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The Caribbean has inspired conflicting cultural and political claims, and a wealth of visual images. We will rethink the formation, representation and self-presentation of the Caribbean countries, steering our explorations through postcolonial and postmodern theory to questions of appropriation, language and identity. Readings from Columbus and Shakespeare to Danticat, Santos Febres and Kincaid; essays by Glissant, James BenÃtez Rojo and others. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Return to Previous New Search
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Examines Gothic phenomena in relation to three episodes of modernity; the rise of the modern bourgeoisie, the expansion of empires, and the emergence of an information society. Begins with fiction written in England, France and the United States, plus some Marx and Freud. Turns to Gothic moments in film and critical theory and considers how the Gothic operates between the 1930s and the present day. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Return to Previous New Search
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The course introduces widely-read writers and highlights major themes of Greek fiction from the late 19th to the late 20th century, with particular reference to Vizyinos, Papadiamandis, Karavitsas, Lyberaki, Tachtsis, and Galanaki. It examines questions such as: the rise of prose fiction in modern Greek; the developments of the 1880's and the challenge to realism, nationalism, and gender stereotypes; experiments with the factual testimony; cultural satire and gender discourse interplay in fiction of everyday life; the reconstruction of history in contemporary women's fiction. The texts will be available in English translation, but students with advanced Greek will be urged to read in the original language. Requirements: at least one previous course in literature plus some knowledge of Modern Greek. Lectures, discussion, class presentations, and three short essays. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Return to Previous New Search
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Focuses on three acknowledged classics of Chinese fiction- Three Kingdoms , The Journey to the West , and The Dream of the Red Chamber -works which demonstrate the range of the genre as they represent historical, fantastical, and sociopsychological subjects. Topics include the role of fiction in Chinese society, the masterworks as mirrors of Chinese culture from the 14th through 18th centuries, and the comparative theory of the novel. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Return to Previous New Search
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Narrative fiction from the Meiji Period (1868-1912) to the present in the context of modern Japanese cultural and intellectual history. In addition to more canonical writers such as Natsume Sōseki and Mori ōgai, examines the legacy of women writers such as Higuchi Ichiyō and Enchi Fumiko; proletariat writers such as Hayama Yoshiki, Kobayashi Takiji, and Hayashi Fumiko; and more contemporary mass-audience writers such as Yoshimoto Banana and Yamada Eimi. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Return to Previous New Search
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How is it that Faulkner became one of the most influential North American authors in the Third World? To answer this, we read Faulkner's "The Bear" against two of his citational novels, Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury . We then turn toward a number of Faulknerian novels from the Arab world and Latin America. We discuss theoretical texts that describe the legacies of various colonialisms. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Return to Previous New Search
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A reading of three major Modernist authors, with a focus on the following issues: role of the artist, representation of consciousness, weight of the past. Texts include substantial portions of Proust's Recherche , Joyce's Portrait and Ulysses , Faulkner's Sound and the Fury , Light in August and Absalom, Absalom! Prior background in these authors desirable, especially Ulysses . Senior seminar. Reserved for: Seniors. Preference given to concentrators in Comparative Literature, English, Modern Culture and Media. Instructor's permission required. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Restrictions: May not be enrolled as the following Classification(s): Semester Level 02 Semester Level 06 Semester Level 04 Semester Level 05 Semester Level 01 Semester Level 03 Return to Previous New Search
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Readings of novels in the Bildungsroman tradition and the theoretical questions of the genre: the historicity and constitution of the self; problems of the representation of a life; the category of the unity of a life as a factor of identity; notions of progress, development and completion. Considerations of the successes and failures of this model. Readings to be selected from Rousseau, Chateaubriand, Sterne, Goethe, Novalis, Flaubert, Musil, Kerouac. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Return to Previous New Search
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So many nights, so many versions of those nights. Can we read The 1001 Nights as a discrete text, separate from the stories that gave birth to it or from the myriad of narratives it has spawned in the modern period? Explores the philological issues raised by the different Arabic versions as well as rewritings by Allende, Djebar, and Pamuk. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Return to Previous New Search
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Because the captivity narrative implies both a feminized subject and a writing subject, it provides a link among political, social, and literary phenomena common to all modern Western cultures. Examines various novels consumed by members of such cultures (including gothic romances, Bildungs romanen , boys books, girls books, ethnographic journeys, and prison diaries) as versions of the captivity narrative. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Return to Previous New Search
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Explores the manifold ways in which narrative literature sheds light on the relationships that we have in life, both knowingly and unknowingly. The novel form, with its possibilities of multiple voices and perspectives, captures the interplay between self and other that marks all lives. Authors include Laclos, Melville, Brontë, Kafka, Woolf, Faulkner, Borges, Burroughs, Vesaas, Morrison, and Coetzee. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Return to Previous New Search
