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Chair: Graziella Parati
Professors J. V. Crewe (English, Comparative Literature), G. Gemünden
(German, Comparative Literature), M. Gleiser (Physics and Astronomy), L. H.
Glinert (AMELL), M. J. Green (French and Italian, Comparative Literature), L.
A. Higgins (French and Italian, Comparative Literature), K. J. Jewell (French
and Italian, Comparative Literature), J. M. Kopper (Russian, Comparative
Literature), L. D. Kritzman (French and Italian, Comparative Literature), A.
Lawrence (Film and Television Studies), P. A. McKee (English), G. Parati
(French and Italian, Comparative Literature), B. Pastor (Spanish and
Portuguese, Comparative Literature), B. P. Scherr (Russian), D. Washburn
(AMELL, Comparative Literature); Associate Professors, I. Kacandes (German,
Comparative Literature), H.N. Kadhim (AMELL), N. L. Canepa (French and
Italian), D. P. LaGuardia (French and Italian, Comparative Literature), A.
Martín (Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature), M. Otter (English,
Comparative Literature), U. Rainer (German, Comparative Literature), S. D.
Spitta (Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature), A. Tarnowski (French
and Italian, Comparative Literature), R. Verona (French and Italian,
Comparative Literature), M. R. Warren (Women's and Gender Studies, Comparative
Literature), M. Williamson (Classics, Comparative Literature); Assistant
Professors A. A. Coly (AAAS, Comparative Literature), B. P. Giri (English), A.
Merino (Spanish and Portuguese), K. Mladek (German Studies), J. J. Santa Ana
(English), A. Sokol (Spanish and Portuguese); Research Associate Professor L.J.
Davies (English, Comparative Literature); Visiting Professor P. Carrard, R. H.
Stamelman, A. Winograd (Theater); Instructor J. Smolin (AMELL); Lecturer K. F.
Milich (Jewish Studies).
Courses in Comparative Literature are designed to meet the needs of students
whose literary interests are broader than those that can be met by the
curriculum of any single department.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MAJOR IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
The major seeks to provide an opportunity for selective and varied study of
two or more literatures in their relation to each other, or for the study of a
foreign literature in its relationship to an extraliterary discipline, such as
film, music, or history (see the three options below). Each student's major
plan is designed individually around a particular focus of interest. Students
planning to major in Comparative Literature will normally enroll in an Honors
Program, which entails writing a thesis (60 to 80 pages) during their senior
year. Some students may choose to write two senior essays (about 25 pages each)
in lieu of the thesis. Students pursuing the two-paper option will substitute
another Comparative Literature course for CL 87. One senior essay will be
written in Comparative Literature 85. The second will be written in a course
taken senior year that is relevant to the student's course of study. The
two-paper option does not carry honors credit.
The major is administered by the Comparative Literature Steering Committee.
Students design their major plan in consultation with an advisor and the Chair.
All applications to the major must be approved by the Steering Committee. Major
cards can be signed only by the Chair. Students interested in becoming majors
should consult the Chair well in advance of their intended declaration of a
major.
Prerequisite for the major: Comparative Literature 10.
Required courses: Comparative Literature 72, 85, and, for honors
majors only, 87.
Comparative Literature 85 (Senior Seminar) is required to fulfill the
culminating experience requirement for students who do not meet the honor
requirements, and Comparative Literature 85 and Comparative Literature 87
(Thesis Tutorial) for students meeting honors requirements.
Major options
A. Two foreign literatures.
We require fluency in the primary language and competence in the secondary
language. Fluency and competence are determined by the chair in consultation
with the chair of the relevant foreign language department. Competence is
ordinarily defined as completion of the fourth quarter of language study, and
fluency as three courses beyond the fourth quarter of study. One course from an
LSA+ or FSP may be counted toward work in a language, as long as the course
content is primarily literary. This major consists of 10 courses: Comparative
Literature 72, 85, 87; at least 2 additional Comparative Literature courses;
3-4 courses in the primary literature; and 1-2 courses in the secondary
literature.
Students interested in graduate study in Comparative Literature are strongly
encouraged to choose Major option A.
B. Two literatures (one of which is a literature in English).
We require fluency in the non-anglophone language. Fluency is determined by
the chair in consultation with the chair of the relevant foreign language
department. One course from an LSA+ or FSP may be counted toward work in a
language, as long as the course content in primarily literary. This major
consists of 12 courses: Comparative Literature 72, 85, 87; at least 2
additional Comparative Literature courses; 3-4 courses in the non-anglophone
literature; and at least 3 courses in the anglophone literature.
C. A foreign literature and a nonliterary discipline (e.g. literature and
music; literature and film; literature and history, etc.).
We require fluency in the foreign language. Fluency is determined by the
chair in consultation with the chair of the relevant foreign language
department. One course from an LSA+ or FSP may be counted toward work in a
language, as long as the course content in primarily literary. This major
consists of 12 courses: Comparative Literature 72, 85, 87; at least 2
additional Comparative Literature courses; 3-4 courses in the foreign
literature; and at least 3 courses in the nonliterary discipline.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MASTER OF ARTS IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Each graduate student must receive credit for at least nine courses for
the one-year Master of Arts degree and complete a major text presentation and
prepare a paper of professional quality.
To receive the Masters degree in Comparative Literature a candidate must
satisfactorily:
1. Complete nine courses as described below:
CL 72/100, Contemporary Literary Criticism and Theory (required)
06F: 10A. Carrard.
CL73/101, Topics in Literary and Cultural Theory (required)
07W: 2A. Milich.
CL102, Tutorial (required)
Arrange with advisor.
CL103, Workshop in Critical Writing (required)
07S: Arrange. Kopper.
CL105, Graduate Seminar (required)
Arrange with graduate advisor.
Four elective courses in relevant Dartmouth language and literature
departments including one upper level course in the candidate's first foreign
language.
2. A major text presentation. In conjunction with CL101 and the Tutorial
(CL102) and in consultation with an advisor, each candidate will study one
major text and prepare a lecture on that text for public presentation. The text
must be read in the original foreign language.
