printer friendly pageCOMPLIT 10N: Shakespeare and Performance in a Global Context
Preference to freshmen. The problem of performance including the performance of gender through the plays of Shakespeare. In-class performances by students of scenes from plays. The history of theatrical performance. Sources include filmed versions of plays, and readings on the history of gender, gender performance, and transvestite theater.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, GER:EC-Gender
Instructors:
Parker, P. (PI)
COMPLIT 122: Literature as Performance
Theater as performance and as literature. Historical tension between text and spectacle, thought and embodiment in western and other traditions since Greek antiquity. Dramas read in tandem with theory, live performances, and audiovisuals.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
COMPLIT 123: The Novel, The World
Combining perspectives of the novels of the world as imaginary force with a sense of reality and as protean form that has reshaped the literary universe. Readings from: ancient Greece; early modern Spain, China, and continental Europe; theories of the novel; 19th-century realism; modernist and postmodern experiments; and the contemporary avant gardes of the world, including South Asia, and the hemispheric and transnational Americas.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Cohen, M. (PI)
COMPLIT 133: Gender and Modernism (COMPLIT 333)
Gender and sexuality in trans-Atlantic modernist literature and culture from the 1880s-1930s. Topics include the 19th-century culture wars and the figures of the dandy and the New Woman; modernist critiques of Enlightenment rationality; impact of World War I on gender roles; gender and the rise of modern consumer culture, fashion, design; the modernist metropolis and gender/sexuality; the avant-garde and gender; literary first-wave feminism; homoerotic modernism; modernism in the context of current theories of gender and sexuality.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Dierkes, P. (PI)
COMPLIT 144A: Istanbul the Muse: The City in Literature and Film
The multiple layers of culture and history in Istanbul, a city on two continents between East and West, have inspired great art and literature. The class focuses on the idea of "inbetweenness" through art, literature, music, and popular culture seen chronologically. In addition to discussing literary, historical, and academic texts we will explore visual genres such as advertising, architecture, caricature, documentary, film, and miniature painting. Readings and discussion in English.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Karahan, B. (PI)
COMPLIT 146A: The Arab Spring in Arabic Literature (COMPLIT 347)
An examination of the events of 2011 in the Middle East through literature. We will read short stories, poetry, graphic novels, and blogs in order to try and work out whether the revolution could have been predicted, and how it took place. Prerequisite: two years of Arabic at Stanford, or equivalent.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Key, A. (PI)
COMPLIT 151A: Philosophies, Literatures, and Alternatives (COMPLIT 351A)
Aristotelian poetics and mediaeval Arabic literary theory. Nietzsche's irony and Philosophies and literatures, together and apart, dominate the last two millennia of human thought. How might they best be read? Are philosophy and literature two different ways of thinking, or are they just two separate institutional histories? This course starts with familiar Greeks, moves onto unfamiliar Arabs, confronts old Europe, and ends with contemporary Americans arguing.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, GER:DB-Hum, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Key, A. (PI)
COMPLIT 154A: Film & Philosophy (FRENCH 154, ITALIAN 154, PHIL 193C, PHIL 293C)
Issues of freedom, morality, faith, knowledge, personal identity, and the value of truth explored through film; philosophical investigation of the filmic medium itself. Screenings to include Twelve Monkeys (Gilliam), Ordet (Dreyer), The Dark Knight (Nolan), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Allen), and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Kaufman). Taught in English.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Burgess, A. (PI)
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Landy, J. (PI)
COMPLIT 194: Independent Research
(Staff)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Bender, J. (PI)
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Berman, R. (PI)
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Brookshaw, D. (PI)
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Berman, R. (PI)
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Brookshaw, D. (PI)
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Cohen, M. (PI)
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Dierkes, P. (PI)
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Eshel, A. (PI)
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Greene, R. (PI)
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Greenleaf, M. (PI)
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Gumbrecht, H. (PI)
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Karahan, B. (PI)
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Key, A. (PI)
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Lee, H. (PI)
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Moretti, F. (PI)
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Mudimbe-Boyi, E. (PI)
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Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)
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Parker, P. (PI)
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Saldivar, J. (PI)
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Saldivar, R. (PI)
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Wang, B. (PI)
COMPLIT 222A: German Literature and Thought from 1900 to the Present: Wrestling with Modernity (GERMAN 222, GERMAN 322)
Masters of German 20th and 21st Century literature and philosophy as they present aesthetic innovation and confront the challenges of modern technology, social alienation, manmade catastrophes, and imagine the future. Readings include Nietzsche, Freud, Rilke, Musil, Brecht, Kafka, Doeblin, Benjamin, Juenger, Arendt, Musil, Mann, Adorno, Celan, Grass, Bachmann, Bernhardt, Wolf, and Kluge. Taught in English.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Eshel, A. (PI)
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