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MLA 246: Nazi Culture and California Exile
Cultural roots of Nazi Germany, from the late 19th century and the Weimar Republic. The character of culture after Hitler¿s rise to power. The paths of some of Germany¿s major writers and artists to California as they fled the regime. Works by Nietzsche, Mann, Brecht, and Adorno; films by Fritz Lang; and music by Arnold Schoenberg and Hanns Eisler.
MLA 247: European Intellectual and Cultural History in the 20th Century: From Freud to Foucault
Important thinkers and writers of the 20th century; their intellectual significance. Figures include Sigmund Freud, Max Weber, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, Martin Heidegger, George Orwell, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Michel Foucault.
MLA 248: Novels of Self-Reflection: Fictional Autobiography in Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte
Limited to MLA students. Read by the Victorian public as narratives of orphanhood, David Copperfield and Jane Eyre make heroic selves of the authors¿ alter egos. Brontë and Dickens each tell the story of a troubled child who journeys through writing toward an articulate authority. Both authors retell the story in later, darker novels: Dickens¿ Great Expectations and Brontë¿s Villette. The early novels as fictional autobiography.
MLA 249: Radical Theatre: Greek Tragedy Then and Now
How Greek drama grew out of and helped to transform the political, social, and ethical realities of 5th-century Athens. How issues raised in these plays address contemporary problems where the tragic example can prove enlightening. Texts include Homer's Iliad, Aeschylus' Oresteia, Sophocles' Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannus, and Euripides' Medea, Heracles, Suppliant Women, Helen, Trojan Women, and Bacchae.
MLA 250: A History of United States-China Relations
Turbulent past, challenging present, and uncertain future. From the start of formal relations in the 19th century to the recent past. Political, cultural, social, and economic dimensions. Research paper based on original sources.
MLA 251: The State in History: An Introduction to Historical and Social Scientific Methods
Methods historians use to understand and write about the past. Focus is on historical understanding of the state, perhaps the single most important topic in the humanities and the social sciences. The relationship of the state and its many forms in history to culture and society.
MLA 252: Basic Issues in Philosophy
Morality and values, using bad means to attain good ends, whether life is absurd, the subjective and the objective, the relation between the physical and the mental, and questions about the self. One important essay in contemporary philosophy per week.
MLA 253: Reading, Writing, and Their Communities
How do works of literature serve as ways for people to communicate with each other? How are readers writers of their own stories, and writers readers of other¿s stories? How do fiction readers find themselves part of a broad, transhistorical community of readers? The personal and social functions of literary narrative.
MLA 257: Hemingway, Hurston, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald
While Hemingway and Fitzgerald were flirting with the expatriate avant garde in Europe, Hurston, and Faulkner were performing anthropological fieldwork in the local cultures of the American South. The diversity of concerns and styles of four writers who marked America's coming-of-age as a literary nation with their experiments in the regional and global, the racial and cosmopolitan, the macho and feminist, the decadent and impoverished.
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