3. An M.A. essay. During spring term, in conjunction with CL103 (Workshop in
Critical Writing), the candidate will prepare a paper of professional quality
which will be reviewed by a subcommittee of the Graduate Committee.
Courses
INTRODUCTORY
7. First-Year Seminars
Consult special listings
10. What is Comparative Literature?
06F: 10A 07W: 12 07S: 2A 07F, 08W: 10A 08S: 12
Particular offerings of this course seek to introduce the student to the
aims, assumptions and methodologies of reading and the study of literature.
This course is designed as an introductory course to the Comparative Literature
major and other literature and humanities majors. It is recommended that
students complete English/Writing 5 before enrolling in Comparative Literature
10.
In 06F, Ghostwriters and Artistic Haunts: The Aesthetics of Horror in
Japanese and Western Fiction and Film. The Japanese tradition of stories
about ghosts, spirit possession, demonic visitations and strange psychological
phenomena has a rich, complex history that has intersected with Western
traditions in productive ways. Beginning with a consideration of theories of
the uncanny, the gothic, and the fantastic, the course will explore the
aesthetics of horror and what horror stories tell us about moral values,
concepts of identity, social and political power, and gender. Dist: LIT.
WCult: NW. Washburn.
In 07W, The Cultural Corridor of the Danube. Can we speak of a
"Danubian literature" with unifying themes, specific style and
genres? What is the connection between geography and history, as it is mirrored
in the Danube's flow from West to East? How are the "Danubian
realities" represented in the literature produced on the river's shores?
This course will emphasize the relation between art, memory and survival, as
well as between literature, history and violence, as cultural testimonies to
the traumatic historical and political events that took place along the
Danube's banks, mainly in the territories of Central and south-Central Europe.
Authors will include Josef, Popa, Kis, Magris, Ionesco, Canetti, Istrati,
Eliade, and films by M. Mezaros, I. Pintilie and others. Dist: LIT.
Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and later:
WCult: W (pending faculty approval). Verona.
In 07S, "Some might call it Pla(y)giarism": Intertextuality in
Literature, Film and the Arts. How does Kafka's The Trial relate
to Orson Welles' film version of the novel? How does Oscar Wilde's
Salome tragedy differ from Strauss's opera, Flaubert's short story, or
Ruben's painting of the biblical figure? Coined in the 1960s to describe the
way how texts are related to each other and to other genre, intertextuality
breaks with traditional notions of "origin," "influence,"
"authorship." Instead, it assumes that every work of art refers (in
various degrees) to other artifacts, and considers every text "a tissue of
quotations drawn from the innumerable centers of culture" (Roland
Barthes). Authors include texts by Culler, Bakhtin, Kristeva, Barthes, Bloom,
Genette. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W. Milich.
In 07F, Literatures of the Pacific. This course is a survey of
Asian and Pacific American literature within the historical context of U.S.
imperialism in the Asia-Pacific region. We will explore the experiences of
Asians and Pacific Islanders in Hawaii and California. We will look at a range
of materials such as movies, fiction, and personal and academic essays in order
to examine the experiences of Asian and Pacific Islanders in relation to
nationalism, empire, American historical race relations, and postcolonialism.
Texts include Blu's Hanging, Rolling the R's, and
Dogeaters. Dist: LIT. Class of 2008 and later: WCult: CI
(pending faculty approval). Santa Ana.
In 08W, Male Friendship. This course examines representations of
male relationships in literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and film. Ranging
from classical texts such as the Bible and Cicero's "De Amicitia," to
the cinema of Almodovar and Truffaut, we will study the rhetorical and social
construction of male friendship and its relationship to gender, class and
cultural politics. Texts will be drawn from the following literary and critical
works: Aristotle, Martial, Montaigne, Balzac, Twain, Whitman, Nietzche, Freud,
D.H. Lawrence, Waugh, Ben Jalloun, Alan Bennett, and Derrida. Dist:
LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and
later: WCult: W (pending faculty approval). Kritzman.
In 08S, Narratives of Theft and the Theft of Narratives. Novels,
plays, and poetry obsessively revolve around objects and their importance in
determining people's lives and actions. Both as gifts, as anchors of memory,
and as things stolen, objects are central to people's lives. In this course we
will study narratives of theft from the legend of Prometheus, to Borges'
stories of objects that play out their history through the people that own
them, to the many contemporary novels of theft involving art, museums, and
cultural heritage, including The DaVinci Code and the theft of
narrative as ploy of advertising. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and
earlier: WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W (pending
faculty approval). Spitta.
18. Literature and Other Media
08S: 2A
In 08S, Dance and Literature. This course examines literary
attempts to describe dance, presenting dance as alternately a reflection of
differing cultural norms, a form of personal expression, professional display
and communal practice. Literary forms will include poetry, biography and
autobiography, criticism, novels, and non-fiction. Field trips will include
attendance at events on and off campus (the Pow Wow, New England contra-dances,
discussions with visiting dancers and choreographers). Students are encouraged
to take a dance class (at any level). Lawrence.
19. Translation: Theory and Practice
07W: 11
Translation is at once the most basic and the most complicated aspect of
what we call "comparative literature." Whether we are engaged in
translation ourselves or studying literature already translated from other
languages, we often take it for granted; yet the idea of meanings "lost in
translation" is also a commonplace. This course examines both some
practical aspects of translation and the theoretical questions to which it
gives rise.
In 07W, This course has a theoretical and a practical component. We will
analyze translations of literary works and sample the diverse field of
translation theory. At the same time, each student will work on a translation
project and participate in workshops on student translations. Reading knowledge
of a foreign language is required: at least intermediate competence is
recommended. Interested students who are unsure of their language preparation
should contact the instructor. Dist: LIT or INT. Class of 2007 and
earlier: WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W.
Otter.
