Examines exchanges between literature and architecture in terms of content (subject matter, social critique, historical awareness), and form (narrative structures, vocabulary, tropes) from Vasari through Goethe to Borges, and from Alberti through Labrouste to Archigram.
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Architecture of the eastern Mediterranean basin (at Italian, Ottoman, and Mamluk courts) with emphasis on cross-cultural encounters and transmission of the Romano-Byzantine heritage, science and technology, architectural practice, ornament, urban design, military, religious and domestic architecture.
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The course will focus on improving communication skills - written and oral - enhance the ability to shape students' convictions, state and defend opinions, form arguments, hypothesize, negotiate and persuade others. Outstanding examples taken from classical texts from literature and essays (17th through the 20th centuries) that attempt to persuade, exhort, and argue opposing points of view on major social, political, economic, ethical and religious issues will serve as models.
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This graduate seminar will focus on Aristarchus' scholarship on the Iliad as it is preserved in the Homeric Scholia. Aristarchus' activity will be also put in the larger context of Hellenistic and Roman scholarship and grammar.
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Reading in translation of The Wild Men of Sasun, with analysis of native historical and mythological sources, and thematic comparison to epic poetry of the neighboring Iranians (Ossetic Narts, Persian Shah-nameh, Kurdish epic songs), Turks (Dede Korkut), and Greeks (Digenes Akrites).
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Armenian magical texts include codices, scrolls, and separately-printed saints' lives used for good or ill, containing magic squares and symbols, the latter mostly deriving from Islamic magic. The course will consider literary sources of magic texts (e.g., the prayer Havatov khostovanim, the meditations of Narek), parallel traditions (esp. Christian Ethiopia), and the consideration of the paintings in Armenian magical manuscripts from the standpoint of the genre of Outsider Art.
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Across the period 700-1700 the shapes of British culture were absorbed from different centers of Western Europe. These cultural forms are conflicted among themselves, and conflicted across time. This course will delineate theprincipal cultural forces (e.g. religious, political, social) that shaped England in particular. We will look to the ways in which those vibrant yet opposed forces find expression in the shape, or form, of literary works.
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A study of central genres of Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern literature in tandem with the development of ideas of nation and community, with a special emphasis on poetic narratives. Key texts include Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, The Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost, and The Pilgrim's Progress.
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An introduction to major works in English literature from Beowulf through the seventeenth century, the course will explore various ways that new identities are created through the cultural forces that shape poets, genres, and group identity. We will hone close reading skills and and introduce rhetorical tropes. Our study of the language will culminate in a new text of a Middle English play, which the class will produce and perform.
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Between 1430 and 1600, Italian art theorists provided the framework of the Western discourse on art. Each week, we will discuss one major trreatise; readings will be based on the Italian texts.
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What is it about the present that is making so many artists interested in the past? How do personal and public memory take form in art, now? This art history/criticism seminar will discuss practices that range from re-staging recent riots to reciting historical speeches, modifying museums to inventing historical figures, as we explore art's current contribution to our understanding of the past.
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Pompeii is more than the victim city of 79 A.D. The Seminar course focuses on the different cultural stages of Hellenistic and Roman Pompeii (600 BC-79 AD). We will study the most important spaces of public and domestic life- the Forum, the main sanctuaries, the necropoleis, the town houses - in a diachronic perspective and interpret them as indicators of changing cultural, political and social affiliation.
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Culture of the early cold war (1945-1965) in the context of political events and intellectual developments. We will be particularly interested in the unintended consequences of Cold War policies and in trans-Atlantic cultural exchange. Subjects include the literature of totalitarianism, Abstract Expressionism, the Beats, the philosophy of higher education, the Warren Court, film noir, and the French New Wave.
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Examines the cultural implications of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). We will examine how art was violent towards people and how violence was turned into an art. We will also consider the link between violence, trauma, memory and writing. Materials include memoir, fiction, essay, "revolutionary Peking Opera," and film.
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Representations of theatrical motifs and events on Greek vases, mosaics, reliefs, and other arts have traditionally been studied as potential illustrations of actual performances (logistics of production, costume and stage design, the roles of playwright, actor, and audience). In fact most show far more complex relationships to the ancient stage. The course considers the nature of these relationships in part by imagining the images within their physical and social contexts.
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Critical examination of the arts of the book, portable arts, and architecture sponsored by the Timurids (1370-1507), a dynasty founded by Timur (Tamerlane). Emphasis will also be given to primary written sources in translation.
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In this seminar we shall study the warp and weft of human existence by crisscrossing between the anthropology of art and the art of anthropology. Both affinities and differences between art-making and anthropology will be considered, as well as alternative means of apprehending and expressing aesthetic and social experience cross-culturally.
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This seminar investigates objects in an art museum setting. Drawing on the ancient, modern and contemporary collections of the Harvard Art Museum, it examines ritual and devotional objects, utilitarian and fetishized objects, as well as objects with dominant subjects and more abstract works. The seminar explores the methods and taxonomies used by art historians and conservators to order, study, analyze and preserve objects. Meetings take place in the galleries and at neighboring institutions.
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In-depth study of artificial intelligence techniques for reasoning, planning, and learning. Topics vary from year to year.
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Explores Asian art pedagogy through original research of museum objects and a survey of the scholarship on Asian art. The seminar will design and develop a General Education course on these themes for undergraduates.
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Reviews the major traditions in urban sociology and the sociology of culture, focusing on the connections between cultural creativity and urban change.
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