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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (L16) (Dept. Info)

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L16 Comp Lit 115

First Year Seminar: Transmediation

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We are increasingly attuned to how living species evolve in response to environmental changes, but what about works of art? Transmediation refers to the translation, transposition, or adaptation of a work from one sign system, art form, or medium to another. Some art forms, such as opera, film, and video, are inherently multi-media. Others have traditionally been paired: a song based on a poem or a movie based on a book. Some serve as commentaries upon one another: a novel about a painting or a play. Others constitute different versions of the same story: the Pygmalion myth or the Faust legend across the centuries. Works may be adapted for artistic, ideological, or even commercial ends. The digital age has taken the possibilities of story and media adaptation to a new level. We will investigate how works have been transformed as they crossed geographical, temporal, and generic boundaries. Students will consider texts, images, and recordings from the point of view of artists, critics, and consumers and will have the unique opportunity to visit regional exhibits and performances in St. Louis and Chicago. Group tickets and transportation covered. Prospective Comparative Arts majors and minors who take this course may replace L16 313 Introduction to Comparative Arts with another 300-level course.

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L16 Comp Lit 215C

Comparative Comic Book Studies

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In this course we will study the "ninth art," i.e., comic strips and comic books from various decades, cultures, and forms to deepen our understanding of the most underestimated form of storytelling. We will explore the art of telling stories in sequential pictures From early 20th century French "bandes dessinées" such as Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin, or, a little later, Asterix by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, to Japanese "seinen manga," to American graphic novels such as Pulitzer-winning Maus by Art Spiegelman, to serialized super hero stories and online strips. We will also look at a number of cinema adaptations of comic books and compare them to the original, thereby learning how different media treat- and therefore change-a story. The course provides an introduction to the practice of comic book criticism for undergraduates majoring and minoring in Comparative Literature, Comparative Arts, or students with related interests in literature and popular culture. No prerequisites; freshmen are welcome.

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L16 Comp Lit 3050

Literary Modernities in Europe and America: 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 306C

Voice, Language and Power: Late Medieval Religious Writing

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In the later Middle Ages, there is a flowering throughout Christian Europe of religious writings that offer a new voice in which personal religious experience can be pursued and expressed. Their voices are mainly intended to be communal ones, to be contained within the Church and regulated by it. But in each case the fact that it is a voice may offer a mode of resistance, or of difference. Such writing is often aimed at lay people, sometimes exclusively at women; and sometimes the intended auditors become the authors, and propose a version of religious experience that claims a new and more intimate kind of power for its readers. This course looks at a wide range of such writing in vernacular languages read in translation (English, French and German), including the work of Meister Eckhart, Marguerite Porete, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, Eleanor Hull, the anonymous writer of The Cloud of Unknowing and the perhaps pseudonymous William Langland, author of Piers Plowman. Whether such writing seeks to be orthodox or conducive to heresy, it presents a challenge to the power of clergy - a challenge that is written in the vernacular language of lay people, rather than clerical Latin, and in doing so offers distinctively new voices for religious experience. The course will also look at ways in which such work might have been influenced, if only oppositionally or at times indirectly, by contact with Muslim and Jewish writing (including Jewish exegesis of the Psalms).

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L16 Comp Lit 307B

Literary Modernities in East Asia: The Interplay of Tradition, Modernity, & Empire: Text & Tradition

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L16 Comp Lit 376

Refugees: Displacement and Asylum in World Literature

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By 2017 at least 65.6 million people (or 1 in 113 individuals) have been forcibly displaced within their own countries or across borders. In this course we will study literary texts and other forms of cultural production that will provide a window into the complexity of refugee lives from World War II to the present. In addition to contextualizing the historical and legal significance of such terms as 'refugee," "asylum," or "forced displacement," our discussions of novels, short stories, memoirs, plays, and films will also allow us to engage with the broader meanings of concepts that include hospitality, identity, belonging, and citizenship. Readings may include works by Hannah Arendt, Reinaldo Arenas, Bertold Brecht, Edwidge Danticat, Aleksander Hemon, Valeria Luiselli, Dinaw Mengestu, Viet Than Nguyen, Anna Seghers, and Warshan Shire. We will also discuss the films Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943), Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006), Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin, 2012), and Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi, 2014), and, finally, examine media depictions of refugees and multi-media platforms, such as Refugee Republic. Course conducted entirely in English. OPEN TO FRESHMEN. STUDENTS MUST ENROLL IN BOTH MAIN SECTION AND ONE DISCUSSION SECTION.

