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240. Introduction to
Comparative Literature. (3). (HU).
Why Read? Why Live? Do the two questions have the same answers?
What does reading have to do with living? In this course, we will
take these questions as a framework through which to approach
comparative literature as something people study and as a way they study it. But wait, there's more! The books you read, the thoughts you think, and the words you hear, speak, and write will
slip under your skin with excruciating sweetness. They might make
you feel itchy and uncomfortable. It may be difficult to walk
and talk normally. You may begin to hear voices and to tell stories.
I promise... But only if you do the reading (which will include
work by authors such as McCullers, Kafka, Puig, Achebe, Shelley, Cortazar, Freud, Nietzsche, Marx, and Deleuze), writing (weekly
short papers, one or two longer essays,) talking, and thinking
(constantly). WL:2
(Colás)
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350. The Text and Its
Cultural Context. (3). (Excl). May be repeated for
a total of six credits.
Section 001 – Topics in Caribbean Literature: Colonial Encounters.
For Fall Term, 1998, this section is offered jointly with English 384.001. (Gikandi)
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424. Literature and Other
Disciplines. Upperclass standing and one course in
literary studies. (3). (HU). May be repeated for a total of nine
credits.
Section 001 – Text, Performance, and Politics in Island Southeast
Asia. For Fall Term, 1998, this section is offered jointly
with S&SEA 461.001. (Florida)
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430. Comparative Studies
in Fiction. Upperclass standing. (3). (HU). May be
repeated for a total of nine credits.
Section 001 – The Book of the Thousand and One Nights. This
course will offer a reading of the "book", its histories, traditions, translations, adaptations, transmutations and violations, throughout the millennium, from the tenth century Middle East
to the twentieth century Hollywood. It will follow the emergence
of the frame story, and the formation of some of the basic tales, through an astonishing interaction between the Arabic original
and the French translation from the beginning of the eighteenth
century. Discussions will revolve around a selection of English
translations of different tales; the ways in which different translators
from different cultures and persuasions dealt with violence, desire, and gender in the Nights; the appropriations of the book
in the East and West: in film, theater, music, literature, etc.
A special attention will be paid to Borges, Barth, and Rushdie, bearing in mind issues of narrative strategies, intertextual mappings, migratory motifs, and Orientalism. Students will be evaluated through class performance, an oral presentation, and a term paper.
WL:2 Cost:2
(Shammas)
Section 002 – The Arab-Israeli Conflict in Middle Eastern
Literature. For Fall Term, 1998, this section is offered
jointly with APTIS 383.001.
(Bardenstein)
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490. Comparative Cultural
Studies. Junior standing. (3). (Excl). May be repeated
for a total of six credits.
Section 001 – The Literature of Witness: From the 1914-18 War
to AIDS. The twentieth century has been an era of wars, genocides, economic and political upheaval, and unspeakable events. We will
look at the crop of witnessing writing this history of pain has
produced, concentrating mainly on the 1914-18 war, the Holocaust, and the AIDS epidemic. On the hypothesis that witnessing is about the obscene – for which existing genres, media, and discursive
strategies do not have a place – we will look at the way the attempt
to give an account of obscene realities stretches the resources
of genres like autobiography, poetry, and narrative fiction and of wholly or partly nonverbal media like cartooning, film, video, and dance. This course will make serious demands on your time.
There will be quite a lot of reading, and it will require a thoughtful
and sensitive response. Please do not sign up unless you are willing
to commit yourself to two hours of reading per day. Writing
assignments will be of varying length (3-10 pages): you will be
asked to write one analytical paper, in another you will have
a chance to write personally if you wish. Midterm by meeting with
instructor; no final. Cost:2
WL:2 (Chambers)
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495. Senior Seminar in
Comparative Literature. Senior standing and concentration
in Comp. Lit. (3). (Excl).
Section 001 – Introduction to Theory and Criticism. Europe: Between
Myth and Reality. As the capstone course for undergraduate
study in Comparative Literature, this seminar is designed to provide
senior concentrators with an opportunity to work collaboratively
and intensively for a term in a series of discussions and workshops.
Sessions will be arranged around a set of texts and topics drawn
from recent debates that have informed the theory and practice
of Comparative Literature. The course will culminate in a final
paper, which in the case of some of the class will form the basis
for an Honors Thesis, to be written in the second term continuation
(Comparative Literature 496). Cost:2
WL:2 (Clej)
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496. Honors Thesis. Comp.
Lit. 495 and Honors concentration in comparative literature. (3).
(Excl). (INDEPENDENT).
In the Honors Thesis course the Honors student typically develops the seminar work done in Comp. Lit. 495 (Senior Seminar) into
a longer, more thorough study under the auspices of a faculty thesis director. Students who need help in arranging for a thesis
director should contact the Comparative Literature office, 2015
Tisch, 763-2351.
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498. Directed Reading.
Permission of instructor. (1-4). (Excl). (INDEPENDENT).
This course is intended for Comparative Literature concentrators.
It offers a student the opportunity to work closely with a faculty
member associated with Comparative Literature on a comparative
topic chosen by the student in consultation with the professor.
Together they will develop a reading list; establish goals, meeting
times, and credit hours (within the range); and plan papers and projects which the student will execute with the tutorial assistance
of the instructor. The student will be required to submit a written
proposal of his or her course to the Program office. For further
information, contact the Program in Comparative Literature, 2015
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