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COMPLIT 371: Aesthetics, Politics, and Literary Criticism: East and West (CHINLIT 371)

How aesthetics and politics intertwine and break apart in Western and Eastern traditions. Aesthetics for understanding culture, morality, and power in crosscultural contexts. Readings include Hegel, Kant, Marcuse, Lukacs, and Adorno; and Chinese thinkers Wang Guowei, Lu Xun, Li Zehou, and Mao. Prerequisite: CHINLIT 127/207 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2-5 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: Wang, B. (PI)

COMPLIT 396L: Pedagogy Seminar I (ENGLISH 396L)

Required for first-year Ph.D students in English, Modern Thought and Literature, and Comparative Literature. Preparation for surviving as teaching assistants in undergraduate literature courses. Focus is on leading discussions and grading papers.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2
Instructors: Woloch, A. (PI)

COMPLIT 399: Individual Work

Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 1-15 | Repeatable for credit

COMPLIT 802: TGR Dissertation

Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 0 | Repeatable for credit

COMPLIT 125A: The Gothic Novel

The Gothic novel and its relatives from its invention by Walpole in The Castle of Otranto of 1764. Readings include: Northanger Abbey, The Italian, The Monk, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, and Dracula. What defines the Gothic as it evolves from one specific novel to a mode that makes its way into a range of fictional types?
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum

COMPLIT 129A: Contemporary Persian Poetry: Encounter of a Thousand-Year-Old Classical Tradition with Modernity

The primacy of poetic expression in Persian culture in the transition from tradition to modernity. Major 20th-century poets in relation to historical events and social change. Authors include: Nima Yushij, Ahmad Shamloo, Sohrab Sepehri, Mehdi Akhavan Sales, Forough Farrokhzad, Nader Naderpour, Fereydoun Moshiri, Esma'il Kho'i, and Afghan and Tajik poets.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum

COMPLIT 135: Chinese Cultural Revolution: Performance, Politics, and Aesthetics (CHINLIT 190, CHINLIT 290)

Events, arts, films, and operas of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Analysis of political passion, aesthetics, and psychology of mass movements. Places the Cultural Revolution in the long-range context of art, social movements, and politics. Chinese language is not required.

COMPLIT 147B: From Greece to Tahrir Square: The Rhetoric of Democracy

Discussion and analysis of how the idea of democracy has been represented, communicated, debated, in Greece, France, the United States, China, and Egypt. Historical, philosophical, literary texts, films. Student research, presentations, debates a key part of course.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum

COMPLIT 218: The work of Luis Martín Santos in Mid-Twentieth Century Spain

First published in 1962, "Tiempo de Silencio" is the only book that the young psychiatrist Luis Martin Santos finished during his lifetime, and, although largely overlooked (even in Spain) until the present day, one of the great European novels of the 20th century. It brings to a complex convergence the evocation of Spain's decadent and run-down post-Civil War society with high-modernist literary procedures and (an implicit parody of) phenomenological analysis.

COMPLIT 230A: The Novel in Europe: The Age of Compromise, 1800-1848

The novel after the French revolution and the industrial take-off. Novelistic form and historical processes ¿ nation-building and the marriage market, political conservatism and the advent of fashion, aristocracy and bourgeoisie and proletariat... ¿ focusing on how stylistic choices and plot structures offer imaginary resolutions to social and ideological conflicts. Authors will include Austen, Scott, Shelley, Stendhal, Puskin, Balzac, Bronte.
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