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L16 Comp Lit 385

Topics in Comparative Literature: Narratives of Childhood

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This course explores how the force of narrative arises from the play between the adult's perspective and the child's. Topics considered include orphanhood, social change, creative forces, and institutions of power. We pay particular attention to the child's voice as a narrative strategy used to confront unfathomable horrors, to reconstruct history, and to offer order to personal upheavals. We will discuss what these narratives reveal about the societies they purport to reflect as well as the nature of narrative itself to convey history, values, and emotion. Texts include readings such as Nurrudin Farah, MAPS; Stella Gibbons, COLD COMFORT FARM; Craig Thompson, BLANKETS; Philippe Grimbert, MEMORY; Dorothy Allison, BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA; Amos Oz, TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS; and Hanan al-Shaykh, STORY OF ZAHRA. Prereq: Writing 1, sophomore standing, or permission of the instructor.

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L16 Comp Lit 385A

Comedy, Ancient and Modern

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In this course we will examine the nature of dramatic comedy and its role in society. We will read, discuss and write about comedies from ancient Greece and Rome and from various modern nations, paying particular attention to the following questions: Do comic plays reinforce or challenge the preconceptions of their audiences? How have comic playwrights responded to issues such as class, gender, religion, and politics? Why does comedy have such power both to unite and to divide people? This course has an extensive writing component, so much of our time will be spent writing about the comedies we will read, revising what we have written, and discussing how best to write about comedy.

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L16 Comp Lit 395C

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L16 Comp Lit 425A

Humanities by the Numbers

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This seminar will offer students with a background in the humanities an overview of current discussions and debates in digital humanities, with a particular emphasis on concrete examples of successful computationally-assisted literary and cultural analysis. We will review a variety of approaches, including text mining, network analysis, GIS, and data visualization, as well as addressing theoretical issues related to the practice of digital humanities and its relation to traditional methods of humanistic inquiry. A one-hour weekly lab will introduce students to some introductory tools and packages that will help get them started on their own projects. Prerequisite: one 300-level course dealing with literature, history, or philosophy. Students who would like a more in-depth, hands-on introduction to humanities computing and text-analysis techniques are encouraged to enroll concurrently in L93 432, Programming for Text Analysis, taught by Professor Anupam Basu.

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L16 Comp Lit 432A

Programming for Text Analysis

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L16 Comp Lit 444C

Psychoanalysis and its Literary Cultures

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This course examines interactions between texts from the domains of literature and psychoanalysis. Our concurrent reading of theory and literature will raise the following questions: Does the relationship between literary text and theory necessarily entail the subjection of literature to analysis, or can one, as critic and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard asks, apply literature to psychoanalysis? What can psychoanalytic readings tell us more broadly about the act of reading? How can psychoanalysis enrich our sense of the ethical import of reading and writing, and how can literature challenge psychoanalytic goals and values? Our main psychoanalytic authors will be Freud, Ernest Jones, Klein, Lacan, and Winnicott. Literary readings will range widely from Sophocles and Shakespeare to Henry James and Alison Bechdel.

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L16 Comp Lit 449

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The major part of this course is devoted to Renaissance humanism, an educational, historiographic, and philosophical encounter with the texts and perceived values of ancient culture, which in the cases of some humanists could include eastern as well as western texts. We will emphasize the subversive ideas of the humanists, as they revived materialist, atheistic writers such as Lucretius, sought to reconcile different religious faiths (Pico della Mirandola), promoted liberal inquiry on two sides of a question (Erasmus), considered whether the universe might be infinite (Giordano Bruno), celebrated the critical and humane power of laughter (Rabelais), and considered the body and human experience as the central philosophical index (Montaigne). Other humanist writers we will explore include Petrarch, Ficino, and More, and we will also do a unit on women humanists. In the last part of the course, we will consider what "humanism," as well as "posthumanism" and "transhumanism," mean in the twenty-first century. We will consider the claims of "humanism" and the "human" in political and legal arenas as well, considering such concepts as "crimes against humanity."

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L16 Comp Lit 512

Seminar: Literature in the Making I

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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. Students not officially in the International Writers Track who wish to enroll in the course should contact the instructors. Admission by permission only.

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L16 Comp Lit 524A

International Modernism/World Literature

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This course takes up literary criticism's recent "geographical turn" via an investigation of the overlaps between international modernism and world literature. Moving from J.W. von Goethe to Pheng Cheah, the course will retrace and revise the genealogy of the concept of world literature, viewing modernism through this newly adjusted lens. The animating center of the course constitutes an inquiry into the place of literature: where does a literary text belong? We will ask questions about how to describe, categorize, and analyze literature that appears to be operating in a field far beyond the traditional national or even transnational frames of reference common to literary critical discourse. Our debate on world literature will open adjacent conversations on translation, cosmopolitanism, minor literature, transnational poetics, transculturation, and the pedagogy of world literature. Likely critical texts by Erich Auerbach, Edward Said, Édouard Glissant, Aamir Mufti, Emily Apter, David Damrosch, Pascale Casanova, Franco Moretti, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Laura Doyle, and Susan Friedman; novels included will be by authors such as Mulk Raj Anand, Jean Rhys, J.M. Coetzee, and Caryl Phillips.

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