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Comparative Literature and Culture
| Comparative Literature and Culture 020, Western Culture across the Ages | |
| | Description: A multi-media overview of the major writers, artists, thinkers, and composers that have shaped Western culture from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Figures studied include Homer, Dante, Michelangelo, Cervantes, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Picasso, Kafka, Borges. | | 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 021E, African and Asian Cultures Across the Ages | |
| | Description: Through the study of literary texts, visual arts, philosophy, music and film, this introductory survey course will cover major developments in the literatures and civilizations of Africa, the Near East, India, China and Japan. | | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 023, Sex and Culture | |
| | Description: Drawing on literature, philosophy, art, and cinema, this introductory course will explore fundamental questions about human sexuality (e.g. What is the origin of sex?). Major works of the erotic imagination will be studied in relation to the cultures represented in them. | | 3 lecture hours, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| CLC 100, The Capitals of Italian Culture | |
| | Description: An overview of Italian culture from antiquity to the present day; designed as a tour through Rome, Florence, Urbino, Siena, Trieste, Venice, etc. Each cultural capital will be explored with reference to architecture and city planning, finance and technology, cuisine, literature, music, opera, film, and visual arts. Taught in English. | | Antirequisite(s): Italian 100 | | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| CLC 101, The Hispanic Experience | |
| | Description: An interdisciplinary survey of Spanish and Latin-American societies, oriented toward trans-Atlantic contacts and conflicts. Topics covered include history, religion, politics, philosophy, literature, visual arts, and popular culture. Taught in English. | | Antirequisite(s): Spanish 101 | | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 110F/G, Utopias and Visions of the Future | |
| | Description: The course will deal with visions of "the good place" from Genesis to Orwell's 1984. | | 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 115F/G, The Irrational in 20th-Century Literature and Art | |
| | Description: An interdisciplinary study of surrealism in European literature and art, and of magic realism in Latin American fiction. Special emphasis will be placed on their relationship with contemporary psychological and anthropological thought. Readings will include Freud, Jung, Breton and García Márquez. Examples of surrealism in art will be shown. | | 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 120F/G, The Grotesque | |
| | Description: The reading will concentrate on absurd and irrational views of human existence. The role of black humour and supernatural elements in Poe, Gogol, Kafka and others will be studied. Examples of the grotesque in art will also be shown. | | 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 130F/G, International Children's Literature | |
| | Description: This course surveys the children's novel of the 19th and 20th centuries. Works of pure fantasy as well as realistic novels are read. Novels for younger readers and teenagers from Poland, Sweden, Finland, Germany, France, Italy, and Russia are covered. All works are read in English translation. | | Antirequisite(s): CLC 191G if taken in 2002/03. | | 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 140F/G, Seven Great Myths of Western Desire | |
| | Description: A study of the philosophical, theological, and poetic extensions of seven great myths of desire: Semele, Narcissus, Flora, Mars and Venus, Orpheus, Cupid and Psyche, Ganymede. Each myth will be studied in four versions (classical, medieval, Renaissance, and modern), along with theories of myth and theories of desire. | | 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 150F/G, The Languages of Europe | |
| | Description: A linguistic survey of Western and Eastern Europe with emphasis on the principal structural features of the contemporary languages and the main lines of their historical and cultural development. Among the issues discussed: language vs dialect, language classification and typology, the development of writing systems. No previous training in linguistics required. | | Antirequisite(s): Linguistics 250F/G | | 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 188F/G, The Comic in European Literature | |
| | Description: A survey of the comic, satiric, grotesque, and carnivalesque in European literature. Emphasis will be placed on the sociopolitical context of literature and the use of the comic as a subversive device. | | 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 191F/G-194F/G, Special Topic in Comparative Literature and Culture | |
| | Description: Please consult department for current offering. | | 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 204F/G, Research Methods | |
| | Description: Mandatory for students in CLC Honors Specialization, Major and Specialization modules. This course will consider how to do research and write academic papers in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. | | Antirequisite(s): German 204F/G and Spanish 204F/G | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 205F/G, Introduction to Literary Theory | |
| | Description: Mandatory for students in CLC Honors Specialization, Major, and Specialization modules. Students will study different methods of literary interpretation with emphasis on 20th century critical theory and engage in literary analysis. | | Antirequisite(s): The former French 132a/b and Spanish 205F/G, German 205F/G and French 312F/G. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 210E, Mediterranean Studies | |
