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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (L16)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)FL2010

L16 Comp Lit 5690Europe, an Imagined Community: Essays on Continentalization: Literature, Thought, Art, Politics3.0 Units
Description:Nation states and their cultures have been changed by globalization. Within this process continentalization has played an important role. The European Union is only half a century old, but continental unity has been discussed and demanded by European writers and thinkers for hundreds of years. We will read essays on Europe (its identity, its cultural diversity, and its cultural roots, contemporary problems, and future goals) by writers such as Coleridge, Staël, Novalis, Chateaubriand, Heine, Nerval, Hugo, Thomas Mann, Ernst Jünger, T.S. Eliot, Klaus Mann, Kundera, Enzensberger, Frischmuth, and Drakulic, as well as by philosophers such as the Duke of Sully, the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Ortega y Gasset, and Madariaga. Other points to be considered will be the mythological figure of Europa and her resurrections in the world of art; the portraits of Napoleon and their political messages; and the Nazarene painters of the early 19th century in Rome. We will study how "Europe discourse" has been a reaction to the great wars, as connected to a goal of a pacified and united continent. We will also examine the importance of comparisons made between Europe and the United States and between the Occident and the Orient. Readings will be accompanied by the study of theoretical contributions in the area of collective identity formation.
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