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For Jorge Luis Borges, in his story of the same title, the South is a spectral region, hovering between imagination and reality. The literatures of the U.S. South and South America enact his notion of the South. We examine the remarkable similarities between the two literatures-similarities that result from literary influence and from social, cultural, and historical circumstances. Prerequisites: previous upper-level literature course(s), relevant to your studies at Brown. Permission given after second class. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Return to Previous New Search
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A series of works revealing the enigmatic features of visionary or ecstatic writing. Writers will be chosen from among Blake, Novalis, Breton, Burroughs, Monique Wittig, Angela Carter, Peter Ackroyd, Jamaica Kincaid. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Return to Previous New Search
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Readings of major European novels of the 19th century as literary reflections on philosophical questions such as aesthetic and ethical judgment, subjectivity, mimesis, memory and the novel itself as a genre. Authors include Goethe, Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Flaubert and Proust. Selections from Kant, Hegel, Marx, Lukács and Benjamin. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Return to Previous New Search
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What is the relation between literary gigantism and mimesis? How do 'gigantic fictions' threaten to break their literary bounds? What holds these mammoth narratives together? We will address these questions and others through a close reading of three works: Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji , Tolstoy's War and Peace and James Joyce's Ulysses . 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Return to Previous New Search
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What does it mean to speak of the postcolonial? Does the word refer to a new historical periodization in the study of world literatures, a recent trend in critical theory, or a type of minority discourse? What is the relation of "postcolonial" to descriptions such as "poststructuralist" and "postmodern" on the one hand, and "global," "world," and "cosmopolitan" on the other? Most important, how is the postcolonial narrativized in different forms of writings? This course may be of interest to students in Comp Lit, English, Modern Culture and Media, and other literature and culture specializations. Written permission required. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives Return to Previous New Search
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Medieval narratives of high heroism, fantastic adventure, forbidden love, humor and comedy. Introduction to the literary conventions and cultural outlooks of these fictions. What was their appeal in their own times? How may modern readers decipher their cultural oddities and enigmas? Readings from Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and several anonymous authors. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Course Attributes: Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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Long before American beat poets began to take up residence there, Morocco had figured for many as a point from which one could exit western civilization. This course explores Morocco as a literary site for "dropping out", from the early modern period to the present. Readings will include works by Burroughs, Goytisolo and Choukri. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Return to Previous New Search
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Charts the literary as an analog space of the subaltern in the influential postcolonial project of subaltern studies, taking as its point of departure the premise that "the small voice of history" and that of literature and its theory complement each other to disturb the figurations of the dominant. Readings: major figures of the Subaltern Studies Collective. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives, Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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Considers the modern literature and culture of Mediterranean islands with particular emphasis on Sicily, Sardinia, the Aegean islands, Cyprus, and Malta. It explores the significance of the island both as a contained space and as part of the diverse Mediterranean region. Assignments will include novels, short stories, poems, travelogues, films as well as ethnographic and theoretical texts. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives, Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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Since the late nineteenth century, Arab writers have experimented broadly and at times radically with the form of the novel. This course explores many of the literary and cultural issues embedded in the Arabic novel (such as translation, genre, style, audience, history) by surveying landmark modern works from Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Return to Previous New Search
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Interested students MUST register for POBS 1500H S01 (CRN 24927). 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Return to Previous New Search
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Interested students MUST register for ENGL 1511G S01 (CRN 14974). 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Return to Previous New Search
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No description available. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Return to Previous New Search
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Various responses to ancient Greek myths by poets in the Western tradition, especially modern Greek poets. Considers how the classical version of myths, such as those of Helen, Oedipus, Orpheus, Persephon, Penelope, and Ulysses, are approached, rewritten, or subverted in poetry since 1800. Emphasizes the challenges posed by the past, issues of cultural and political context, and on questions of gender. Readings in English. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Comparative Literature Department Return to Previous New Search
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