Seminar, four hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Study of specific poets and poetics related to them during first half of 20th century. Texts may include poets such as W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Paul Valéry, R.M. Rilke, Gunnar Ekelöf, and Wallace Stevens. May be concurrently scheduled with course C253. Undergraduate students may read all works in translation. P/NP or letter grading.
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Seminar, four hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Interdisciplinary study of avant-garde literature and art, including futurism, Dadaism, Expressionism, Surrealism, new avant-gardes. Works by Marinetti, Boccioni, Picasso, Stein, Malevich, Popova, Mayakovsky, Brecht, Fritz Lang, Duchamp, Breton, Bunuel, Lispector, Warhol, Orlan. Emphasis on cross-fertilization among different kinds of aesthetic expression. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. In "Reading North by South," Neil Larsen claims that North American interest in Latin American Boom literature was of sinister intent, being largely product of U.S. Cold War politics, investing in fiction that could produce images of areas ripe for development. From poetry perspective, dynamic was quite different. In 1930s, North American poets became involved in labor of love, reading, circulating, and translating recent or contemporaneous poetry by their counterparts to south, producing lingua franca with unexplored consequences for poetry north and south of border. Study of poetry translations by writers from both hemispheres and examination of consequences of these preliminary translations for later development of poetry on both sides of continental divide. Concurrently scheduled with course C255. P/NP or letter grading.
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Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Time and again in modern literature, corpses become conduits or catalysts for revelation. What are ghosts that fiction frequently cannot put to rest, and what is their connection to national history or nation language or narrative? Readings from James Joyce, John Banville, Henry James, Toni Morrison, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Juan Carlos Onetti, Juan Rulfo, and Carlos Fuentes, with films by Alejandro Amenabar, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Kenji Mizoguchi. May be concurrently scheduled with course C256. Undergraduate students read all works in translation. P/NP or letter grading.
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Seminar, four hours. Reading of theoretical accounts of nature of traumatic memory and consideration of relationship between memory and history, meanings of both writing and reading about traumatic events, and discussion of ethical (personal and communal) commitment to memory. Reading of memoirs of survivors and questioning of importance of authenticity in regard to representations of past. Is memory necessarily based on actual past? What is role of testimony in maintenance of collective memory? How is value of testimony judged? What are criteria on which authenticity is claimed? Concurrently scheduled with course C257. P/NP or letter grading.
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Seminar, three hours. Discussion of how Western textual system restricts cultures of colonized peoples to encounter with Europeans. As means of understanding limits to European frame of reference, reading of English literary works alongside their postcolonial counterparts. Investigation of how reversal of perspective affects telling of tale. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours. Engagement of theoretical and literary texts about experience of living in exile and questioning of political and poetic possibilities and limitations that this condition brings about. Exploration of relationships between exile, poetic expression, freedom, memory, writing, and collective identification. Clarification of difference between "exile by choice" and "forced exile," proceeding to distinguish between exile understood in terms of (modernist) literary trope -- and sociohistorical condition of living in exile, asking what does it mean to think about exile in comparative terms? P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Knowledge of art history valuable but not required. Assuming that literature and visual arts are in some degree expressions of cultural and philosophical patterns of eras, study of relationships between writers and movements in painting, architecture, and sculpture. Interdisciplinary investigation of similarities and differences between plastic and verbal arts in comparative study. May be repeated for credit with instructor and/or topic change. May be concurrently scheduled with course C260. Undergraduate students read all works in translation. P/NP or letter grading.
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Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Analysis of use of historical events, situations, and characters in literary works of Renaissance and/or modern period. Texts and individual assignments range from Renaissance historical narratives (Italian humanists, Machiavelli) to 19th- and 20th-century novels by authors such as Stendhal, Verga, Tomasi di Lampedusa, Carpentier, and Kundera. Use of fictional methods by historians. Emphasis on how aesthetic, ideological, and political factors influence authors' choice and use of historical material. May be concurrently scheduled with course C261. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Same as Jewish Studies M162.) Lecture, three hours. Attempt to impart profound understanding of Israel as seen through its literature. Examination of variety of literary texts -- stories, novels, and poems -- and reading of them in context of their historical backgrounds. P/NP or letter grading.
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Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Study of modern European and American works that are concerned both in subject matter and artistic methods with growing self-consciousness of human beings and their society, with focus on works of Kafka, Rilke, Woolf, Sartre, and Stevens. May be concurrently scheduled with course C263. Undergraduate students may read all works in translation. P/NP or letter grading.
