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department Romance Studies (X) |
Subjectivity as it emerges in the rich traditions of Romance vernacular poetry, first in the Iberian Peninsula and Southern France, later in Northern France and Italy. Works studied include love songs, political poems, death laments, female-voiced poems, meta-poetry. Authors include Alfonso X, Guilhem de Peitieu, Contessa de Dia, Berceo, Rutebeuf, Petrarca, Christine de Pizan, Manrique, Encina, Villon, Gil Vicente, Ausias March, Garcilaso de la Vega, Labbe.
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Major topics in literary/cultural theory addressed by specialists in the Department. Emphasis on both theoretical canons and current disciplinary controversies. Topics include: formalism; semiotics; structuralism; post-structuralism; Marxism; psychoanalysis; deconstruction; cultural, post-colonial, feminist, and queer studies.
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Readings alternate between theory and literature/other arts to explore mutual relationships between the social conditions for art-making and art's effects. How do creative practices play into ethics? Does philosophy depend on counter-factual [fictional] imaginings? The seminar will design and develop a General Education course on these themes for undergraduates.
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Contemporary Latin American and Italian writers share commonalities: they acknowledge their cultures as marginal, and as unable to compete on the global scene and in their own countries with the imaginaries mass-marketed by the English-speaking world. This narrative of loss and exclusion has inspired great novels and films, in which the desire for recognition is expressed through translation and re-writing, the invention of the past, the critique of traditional identities, the hope of social change.
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Implied or represented, cajoled or abused, cooperating or antagonizing the writer (when not replacing the writer altogether), the reader looms large in the writing of novelists, publishers and statesmen alike. We examine the representation of reading and readers in fiction and poetry, from the fin-de-siecle to the end of the millenium, and bring together the insights of historians of the book, literary critics and semiologists. Authors include Baudelaire, Flaubert, Tarchetti, Zola, Sue, Poe, De Marchi, Marinetti, Tozzi, and Calvino.
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Highlights of the similarities and differences among the Romance languages, beginning with an overview of the historical development of the Romance languages from Latin, and moving on to the comparison of linguistic identifiers of French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish; may also include a discussion of Catalan. Topics will cover comparative phonology, morphology, and syntax, as well as some cross-cultural experiences such as immigration and translation.
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Tutorial supervision of research on subjects not treated in regular courses.
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Tutorial supervision of research on subjects not treated in regular courses.
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The purpose of this course is to show that antifascism has not just been a form of tactical resistance to historical fascisms but rather a vital intellectual and social movement in its own right, committed to fight against bigotry, racism, authoritarianism, and inequality. Readings will include Italian writers and thinkers of the first and second half of the 20th century, such as Gramsci, Silone, Emilio Lussu, Piero Gobetti, Carlo Rosselli, Moravia, Vittorini, Pasolini.
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