PERIODS OF EUROPEAN CULTURE
20. The Middle Ages
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
An introduction to the literary cultures of the Middle Ages based on
detailed examination of selected works. The texts will vary from year to year,
but will normally include classics of drama and poetry, epic and romance. The
course will explore medieval dependence on earlier authority while stressing
the development of themes, attitudes, and modes of expression that were
characteristic of the period.
21. Topics in Medieval Literatures
08W: 10
This course will focus on a specific topic, theme, or literary genre in the
medieval period.
In 08W, Tristan and Isolt. One of the most famous and most
provocative love stories of medieval Europe, the romance of Tristan and Isolt
raises questions about love, passion and the social order; the relations
between men and women; loyalty and self-interest; truth, lies, wit and
improvisation; and, ultimately, the nature of art and fiction. We will consider
different versions of the Tristan story, medieval and modern, as well as
related Arthurian and Celtic tales and Tristan-related art and music. Dist:
LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and
later: WCult: W. Otter.
22. The Renaissance
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
This period in European history, from the 15th to the 17th centuries, is
often considered the founding moment of the modern university, with its
emphasis on the liberal arts, modern science and Humanism. It also marks the
early phases of European national consolidation and expansion to Africa and the
Americas, and thus sets the stage for many modern geopolitical struggles. This
course will study the texts and contexts-literary, artistic, historical - of
the period from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives.
23. Topics in Early Modern Literatures
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
This course will focus on a specific topic, theme, or literary genre in the
period from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries in Western Europe
(primarily Italy, France, Spain, Germany, England, and the Netherlands).
25. The Enlightenment
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
The Enlightenment, which stretches from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to
the French Revolution of 1789, was a truly international movement. A time of
great intellectual and artistic ferment, it produced the political, philosophic
and literary models that shaped our contemporary ideas of individual freedom
and civic responsibility, scientific and economic progress, religious
tolerance, gender roles, the life of the body and the mysteries of the soul.
This course will be offered periodically with varying content.
26. Romanticism
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
Romanticism came into being in Germany, England and France in response to
the political and emotional upheaval that culminated in the French Revolution.
Many works of literature, music and art reflect the period's uncertainty and
complexity, treating the conflicting issues of utopia and dystopia, excess and
economy, nationalist tradition and universalist ethics, the appeal to reason
and the eruption of the unconscious. The course will explore these divergent
tendencies.
27. Topics in Nineteenth-Century Literatures
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
This course will concentrate on major nineteenth-century movements and
genres in the context of the period's historical upheavals. Topics covered
might be realism, naturalism, symbolism, the fantastic, the notion of Bildung,
and the influence of such figures as Marx, Nietzsche or Darwin on literary
developments.
28. Modernism
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
Modernism is the term given to the extraordinary renewal and experimentation
in all the arts occurring from roughly the turn of the twentieth century to the
end of World War II. Concurrent with the writings of psychoanalysis and
existentialism, modernism, as it reaches its culmination during the social
upheavals of the interwar years, continues to assert, even while questioning,
humanity's artistic and moral potential. Offered periodically with varying
content.
29. Postmodernism
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
Reacting to the horrors of World War II and the period of decolonization,
postmodernism has been questioning the humanistic assumptions of modernism
while extending and sometimes transforming the earlier period's avant-garde
techniques through such currents as the new novel, absurdism, minimalism, magic
realism, etc. Each offering of this course will study postmodern literature and
culture from a specific perspective.
LITERARY GENRES
31. Topics in Poetry
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
Poetry was the first form of literary expression and is the most enduring.
This course will explore the power of poetic expression through such topics as
poetry and song, love and nature as poetic themes, theories of poetry, women
poets from Sappho to Plath, poetry and graphic art, and political poetry.
33. Modern Drama
06F, 07F: 10A
In 06F and 07F, identical to Theater 18. The international classics of
modern drama. The course begins with the revolutionary playwrights who defined
the realistic drama and theatre of modern times-Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov.
It then considers the developments out of and reactions against this
conventional twentieth-century theatre-Pirandello's staging of life as theatre,
the theatrical and philosophical explorations of O'Neill, Eliot's effort to
recreate poetic drama, the minimalist theatre of Beckett, Brecht's expansive
dialectical drama, and the total theatre of Peter Weiss. Lectures augmented by
viewings of productions via videotape and film; optional sessions for
discussion and readings of scenes. Dist: ART or INT. Class of 2007 and
earlier: WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W.
Winograd.
34. Topics in Drama
06F: 2A
This course will study a particular theme, sub-genre or period of dramatic
literature.
In 06F, War Zones. In this course we will read combatant fiction
and personal narrative, critique war documentary and fiction films, study the
images of photojournalism and the texts of plays performed on many war-fronts:
World Wars I and II, Vietnam, Chiapas, Iraq. Authors include Enloe, Showalter,
Higgins, Schechner, Fussell, Gilman and Theweleit. We will ask, "Can the
war experience be rendered in art? And if so, how?" Dist: LIT.
Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and later:
WCult: CI. Winograd.
35. History of Narrative
07S, 08W: 2
Individual offerings of this course might concentrate on the historical
development of narrative, oral and written traditions, medieval epic, romance,
and the early novel. In each case the relation between narrative forms and
history will be foregrounded.
In 07S and 08W, The Arabian Nights East and West (Identical to
Arabic 62). An introduction to Arabo-Islamic culture through its most
accessible and popular exponent, The Thousand and One Nights. The
course will take this masterpiece of world literature as the focal point for a
multidisciplinary literary study. It will cover the genesis of the text from
Indian and Mediterranean antecedents, its Arabic recensions, its reception in
the West, and its influence on European literature. The course will be taught
in English in its entirety. No prerequisites. Dist: LIT or INT; WCult:
NW. Kadhim.
36. The Novel I: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
This course will examine the rise of the novel as genre and its evolution in
the context of bourgeois individualism. Some of the great social and
psychological novels of the 18th and 19th centuries will be studied in relation
to conventions such as the picaresque, the confessional, the epistolary, the
Bildungsroman, realism and naturalism.
