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Comparative Literature and Culture
1020 -
From Homer to Picasso: Western Culture Across the Ages
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
1023 -
Sex and Culture
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2100 -
The Capitals of Italian Culture
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2101 -
The Hispanic Experience
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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.
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Spanish 2101.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2110F/G -
Utopias and Visions of the Future
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The course will deal with visions of "the good place" from Genesis to Orwell's 1984.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2115F/G -
The Irrational in 20th-Century Literature and Art
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2120F/G -
The Grotesque
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2130F/G -
International Children's Literature
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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 young readers and teenagers from a variety of non-English-speaking countries are covered. All works are read in English translation.
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The former CLC 191G if taken in 2002/03.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2150F/G -
The Languages of Europe
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2191F/G-2194F/G -
Special Topic in Comparative Literature and Culture
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2204F/G -
Research Methods
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2205F/G -
Introduction to Literary Theory
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2210E -
Mediterranean Studies
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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.).
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CLC 1020, the former CLC 1021E, the former CLC 1021, or permission of the Department.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2211F/G -
Mediterranean Cultures: Special Topics
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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.
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CLC 1020, the former CLC 1021E, the former CLC 1021, or permission of the Department.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2212F/G -
Mediterranean Cultures: Special Topics
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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.
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CLC 1020, the former CLC 1021E or permission of the Department.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2218F/G -
Spanish Civilization
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An introduction to the historical evolution of Spain accompanied by selected political and philosophical texts, artistic products, and other materials.
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Spanish 2218F/G.
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CLC 1020, or permission of the Department.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2219F/G -
Spanish American Civilization
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An introduction to the cultural evolution of Spanish America accompanied by selected literary, political, and philosophical texts, artistic products, and other materials.
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Spanish 2219F/G.
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CLC 1020, or permission of the Department.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2236F/G -
Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2240F/G -
Culture of the Renaissance in Europe
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2241F/G -
Myths of Desire
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A study of the philosophical, theological and poetic extensions of several great myths of desire, such as Semele, Narcissus, Flora, Mars and Venus, Orpheus, Cupid and Psyche and Ganymede. Each myth will be studied in several versions (e.g., classical, medieval, Renaissance and modern), along with theories of myth and theories of desire
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2250F/G -
Reality and Illusion: Baroque Culture in 17th Century Europe
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2260F/G -
Culture of the Enlightenment
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A survey of artistic and literary manifestations of 18th century European culture. Works by Goldoni, Voltaire and Lessing are among the texts studied.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2270F/G -
The Romantic Period
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2271F/G -
Nineteenth-century Culture
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2272F/G -
Modernism
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2273F/G -
Postmodernism
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2275F/G -
Dostoevsky
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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.
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Russian 2158F/G and Russian 2258F/G.
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CLC 1020, or permission of the Department.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2280F/G -
The Great Age of the Novel
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2285F/G -
The Sagas of the Vikings
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2288F/G -
The Comic in European Literature
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2290E -
Alienation, Protest and Rebellion in Modern European Culture
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2291F/G-2294F/G -
Special Topic in Comparative Literature and Culture
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2295F/G -
The Modern Short Story
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2296F/G -
Special Topic in Comparative Literature and Culture
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Comparative Literature and Culture
3301F/G -
Special Topics in Comparative Literature and Culture
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Comparative Literature and Culture
3302F/G -
Special Topics in Comparative Literature and Culture
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Comparative Literature and Culture
3333F/G -
Dante's Inferno
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A study of Dante's Inferno, along with background topics such as medieval theology, cosmology, poetics, and politics.
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3334F/G -
Dante's Purgatorio
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A study of Dante's Purgatorio, along with background topics such as medieval theology, cosmology, poetics, and politics.
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3335F/G -
Dante's Paradiso
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A study of Dante's Paradiso, along with background topics such as medieval theology, cosmology, poetics, and politics.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
3336F/G -
The Gay Literary Tradition
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This course traces the tradition of gay literature from antiquity to the present day, focusing on the value of “gay” as a literary label, the shifting mythologies of gay identity, and the censoring impact of homophobia. Genres to be studied include pastoral love-lyric, elegy, allegory, verse drama, and coming-out fiction.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
3370F/G -
Documents of German Intellectual History
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
3380F/G -
Medieval Literature and Modern Cinema
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
3391F/G-3394F/G -
Special Topic in Comparative Literature and Culture
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Comparative Literature and Culture
3395F/G-3397F/G -
Special Topics in Sexuality Across Cultures
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These courses will engage various expressions of human sexuality in different cultural contexts with respect to such artistic production as literary texts, works of visual art, music and other media.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
4410E -
Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Comparative Literature and Culture
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The thesis will be written in the fourth year and will be directed by a member of the Modern Languages and Literatures faculty.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
4411F/G -
Mediterranean Cultures: Advanced Topics
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
4470F/G -
Author, Authorship, Autobiography in the Middle Ages
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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.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
4471F/G -
Autobiography and Pseudo-autobiography of the Late Middle Ages
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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'.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
4491F/G-4492F/G -
Advanced Topic in Comparative Literature and Culture
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Seminar course; please consult Department for current offering.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
4493F/G -
Directed Studies in Comparative Literature and Culture
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The subject will be selected by students in consultation with an instructor.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
4494F/G-4495F/G -
Advanced Topics in Comparative Literature and Culture
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