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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (L16)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)SP2019

L16 Comp Lit 550Literature and the Cultural Sphere of Early Modernity: Methods of Study3.0 Units
Description: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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Course Type:HomeSame As:L14 551Frequency:Annually / History
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