37. The Novel II: The Modern Novel
07X: 10A 08W: 2A
Prose writers in the twentieth century set out to create a new kind of
novel. Exploding traditional fictional conventions, they created avant-garde
forms that drastically challenged our reading habits and expectations.
Transformation and experimentation continue to inform the development of the
modern novel. Each offering of this course will study the fiction of the
twentieth century in a specific manner.
In 07X, First Person Multiple. This course introduces a range of
novels distinguished by their lively and inventive responses to the puzzle of
modern subjectivity. In an age when the idea of the self as a unified and
clearly-delineated whole has come under unrelenting scrutiny, choosing to write
fiction as an 'I' is a license to experiment. Confession, con trick, mask,
impersonation, memoir, apologia, metafiction: a first-person narrative may take
any of these forms and often more than one. To demonstrate this variety,
readings may include: Mann (Confessions of Felix Krull), Youcenar
(Memoirs of Hadrian), Zamyatin (We), Carter (Wise
Children), Woolf (The Waves), Faulkner (As I Lay Dying),
Bâ (So Long a Letter), Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale), and
Calvino (If on a Winter's Night). Dist: LIT. Class of 2007
and earlier: WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W.
(pending faculty approval). Davies.
In 08W, Immigrant Identities. This course focuses on the experience
of immigrants in the USA, France, and Great Britain by addressing the questions
of home and identity. We will examine cultural productions narrating the lives
of Italians, Chinese, and Porto-Ricans in the USA; Pakistanis, Jamaicans, and
Nigerians in Great Britain; and Africans in France. Texts include Liu's
Accidental Asian, Santiago's When I was a Porto-Rican, and
Hoffman's Lost in Translation. Theories of immigration and identity
will frame our readings. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier:
WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W. Coly.
38. Forms of Short Fiction
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
Through the ages, from The Arabian Nights and the Old
Testament to Thomas Mann and Alice Walker, short fiction in its many different
shapes has been one of the most enduring and most adaptable genres of literary
art. This course will be a study of various forms of short fiction such as
novella, tale and short story. Offered periodically with varying historical
content, the course will correlate literary texts with their social and
cultural contexts.
39. Topics in Narrative
06F: 12 08S: 2A
This course will approach the study of narrative from the perspective of a
specific technique or theme; it might explore narrative genres such as
autobiography, memoir, letters, epistolary fiction, oral narrative
traditions.
In 06F, Becoming Metropolitan: Paris and London in French and English
Fiction of the Nineteenth Century. This course focuses on French and
English novels. We study how novelists understand and represent urban
modernity. We focus on how public and private experience become urban in
fictional accounts; on the amount of crime and social surveillance; on secrecy
and knowledge in stories of Paris and London; and on how modernity is imagined
in city plots. Authors may include Balzac, Dickens, and Zola, Braddon, Conan
Doyle, and James; and essays from twentieth-century cultural studies on urban
modernity. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W. McKee.
In 08S, The Global Detective. Since the 1970s, police literature
has become one of the world's most popular and flexible literary genres. While
the form's basic narrative structure is recognizable from America to Africa,
each literary and cultural tradition localizes the genre in its own particular
way. In this course, we will explore how the international detective novel has
changed. Authors include Hamdouchi (Morocco), Khadra (Algeria), Gur (Israel),
Miyabe (Japan), Xialong (China), Padura (Cuba), Diez (Mexico), Mankell
(Sweden), Camilleri (Italy) and Pelletier (France). Dist: LIT.
Smolin.
40. Special Topics: Genres
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
This course will study texts from a generic perspective, concentrating on a
particular genre or subgenre that stands outside the broad categories of
poetry, drama and narrative.
41. The Comic Tradition
06F: 2A
This course will study aspects of the comic: satire, parody, comic theater
or shorter forms, such as the anecdote, the joke or the caricature. Examples
may be literary or pictorial.
In 06F, Rabbis, Rogues and Schlemiels: Jewish Humor and its Roots
(Identical to Hebrew 63 and Jewish Studies 24.2). What is Jewish humor, what
are its roots, and what can it begin to tell us about Jewish society, its
values and its self-image? This course mines the long and rich tradition of
Hebrew comic and satirical folklore and fine literature, and their relationship
to Yiddish, Israeli and Anglo-American Jewish humor. We will also compare the
joke, popular song, film and the cartoon, asking how genre impacts on theme. A
valuable and unique resource for this course is the Dartmouth Jewish Sound
Archive, with its wealth of online recordings. Taught in English translation.
Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU. Class of
2008 and later: WCult: W. Glinert.
42. Topics in Popular Culture
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
Applying critical literary theories to the study of popular culture, this
course will examine how popular culture is produced, disseminated, and
consumed. Dist: Varies.
THEMATIC APPROACHES
45. The Quest for Utopia
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
46. Psychology, Society and Literature: The Family
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
This course will explore the intersections of literary and familial
structures in social and psychological contexts. It will study ideologies which
both support and contest the family's cultural hegemony. Individual offerings
might concentrate on mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, family romances,
marriage, family and society. Readings will range from myth and fairy tale to
some of the great family novels or dramas. Dist: Varies.
47. Myths and Transformations
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
Myth has inspired literature from ancient times to the present. This course
examines original mythic material and how that material has been transformed in
later versions. Possible topics include: the legend of Troy, Odysseus through
the ages, the Faust theme, the trickster figure, Antigone and Medea, the legend
of Don Juan. Dist: Varies.
49. Special Topics: Themes
07S: 11
In 07S, National Allegory: Nationalism and Literature in the
Postcolonial World (Identical to English 63). This course explores current
theories of nationalism and postnationalism and how these theories could be
productively utilized in making sense of literary texts from the postcolonial
world. Authors include Lu Xun from China; Raja Rao from India; Sembene Ousmane
from Senegal; Ngugi wa Thiong'o from Kenya; and Chinua Achebe from Nigeria.
Cultural theorists whose work will be discussed include Ernest Renan, Benedict
Anderson, Homi Bhabha, Partha Chatterjee, Franz Fanon, and Frederic Jameson,
among others. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW. Giri.