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Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Study of modern European novel's development from 19th to 21st century. Use of authors such as Hardy, Strindberg, Lagerkvist, Gide, Proust, Mann, Joyce, Kafka, Woolf, Nabokov, Grass, Christa Wolf, and Enquist to focus on development of themes such as shifting authority, gender conflicts, change versus stability, formal experimentation, and self-consciousness in narrative. May be concurrently scheduled with course C264. Undergraduate students may read all works in translation but are encouraged to read in original language whenever possible. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Same as Jewish Studies M187.) Lecture, three hours. Requisite: History M182D or 183A or 183B. Investigation of how Holocaust informs variety of literary and cinema works and raises wide range of aesthetic and moral questions. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Same as Jewish Studies M151A.) Lecture, three hours. Study of literary responses of Jews to modernity, its challenges, and threats. Readings in texts originally written in English or translated from Hebrew, Yiddish, German, Russian, French, and Italian. Analysis of formal aspects of each work. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Same as Arabic M151.) Lecture, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Topics may include constructions of otherness in modern Arab culture; East-West debate; memory, trauma, and mourning; violence, narrative, and ethics; globalization, oil, and cultural insurgency; Arab culture in transnational context or questions of reception, exoticism, translation, and marketing. Genres may include prison narratives; novel of terror; memoirs by women and/or by refugees and exiles; 19th- and 20th-century travel narratives; Arabic romantic poetry; literature of pre-1948; rise of Arab novel. Areas may range from generic look at Arab world to narrow focus on Maghreb or one country such as Algeria, Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, or Egypt. May also be organized around Arab literatures written in one specific language, namely English, Arabic, or French. Letter grading.
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(Same as Asian American Studies M132B.) Seminar, three hours. Comprehensive introduction to Korean American literature, with emphasis on Korean American experience, problems of gender, race, and class, nationalism, generational relationships, and impact of traditional Korean culture on Korean American literature. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Requisite: one course from 1A, 1B, 1C, 2AW, 2BW, 2CW, or English Composition 3 or 3H. Introduction to new set of African authors and attempt to discern similarities or differences they may have with major authors such as Achebe, Ngugi, Armath, Soyinka, etc. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Formerly numbered CM170.) (Same as Women's Studies M170.) Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Investigation of narrative texts by contemporary French, German, English, American, Spanish American, African, and Asian women writers from cross-cultural perspective. Common themes, problems, and techniques. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Same as Asian American Studies M130B and Chinese M153.) Lecture, three hours. Knowledge of Chinese not required. In-depth look at Chinese immigrant experience by reading literature and watching films. Theories of diaspora, gender, and race to inform thinking and discussion of relevant issues. P/NP or letter grading.
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Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Study of postmodern novel as it developed out of modernism. Postmodernism defined in three different ways -- philosophically, scientifically, and economically. Emphasis on relationship of recent novels to theories of structuralism and poststructuralism. Readings include authors such as Borges, Beckett, Nabokov, Pynchon, Fuentes, Grass, Böll, and Calvino. Concurrently scheduled with course C272. Undergraduate students read all works in translation. P/NP or letter grading.
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Seminar, three hours. Exploration of intersection between concepts of postmodernism and Third World culture and politics, including topics such as post-Marxism and revolution; historical thought; gender, ethnicity, imperialism, and their relationship to cultural politics; and recent Latin American literary production. Concurrently scheduled with course C273. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Same as Asian American Studies M165.) Seminar, three hours. Theoretical and literary readings combined to explore three main aspects of social and cultural experience (race, gender, class) as separate but interconnected spheres affecting both minority and majority populations in U.S. Examination of these issues from comparative perspectives. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Same as Japanese M156.) Lecture, three hours. Knowledge of Japanese not required. Examination of representation of technology in 20th-century fiction. Discussion of impact of technology on shifting images of gender, subjectivity, and national identity. P/NP or letter grading.
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Seminar, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Introduction to literature and culture of Caribbean basin from New Orleans to Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Antigua, or Trinidad. Topics include history of French and English colonial influences and rivalries, Haitian revolution and its literary legacies, emergence of nationalist discourses, search for cultural identity, rhetoric of negritude, global poetics of relation, créolité movement. and literary achievements of African diaspora. P/NP or letter grading.
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Seminar, three hours. Survey of significant issues in history of 20th-century Indian literature and culture. Great works of modern Indian culture by such figures as Rabindranath Tagore, Satyajit Ray, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, and U.R. Anantha Murthy, including novels, short stories, poetry, films, music, and works in cultural criticism and historical scholarship. Central and defining issue for 20th-century Indian culture is experience of British colonial rule and massive cultural and material changes that accompanied it. Exploration of manner in which literature and culture have developed in interaction with powerful social forces, such as struggle for national independence from Britain under leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and expansion of Indian diaspora. Concurrently scheduled with course C278. P/NP or letter grading.
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