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Preference to freshmen. Literary responses to Italy by writers in English during the past hundred years and how they continue to constuct myths of Italy. How these myths have been transformed into commodities in consumer culture, making Italy a profitable fiction. Authors include Hawthorne, Howells, James, Wharton, Forster, Unsworth, Hellenga, and Mayes.

A new generation of Italian filmmakers who examine the contradictory encounters between Italians and the migrant others in contemporary Italy. Critical texts from film studies, gender studies, ethnic and cultural studies, psychoanalysis, and history. I English; films, in Italian with English subtitles, by Amelio, Ozpetek, Munzi, Garrone, Melliti, Tornatore, and Giordana.

We will compare both Italian and American fantasies of the Mafia to its historical origins and impact on Italian culture. Central topics: do the media inevitably idealize corruption or can they criticize it? how do Mafia stories reflect tensions between North and South in Italy, and between Italians and Italian-Americans? how do we triangulate the myths of the Mafia, popular culture, and the anti-institutional bias of much modern Italian fiction? In English.

Required gateway course for Philosophical and Literary Thought; crosslisted in departments sponsoring the Philosophy and Literature track: majors should register in their home department; non-majors may register in any sponsoring department. Introduction to major problems at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Issues may include authorship, selfhood, truth and fiction, the importance of literary form to philosophical works, and the ethical significance of literary works. Texts include philosophical analyses of literature, works of imaginative literature, and works of both philosophical and literary significance. Authors may include Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Borges, Beckett, Barthes, Foucault, Nussbaum, Walton, Nehamas, Pavel, and Pippin.

For graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Ariosto's epic poem Orlando furioso in the context of the social and political world of Renaissance Italy. Topics include: its relationship to precursor texts and traditions (classical, Arthurian, Carolingian); Ferrarese court culture and the politics of dynastic epic; its relationship to early modern ideologies of gender. Taught in English but requires advanced reading knowledge of Italian.

The first canticle of Dante's masterpiece.

20th-century Italian novels and their film adaptations. Texts include The Leopard (Tomasi di Lampedusa/De Sica), The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Bassani, De Sica), The Conformist (Moravia/Bertolucci), Christ Stopped at Eboli (Levi/Rosi), Padre/Padrone (Ledda/Taviani).

To what extent is poetry the other of modern philosophy? How does modern aesthetic theory understand the distinction and blur the boundaries between philosophical and poetic thinking? Authors include Croce, Gentile, Sartre, Bataille, Agamben, Ricoeur, Cacciari, Derrida, and Vattimo.

How the notion of decadence, initially a term of derision, shapes and underlies the positive terms of symbolism and modernism. Readings include theories of decadence and examples of symbolist and modernist texts that attempt to exorcise decadent demons, such as lust, mysticism, and the retreat into artificiality. Authors include Huysmans, Poe, Mallarmé, Nietzsche, Nordau, d¿Annunzio, Valry, Ungaretti, Marinetti, and Breton.