COMPLIT 11Q: Shakespeare, Playing, Gender
Preference to sophomores. Focus is on several of the best and lesser known plays of Shakespeare, on theatrical and other kinds of playing, and on ambiguities of both gender and playing gender.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, GER:EC-Gender, GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Parker, P. (PI)
COMPLIT 122: Literature as Performance (COMPLIT 322)
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)
;
Kim, B. (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 168: Imagining the Oceans (COMPLIT 368, ENGLISH 168, ENGLISH 368, FRENCH 168, FRENCH 368)
How has Western culture constructed the world's oceans since the beginning of global ocean exploration? How have imaginative visions of the ocean been shaped by marine science, technology, exploration, commerce and leisure? Readings might include voyage accounts by Cook and Darwin, sailors' narratives by Equiano and Dana, poetry by Coleridge, Bishop and Walcott, novels by Melville, Verne, Conrad and Woolf. Visual culture might include paintings by Turner and Redon, and films by Jean Painlevé, Kathryn Bigelow, Jerry Bruckheimer and James Cameron. Critical texts will be drawn from interdisciplinary theorists of modernity and mobility, such as Schmitt, Wallerstein, Corbin, Latour, Deleuze + Guattari, and Cresswell.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Cohen, M. (PI)
COMPLIT 194: Independent Research
(Staff)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Bender, J. (PI)
;
Berman, R. (PI)
;
Brookshaw, D. (PI)
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Instructors:
Bender, J. (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)
;
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
;
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 219: Dostoevsky: Narrative Performance and Literary Theory (SLAVIC 251)
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
COMPLIT 222A: Wrestling with Modernity: German Literature and Thought from 1900 to the Present (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. Undergraduates enroll in 222 for 5 units, graduate students enroll in 322 for 8 units.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5-8
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Eshel, A. (PI)
COMPLIT 229: Literature of Global Health (FRENCH 229, HUMBIO 175L, MED 234)
This course examines the ways literary and medical writers have used the narrative form to explore the ethics of care in what has been called the developing world. We will begin with a call made by the editor-in-chief of
The Lancet for a literature of global health -- modeled on the social reform novels of the nineteenth century, which are meant to have helped readers develop a modern public health conscience. We will study global health ethics as a field initially rooted in philosophy and policy that address questions raised by practice in resource-constrained communities abroad. And we will spend the quarter understanding how colonial and world literatures may deepen and even alter these questions. Readings will be selected from Albert Schweitzer, Aime Cesaire, Albert Camus, Frantz Fanon, Antonio Olinto, Ben Okri, Amitav Ghosh, Anne Fadiman, and Paul Farmer.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom, GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
Instructors:
Ikoku, A. (PI)
COMPLIT 236: Literature and Transgression (FEMGEN 236)
Close reading and analysis of erotic-sexual and aesthetic-stylistic transgression in selected works by Wilde, Schnitzler, Joyce, Barnes, Bataille, Burroughs, Thomas Mann, Guenter Grass, Kathy Acker, Junot Diaz and others. Along with understanding the changing cultural, social, and political contexts of what constitutes "transgression" or censorship, students will gain knowledge of influential theories of transgression by Foucault, Blanchot, and contemporary queer and feminist writers.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Dierkes, P. (PI)
COMPLIT 243B: Readings in Avicenna and al-Jurjani
Classical Arabic reading course. Instructor approval required. Pre-requisite: minimum two years of Arabic at Stanford or equivalent.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Key, A. (PI)
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