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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (L16) (Dept. Info)

Arts & Sciences (Policies)

L16 Comp Lit 1024

Mozart: The Humor, Science, and Politcs of Music

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the most recognized composers of "classical" music. A child prodigy of astonishing precocity, he has come to symbolize genius for Western culture-a composer whose music embodies superhuman, even Utopian beauty and perfection. In this course, we'll learn that there was more to Mozart. Mozart was a lover of codes and puzzles who delighted in the science of music, a sampler of non-Western music, and a musical humorist whose comedies make provocative statements-ranging from cynical to poignant-about politics, gender, and morality. Our focus works will include Mozart's symphonies, piano music, string quartets, and such comedies as The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro. We'll also explore Mozart's afterlife-how his music has figured in film, literature, and popular culture. This course is open to all undergraduates-no previous musical coursework or experience is required.

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L16 Comp Lit 3003

Writing Intensive in Ancient Studies: Helen of Troy in Greece and Rome

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Helen of Troy is the most famous female mythological figure, renowned as the most beautiful woman in the world and the one who caused the Trojan War. Many Greek and Roman authors were captivated by her, and had different opinions about her level of culpability for causing the war. Is she a victim, a femme fatale, a desperate housewife? As her story is told and re-told, she is turned into each of these and many other character-types as well. In this class, we will read a wide range of ancient authors who wrote about her and discuss how one figure could be depicted in so many different ways. The ways that authors found to excuse her, or to blame her, are creative and diverse. Our focus will be on epic and tragedy, although other authors, such as Herodotus and Sappho, will be included. We will also consider depictions of other female mythological figures for comparison, and visual representations on vase paintings and in sculpture. We will end the course by considering a few modern depictions of her in film.

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L16 Comp Lit 301C

Greek Mythology

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L16 Comp Lit 3050

Literary Modernities: Text and Tradition

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The course examines the various facets of modernity in major works of European, Eurasian, and, sometimes, American literature from the early Seventeenth Century to the 1920s, starting with Don Quixote. We will explore, among other things, the eruption of the novel, the secularization of autobiography, the literary discovery of the city, the rise of literary and aesthetic criticism that takes literature and art seriously as political and social institutions. In addition to literary works, the course will engage with two or three important models of critical practice e.g. Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women, Marx's German Ideology, Freud's, The Interpretation of Dreams, T.S. Eliot's Tradition and the Individual Talent, or perhaps that great work of fictionalized literary criticism, Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote."

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L16 Comp Lit 3132

Romantic Revolutions in European Music and Culture

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The early nineteenth century in Europe witnessed sweeping changes in social, political, and cultural life, but some of the most fascinating happened in music. This course considers intersections between Romantic thinking about music--which inspired an idealistic vision of the art form as a source of quasi-spiritual experience-- and other contemporary "revolutions." To what extent was Romantic music a "holy art" that offered a refuge from the world? In what ways was it a worldly participant in larger currents in society and culture? By exploring these questions and more, students will develop the skills and framework needed to incorporate works of music into their investigation of enduring issues in history and the humanities. Although this course will require listening and viewing of musical works, it is designed for students with intellectual curiosity but without prior musical background. We will also require weekly readings, occasional presentations, three short papers, and spirited class discussion.

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May 10 2017 1:00PM - 3:00PM

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L16 Comp Lit 331A

Topics in Holocaust Studies

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This course will approach the history, culture and literature of Nazism, World War II and the Holocaust by focusing on one particular aspect of the period-the experience of children. Children as a whole were drastically affected by the policies of the Nazi regime and the war it conducted in Europe, yet different groups of children experienced the period in radically different ways, depending on who they were and where they lived. By reading key texts written for and about children, we will first take a look at how the Nazis made children-both those they considered "Aryan" and those they designated "enemies" of the German people, such as Jewish children-an important focus of their politics. We will then examine literary texts and films that depict different aspects of the experience of European children during this period: daily life in the Nazi state, the trials of war and bombardment in Germany and the experience of expulsion from the East and defeat, the increasingly restrictive sphere in which Jewish children were allowed to live, the particular difficulties children faced in the Holocaust, and the experience of children in the immediate postwar period. Readings include texts by Ruth Klüger, Harry Mulisch, Imre Kertész, Miriam Katin, David Grossman and others. Course conducted entirely in English. OPEN TO FRESHMEN. STUDENTS MUST ENROLL IN BOTH MAIN SECTION AND ONE DISCUSSION SECTION.

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May 10 2017 10:30AM - 12:30PM

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L16 Comp Lit 343A

Literature and Science: One Culture or Two?

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L16 Comp Lit 375

Pastoral Literature

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What grows out of classical literature's interest in the 'lives and loves of shepherds'? We will start by looking at the foundation of pastoral poetry in Greece and Rome and tracing the contours of an imagined world of singing competitions, tormented loves, reciprocated friendships, and ritualized mourning, all informed by the significant contrast of country to city. We will go on to survey the development of -- and reaction to -- pastoral themes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Throughout we will pay close attention to pastoral's engagement with issues of sexuality (especially homoeroticism) and gender, and to ways in which pastoral can speak to ecological crisis: can we identifty a "pastoral ethics" in the face of human degradation of the environment? Readings will range from Theocritus, Vergil, and Longus' novel Daphnis and Chloe to Mark Twain, Tom Stoppard, and Annie Proulx.