| | Description: An introduction to the interactions among the diverse cultural, religious, ethnic, linguistic, and political communities of the Mediterranean world. Topics covered will be drawn from textual and material culture (literature, thought, art, architecture, science, clothing, cuisine, etc.). | | Prerequisite(s): CLC 020, 021E, the former CLC 021, or permission of the Department. | | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 211F/G-212F/G, Mediterranean Cultures: Special Topics | |
| | Description: A study of cultural, religious, ethnic, linguistic, and political communities in the Mediterranean Basin, and of the interactions brought about by contact, conflict, and geographic mobility. | | Prerequisite(s): CLC 020, 021E, the former CLC 021, or permission of the Department. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 218F/G, Spanish Civilization | |
| | Description: An introduction to the historical evolution of Spain accompanied by selected political and philosophical texts, artistic products, and other materials. | | Antirequisite(s): Spanish 218F/G | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020, or permission of the department. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 219F/G, Spanish American Civilization | |
| | Description: An introduction to the cultural evolution of Spanish America accompanied by selected literary, political, and philosophical texts, artistic products, and other materials. | | Antirequisite(s): Spanish 219F/G | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020, or permission of the department. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 236F/G, Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages | |
| | Description: Medieval European literature from its heroic beginnings to its first great coming of age in the works of chivalry and romantic love is examined in its cultural context. All works are read in modern English translation. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 240F/G, Culture of the Renaissance in Europe | |
| | Description: A survey of major works of literature and art by men and women in the social and political context of the 15th and 16th centuries. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 250F/G, Reality and Illusion: Baroque Culture in 17th Century Europe | |
| | Description: The dynamics of a period of crisis are revealed in its literature, art and philosophy. Among the figures studied are Bernini, Calderon, Velazquez, Descartes and Galileo. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 260F/G, Culture of the Enlightenment | |
| | Description: A survey of artistic and literary manifestations of 18th century European culture. Works by Goldoni, Voltaire and Lessing are among the texts studied. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 270F/G, The Romantic Period | |
| | Description: A study of the literature, art, and music of the period 1770-1850 in Europe. Major themes include individualism, Romantic heroism, revolution, and the revival of interest in medievalism, folklore, childhood and nature. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 271F/G, Nineteenth-century Culture | |
| | Description: The development of Western literature, philosophy, and aesthetics during the second half of the nineteenth century, in the context of music, painting, and social movements. Authors studied may include: Leopardi, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Marx, Nietzsche, Ibsen, Dostoevsky, Strindberg, Freud. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 272F/G, Modernism | |
| | Description: A study of the literary, artistic, cinematic, and intellectual dimensions of Western modernism, and of their importance as a response to radical changes in human experience occurring between ca.1890 and 1930. The poetry, cinema, prose, and painting of such figures as Pirandello, Joyce, Marinetti, Lang, Kafka, Pessoa, Rilke, Proust, Klee, and Woolf will be studied. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 273F/G, Postmodernism | |
| | Description: An approach to the most significant developments in late modern and postmodern Western culture. Authors studied may include Cortázar, Butor, Foucault, Pynchon, Borges, García Márquez, Bacon, Vonnegut. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 275F/G, Dostoevsky | |
| | Description: The course involves reading most of Dostoevsky's major fiction, and traces his intellectual and artistic development from his literary debut in 1846, through his Siberian imprisonment, to the publication of Brothers Karamazov in 1880. | | Antirequisite(s): Russian 158F/G and Russian 258F/G | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 280F/G, The Great Age of the Novel | |
| | Description: Masterpieces of European fiction during the period 1830-1900 and their context within the art and history of the times. Each year a specific topic will be examined in the light of selected readings. Past topics include: Love and Politics, the Adulterous Wife, the Pastoral, the Family, and the Historical Novel. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 285F/G, The Sagas of the Vikings | |
| | Description: This early European literary tradition will be approached primarily through the Family Sagas (c. 1225-1325). Among the issues investigated are the heroic ethic, the role of women, the outlawed hero, pagan vs Christian elements. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department. | | 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 290E, Alienation, Protest and Rebellion in Modern European Culture | |
