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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)
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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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