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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 216: Petrarch and Petrarchism (ITALGEN 264E)

The works of Petrarch (1304-1374), acknowledged as the founder of Renaissance humanism, and a bibliophile, collector of manuscripts, and devotee of erudition. How he dedicated his life to harmonizing the Christian faith with classical learning. Sources include his Latin moral works, epistles, epics, and treatises on illustrious men, and the Triumphs and Canzoniere .

COMPLIT 221: Memory, History, and the Contemporary Novel (GERLIT 246)

How the watershed events of the 20th century, the philosophic linguistic turn, and the debate regarding the end of history left their mark on the novel. How does the contemporary novel engage with the past? How does its interest in memory and history relate to late- or postmodern culture of time or to political and ethical concerns? Novels by Toni Morrison, W. G. Sebald, J. M. Coetzee, Kazuo Ishiguro, and A. B. Yehoshua; theoretical works by Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Fredric Jameson, Paul Ricoeur Awishai Margalit, and Walter Benn Michaels.

COMPLIT 222: Time-Travel Literature

A study of narratives whose heroes travel physically from one historical period to another. Utopian and dystopian travel to the past and the future in works from the French, Spanish, British, American, German, Russian, Arabic, and Persian traditions. The appearance of time-travel literature in the 1770s, the development of such conventions as the time machine, and the depiction of past and future societies in writing and film. The relationship between temporality and historical imagination in Enlightenment, modern, postmodern, and postcolonial contexts. Supplemental session for those who can read the texts in Arabic.

COMPLIT 227: Literature and Metamorphoses

Narratives of metamorphoses in relation to subjectivity and socialization; physical and psychological transformation, and the border between animal and human identity. Examples from antiquity to the present to explore the durability and transformation of metamorphosis accounts. Examples from the visual arts. Scientific, philosophical, and social implications. Metamorphosis in relation to intertextuality and narratology. Texts by authors such Ovid, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Keats, Stevenson, Wilde, Kafka, and Hughes.

COMPLIT 233: Baroque and Neobaroque (SPANLIT 293E)

The literary, cultural, and political implications of the 17th-century phenomenon formed in response to the conditions of the 16th century including humanism, absolutism, and early capitalism, and dispersed through Europe, the Americas, and Asia. If the Baroque is a universal code of this period, how do its vehicles, such as tragic drama, Ciceronian prose, and metaphysical poetry, converse with one another? The neobaroque as a complex reaction to the remains of the baroque in Latin American cultures, with attention to the mode in recent Brazilian literary theory and Mexican poetry.

COMPLIT 246A: Literature and Film of Modern Iran

Iran's social structures, political system, cultural tendencies, and modern artistic culture.

COMPLIT 250: Literature, History, and Representation (FRENLIT 248)

Literary works as historical narratives; texts which envision ways of reconstructing or representing an ancient or immediate past through collective or individual narratives. Narration and narrator; relation between individual and collective history; historical events and how they have shaped the narratives; master narratives; and alternative histories. Reading include Glissant, Césaire, Dadié, Cixous, Pérec, Le Clézio, Mokkedem, Benjamin, de Certeau, and White.

COMPLIT 303D: Thinking in Fiction

Narrative and cognition in 18th-century fictional, philosophical, scientific, and cultural texts. Probable readings: Hobbes, Locke, Newton, Swift, Defoe, Hume, Lennox, Sterne, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, and Bentham.

COMPLIT 311: Shakespeare, Islam, and Others

Shakespeare and other early modern writers in relation to new work on Islam and the Ottoman Turk in early modern studies. Othello, Twelfth Night, Titus Andronicus, The Merchant of Venice, and other Shakespeare plays. Kyd's Solyman and Perseda, Daborne's A Christian Turned Turk, Massinger's The Renegado, Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, and literary and historical materials.
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