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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (L16) (Dept. Info)

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L16 Comp Lit 201A

Classical to Renaissance Literature: Text and Tradition

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Students enrolled in this course engage in close and sustained reading of a set of texts that are indispensable for an understanding of the European literary tradition, texts that continue to offer invaluable insights into humanity and the world around us. Homer's Iliad is the foundation of our class. We then go on to trace ways in which later poets and dramatists engage the work of predecessors who inspire and challenge them. Readings move from translations of Greek, Latin, and Italian, to poetry and drama composed in English. In addition to Homer, we will read works of Sappho, a Greek tragedian, Plato, Vergil, Ovid, Petrarch, and Shakespeare.

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L93 201C L08 2011 L61 201C

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L16 Comp Lit 3003

Writing Intensive in Ancient Studies: Golden Ages, Nostalgia, and the Idealized Past

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The Good Old Days. The Garden of Eden. The Golden Age. From the earliest surviving writing to modern political campaigns, we have told stories about a previous time when life was radically different than it is today, usually much better. These myths have had a tremendous pull on our imaginations. This class will explore these stories, especially in Greek and Roman literature, with comparisons drawn from other ancient cultures and modern life. We will consider the following questions: When and why do societies turn to stories of an idealized past? What makes them so 'ideal'? What aspects of our current world are excluded? How do they explain the loss of that way of life and do they have hope of retrieving it? Assessment will be based on weekly written responses to the readings and a research project, developed and revised with the assistance of the instructor. Not open to first-year students.

A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, WI Arch: HUM Art: HUM Art-Arch: A, AM EN: H

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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 313A

Ocean, Island, Ghetto, Globe: An Introduction to Asian American Lit

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Where do Asian Americans belong? This question has long been a problem for Asian Americans. The disparate routes Asian migrants took to the U.S. tie their stories "here" to a "there" overseas. Meanwhile, their places here in the U.S. have been ambivalent: embraced as model minorities but also excluded as racial others, foreigners, even potential traitors. Out of this history comes a literature that wrestles with the problem of place and setting. From fiction to poetry to graphic novels, this course will introduce us to the range of Asian American literature and stretch our ideas of what it can be and where it can travel. Through this literature, we'll examine how Asian Americans have imagined their horizons of belonging when their places in the nation and world are unclear. We'll journey from familiar Asian American settings-Chinatown, the island, the Asia-Pacific-to less familiar ones-the American hemisphere, the trans-Atlantic, global utopias, fantasy worlds. Across these diverse settings, Asian American literature questions where and why we draw the boundaries of community, identity, and political responsibility in an increasingly migrant world. Authors may include Monique Truong, Frank Chin, Rishi Reddi, Marjorie Liu, Cathy Park Hong, and Ruth Ozeki. Satisfies the Twenthieth Century and later requirement.

A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM E Lit: TC EN: H

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L14 313 L46 313 L97 3130 L98 3131

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L16 Comp Lit 3551

Korean Literature and Performance from P'ansori to K-Pop

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This course examines Korean literature and performance traditions from the Choson dynasty (1392-1910) to the present. Through hands-on performance workshops, the course enables students to experience how Korean epic and lyric traditions were performed in the past and how they continue to flourish in the present across various media, including recorded music, written texts, and film. We will examine how Korean literature and performance traditions have transformed over time, with attention given to how these traditions speak to local and global audiences following the Korean Wave. Readings for the course will be in English or in English translation and no prior knowledge of Korean culture is necessary.

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L51 355 L03 355 L15 3551 L97 3550

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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 identify 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 Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: IS EN: H

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L08 3751 L14 375C

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L16 Comp Lit 395C

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May 8 2019 3:30PM - 5:30PM

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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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L03 4490 L04 449

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L16 Comp Lit 494

Seminar: Popular Culture in the Early Modern Age

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This course explores festive, theatrical, literary, visual, and musical forms of "popular culture" in Europe between 1400 and 1800. In the first part of the course, we will examine European cultural forms-English, Italian, French, Spanish, German, etc.---generated by and for non-elite groups: popular rituals, carnival songs, cheap print, folk plays, jigs, ballads, oral and written storytelling, protest poems, fool societies, beggar songs, woodcut images, peasant utopias, and musical forms such as the frottola. The second part of the course addresses expressions and representations of plebeian culture in the paintings, literature, and music of such artists as Pieter Brueghel, François Rabelais, William Shakespeare, and Antoine Busnoys. As we read through our primary texts, we will ask several questions. What, in fact, is "popular culture"? To what extent-and how-can we reconstruct the actual voices of ordinary people? What was the relationship between elite and popular culture in this period? Was early modern plebeian culture capable of generating social revolt? Our focus will be on the early modern period, but we will also consider how popular culture works in our own day. The course will include several visits from faculty in other disciplines. The course, which counts for the interdisciplinary requirement for the new Early Modern Studies Graduate Certificate, is also open to advanced undergraduates and other graduate students in the humanities.

