printer friendly pageCOMPLIT 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 240A: Introduction to Hebrew Literature (JEWISHST 140)
The influence of biblical poetry, piyut, and medieval Hebrew poetry on the development of Modern Hebrew poetry. With focus on voice, space, lyrical Subjectivity, Intertextuality, and Poetic Forms. Guest Speakers include Tamar Zwei, Susan Einbinder, Berry Saharoff, and Raymond Scheindlin.
COMPLIT 241B: Earthly and Heavenly Intoxication: Wine Imagery in Medieval Persian Poetry and Prose
Through a close reading of pre-modern Persian poetic and prose texts, there will be an examination of the centrality of wine imagery in both profane and mystical Persian literature. Students will be exposed to a wide range of texts dating from 900-1400 CE. Intermediate command of Persian is required.
Instructors:
Brookshaw, D. (PI)
COMPLIT 254: Modern Chinese Novel: Theory, Aesthetics, History (CHINLIT 174, CHINLIT 274)
From the May Fourth movement to the 40s. Themes include enlightenment, democracy, women's liberation, revolution, war, urban culture, and love. Prerequisite: advanced Chinese.
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.
COMPLIT 330: The Bourgeois
Goal is to define the ruling class of modern times. Social history (Weber, Hirschmann, Marx); literary texts (Defoe, Goethe, Gaskell); and Henrik Ibsen who produced an intransigent criticism of the bourgeois ethos.
COMPLIT 364: Style
The return of a term that was central in 20th-century criticism, and has all but disappeared in recent decades. Focus ison looking at concepts of style from various branches of linguistic and literary theory, and examination of some revealing examples in novels and films. Team taught with D.A. Miller from U.C. Berkeley.
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