May 23, 2024
Ce cours introduira les etudiants aux techniques et aux problematiques de la traduction litteraire par le cas particulier des traductions en anglais de romans contemporains ecrits en francais. La traduction sera discutee comme un transfert culturel : en observant comment des ecrivains representatifs (Houellebecq, Djebar, Gavalda) ont ete recus aux USA, et en GB, et en faisant le commentaire de trois traductions recentes.
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May 23, 2024
Studies the literary works, poetic aspirations and legal trials of Flaubert and Baudelaire, while tracing their tremendous influence on 19th-century French literature and their contribution to the emergence of modernity. Readings include Madame Bovary, Trois contes, Bouvard et Pecuchet, and Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal among other works, as well as a range of critical and philosophical commentaries.
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May 23, 2024
The intellectual anti-heroes of Dostoevskys novels, novellas, and short stories from the period beginning in 1864 have left a more decisive and enduring mark on Western culture than those of any other Russian writer. The authors struggles with poverty, poor health, imprisonment, epilepsy, and gambling led him to question the existence of any social, moral, or metaphysical order.
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May 23, 2024
Have you yearned to start a novel, a collection of related short stories or narrative essays, a memoir, or a series of poems? This cross-genre, seminar-style course is designed for students who want to pursue larger, more advanced creative writing projects. Students will submit project proposals for discussion and approval, and then present significant installments of writing at regular intervals during the semester. Revisions will be required along with student-professor individual conferences.
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May 23, 2024
Studies the literary works, poetic aspirations and legal trials of Flaubert and Baudelaire, while tracing their tremendous influence on 19th-century French literature and their contribution to the emergence of modernity. Readings include Madame Bovary, Trois contes, Bouvard et Pecuchet, and Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal among other works, as well as a range of critical and philosophical commentaries.
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May 23, 2024
Changes every year, offering the chance to study literature from within different perspectives and across different periods. Studies literature as it is actively involved with other artistic practices, such as painting or music, and engaged with other disciplines, such as science or philosophy or cultural studies or gender studies. Recent examples include: Literature and Science, Literature and Politics.
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May 23, 2024
Approaches Western political discourses through major texts of 19th-century literature. Provides an introduction to socialism, anarchism, liberalism, and communism, and relates them to questions of literary production, arguing that the literary and the political imaginations are intimately related. Literary texts studied include fiction by Zola, Gaskell, Dickens, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Chernyshevsky, and Conrad, and poetry by French and British writers.
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May 23, 2024
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May 23, 2024
Kafkas work has left indelible traces in the pages of todays most important novelists, in the West and beyond. In this course we consider the meaning and when relevant, the burden of his global legacy. Assigned readings include The Metamorphosis, The Trial and other seminal works by Kafka, alongside an assortment of Kafka-inflected fictions from around the world.
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May 23, 2024
Examines works of modernist fiction writers Faulkner, Joyce, Proust, Kafka, Hemingway, Nabokov. Studies works of a second literary revolution that included Hammett, Greene, Highsmith, Himes. Other readings are Babel, Carver, Carter, Sciascia, and Daeninckx. Also studies the relationship between the best crime fiction and innovative crime films such as The Killing, Chinatown, Le Samourai, Prizzi’s Honor, and Pulp Fiction.
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May 23, 2024
Reads Joyce’s Ulysses in depth, and in the context of British modernist culture. Supporting readings include works by Wyndham Lewis and Virginia Woolf, and documents from contemporary periodicals. Articulates the relationships between stylistic creativity and the imagination of new possibilities for living, arguing that stylistic innovation attempts seriously and productively to grasp the emerging difficulties and opportunities of late capitalism.
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May 23, 2024
We examine Brecht’s application of his theories and plays to his work in German and Hollywood cinema. We consider his collaborations with Fritz Lang, Charles Laughton, G.W. Pabst, Lotte Eisner and others. We also analyze his influence on later filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard, Hans Jurgen Syberberg and R.W. Fassbinder and his contributions to film theory.
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May 23, 2024
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May 23, 2024
Introduces the Renaissance ideal through Petrarca and Cervantes. Examines: lyric origins of the love sonnet and sequence with influence across Europe; narrative, with relations of the novella collection to medieval antecedents and the birth of the novel; drama, in connection to classical and modern comedy and tragedy. Includes: Petrarch, Boccaccio, La Celestina, Machiavelli, picaresque novel, feminist poetry, and Golden Age drama.Fulfills the Renaissance period requirement for the major in Comparative Literature.