REGIONAL APPROACHES
50. Europe and its Cultural Others
08S: 3A
Literatures of the world cannot be compared without regard for the relations
of domination that exist among the cultures that produced them. Colonialism and
imperialism constitute important aspects of European history and
self-perception from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. This course will
focus on the cultural impact of domination on colonizer and colonized. Offered
periodically with varying content.
In 08S, The Celtic Fringe. From the Middle Ages to the present, the
"edges" of Europe have served as places of fantasy and fear for those
who see themselves as firmly located in the "center." Britain has
played this role for the continent, and there a further "edge of
otherness" has been defined in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Drawing on
theories of colonialism and the concept of "internal colonialism," we
will explore the various roles attributed to "Celts"-by Celts
themselves, by the English, and by the continent. In each case, we will take a
long view through representative works from the Middle Ages to the twentieth
century. Warren.
51. African Literatures
06F: 2A
This course will survey the texts and contexts of literatures, theories and
criticisms from the distinctive cultures of East, Central, North, South and
West Africa as well as the Caribbean. It will examine the evolution of literary
forms as well as shifts of emphasis in issues and consciousness. Offered
periodically, it will focus on genres, periods, authors, or geolinguistic
categories such as anglophone, francophone, hispanophone, or lusophone.
In 06F, Masterpieces of Literatures from Africa (Identical to
African and African American Studies 51). This course is designed to provide
students with a specific and global view of the diversity of literatures from
the African continent. We will read texts written in English or translated from
French, Portuguese, Arabic and African languages. Through novels, short
stories, poetry, and drama, we will explore such topics as the colonial
encounter, the conflict between tradition and modernity, the negotiation of
African identities, post-independence disillusion, gender issues, apartheid and
post-apartheid. In discussing this variety of literatures from a comparative
context, we will assess the similarities and the differences apparent in the
cultures and historical contexts from which they emerge. Readings include
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Naguib Mahfouz's Midaq
Alley, Calixthe Beyala's The Sun Hath Looked Upon Me, Camara
Laye's The African Child, and Luandino Vieira's Luanda.
Dist: LIT or INT; WCult: NW. Coly.
52. Latin American Literatures
07W: 10
Some of the most fascinating literary works of this century have been
written by Latin American authors such as Neruda, García Márquez, Fuentes,
Allende, etc. This course will analyze modern Latin American literature, its
connection to or rejection of European traditions, the ways in which individual
works illuminate third world realities and challenge accepted Western views of
the world. Offered periodically with varying content.
In 07W, The Borderlands: Latina/o Writers in the United States
(Identical to Women's and Gender Studies 47.2). In this course we will focus on
the writings of US Latina/o writers. We will analyze how writers (Anzald√∫a,
Alvarez, Cisneros, Castillo and others) negotiate a path between the two
cultures (the US and Latin America) and the two languages that inform their
literary production and shape their identity. This in-between status translates
into an experimentation with genres and a questioning of traditional gender
divisions as well as the construction of transcultural icons and objects.
Dist: LIT or INT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: NA. Class
of 2008 and later: WCult: W. Spitta.
53. Middle Eastern Literature
07S: D.F.S.P.
This course, offered periodically, will examine texts from the cultures of
the Middle East originally in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, or Hebrew. The issue of
comparative focus will vary.
In 07S, History, Politics and the Moroccan Novel. This course will
explore Moroccan novels and their grounding in Moroccan culture, placing
special emphasis on the way in which these texts represent contemporary and
historical reality and contribute to the construction of a postcolonial
identity. Students with a background in French or Arabic will be encouraged to
do the reading in the original languages. Texts will include the work of Tahar
ben Jalloun, Mohamed Berrada, Abdelhak Serhane, Leila Abouzeid and Driss
Chraibi. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW. M. J. Green.
54. Jewish Literatures
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
From Biblical times to the present, Jewish literary production has ranged
over numerous countries and languages and thus needs to be studied from a
comparative perspective. This course will explore Jewish literature from
generic, thematic or cultural perspectives.
55. Asian Literatures
06F: 12
The literatures of Asia are so rich and diverse that they defy the
simplistic categorization implied by the notion of national traditions. The
forms and conventions of literary works in India, China, or Japan have been
shaped over a long period of time by a shared sense that literary culture is
continuous and by an awareness of difference inherent to particular cultural
epochs. This course will examine Asian literatures within their specific
historical contexts in order to illuminate the cultural ground of literary
practices and to provide a basis for comparison with the literary traditions of
the West.
In 06F, The Karma of Love: Japanese Women Writers and the Classical
Canon (Identical to Japanese 63). The Japanese literary tradition is
notable for the overwhelming dominance of women writers in the classical canon
and for the ways their work was later co-opted by the literary culture of
warrior society. We shall analyze the social, economic, and political contexts
that led to the dominance of women writers, focusing primarily on depictions of
sexual relationships and the development of an ideology of love. Reading
selections include history, poetry, drama, essays, criticism, and fiction
created within the culture of the Japanese court from the eighth to the
fifteenth centuries. Major texts covered include The Gossamer Diary,
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams, The Pillow Book, The
Tale of Genji, and The Confessions of Lady Nijô. Dist: LIT;
WCult: NW. Washburn.
56. Eastern European Literatures
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
Courses taught under this rubric offer regional or thematic approaches to
the literature of Eastern Europe, its many diverse cultures, traditions, and
prospects-from the Baltic to the Balkans, from Islam to Russian Orthodoxy, from
the Ottoman Empire to Communism and beyond, from Mikhail Bulgakov to Eugene
Ionesco and Vaclav Havel.
57. Special Topics: Regions
08S: 11
In 08S, A Tale of Three Cities: Paris, Bucharest, Istanbul. This
course will explore the way in which these cities have been imagined and
constructed by French, Romanian and Turkish literatures. Through close readings
of works from various genres, we will examine how the city has been used as a
topic and a trope of modernity. Readings will include literary texts by
Baudelaire, Aragon, Modiano, Eliade, Loti, Pamuk and critical texts by
Benjamin, de Certeau, Nora, Said. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and
earlier: WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W.
