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Literary works that evoke a medieval past in contrast to a historical present, and critical texts that treat aspects of the medieval or medievalism. How does the concept of medievalism emerge and evolve through the ages? The impact of the Reformation and romanticism, the study of Gothic architecture, and the use of the term medieval in modern political discourse. Authors include Hugo, Grimm brothers, Flaubert, Mâle, Pound, de Rougemont, Eco, Bataille, and Holsinger; films by Bresson and Pasolini.
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Preference to freshmen. A crosscultural inquiry into Paris as a part of American culture, a myth, a longing, and source of inspiration. Role of artistic movements (Cubism, Surrealism, Existentialism) and cultural institutions such as the cafés, libraries, and salons in the life and creativity of the expatriate. Birth of their writing selves and existential questioning around issues of national and individual identities. Readings: Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Anaïs Nin, and Baldwin. In English.
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Preference to sophomores. Political, social, and cultural events in Paris from the Napoleonic era and the Romantic revolution to the 30s. The arts and letters of bourgeois, popular, and avant garde cultures. Illustrated with slides.
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The myth of the feminine idol in French films in historical and cultural context. The mythology of stars as the imaginary vehicle that helped France to change from traditional society to modern nation after 1945. Filmmakers include Renoir, Truffaut, and Nelly Kaplan. The evolution of the role of women in France over 60 years. Lectures in English; films in French with English subtitles.
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Medieval love, satirical and Crusade lyrics in the Old Occitan, and Old French traditions. Focus on deictic address, corporeal subjectivity, the female voice, love debates, and the body as a figure of political conflict. Also modern translation and reception of the troubadour tradition. Poets include Ovid, Bernart de Ventadorn, Bertran de Born, La Comtessa de Dia, Thibaut de Champagne, Sordello, Dante, Pound, and Neruda.
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Comparative readings of the two poets in their respective national contexts, with attention to biographical and poetological frameworks. Canonic status and scholarly reception histories. Renewed interest in their work with regard to their distinctive practices of connecting prosodic form and extra textual referents. Prerequisite: reading knowledge of German or French.
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The body as locus for desire, pleasure, disease, mortality, sexuality, and gender; and as canon of beauty and reflection of cosmic harmony. How literature responded to the development of an anatomical gaze in arts and medicine; how it staged the aesthetic, religious, philosophical, and moral issues related to such a promotion or deconstruction of the body. Does literature aim at representing the body, or use it as signifier for intellectual, emotional, and political ideas? Readings from Rabelais, Ronsard, Labé, Montaigne; medical texts and archival documents from http://renaissancebodyproject.stanford.edu.
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Seminar. Selections from In Search of Lost Time. Themes: habit, heredity, constitution of the self; language, names, metaphor, and metonymy; aesthetics, music, photography, and painting; truth, lies, belief, and disenchantment; sleep, dreams, memory, time, modernity, and technology; friendship, love, homosexuality, jealousy, and mediated desire. Readings in French or English.
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Literary works that evoke a medieval past in contrast to a historical present, and critical texts that treat aspects of the medieval or medievalism. How does the concept of medievalism emerge and evolve through the ages? The impact of the Reformation and romanticism, the study of Gothic architecture, and the use of the term medieval in modern political discourse. Authors include Hugo, Grimm brothers, Flaubert, Mâle, Pound, de Rougemont, Eco, Bataille, and Holsinger; films by Bresson and Pasolini.
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