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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE & THOUGHT (L16) (Dept. Info)

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L16 CompLitTht 500

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L16 CompLitTht 502

Introduction to Comparative Literature

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An introduction to the discipline and practice of Comparative Literature, this course explores the concepts most frequently discussed and the methods most successfully practiced. We will study what texts reveal when they are examined cross-culturally. Students will consider the various differences that emerge between texts when themes and genres are followed across more than one national literature. The course includes a short history of the discipline and recent debates about the nature and scope of the field. Topics to be discussed include genres and forms, influence and intertextuality, translation, world literature, exile, and cross-cultural encounter.

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Parvulescu

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L16 CompLitTht 512

Seminar: Literature in the Making

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

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L16 CompLitTht 524A

Seminar: Caribbean Literature and U.S. Empire

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This course will investigate Anglophone Caribbean literature's relationship to U.S. empire, from 1898 to the present. Among other things, we will contemplate critical conceptions of transnational/hemispheric literature, iterations of postcolonial critique in both pre- and post-independence eras, the role of race and diaspora in Caribbean literary production, and the intertwined histories of Caribbean and U.S.-American literature. Primary texts will range across the century, touching on prominent moments of U.S.-Caribbean contact such as the Harlem Renaissance, the creation of U.S. bases on Trinidad during World War II, the rise of Black Power across the hemisphere, the U.S. invasion of Grenada, and the contemporary placement of Caribbean-born authors in American academia. Primary texts are likely to include works by authors such as Eric Walrond, Claude McKay, C.L.R. James, V.S. Naipaul, Samuel Selvon, Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, Jamaica Kincaid, and Caryl Phillips.

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L16 CompLitTht 527A

Seminar in the 20th Century: The Aesthetics of Resistance

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For writers, artists, activists, and intellectuals, expressing their political commitments often requires a strong notion of resistance. While the term resistance has become ubiquitous in contemporary discourse, a closer look at its history since the early 20th century allows for a critical perspective on the complex and contradictory structure of its usage by writers and intellectuals of various ideological leanings. Focusing on the "short 20th century" (1914-1989), this course explores the various understandings of resistance in the context of modern European literature and thought. Students will analyze a range of novels, plays, stories, poems, essays, treatises, pamphlets, and manifestoes with the goal of formulating a - however preliminary - aesthetic theory of resistance. We will discuss how resistance and oppression are related, how aesthetics and politics intersect, how art and ideology permeate one another, and how subversion constantly seeks new ways to express itself. Authors include Luxemburg, Brecht, Seghers, Benjamin, Jünger, Schmitt, Malaparte, Camus, Weil, Arendt, Weiss, or Krasznahorkai. Readings and discussions in English.

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L16 CompLitTht 5478

Topics in Transmedia Franchises

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This variable topics course for advanced undergraduate and graduate students is an interdisciplinary seminar on transmedia franchises. In particular, it is recommended for those seeking to understand transmedia storytelling as an artistic, industrial, and cultural practice. As such, this course will bring into conversation various methodologies and perspectives, including film and media scholarship as well as other fields of study in the humanities and social sciences. The goal of this interdisciplinary approach is to illuminate how transmedia franchises have developed since the early 20th century to become the dominant product of the American -- and, increasingly, global -- cultural industries. Foci of this course may include such topics as individual franchises; global transmedia history; the franchise strategies of individual cultural industries (e.g., the Japanese media mix); or representation within franchise texts, production cultures, and fan communities. This course serves as a capstone for Film & Media Studies majors. Weekly or bi-weekly screenings or hands-on media labs are required: Tuesdays @ 7pm

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L53 478 L53 5478 L98 478

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L16 CompLitTht 549

Topics in Comparative Literature: Humanism

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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). As we read other well known European humanists, such as Petrarch, Ficino, Machiavelli, More, and Castiglione, we will also explore several women writers both enabled by and reacting to humanism: Gaspara Stampa, Vittoria Colonna, Louise Labé, Isabella d'Este, and more. As we explore humanism, we will compare the historical phenomenon with contemporary reactions to it, especially "post-humanism." To some extent, we will consider the recent 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 449 L14 449A L14 549A

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L16 CompLitTht 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 CompLitTht 563

Literary Criticism: From Critique to Postcritique

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Over the last twenty years or so, postcritique has become a momentous challenger to established ways of doing literary scholarship. To some, postcritique is the most significant reorientation of literary criticism since the 1980s, when the New Historicists chased deconstruction out of English departments. To others, postcritique represents a lamentable surrender to the de-politicizing agenda of the neoliberal university. In this class, students will have the opportunity to reexamine the tradition of critique and gain an understanding of how postcritique emerged from it. We will study major examples of critique and postcritique and trace the intellectual histories that animate these different practices of literary scholarship. Central figures are likely to include Marx, Freud, representatives of the Frankfurt School, Fredric Jameson, Paul Ricoeur, Rita Felski, Bruno Latour, Eve Sedgwick, and Heather Love.

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L16 CompLitTht 590

Var. Units (max = 9.0)

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Dissertation/Research

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Tatlock

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