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COMPLIT 351B: Great Books: Dramatic Traditions (COMPLIT 151B, TAPS 151T, TAPS 351)

The most influential and enduring texts in the dramatic canon from Sophocles to Shakepeare, Chekhov to Soyinka. Their historical and geopolitical contexts. Questions about the power dynamics involved in the formation of canons.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors: Menon, J. (PI)

COMPLIT 353A: Experiment and the Novel (ENGLISH 303)

A double exploration of experiment in the novel from 1719 into the 19th century. Taking off from Zola's "The Experimental Novel," consideration of the novel's aspect as scientific instrument. Taking the idea of experimental fiction in the usual sense of departures from standard practice, consideration of works that seem to break away from techniques of "realism" devised prior to 1750, with "Robinson Crusoe" as the representative of that mode.. Texts by: Defoe, Sterne, Walpole, Godwin, Lewis, Goethe, and Shelley..
Terms: Aut | Units: 5
Instructors: Bender, J. (PI)

COMPLIT 354B: Poetic Thinking Across Media (COMPLIT 154B, GERMAN 154, GERMAN 354, JEWISHST 144B)

Even before Novalis claimed that the world must be romanticized, thinkers, writers, and artists wanted to perceive the human and natural world poetically. The pre- and post-romantic poetic modes of thinking they created are the subject of this course. Readings include Ecclestias, Zhaozhou Congshen, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Kafka, Benjamin, Arendt, and Sontag. This course will also present poetic thinking in the visual arts--from the expressionism of Ingmar Bergman to the neo-romanticism of Gerhard Richter.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4
Instructors: Eshel, A. (PI)

COMPLIT 357: Contemporary Turkish Cinema and Society (COMPLIT 157)

This course is an examination of contemporary Turkish cinema in a social and political context. The course will focus on films and directors that revived Turkish cinema starting with the mid-1990s with a focus on key issues pertaining to belonging, denied identities, masculinity, nationalism, silencing of women, and urbanization. The course aims to provide an overview of contemporary Turkish cinema and society in cultural, political, and social framework. There will be approximately two hours of film screening and two hours of classroom discussion/seminar (in English) each week. All films are in Turkish with English subtitles.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Karahan, B. (PI)

COMPLIT 359A: Philosophical Reading Group (FRENCH 395, ITALIAN 395)

Discussion of one contemporary or historical text from the Western philosophical tradition per quarter in a group of faculty and graduate students. For admission of new participants, a conversation with H. U. Gumbrecht is required. May be repeated for credit. Taught in English.
Terms: Aut, Win | Units: 1 | Repeatable for credit

COMPLIT 368A: Imagining the Oceans (ENGLISH 368A, FRENCH 368A)

How has Western culture constructed the world's oceans since the beginning of global ocean exploration? How have imaginative visions of the ocean been shaped by marine science, technology, exploration, commerce and leisure? Primary authors read might include Cook, Banks, Equiano, Ricketts, and Steinbeck; Defoe, Cooper, Verne, Conrad, Woolf and Hemingway; Coleridge, Baudelaire, Moore, Bishop and Walcott. Critical readings include Schmitt, Rediker and Linebaugh, Baucom, Best, Corbin, Auden, Sontag and Heller-Roazen. Films by Sekula, Painlevé and Bigelow. Seminar coordinated with a 2015 Cantor Arts Center public exhibition. Visits to the Cantor; other possible field trips include Hopkins Marine Station and SF Maritime Historical Park. Open to graduate students only.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5
Instructors: Cohen, M. (PI)

COMPLIT 369: Introduction to Graduate Studies: Criticism as Profession (DLCL 369, FRENCH 369, GERMAN 369, ITALIAN 369)

A history of literary theory for entering graduate students in national literature departments and comparative literature.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3

COMPLIT 371: Aesthetics, Politics, Modernity and China (CHINLIT 371)

The making of global heroes--and the many bodies of Chairman Mao. This course explores a number of key motifs of critical theory relevant to Chinese studies. It introduces some seminal theories of visuality and the making of (global) heroes and problematizes the writing of visual histories and the uses of Digital Humanities for this purpose. Part of an ongoing research project which focuses on two hyper-visible male protaganists of the twentieth century-Mohandas Gandhi and Mao Zedong. How have these flesh and blood men been transformed through the work of visual imagery into globally recognizable, transcultural "bio-icons"? Prerequisite: CHINLIT 127/207 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2-5 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: Mittler, B. (PI)

COMPLIT 376C: Tragic Form and Political Theory (ENGLISH 376C, PHIL 376C)

Tragic form and political theory have in common a profound interest in the conflictual foundation of human society. This course will explore how the two intellectual approaches define the actors of conflict, its causes, and its possible [or impossible] resolution.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5
Instructors: Moretti, F. (PI)

COMPLIT 381E: Pirandello, Sartre, and Beckett (COMPLIT 281E, FRENCH 214, FRENCH 314, ITALIAN 214, ITALIAN 314)

In this course we will read the main novels and plays of Pirandello, Sartre, and Beckett, with special emphasis on the existentialist themes of their work. Readings include The Late Mattia Pascal, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV; Nausea, No Exit, "Existentialism is a Humanism"; Molloy, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape, Waiting for Godot. Taught in English.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Harrison, R. (PI)
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