May 23, 2024
Explores the work of Anglo-American modernist writers in Paris, concentrating on the works of Ernest Hemingway, Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Jean Rhys, and other writers. Relates their formal experimentation to the visual arts and to the psychic dynamics of exile: the experience of liberation from the constraints of one culture and an alienated relation to the new environment.
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May 23, 2024
Presents an anthropological approach to the study of cities, providing students with theoretical and methodological tools to think critically about the meaning of urban life today. Approaches this topics from a cross-cultural perspective, with a number of readings focusing on Paris in particular. Students will undertake a Paris-based qualitative research project during the course of the semester.
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May 23, 2024
Seeks to understand how Paris elucidates the history of France by following its history from its origins to the present. The site of religious and political revolution, Paris testifies to the trials and glories of French history.
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May 23, 2024
Studies Vienna’s culture and Austria’s history against a background of spatial transformations from Baroque palaces to the historicist style of the Ringstrasse and the modernist architecture of Wagner and Loos. Investigates building styles, paintings, novels, memoirs, music and films to document the city’s development. Some readings are: Freud, Roth, Schnitzler, Zweig. Includes a study trip to Vienna.
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May 23, 2024
Surveys the history of urban form in the predominantly Muslim cities of the Middle East and North Africa. Students will study the relationship between urban morphology and society, practices of sacred space, and the interplay of power, belief, and architectural form. Also covered are the politics behind the forms now seen as the defining features of Islamic building and the question of the image in Islamic building.
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May 23, 2024
Offers a detailed investigation of The Divine Comedy. Traces Dante’s development in several related areas (love, mysticism, allegory, poetics, politics) and his affinity with other key cultural figures (Virgil, St. Augustine, St. Bernard, St. Thomas, Boccaccio). Includes an overview of medieval history.
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