printer friendly pageCOMPLIT 123: The Novel, The World
Combining perspectives of the novels of the world as anthropological force with the sense of reality, and as protean form that has reshaped the literary universe. Readings from: ancient Greece; medieval Japan and Britain; and early modern Spain, China, and Britain; romantic theories of the novel; 19th-century realism and popular fiction; modernist experiments; and postmodern pastiches.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Cohen, M. (PI)
COMPLIT 124: Fait Divers and the Development of Modernist Writing
Felix Fénéon¿s novels in three lines from 1906 turned a journalistic stop-gap into a literary genre highly influential for modernist writing. The history of the
fait divers and its literary precursors and variations (Kleist, Hebel; its influence on authors such as Mallarmé, Kafka, and Kraus. Reading knowledge of German helpful, but not required.
COMPLIT 125A: The Gothic Novel (ENGLISH 125A)
The Gothic novel and its relatives from its invention by Walpole in
The Castle of Otranto of 1764. Readings include:
Northanger Abbey,
The Italian,
The Monk,
Frankenstein,
Jane Eyre,
Great Expectations, and
Dracula. What defines the Gothic as it evolves from one specific novel to a mode that makes its way into a range of fictional types?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Bender, J. (PI)
COMPLIT 133: Salome, Modernity, and the Aesthetics of Transgression
The Salome theme in Europe and the U.S.: from the 1880s to the present, in literature, opera, dance, and film. Topics include representations of sexual and aesthetic excess, ecstasy, and transgression in the context of modernity. Historically associated with metaphysical crisis, evil femininity, and discourses of perversity, the popularity of the Salome theme invites comparative treatments in fin de siècle and modernist studies, feminist studies, as well as queer theory. All readings in English.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Dierkes, P. (PI)
COMPLIT 134: The Poetry of History in the Americas
Major long poems of the 20th century by: U.S. poets such as Williams and Olson; Latin America poets such as Neruda and Cardenal; and Caribbean poets such as Brathwaite and Walcott. The literary history of the long poem in the hemisphere sustaining a transamerican viewpoint. Topics include: claims for the autonomy of culture in the Americas after WW II; redefinitions of the role of poets under conditions of U.S. hegemony and the Cold War; and the legacies of modernism.
COMPLIT 141: Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean (FRENLIT 133)
Major African and Caribbean writers. Issues raised in literary works which reflect changing aspects of the societies and cultures of Francophone Africa and the French Caribbean. Topics include colonization and change, quest for identity, tradition and modernity, and new roles and status for women. Readings in fiction and poetry. Authors include Laye Camara, Mariama Ba, and Joseph Zobel. In French. Prerequisite:
FRENLANG 126 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors:
Mudimbe-Boyi, E. (PI)
COMPLIT 142: The Literature of the Americas (ENGLISH 172E)
The intellectual and aesthetic problems of inter-American literature conceived as an entirety. Emphasis is on continuities and crises relevant to N., Central, and S. American literatures. Issues such as the encounters between world views, the emergence of creole and racially mixed populations, slavery, the New World voice, myths of America as paradise or utopia, the coming of modernism, 20th-century avant gardes, and distinctive modern episodes such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Beats, magical realism, and Noigandres in comparative perspective.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Greene, R. (PI)
;
Saldivar, R. (PI)
COMPLIT 144: Gender and Modernism
Gender and sexuality in trans-Atlantic culture from the 1880s-1930s. The 19th-century culture wars and the figures of the dandy and the new woman. Sexuality and the modernist critique of Enlightenment rationality. The impact of WW I on gender roles. The rise of modern consumer culture, fashion, and design. The modernist metropolis and gender/sexuality. The avant garde and gender. Literary first-wave feminism. Radclyffe Hall's obscenity trial. Homoerotic modernism. Attention to contemporary intellectual history and recent theorists of gender and sexuality including Foucault, Felski, Jardine, and Sedgwick.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Dierkes, P. (PI)
COMPLIT 146: Asian American Culture and Community (ASNAMST 146S, CSRE 146S)
An examination of the history of Asians in America via one case history: the International Hotel in San Francisco. Background history of Asians in America, and the specifics of the I Hotel case as involving the convergence of global and local economies, urban redevelopment, and housing issues for minorities. Focus on the convergence of community and cultural production. Service learning component involving community work at the Manilatown Heritage Foundation in San Francisco.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, GER:DB-Hum, WAY-EDP
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
Instructors:
Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)
COMPLIT 147: Culture Wars in Epic Poetry (CLASSGEN 147)
Homer's
Iliad and
Odyssey, Virgil's
Aeneid, Melville's
Moby Dick, and Walcott's
Omeros are epics that feature the clash of civilizations. Topics include cultural values and social relations including race, class, ethnicity, and gender in Homeric Greece, the early Roman Empire, 19th-century America, and modern-day St. Lucia a Caribbean island colonized by European empires and populated with African slave. The literary aspects of epic and how each epic imitates and transforms earlier epics.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Nightingale, A. (PI)
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