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COMPLIT 12SC: Ghost Stories: Why the Dead Return and What They Want From Us

Anxiety about morality and wisdom about the cultural place of the past is found in the enduring genre of the ghost story. Memory and regret, mourning and forgetting, past deeds and future actions are depicted in classical literature to popular film. Classic short story authors such as Henry James, P.G. Wodehouse, Eudora Welty, and Ray Bradbury, and novelists Shirley Jackson, Peter Straub, Ann Siddens and Jonathan Carroll, ghost films and fieldtrips to haunting at Stanford and the Bay Area.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2
Instructors: Berman, R. (PI)

COMPLIT 32SI: International Graffiti and Street Art

A geographical, chronological, and thematic examination of international graffiti and street art. Their aesthetics and history in terms of social and political functions (broken windows theory, graffiti as political campaigning, street art as marketing). Images, movies, and texts from the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Asia
Terms: Aut | Units: 1
Instructors: Greene, R. (PI)

COMPLIT 41N: Borderlands of Literature and Culture

In this seminar we will focus on the transnational themes of memory, identity, and US-Mexico border thinking and writing. We will explore the transnational poetry, autoethnographies, short stores, novels, and rock en español musics/videos by Americo Paredes, Gloria Anzaldua, Sandra Cisneros, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Carlos Fuentes, Elly Guerra, and Cafe Tacuba, among others.
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP

COMPLIT 41Q: Ethnicity and Literature

Preference to sophomores. What is meant by ethnic literature? How is ethnic writing different from non-ethnic writing, or is there such a thing as either? How does ethnicity as an analytic perspective affect the way literature is read by ethnic peoples? Articles and works of fiction; films on ethnic literature and cultural politics. How ethnic literature represents the nexus of social, historical, political, and personal issues.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul

COMPLIT 49: What is Nobel Literature? Reading, Assessing, and Interpreting the Nobel Novels on the World Stage

Recent Nobel laureates in literature: Gabriel García Márquez, Nadine Gordimer, Toni Morrison, Kenzaburo Oe, and V.S. Naipaul. These writers come from different locations, yet each participates in a global conversation about the human condition. The impact of their identities upon their thought and writing. How the Nobel prize is awarded. The role of literature in the world, and analytical skills for reading literary texts.
Terms: Sum | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP

COMPLIT 50Q: Is God Dead? (GERLIT 120Q)

A consideration of Nietzsche's claim that God is dead in relation to other texts of German literature and philosophy. The status of religious faith in relation to modernity and secularization; religion and science; culture and faith. Readings in German include selections from sacred and liturgical texts; fictional depictions of religious experience; religion in poetry; German theories of religion. Authors to be studied include Rilke, Hesse, Weiss, Schöder, Buber, Sachs, Haecker, Weber, Taubes, Ratzinger.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Berman, R. (PI)

COMPLIT 101: What is Literature?

How critics and authors from different eras and different parts of the globe have considered how literature, as a traditional cultural form, can or cannot, help to sustain societies faced with concrete historical crises such as war, revolution, and colonization. How the aesthetic work of verbal art has been seen to offer the possibility of continuity in the face of change. What, if anything, can be continued? How does art perhaps aid in accommodating change?
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II

COMPLIT 119: Dostoevsky and His Times (COMPLIT 219, SLAVGEN 151, SLAVGEN 251)

Open to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. Major works in English translation with reference to related developments in Russian and European culture, literary criticism, and intellectual history.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Frank, J. (TA)

COMPLIT 121: Poems, Poetry, Worlds: An Introductory Course

What is poetry? How does it speak in many voices to questions of history, society, and personal experience? Why does it matter? The reading and interpretation of poetry in crosscultural comparison as experience, invention, form, sound, knowledge, and part of the world. Readings include: medieval to modern poetry of western Europe and the Americas; contemporary poetry of Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the U.S.; and present-day experimental digital, sound, and visual poetry.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP

COMPLIT 122: Literature as Performance

Theater as performance and as literature. The historical tension between performance and sexuality in the Western tradition since Greek antiquity. Non-European forms and conventions of performance and theatricality. The modern competition between theater and other forms of performance and media such as sports, film, and television. Sources include: classical Japanese theater; ancient Greek tragedy and comedy; medieval theater in interaction with Christian rituals and its countercultural horizons; the classical age of European theater including Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and Molière.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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