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COMPLIT 223: Literary Diaries of Classic Modernity (GERLIT 223)

Focus is on self-analysis in works of key modern writers. Since Montaigne's Essais and Rousseau's Confessions, analysis of the self has been a central topic for modern literature. Texts include Baudelaire's Intimate Journals, Kafka's Diaries, Gide's Journals, Woolf's Moments of Being, Benjamin's Berlin Childhood, and Pavese's Diaries. Analysis of the self as polarizing between the imagination of a utopian childhood and self-deprivation.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Bohrer, C. (PI)

COMPLIT 226: Narrative and Ethics (GERLIT 242)

Major terms of narratology; how different literary, cinematic, and popular culture narratives raise ethical issues, stir public debates and contribute to understanding human values. Readings include Biblical texts, Antigone, Kleist, Kafka, Coetzee, V for Vendetta, South Park, Kant, Arendt, Nussbaum, Rorty, and Levinas.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:EC-EthicReas
Instructors: Eshel, A. (PI)

COMPLIT 230A: The Novel in Europe: The Age of Compromise, 1800-1848 (ENGLISH 230A)

The novel after the French revolution and the industrial take-off. Novelistic form and historical processes ¿ nation-building and the marriage market, political conservatism and the advent of fashion, aristocracy and bourgeoisie and proletariat... ¿ focusing on how stylistic choices and plot structures offer imaginary resolutions to social and ideological conflicts. Authors will include Austen, Scott, Shelley, Stendhal, Puskin, Balzac, Bronte.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5
Instructors: Moretti, F. (PI)

COMPLIT 234: Conservative Revolution (GERGEN 201)

An examination of conservative critiques of modernity in the early 20th century, including topics such as German nationalism, the war experience, responses to democracy, anti-liberalism, cultural pessimism in the decline of the West, crises of authority, technology, geopolitics, existentialism, and tradition. Readings from authors such as Oswald Spengler, Thomas Mann, Carl Schmitt, Ernst Jünger, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rudolf Borchardt, Karl Haushofer, Konrad Weiss. Readings in either English or German.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Berman, R. (PI)

COMPLIT 242: The Global South - Faulkner, García Márquez, Morrison, and Cisneros

A detailed study of Faulkner, García Márquez, Morrison, and Cisneros's major imaginative writings in the aesthetic and geopolitical contexts of the South and the Global South. What does it mean to read South by South? South by North? We will be considering the idea of the South as a real and imaginary territory, a rich ideological geography, and a geo-culture, where regional mythology, ethnic and racial formations and divisions, national and transnational contestations, and the new imperialism together produce extraordinary narratives.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Saldivar, J. (PI)

COMPLIT 247: Modernism and the Jewish Voice in Europe (GERGEN 221A, SLAVGEN 221)

Some of the most haunting literary voices of the 20th century emerged from the Jewish communities of Eastern and Central Europe. The Jewishness of the modernists is thematized, asking whether it contributed to shared attitudes toward text, history, or identity. Their works are situated in specific linguistic traditions: Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, Polish, or German. Primary readings from Ansky, Bialik, Mandelstam, Babel, Schulz, Kafka, Celan; secondary readings in history, E. European literature, and theory, including Marx, Freud, Benjamin, and Arendt.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum

COMPLIT 248: Afghanistan: Literature and History

Sources include poetry, short stories, novels, film, and secondary sources.

COMPLIT 249D: Women in Modern Iranian Literature

A discussion of modern Iranian literature, by women and about women, in the last century. Modern literary theories, including discussion of archetypes, will be used to analyze texts of poetry and fiction by women writers.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5

COMPLIT 320A: Epic and Empire (ENGLISH 314)

Focus is on Virgil's Aeneid and its influence, tracing the European epic tradition (Ariosto, Tasso, Camoes, Spenser, and Milton) to New World discovery and mercantile expansion in the early modern period.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5
Instructors: Parker, P. (PI)

COMPLIT 322A: Theories of the Novel (FRENGEN 356)

The novel as the literary genre most closely identified with the development of cultural modernity by literary historians and theorists. Critical models for defining the novel's poetics and cultural work. Critical readings such as texts by Lukacs, Bakhtin, Auerbach, Barthes, Armstrong, Gallagher, Bourdieu, Macherey, Jameson, Said and Spivak. Tutor texts such as Defoe's Robinson Crusoe,Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and Woolf's To the Lighthouse.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Cohen, M. (PI)
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