(pending faculty approval). Verona.
LITERATURE AND OTHER DISCIPLINES
60. Literature and Music
07S: 2A
The affinities between literature and music have always held a special
fascination for poets, writers, musicians, and critics. By studying the two
arts as comparable media of expression, this course will test the legitimacy of
interart parallels.
In 07S, an introduction to the major aspects, aesthetic implications, and
interpretive methods comparing the two arts. Topics for lectures and discussion
will include: musical structures as literary form; verbal music, word music,
and program music; word-tone synthesis in the Lied; music and drama in opera;
music in fiction; and the writer as music critic. Music-related poetry and
prose examples, complemented by musical illustrations and ranging from the
German and English Romantics through the French symbolists and the Dadaists to
contemporary writing, will be selected from texts by Goethe, Brentano,
Hoffmann, DeQuincey, Poe, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Proust, Thomas Mann, Joyce,
Eliot, Huxley, Shaw, and Pound. No particular musical background or technical
knowledge of music required. Dist: LIT or INT. Class of 2007 and
earlier: WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W.
Kopper.
61. Literature and the Visual Arts
07W: 10A
Cultural history and criticism has returned repeatedly to the affinities,
dissimilarities, and tensions between words and images. This course addresses
the fundamental dialogue between these forms of communication and notation.
In 07W, Surrealist Photography: The Body, The City, And Desire. The
course will examine the interaction between the surrealistic and the
photographic from the early 1920s to the present. With its power to capture the
immediacy of the ephemeral moment, to capture the wonder of the everyday city,
and to offer new configurations of the human body, photography became the
surrealist art par excellence. Work by several photographers from Atget,
Brassai and Man Ray to Claude Cahun, Sophie Calle and contemporary fashion
photographers will be studied. Dist: ART. Class of 2007 and earlier:
WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W. Stamelman.
62. Literature and Film
07S: M 3-6
A study of selected major film traditions from a literary perspective. By
examining themes, structures, montage, and other literary and filmic elements,
students will become familiar with important concepts in film analysis.
Individual offerings of the course may focus on filmmakers, movements, periods,
or themes. The goal will be to appreciate the aesthetic and social significance
of film as a twentieth-century medium and to explore various intersections of
film and literature.
In 07S, The Cinematic City. The urban metaphor, the city in its
cultural, political, and social complexities, has been either a working
political utopia of diversity, freedom, and change or a manifestation of
dystopia, commodification, social inequities, and dehumanization since the
origins of filmmaking. Beginning with Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1926)
and ending with Pedro Almodóvar's All About my Mother (1999), this
course will provide a historical overview of the different kinds of political,
cultural, and sexual metaphors the cinematic city articulates. Screenings of
German, U.S., Italian, Japanese, British, Spanish, French, and Cuban films.
Dist: ART. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU. Class of
2008 and later: WCult: W. Martín.
63. Literature and Politics
07S, 07X: 2A 08S: 10A
This course will be offered periodically and with varying content. It will
explore the rich relations that exist between literature and politics, focusing
on literature both as an instrument of political interest and as a product of
political contexts.
In 07S, Fascist Italy: Fascism in Literature and Film (Identical to
French and Italian 35). This course focuses on the history of the rise and fall
of fascism and on the cultural forces that validated its power. Special
attention will be given to literature and film in propaganda. Students will
watch films such as Cabiria, Black Shirt, The White
Squadron, and A Very Special Day and read novels and short
stories by Alberto Moravia, Fausta Cailente, F.T. Marinetti, and Elsa Morante
and critical texts by Spackman, Pickering-Iazzi, de Grazia, and Ben-Ghiat.
Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU. Class of
2008 and later: WCult: W. Parati.
In 07X, The Literature of Human Rights. What rights do people have
as individuals, families, communities, or nations? Can there, should there be a
code of universally-acknowledged human rights? What would be the source of its
legitimacy? We shall consider some literary ways of speaking to these
questions. Readings will cover drama, fiction, poetry, and essays; the authors
may include Sophocles, Gámbaro, Pinter, Shakespeare, Burns, Blake, Szymbórska,
Delbo, Silko, Faiz, Akutagawa, Le Guin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Levi, Head,
Soyinka, Morison, and Mary Shelley. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and
earlier: WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W
(pending faculty approval). Davies.
In 08S, Shades of Noir: Film, Fiction, Politics. 'Film Noir' evokes
memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and
1950s-melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers
on the run. Noir narratives revolve around questions of racial and
national identity; the postwar crisis of masculinity and gender relations; and
the experience of alienation and dislocation. The course will also trace the
pervasive presence of noir and its continuing appeal for artists and audiences
throughout the world. Dist: ART or INT. Class of 2007 and earlier:
WCult: EU or NA. Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W.
Gemünden.
64. Literature and History
07S: 10A 08W: 10
The course will explore the relationship between literature and history,
focusing both upon the interplay of historiographical and fictional discourses
and upon conceptualization and representation of history in some major literary
texts. Dist. Varies.
In 07S, Metaphors in the Making. What did Henry James mean by
"it takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature"?
This course will examine the complex and often competing notions of literature
and history in their constant interaction. We will focus on such issues as
truth and fiction, rewriting and reinterpretation, myth, chronicle, and memoir,
as well as the device "based on a true story." Readings will be drawn
from such authors as Plato, Tacitus, Columbus, Bodin, Mme de Lafayette,
Pushkin, Michelet, Carpentier, Mayakovski, and Zweig. Dist: LIT. Class
of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and later: WCult:
W. Sokol.
In 08W, The Burden of the Nazi Past: World War, Genocide, Population
Transfer, and Firebombing (Identical to Jewish Studies 37.3 and German
Studies 43). This course studies the main events of World War Two and the
different stages of processing that past post-1945. In an interdisciplinary and
comparative fashion we take up selective controversies in order to understand
the formation of postwar German identity, e.g., the Nuremberg, Frankfurt, and
Eichmann trials, the Berlin Jewish Museum and Holocaust memorial, Neonazism,
and the current campaign to remember German civilian casualties. Authors
include Weiss, Schlink, Flannery, Singer, Modiano. Dist: LIT. Class of
2007 and earlier: WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and later: WCult:
CI. Kacandes.
65. Literature and Science
07W: 10
This course will consider the intertwining of literature, science, and
technology. We shall investigate the literary representation of scientific
activity and the variety of ways in which literary and scientific modes of
thought have diverged or come together.
