printer friendly pageSLAVIC 190: Tolstoy's Anna Karenina in Dialogue with Contemporary Philosophical, Social, and Ethical Thought (COMPLIT 190, COMPLIT 390, SLAVIC 390)
Anna Karenina, the novel as a case study in the contest between "modernity" and "tradition," their ethical order, ideology, cultural codes, and philosophies. Images of society, women and men in Tolstoy v. those of his contemporaries: Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Weber, Durkheim, Freud. Open to juniors, seniors and graduate students. Requirements: three interpretive essays (500-1000 words each). Analysis of a passage from the novel; AK refracted through a "philosophical" prism and vice versa (30% each); class discussion and Forum (10%).
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Freidin, G. (PI)
SLAVIC 198: Writing Between Languages: The Case of Eastern European Jewish Literature (JEWISHST 148, JEWISHST 348, SLAVIC 398)
Eastern European Jews spoke and read Hebrew, Yiddish, and their co-territorial languages (Russian, Polish, etc.). In the modern period they developed secular literatures in all of them, and their writing reflected their own multilinguality and evolving language ideologies. We focus on major literary and sociolinguistic texts. Reading and discussion in English; students should have some reading knowledge of at least one relevant language as well.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Safran, G. (PI)
SLAVIC 251: Dostoevsky: Narrative Performance and Literary Theory (COMPLIT 219)
In-depth engagement with a range of Dostoevsky's genres: early works (epistolary novella
Poor Folk and experimental
Double), major novels (
Crime and Punishment,
The Idiot), less-read shorter works ("A Faint Heart," "Bobok," and "The Meek One"), and genre-bending
House of the Dead and
Diary of a Writer. Course applies recent theory of autobiography, performance, repetition and narrative gaps, to Dostoevsky's transformations of genre, philosophical and dramatic discourse, and narrative performance. Slavic students read primary texts in Russian, other participants in translation. Course conducted in English. For graduate students; undergraduates with advanced linguistic and critical competence may enroll with consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
SLAVIC 195: Russian and East European Theater (SLAVIC 395)
Evolution of modernist Russian/EEur. dramaturgy, theatrical practices, landmark productions from Chekhov-Meyerhold-Grotowski to present; re-performance of classics; techniques of embodiment. Taught in English.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
SLAVIC 236: The Russian Long Take
`Time flows in a film not by virtue but in defiance of montage-cuts,¿ wrote the great Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. An exploration of the phenomenon of long take (a single continuous shot which presents `a vision of time¿) and its aesthetic and philosophical significance to the art of cinema. Key films by cult Russian/Soviet auteurs such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergei Paradzhanov and Aleksandr Sokurov will be used as case studies and read through the prism of film theory (Gilles Deleuze, Andre Bazin and Jean Epstein). Taught in English.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
SLE 91: Structured Liberal Education
Three quarter sequence; restricted to and required of SLE students. Comprehensive study of the intellectual foundations of the western tradition in dialogue with eastern, indigenous, and postcolonial perspectives. The cultural foundations of western civilization in ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle East, with attention to Buddhist and Hindu counterparts and the questions these traditions address in common. Texts and authors include Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Greek tragedy, Sappho, the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, Saint Augustine, and texts from Hindu and Buddhist traditions.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 8
| UG Reqs: College, GER:DB-Hum, GER:IHUM-1, THINK, WAY-A-II, Writing SLE
Instructors:
Bogucki, M. (PI)
;
Coggeshall, E. (PI)
;
Hicks, L. (PI)
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Bogucki, M. (PI)
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Coggeshall, E. (PI)
;
Hicks, L. (PI)
;
Landy, J. (PI)
;
Mann, P. (PI)
;
Sabol, J. (PI)
;
Watkins, G. (PI)
SLE 92: Structured Liberal Education
Three quarter sequence; restricted to and required of SLE students. Comprehensive study of the intellectual foundations of the western tradition in dialogue with eastern, indigenous, and postcolonial perspectives. The foundations of the modern world, from late antiquity through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution. Authors include Dante, Descartes, Shakespeare, and texts from Chinese and Islamic traditions.
Terms: Win
| Units: 8
| UG Reqs: College, GER:DB-Hum, GER:IHUM-2, THINK, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER, Writing SLE
Instructors:
Bogucki, M. (PI)
;
Coggeshall, E. (PI)
;
Culverhouse, Z. (PI)
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Instructors:
Bogucki, M. (PI)
;
Coggeshall, E. (PI)
;
Culverhouse, Z. (PI)
;
Hicks, L. (PI)
;
Landy, J. (PI)
;
Lougee, C. (PI)
;
Mann, P. (PI)
;
Sabol, J. (PI)
;
Watkins, G. (PI)
SLE 93: Structured Liberal Education
Three quarter sequence; restricted to and required of SLE students. Comprehensive study of the intellectual foundations of the western tradition in dialogue with eastern, indigenous, and postcolonial perspectives. Modernity as a period in intellectual history and a problem in the human sciences. Authors include Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Kafka, Woolf, Eliot, and Sartre.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 8
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:IHUM-3, Writing 2, College, Writing SLE, THINK, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Bogucki, M. (PI)
;
Coggeshall, E. (PI)
;
Hicks, L. (PI)
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Instructors:
Bogucki, M. (PI)
;
Coggeshall, E. (PI)
;
Hicks, L. (PI)
;
Landy, J. (PI)
;
Lougee, C. (PI)
;
Mann, P. (PI)
;
Sabol, J. (PI)
;
Watkins, G. (PI)
SPANLIT 102N: Contemporary Latin American Theater
Representative playwrights and theater troupes of Spanish speaking Latin America and the Caribbean, emphasizing the 60s and 70s. Topics: representation and politics; theatrical language and poetics; avant gardes and performance;
teatro comprometido; psychodrama; influence of Brecht, Artaud, and the Theater of the Absurd. Plays by Emilio Carballido, Sabina Berman, Virgilio Piñera, Jose Triana, René Marqués, Luis Rafael Sánchez, La Candelaria, Yuyachkani, Osvaldo Dragún, Griselda Gambaro, Eduardo Pavlovsky, Egon Wolff.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
SPANLIT 105N: Don Quixote
Preference to freshmen. Topics include: theories of language and the novel; history of early modern Iberia; Muslims in Europe. Close reading technique. Sources include filmed version.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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