class discussion and frequent written assignments, to some of the great books of western civilization from Dante’s Inferno to Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt (cannot be used to satisfy a college or university composition requirement and GE writing experience simultaneously).—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: completion of Subject A requirement. An introduction, through class discussion and frequent written assignments, to some of the great books of western civilization from Goethe’s Faust to Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt (cannot be used to satisfy a college or university composition requirement and GE writing experience simultaneously).—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: completion of Subject A requirement. Comparative study of selected major Western and non-Western texts composed in the period from 1945 to the present. Intensive focus on writing about these texts, with frequent papers written about these works. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt (cannot be used to satisfy a college or university composition requirement and GE writing experience simultaneously).—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. An introduction to fairy tales, fables, and parables as recurrent forms in literature, with such readings as tales from Aesop and Grimm, Chaucer and Shakespeare, Kafka and Borges, Buddhist and Taoist parables, the Arabian Nights, and African American folklore. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.) Schildgen, Sharlet
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Introduction to the comparative study of myths and legends, excluding those of Greece and Rome, with readings from Near Eastern, Teutonic, Celtic, Indian, Japanese, Chinese, African and Central American literary sources. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—I, II. (I, II.) Schein, McLean, Venkatesan
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. The role of fantasy and the supernatural in literature: tales of magic, hallucination, ghosts, and metamorphosis, including diverse authors such as Shakespeare, P’u Sung-Ling, Kafka, Kawabata, Fuentes, and Morrison. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—II, III. (II, III.)
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: satisfaction of the Subject A requirement. A consideration, in literary works from different ages, of visionary and rational perceptions of a lost paradise, Golden Age, or Atlantis—and of the inhuman nightmares that can result from perversions of the utopian dream of perfection. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—(I.)
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. An introduction to shorter forms of prose fiction by major authors of different countries, with special emphasis on the modern period. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—(III.)
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Lecture/discussion—1 two-hour session. Designed primarily to acquaint the non-literature major with a cross-section of writings by the world’s most important authors; readings in English translation. Content alternates among the following segments: (A) Gilgamesh, Ramayana, Beowulf, Nibelungenlied; (B) Metamorphoses, Decameron, Arabian Nights, Canterbury Tales; (C) Chanson de Roland, El Cid, Igor’s Campaign, Morte D’Arthur; (D) Sakuntala, Tristan and Isolde, Aucassin and Nicolette, Gawain and the Green Knight; (E) Swift, Rabelais, La Celestina, Simplicissimus; (F) Cervantes, Saikaku, Fielding, Voltaire; (G) Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Lope de Vega/Calderón, Molière/Racine, Lessing/Schiller; (H) Goethe, Byron, Stendhal, Pushkin, Lermontov; (I) Hoffmann, Gogol, Poe, Hawthorne, Maupassant, Chekhov, Melville; (J) Flaubert, Twain, Turgenev, Galdós, Ibsen; (K) Balzac, Dostoevski/Tolstoi, Hardy, Shaw, Strindberg; (L) Unamuno, Svevo, Conrad, Gide, Kafka, Faulkner; (M) Rilke/Yeats, Joyce/Woolf, Mann/Céline, Bulgakov/Tanizaki, O’Neill/Brecht, Lorca/Pirandello; (N) Camus/Sartre, García Márquez/Grass, Borges/Sarraute, Bellow/Nabokov, Beckett/Pinter, Genet/ Dürrenmatt. May be repeated for credit in different subject area. Limited enrollment. (P/NP grading only.)—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: completion of subject A requirement. Survey of fiction, drama, and poetry by women writers from all continents. Concerns of women compared in light of their varied social and cultural traditions. Literary analysis of voice, imagery, narrative strategies and diction. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—III. Lokke
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Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: completion of Subject A requirement or the equivalent. Introduction, through careful reading of selected plays, to some of the major forms of Western drama, from the earliest tragedies of ancient Greece to the contemporary American theater. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—II. Finney
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours. Prerequisite: completion of Subject A requirement. Comparative study of poetry in a variety of lyric and other poetic forms from different historical periods and different linguistic, national, and cultural traditions. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—(I.)
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Changing relationship between humans and the natural environment in ancient and modern authors as Virgil, Li Po, Basho, Darwin, and Thoreau. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—II. (II.) McLean
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Consideration of a broad range of writers who speak from an ethnic perspective different from the nominally or politically dominant culture of their respective countries and who explore the challenges faced by characters significantly affected by their ethnic minority status. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—(I.) Blanchard
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Lecture—2 hours; discussion—1 hour. Introduction to representative masterpieces of East Asia with readings from such works as The Story of the Stone, The Peach Blossom Fan, T’ang and Sung poetry, classical Japanese poetry, drama, and travel diaries, and The Tale of Genji. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.
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Lecture—2 hours; discussion—1 hour. Introduction to representative masterpieces of South Asia with readings from such works as the Mahabharata and Ramayana, The Cloud Messenger, Shakuntala, The Little Clay Cart, and the stories and poems of both ancient and modern India and Southeast Asia. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—(III.) Venkatesan
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Lecture—2 hours; discussion—1 hour. Introduction to classical Islamic culture through translations of literature primarily from Arabic and Persian, as well as other languages. Topics include the concept of the self, society and power, spirituality, the natural world, the cosmos, and the supernatural. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—I. Sharlet
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Seminar—1-4 hours. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Examination of a special topic in a small group setting.
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Restricted to lower division students. (P/NP grading only.)
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(P/NP grading only.)
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; film viewing—3 hours. Prerequisite: upper-division standing, or consent of instructor. A comparative, cross-cultural study of a topic, theme, or movement in world cinema beyond the boundary of a single national tradition. Topics may include “postsocialist cinemas in East Europe and Asia,” “cinema and globalization,” and “popular Asian cinemas.” May be repeated three times for credit when topic differs. GE Credit: ArtHum, Div, Wri.—I, III. (I, III.) Lu
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: completion of Subject A requirement and at least one course in literature. Study of representations, descriptions, and discussions of humankind’s problematical relationship with the non-human world in texts written in a variety of European and American traditions between 1750 and the present. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—(III.) McLean
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. An exploration of women’s differing views of self and society as revealed in major works by female authors of various times and cultures. Readings, principally of fiction, will include such writers as Lady Murasaki, Mme de Lafayette, and Charlotte Bronte. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—I, III. (I, II.) Lokke, Schiesari
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: completion of Subject A requirement and at least one course in literature. Study of the representation of gender roles and gender hierarchy in literary texts from various periods, societies, and cultures in light of research and theory on gender, with attention to gender as a topic for literary interpretation. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—II. Schiesari
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