In 07W, A Matter of Time (Identical to Mathematics 5). Everybody
knows about time. Our everyday language bears witness to the centrality of time
with scores of words and expressions that refer to it as a measure, a frame of
reference, or an ordering factor for our lives, feelings, dreams, and
histories. Playing with time has been a favorite game in works of high
culture-from the Greek sophists to cubism-and in popular culture-from H.G.
Wells to Monty Python. And time is at the center of one of the most
revolutionary scientific theories of all time: Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
In this course we will use mathematics, literature, and the arts to travel
through history, to explore and understand Time as a key concept and reality in
the development of Western culture and in our own twentieth -century view of
ourselves and the world. Dist: QDS. Lahr, Pastor.
66. Literature and Psychoanalysis
07F: 2A
This course aims to explore the relationship between literature and the
theoretical and clinical writings of psychoanalysis. Through readings
representing a range of psychoanalytic and literary traditions, we will examine
the connections that can be made between psychic structures and literary
structures, between the language of the mind and the emotions and the language
of the literary, cultural or cinematic text.
In 07F, What is Psychoanalysis? What is the relationship between
"literary" works and the theoretical and clinical writings of
psychoanalysis? This large question will be examined through readings of essays
and case histories by such analysts and theorists as Freud, Klein, Lacan,
Kristeva, Butler, Bersani and Zizek. The course will focus on the theme of the
family romance and its relationship to the question of gender in works by
authors such as Sophocles, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Kafka, Woolf, Mann, Proust,
Duras, Kushner, Almadovar, and Woody Allen. Dist: LIT or INT. Class of
2007 and earlier: WCult: EU or NA. Class of 2008 and later: WCult:
W. Kritzman.
67. Literature and Women's/Gender Studies
06F: 3B 08W: 10A
This course will focus on the cultural construction of gender as it is
manifested in various texts and traditions. Topics may include one or more
aspects of gendered literary study: writing (male/female authorship), reading,
literary form, masculine and feminine subjectivity, representation, or feminist
literary and cultural criticism.
In 06F, Colonial and Postcolonial Masculinities (Identical to AAAS
67 and WGST 52.1). In this course, we will develop an understanding of
masculinity as a construct which varies in time and space, and is constantly
(re)shaped by such factors as race, class, and sexuality. The contexts of the
colonial encounter and its postcolonial aftermath will set the stage for our
examination of the ways in which social, political, economic, and cultural
factors foster the production of specific masculinities. Texts include Achebe's
Things Fall Apart, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Lafferiere's
How to Make Love to a Negro, and additional writings by Irish, Indian,
and Australian authors. Our study will be organized around the questions of the
production of hegemonic and subaltern masculinities, the representation of the
colonial and postcolonial male body, the militarization of masculinity, and the
relation between masculinity and nationalism. Theoretical material on
masculinities will frame our readings. Dist: LIT. Coly.
In 08W, Fictions of Sappho (Identical to Women's and Gender Studies
21.2 and Classical Studies 10). Goddess of poetry, sexual predator, exotic
holiday destination, lovelorn suicide, schoolmistress, parchment scrap: these
are among the associations clustering around Sappho. From antiquity to the
twenty-first century her poems and the legends about her life and loves have
fascinated writers, artists and musicians as different as Queen Victoria, Willa
Cather, Boccaccio, Jeanette Winterson, Ezra Pound, Gounod, and Ovid. We sample
some of the twists and turns in this seemingly endless stream of fantasy and
creative reaproppriation. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier:
WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and later: WCult: CI.
Williamson.
70. Special Topics: Literature and Other Disciplines
06F: 2A 07S: 10 08S: 2
In 06F, European Jewish Intellectuals (Identical to Jewish Studies
26). The course will examine the role of the Jewish intellectual in
20th-century Europe. We shall focus on several paradigmatic figures (Adorno,
Arendt, Benjamin, Levinas, Derrida) who confront the redefinition of politics
and civil society in modern times. Some attempt will be made to deal with these
changes through a critical reflection on the concepts of democracy and ethics
and on how justice can be practiced either within or outside the geographical
and spiritual boundaries of the modern nation state. Particular attention will
be paid to topics such as the challenges of Eurocentric Christian humanism and
universalism to Jewish assimilation; the promises of totalitarianism, Marxism
and messianism; the politics of biblical exegesis; history and Jewish
mysticism; Zionism, anti-Zionism, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Dist:
LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and
later: WCult: W. Kritzman.
In 07S, Us And Them: Aliens, Fiction, And Nonfiction. The
possibility of extraterrestrial life, in particular, intelligent
extraterrestrial life, has fascinated cultures throughout history and is,
today, a central topic of scientific research. "Aliens" have been
represented in literature and film both as benevolent and malevolent creatures.
This course will investigate the cultural and scientific roots of these polar
representations as they evolved from the seventeenth century onwards through a
critical analysis of fictional and non-fictional texts and a representative
sample of movies. Readings will include texts by Kepler, de Fontenelle,
Huygens, Voltaire, H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, and
Ursula Le Guin. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU or NA.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W. Gleiser.
In 08S, The Fashioning of Fashion: Theory and Practice. The course
studies fashion as a system of communication, a writing (on and
of the body), and a meeting point for gender, class, and social
relations. We will explore the ways that clothing, perfume, and cosmetics
create a certain "imaginary," where fantasies of desire and national
identity circulate. Poetry and fiction: Donne, Herrick, Zola, Süskind.