| | Description: A study of selected works by some major European writers and artists, expressing criticism of modern life and society, and often pointing to alternative values. Readings will include works by Dostoevsky, Camus, Sartre, and others. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department. | | 3 lecture hours, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 291F/G-294F/G, Special Topic in Comparative Literature and Culture | |
| | Description: Please consult Department for current offering. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 295F/G, The Modern Short Story | |
| | Description: The course will concentrate on selected masterpieces of 19th- and 20th-century short fiction. The genre will be illustrated in such authors as Kleist, Chekhov, Conrad, Mansfield, Hemingway, Cortázar, and will be examined as a relatively stable genre within the framework of changing literary trends, including Romanticism, Realism, Modernism. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department. | | 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 296F/G, Special Topic in Comparative Literature and Culture | |
| | Description: Please consult department for current offering. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 333F/G, Dante's Inferno | |
| | Description: A study of Dante's Inferno, along with background topics such as medieval theology, cosmology, poetics, and politics. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 334F/G, Dante's Purgatorio | |
| | Description: A study of Dante's Purgatorio, along with background topics such as medieval theology, cosmology, poetics, and politics. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 335F/G, Dante's Paradiso | |
| | Description: A study of Dante's Paradiso, along with background topics such as medieval theology, cosmology, poetics, and politics. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 370F/G, Documents of German Intellectual History | |
| | Description: Texts selected from the intellectual canon of the period from the Reformation to the twentieth century, by such authors as Luther, Kant, Goethe, Schiller, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, and Arendt. The course examines the historical meanings and contexts of these texts. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 380F/G, Medieval Literature and Modern Cinema | |
| | Description: The course studies medieval writings in tandem with films based on them, while also examining other cinematic attempts to recreate a 'real' Middle Ages. Included are the Story of the Grail, Death of King Arthur, Tristan, The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales; and films by Dreyer, Cocteau, Pasolini, Rohmer, and Bresson. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department. | | 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 391F/G-394F/G, Special Topic in Comparative Literature and Culture | |
| | Description: Please consult Department for current offering. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 410E, Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Comparative Literature and Culture. | |
| | Description: The thesis will be written in the fourth year and will be directed by a member of the Modern Languages and Literatures faculty. | | Prerequisite(s): 80% average in preceding year and permission of the Department | | 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 411F/G, Mediterranean Cultures: Advanced Topics | |
| | Description: Advanced study of cultural, religious, ethnic, linguistic, and political communities in the Mediterranean Basin, and of the interactions brought about by contact, conflict, and geographic mobility. | | Prerequisite(s): CLC 210E or permission of the Department. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 470F/G, Author, Authorship, Autobiography in the Middle Ages | |
| | Description: Beginning with a study of St. Augustine's Confessions, this course explores the first-person textualization of the authorial self in writings up to 1300. Specific attention will be given to both medieval and modern theories of the author and autobiography. | | Prerequisite(s): Restricted to fourth year students in the CLC Honors Specialization or Major module. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 471F/G, Autobiography and Pseudo-autobiography of the Late Middle Ages | |
| | Description: This course explores the autobiographical "literature of the self" by men and women writing in the late Middle Ages. Texts will be read in light of both medieval and modern theories of autobiography, authorship, pseudo-autobiography and 'autofiction'. | | Prerequisite(s): Restricted to fourth year students in the CLC Honors Specialization or Major module. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 491F/G-492F/G, Advanced Topic in Comparative Literature and Culture | |
| | Description: Seminar course; please consult Department for current offering. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 and one other Comparative Literature and Culture course. | | 3 seminar hours, 0.5 course. | | Limited Enrolment. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 493F/G, Directed Studies in Comparative Literature and Culture | |
| | Description: The subject will be selected by students in consultation with an instructor. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 and at least one honors level CLC course. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Comparative Literature and Culture 494F/G-495F/G, Advanced Topics in Comparative Literature and Culture | |
| | Description: Seminar course: please consult Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): Comparative Literature and Culture 020 and one other Comparative Literature and Culture course. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | Limited enrolment. | | back to top |
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