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ITALGEN 41N: Imagining Italy

Preference to freshmen. Literary responses to Italy by writers in English during the past hundred years and how they continue to constuct myths of Italy. How these myths have been transformed into commodities in consumer culture, making Italy a profitable fiction. Authors include Hawthorne, Howells, James, Wharton, Forster, Unsworth, Hellenga, and Mayes.
Last offered: Spring 2009 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II

ITALGEN 181: Philosophy and Literature (CLASSGEN 81, COMPLIT 181, ENGLISH 81, FRENGEN 181, GERGEN 181, HUMNTIES 181, PHIL 81, SLAVGEN 181)

Required gateway course for Philosophical and Literary Thought; crosslisted in departments sponsoring the Philosophy and Literature track: majors should register in their home department; non-majors may register in any sponsoring department. Introduction to major problems at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Issues may include authorship, selfhood, truth and fiction, the importance of literary form to philosophical works, and the ethical significance of literary works. Texts include philosophical analyses of literature, works of imaginative literature, and works of both philosophical and literary significance. Authors may include Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Borges, Beckett, Barthes, Foucault, Nussbaum, Walton, Nehamas, Pavel, and Pippin.
Terms: Win | Units: 4-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II

ITALGEN 242: Women Mystics from the Middle Ages to the Present (FRENGEN 242)

The predominantly female mystical experience or direct-embodied encounter with a spiritual reality that is difficult, perhaps impossible, to reduce to words, or to explain rationally. Sources include European texts from the Middle Ages to the present by women and men who attempt to convey the experience metaphorically, to interpret it theologically and philosophically, and to transmit it actively to others.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Wittman, L. (PI)

ITALGEN 267: French and Italian Literary Theory (FRENGEN 267)

Major French and Italian authors essential to the creation of contemporary literary theory. Many belong to the intellectual movement structuralism, even if they may disagree with some of its fundamental concepts. Post-structuralist works which permit a different approach to literature. Authors include Jacques Lacan, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Guy Debord, and Umberto Eco.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5

ITALGEN 288: Decadence and Modernism from Mallarme to Marinetti

How the notion of decadence, initially a term of derision, shapes and underlies the positive terms of symbolism and modernism. Readings include theories of decadence and examples of symbolist and modernist texts that attempt to exorcise decadent demons, such as lust, mysticism, and the retreat into artificiality. Authors include Huysmans, Poe, Mallarmé, Nietzsche, Nordau, d¿Annunzio, Valry, Ungaretti, Marinetti, and Breton.
Last offered: Spring 2009

ITALGEN 289: French and Italian Women Writers (FRENGEN 289)

How does women's writing evolve from the very early 20th century, when women's liberation movements first began and WW I brought major social changes, to the flowering of feminine writing in the 70s and beyond? What is the relationship between women writers and filmmakers, and feminism? Is it legitimate to consider women writers in a separate category? To what extent does a reevaluation of women writers mean reconsidering modern literary history? Authors and filmmakers include Aleramo, Yourcenar, de Beauvoir, Banti, Duras, Cavani.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Wittman, L. (PI)

ITALGEN 321: Giambattista Vico

Vico's New Science in historical context, its polemic against the rise of Cartesian critical philosophy, the basis of his original aesthetic theories, and the relationship of his thought to the traditions it foreshadows such as Hegelianism, Marxism, structuralism, hermeneutics, and speech-act theory. Readings: On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians and The New Science; Descartes' Discourse on Method; Rousseau;s Origin of Language; and Hegel's Introduction to the Philosophy of History. (Harrison)
Terms: Spr | Units: 4
Instructors: Harrison, R. (PI)

ITALGEN 328: Literature, Narrative and the Self (FRENGEN 328)

The role of narrative in the well-lived life. Are narratives necessary? Can they, and should they, be literary? When might non-narrative approaches, whether literary or otherwise, be more relevant? Is unity of self something given, something to be achieved, or something to be overcome? Readings from Plato, Aristotle, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Camus, MacIntyre, G. Strawson; Shklovsky, Genette, Ricoeur, Brooks; Boccaccio, Lazarillo de Tormes, Shakespeare, Nerval, Musil, Beckett, Nabokov, Morrison; film.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Landy, J. (PI)

ITALGEN 369: Introduction to Graduate Studies: Criticism as Profession (COMPLIT 369, FRENGEN 369, GERLIT 369)

Major texts of modern literary criticism in the context of professional scholarship today. Readings of critics such as Lukács, Auerbach, Frye, Ong, Benjamin, Adorno, Szondi, de Man, Abrams, Bourdieu, Vendler, and Said. Contemporary professional issues including scholarly associations, journals, national and comparative literatures, university structures, and career paths.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5
Instructors: Berman, R. (PI)

ITALGEN 149: New Frontiers in Italian Cinema

A new generation of Italian filmmakers who examine the contradictory encounters between Italians and the migrant others in contemporary Italy. Critical texts from film studies, gender studies, ethnic and cultural studies, psychoanalysis, and history. I English; films, in Italian with English subtitles, by Amelio, Ozpetek, Munzi, Garrone, Melliti, Tornatore, and Giordana.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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