A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SD Art: HUM BU: IS EN: H

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L16 Comp Lit 385

The Global Weird

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May 8 2017 10:30AM - 12:30PM

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L16 Comp Lit 389

At Home in Paris, Versailles, Amsterdam, and Delft

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At Home in Paris, Versailles, Amsterdam, and Delft This course will examine life palaces, town houses, and gardens in France and Holland in the 17th century through a focus on four classes of objects: letters, food, flowers, and paintings. Such objects allow us to imagine the lives of those who attend court spectacles and witnessed the effects of Louis XIV's centralization of power as he changed first Paris and then Versailles, just as they inform us about Dutch trade, including items imported from Asia and the Americas; the science of lenses and perspective; the tulip craze and a fascination with cityscapes and landscapes for this country that grew by reclaiming land from the sea. Based on comparisons of letters, both written and painted; flowers, both real and in still lifes; interiors both lavish and more austere; the expansion of Versailles and Dutch cities, we will consider the rivalry between France and Holland. Our exploration the French court will include Lafayette, The Princesse de Clèves; selected letters by Mme de Sévigné and by the Princesse Palatine; studies of Paris and Versailles by literary historian Joan DeJean and social historian Chandra Mukerji, as well as accounts of the women in Louis's life and artworks depicting his reign. We will study paintings by Vermeer, De Hooch, ter Borcht, and others in the Dutch Republic as they reflect the influences of family, science, trade, and art. The class will also consider modern depictions of Versailles and the Dutch Golden Age in a series of films: Vatel, All the Mornings of the World, Girl with A Pearl Earring, and Tim's Vermeer.

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May 9 2017 6:00PM - 8:00PM

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L16 Comp Lit 394

World-Wide Translation: Language, Culture, Technology

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This course considers the crucial role played by translation across the world today: from new technologies and digital media, to the global demands of professionals working in fields as diverse as literature, law, business, anthropology, and health care. We will begin our exploration of the concept of translation as a key mechanism of transmission between different languages by looking at works of literature, and film. Students will then examine how different cultures have historically required translation in their encounter with each other, studying how translation constitutes a necessary transcultural bridge both from a colonial and postcolonial point of view. The course also analyzes from practical and real-world perspectives whether concepts such as war, human rights, democracy or various deadly illnesses have the same meaning in different societies by considering the diverse frames of reference used by linguists, lawyers, anthropologists, and medical doctors across the world. Finally, we will focus on translation from a technological perspective by examining various modes of transfer of information required for the functioning of digital media such as Google Translate, Twitter or various Iphone applications. Readings will include works by Jorge Luis Borges, Talal Asad, Lawrence Venuti, Michael Cronin, Emily Apter and Gayatri Spivak, among others. This course offers students an optional CBTL (Community Based Teaching and Learning) component in collaboration with a St. Louis-based community partner. Prerequisite: None.

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L16 Comp Lit 395C

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May 8 2017 1:00PM - 3:00PM

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L16 Comp Lit 436

Seminar in Dramatic Theory

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The course begins with Plato's critique of mimesis and Aristotle's defense, as we read THE POETICS as a response to Plato. We will take some of Aristotle's basic concepts, such as mimesis, plot, character, and thought, and attempt to apply them to drama up to the present day. We will also consider fundamental elements of both the dramatic text and the dramatic production, such as space, time, dialogue, narrative devices, and perspective. Brecht's theory of "epic drama" will form the other conceptual pole in the course, opposing Aristotle. Besides these two theorists, other figures will include Ben Jonson, Corneille, Dryden, Diderot, Schiller, Hegel, Zola, Artaud, and Grotowski. The course, then, will have both chronological and thematic axes. Three papers and one oral presentation. Credit 3 units.

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L16 Comp Lit 449

Writing from the Periphery: The Question of Chineseness

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In this course, we will read a broad range of literary works written by ethnic Chinese from various parts of the world. We will examine the notion of "Sinophone," primarily its implications to the challenge of cultural identity formation to those Chinese who are not traditionally identified as "Chinese" because of war, migration, immigration, colonialism, among others. We will also examine the meaning of being on the margins of geopolitical nation-states. Finally we will discuss the notions of hybridity and authenticity vis-à-vis literary representation. We will read works by ethnic Chinese writers from the United States, France, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Mongolia, Tibet, and so on. This course is limited to seniors and graduate students only. All readings will be available in English. 3 units. Active class participation is required.

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L16 Comp Lit 512

Seminar: Literature in the Making III

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This seminar is designed for graduate students in the International Writers PHD Track in Comparative Literature to put their creative work into conversation with their studies in foreign languages, cultures and literatures with an eye to the long-term goal of the hybrid dissertation. Participants will read and discuss practical criticism, present their current creative projects and hone their skills as writers, translators and readers by engaging with a living literature as it evolves. At the conclusion of the course, students will have the choice of presenting a polished work of translation, a piece of original writing (in English or in their native language), or an essay on one or more of the works read during the semester. This course will be taught by Professor Lynne Tatlock and Matthias Goeritz. Admission by permission only.

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L16 Comp Lit 531

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A comparative study of lyric poetry, ranging wide historically and geographically, but focused on certain persistent ideas or theories about lyric: its brevity, its privileging of music and sound, the role of the self and subjectivity, the articulation of consciousness, and more. Poems will be studied in different languages and in English translations, depending on the linguistic backgrounds and specialties of the participants. The course will partly be organized using subgenres as a comparative device, for example the ode from Pindar to Neruda. Other subgenres we will consider include the praise-poem, the elegy, the epigram, and the sonnet. Part of the class will involve active translation and for those in the course who write poetry, consistent poetic composition prompted by the poems that we will be reading.

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