A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM Art-Arch: MEA BU: HUM EN: H

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L14 494A L15 495

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L16 Comp Lit 495

The 19th-Century Novel: Ambition and Desire

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Our investigation of the classic European novel of the 19th century begins with the assumption that the novel is the preeminent literary form of urbanized, economic modernity. Through a detailed critical reading of six representative novels, we will be exploring such topics as the pressure that social and geographical mobility and larger historical forces exert on the exposed modern individual. Our readings will also engage questions of form, in particular the rise of realism as the primary mode of expression of the novels of this period. Supplementary reading will be provided for historical and theoretical context. Our texts for the course are: Goethe´s The Sorrows of Young Werther, Balzac´s Pere Goriot, Stendhal´s Red and the Black, Tolstoy´s Anna Karenina, Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, and Manzoni's The Betrothed.

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L14 4951 L79 4952 L97 4952

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L16 Comp Lit 500

Independent Work

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L16 Comp Lit 512

Seminar: Literature in the Making II

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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 550

Literature and the Cultural Sphere of Early Modernity: Methods of Study

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The aim of Comparative Literature 550 is to introduce graduate students to recent methods and models of study in early modern literature and culture. Over the past several decades, the early modern field has been home to some of the most exciting historical, critical, and methodological innovation: 'The New Historicism'; the histories of reading and of the book; the history of the emotions and the turn to affect; patronage and the idea of political and social networks; the intersections of gossip, news and high culture; the changing textual boundaries of national literary cultures; digital humanities, early modern texts, and literary study. Attendant on each field of inquiry are questions of method and of theory: to what traditional and to what new archives do we now turn in our work? what notions of text and textuality help us to draw the boundaries of our work as early modernists? and how do protocols of evidence variously shape our work as critics and historians? 'Literature and the Cultural Sphere of Early Modernity' will explore such questions and their relations to one another through common readings, discussions of set texts, and brief papers applying new methods and models; our work will also be shaped by the interests and fields of study among members of the seminar. The course is designed for students pursuing the Early Modern Studies Certificate, but it is broadly open to graduate students in our various language and literature programs, to historians interested in interdisciplinary study, as well as to students in other humanities and social science fields such as art history and philosophy.

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L16 Comp Lit 552

Methods of Literary Study: The Theory and Practice of Literary Translation II

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A review of translation theories and the study of cultural translation across different time periods and areas of the world. A more general approach to translation and cultural exchange in a globalizing world than Part I (Comp Lit 551), with specific examples to be drawn from Europe, Asia, Latin America and various cultural and literary exchanges between these regions. Topics will include the ideological and ethical underpinnings of translation, the political uses of language in intercultural communication, translation and comparative poetics, the impact of digital technology, and the role of translation in a postcolonial and multicultural world. We will consider not only written texts, but also film and new media as the objects of our critical inquiry. Students will choose a work that has already been translated for critique, in addition to producing their own translation and a critical response to their translation. Requirements: presentations, response papers, final translation project. Prerequisite: native or near-native competence in English and another language. This class is required for students completing the Graduate Certificate in Translation Studies. Open to graduate students in Comparative Literature, English, foreign languages and literatures, as well as any other program across the Humanities with an interest in Translation Studies.

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L16 Comp Lit 554A

Seminar on East Asian Print Culture and Society: Women in Print

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This team-led seminar examines developments in the history of publishing and reading in Japan, Korea, and to some extent China from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, with particular attention to material that focuses on women as readers or as objects of discourse. Specific topics include periodicals and books written for, about, and by women; the role of print and publishing in early modern and modern construction of gender roles; literacy, education, and habits of reading; the role of women readers and female-targeted publications in the development of literary culture. We will consider both commonalities and divergences in the construction of women as readers in each country in light of their interrelated but distinct historical and cultural conditions. The course will also include an introduction to digital humanities scholarship. Common readings will be in English, but seminar participants who are able to use Japanese or Korean sources will be expected to do so. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructors.

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L03 554 L05 554 L51 554 L77 554

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L16 Comp Lit 5651

Rethinking Aesthetics

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Ever since Alexander Baumgarten defined aesthetics as the "science of sensible knowledge" (1750), modern philosophers have pondered the relationship between sensory and epistemological processes. In particular, how does a work of art-and a work of literature, even more specifically-trigger insights beyond one's own personal experience of the world? How do such sensations contribute to a comprehensive understanding of that world? And can they shape the ethical response we make to it? This course proposes to "rethink aesthetics" by surveying some of the major works of aesthetic theory in the Western tradition-including Kant, Hume, Burke, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Wilde, Adorno, Beardsley, Sontag, and Scarry-while also bringing recent research in cognitive studies and affect theory to bear on the way we frame the category of the "aesthetic" today. With reference to first-order sensations and second-order representations, we will engage paintings, music, dance, poetry, drama, and fiction in order to consider how works of art shape us as knowers and actors in our world.

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