Films: Funny Face, Unzipped, Ready to Wear. Art and
photography: Tissot, Sargent, Avedon, Newton, Turbeville. Designers: Worth,
Chanel, Dior, Saint Laurent, Versace, Miyake. Stamelman.
Refer also to Philosophy 20.
LITERARY CRITICISM/THEORY
71. History of Literary Criticism: The Western Tradition to 1900
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
This course will focus on three periods in particular-antiquity, the
Renaissance and the Romantic period-and on topics and issues which link these
periods, such as theories of representation, the functions of poetry, the
relationship of poetry to truth, the privileging of particular genres at
different times, the sublime, theories of the self. We will pay particular
attention to texts that are still generating debate and critique today,
including some from a feminist perspective, and will end with a brief
consideration of some of the nineteenth-century thinkers whose work has been
influential in this century. Readings may include the following authors:
Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, Lucian, Horace, Longinus, Jonson, Sidney,
Burke, Kant, Wordsworth, J.S. Mill, Coleridge, Nietzsche, Marx, Freud.
For a related course, see English 63.
72. Contemporary Literary Criticism and Theory
06F, 07F: 10A
Covering some of the major theoretical movements of the second half of the
twentieth century, this course focuses on the issues and questions motivating
theoretical debate in literary and cultural studies. Movements studied may
include New Criticism, structuralism, semiotics, poststructuralism and
deconstruction, Marxist criticism, psychoanalysis, narratology, reader-response
theory, feminist criticism, African American criticism, film criticism, and the
new historicism.
In 06F, Literary Criticism and Theory. The course provides an
overview of current literary theory. After considering competing definitions of
"literature," "theory," and "reading," we examine
texts that represent the New Criticism, structuralism, deconstruction,
feminism, psychoanalytic criticism, Marxist criticism, African American
criticism, and the new historicism. We also question our activities, reviewing
the arguments that challenge the relevance of "theory." In order to
make things more concrete, we also read studies that concern specific texts.
Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU. Class of
2008 and later: WCult: W. Carrard.
In 07F, What is Theory? Since the beginnings of the 20th Century,
critical theory has slowly transformed the study of literature. Although most
scholars who study literary texts now use theory in one way or another, few
would be able to define the discipline. This course will examine some of the
major texts in the field, including the roots of contemporary critical
practices in philosophy, linguistics, and semiotics, as well as some of the
latest, "cutting edge" applications of theory to all kinds of
cultural "objects": texts, films, clothes, bodies, genders,
identities, buildings, cities, nations, etc. Works by Saussure, Jakobson,
Foucault, Lacan, Benjamin, Derrida, Hegel, Butler, Venturi, Kohlhaas and
others. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W. La Guardia.
73. Topics in Literary and Cultural Theory
07W: 2A 08W: 3A
This course will focus on a specific preoccupation of contemporary theory or
on a particular theoretical movement.
In 07W, Modernity and Postmodernity in a Transatlantic Perspective.
Why did postmodernity become a cultural dominant in the United States but not
in Europe, and why did poststructuralism become more prominent in the American
academy than in the French? Exploring the meanings of modernity, postmodernity,
or the avant-garde in the works of Arnold, Huxley, Adorno, Marcuse, Trilling,
Howe, Sontag, Fiedler, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, Barthes, Jameson, and
others, we shall discuss how these and other ostensibly universal terms inflect
concepts of culture on both sides of the Atlantic, and accrue specific meanings
in the society in which they appear. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and
earlier: WCult: EU or NA. Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W.
Milich.
In 08W, A Tale of Two Sites: Cities as Narrative and the Narration of
Objects. Cities are complex sites for "stories" taking place
across time. Using St. Petersburg, Prague, Mexico City, and Paris as models, we
will discuss the virtual urban spaces created by literature and cinema, and the
restrictions placed on them by medium, history, and society's need for urban
mythologies. We will also consider the use of non-literary artifacts as
"texts": the risks of applying terms like narrative, memory, and
palimpsest to services and commodities (e.g. a subway system or a clothes
store). Critical readings may include Poniatowska, Boyer, Connerton,
Lagopoulos, Konvitz, Eco, Nora, Greimas, Habermas. Dist: LIT. Class of
2008 and later: WCult: W. Kopper.
79. Independent Study
06F, 07W, 07S: Arrange
A tutorial course designed by the student with the assistance of a member of
the Comparative Literature faculty who is willing to supervise it. Offers the
student an opportunity to pursue a subject of special interest through a
distinctive program of readings and reports. During the term prior to the
course, applicants must submit a course outline to the Chair for written
approval.
80. Advanced Seminar: Special Topics
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
85. Senior Seminar in Research and Methodology
07W: Arrange. Parati.
87. Thesis Tutorial
07S: Arrange.
Permission of the Chair is required.
100. Contemporary Literary Criticism and Theory
06F: 10A
See description under Comparative Literature 72. Carrard.
101. Topics in Literary Criticism and Theory
07W: 2A
See description under Comparative Literature 73. Milich.
102. Tutorial
Arrange with advisor. This course is open to M.A. candidates
only.
103. Workshop in Critical Writing
07S: Arrange
Critical thinking and concise, persuasive writing are prerequisites for any
professional career. In fact, both go hand in hand. The Workshop in Critical
Writing introduces graduate students to advanced research techniques, to the
conventions of scholarly discourse, and to the various kinds of writing
practiced in literary studies. We will analyze scholarly articles as examples
of research methods, argument development, rhetorical technique, and stylistic
presentation; we will test a variety of practical approaches to the
interpretation of literary texts; and we will explore how we might use theory
in critical argument. Students will be asked to prepare and submit a scholarly
article using previous written work of their own (senior thesis, independent
study project) as a basis. The workshop format of the course will permit
students to read and critique each other's work and to sharpen their editorial
skills. Washburn. This course is open to M.A. candidates only.
Kopper.
105. Graduate Seminar
07W: Arrange
This course is open to M.A. candidates only.
106. Graduate Research
06F, 07W, 07S: Arrange
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