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How the notion of decadence, initially a term of derision, shapes and underlies the positive terms of symbolism and modernism. Readings include theories of decadence and examples of symbolist and modernist texts that attempt to exorcise decadent demons, such as lust, mysticism, and the retreat into artificiality. Authors include Huysmans, Poe, Mallarmé, Nietzsche, Nordau, d¿Annunzio, Valry, Ungaretti, Marinetti, and Breton.
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Preference to freshmen. Literary responses to Italy by writers in English during the past hundred years and how they continue to constuct myths of Italy. How these myths have been transformed into commodities in consumer culture, making Italy a profitable fiction. Authors include Hawthorne, Howells, James, Wharton, Forster, Unsworth, Hellenga, and Mayes.
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A new generation of Italian filmmakers who examine the contradictory encounters between Italians and the migrant others in contemporary Italy. Critical texts from film studies, gender studies, ethnic and cultural studies, psychoanalysis, and history. I English; films, in Italian with English subtitles, by Amelio, Ozpetek, Munzi, Garrone, Melliti, Tornatore, and Giordana.
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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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From its foundation in 1909 through WW II, futurism developed into the first truly international cultural-political avant garde. Its aim was the revolutionary transformation of all spheres of life. The movement's manifestations in Italy, Russia, France, Spain, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. Topics: machines and culture; visual poetics and war; futurism's complex ties to bolshevism and fascism. Media: poetry, performance, music, painting, photography, radio, and film. Writers include: Marinetti, Mayakovsky. Visual artists include: Boccioni, Bragaglia, Russolo, Malevich, Lissitzky.
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This course explores the predominantly female mystical experience or direct embodied encounter with a spiritual reality that is difficult, perhaps impossible, to reduce to words, or to explain rationally. Through a variety of European texts from the Middle Ages to the present, by women and men, we will explore attempts to convey the experience metaphorically, to interpret it theologically and philosophically, and finally, to transmit it actively to others.
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The works of Petrarch (1304-1374), acknowledged as the founder of Renaissance humanism, and a bibliophile, collector of manuscripts, and devotee of erudition. How he dedicated his life to harmonizing the Christian faith with classical learning. Sources include his Latin moral works, epistles, epics, and treatises on illustrious men, and the Triumphs and Canzoniere .
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This course considers major French and Italian authors essential in the creation of contemporary Literary Theory. Many belong to the intellectual movement known as Structuralism, even if they may disagree with some of its fundamental concepts. Introduction of post-structuralist works which permit a different approach to Literature. Among the authors considered, special attention is given to Jacques Lacan, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Guy Debord and Umberto Eco.
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How the notion of decadence, initially a term of derision, shapes and underlies the positive terms of symbolism and modernism. Readings include theories of decadence and examples of symbolist and modernist texts that attempt to exorcise decadent demons, such as lust, mysticism, and the retreat into artificiality. Authors include Huysmans, Poe, Mallarmé, Nietzsche, Nordau, d¿Annunzio, Valry, Ungaretti, Marinetti, and Breton.
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