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May 23, 2024
Examines Proust’s view on time and memory, love and impossibility, knowledge and jealousy in A la recherche du temps perdu, the account of magnificent failure, and a transition between the 19th-century and modern novel. The notion of failure is also central to the work of Beckett, greatly influenced by Proust. His Trilogy and selected plays are read. Original language option French.
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May 23, 2024
This course offers close engagement with recently translated fiction and poetry from around the globe. In addition to reading great contemporary writing, students are introduced to todays new media landscape, which has taken on an increasingly important role in the promotion and evaluation of global literature. Units on the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.
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May 23, 2024
This course intends to help students better understand the Bible’s influence on literature and cultural history through a primary and secondary approach: reading the Bible (preferably The King James Version); reading the history of the biblical period (introductions and annotations of the New Oxford Annotated Bible). Readings shall cover the Hebrew Bible, the Apocrypha, and the New Testament.
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May 23, 2024
Considers a selection of Shakespeare’s plays in the context of the dramatist’s explorations of the possibilities of theatricality. Examines how theater is represented in his work and how his work lends itself to production in theater and film today. Students view video versions, visit Paris theaters, and travel to London and Stratford-on-Avon to see the Royal Shakespeare Company in performance.
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May 23, 2024
Courses on different topics in the discipline, enriching the present course offerings. These classes are taught by permanent or visiting faculty.
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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
A translator transforms into a new self, speaking differently. Where do you fit in? As writers, translators, international business professionals, or anybody working in-between places and cultures what does it mean to transform, translate, transport ourselves? In this course, we will read deeply and study the pioneering craft of writers and translators to understand the molecular power of language through translation.
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May 23, 2024
By promoting careful analysis of two landmarks of French literature while building skills in language and cultural semantics, oral and written communications, this course aims at helping students weave together literary meaning and cross-cultural belonging. By becoming more familiar with French literary language and mindscapes, students will further their understanding of LEsprit franais, the special relationship between literature and culture, writers and intellectual history in France.
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May 23, 2024
Through writing poetry and analyzing examples, students become familiar with poetic forms and techniques. This workshop, led by a publishing writer, includes weekly peer critique of poems written for the course. Students explore what makes a poem moving, evocative, and imbued with a sense of music, no matter what the approach: lyric, narrative, surreal, or experimental.
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May 23, 2024
This course considers how the language of film can sometimes unlock the secrets of Shakespeare’s world and help us to understand his contribution to the evolution of art cinema as well as to blockbuster culture. Focus is given to close readings of Shakespeare’s plays, analysis of cinematic adaptations and a study of films such as Al Pacino’s Looking for Richard or Shakespeare in Love. Directors Kozintsev, Welles, Godard, Olivier and Kurosawa are also studied.
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May 23, 2024
Through writing poetry and analyzing examples, students become familiar with poetic forms and techniques. This workshop, led by a publishing writer, includes weekly peer critique of poems written for the course. Students explore what makes a poem moving, evocative, and imbued with a sense of music, no matter what the approach: lyric, narrative, surreal, or experimental.
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May 23, 2024
This course addresses the dark side of the imagination: monsters, vampires, hauntings and demons. It opens students to the history and genealogy of the fascination with excess, the supernatural, and horror, tracing the development of a genre from its 18th- century inception through to its late bloom in the Victorian era; leaving it to students to pursue through their pick of twentieth- and twenty-first gothic.
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May 23, 2024
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May 23, 2024
Topics vary by semester.
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May 23, 2024
This course examines the films of Parisian-based directors (Wes Anderson, Sylvain Chomet, Michel Gondry and Jean-Pierre Jeunet) whose works are centered on representing the poignant worlds of their young protagonists. The course provides a comparative analysis of young Parisian literary protagonists, such as Balzacs Rastignac, Colettes Gigi and Raymond Queneaus Zazie. Walking tours and visits to pertinent workshops and museums forms a central element of the course.
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May 23, 2024
Ce cours introduira les etudiants aux techniques et aux problematiques de la traduction litteraire par le cas particulier des traductions en anglais de romans contemporains ecrits en francais. La traduction sera discutee comme un transfert culturel : en observant comment des ecrivains representatifs (Houellebecq, Djebar, Gavalda) ont ete recus aux USA, et en GB, et en faisant le commentaire de trois traductions recentes.
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May 23, 2024
Looks at relations between language and visual form in the development of European modernism. Readings include works by Baudelaire, Pound, Joyce, Mallarme, Woolf, Apollinaire, Lewis, Benjamin. Studies creative innovation as expression of utopian imagination, on a historical spectrum from Romantic synaesthesia, the interchange of sensory and cognitive pathways as desired transcendence, to the productive, open dislocations of modern capitalist society.
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May 23, 2024
Traces the development of Edinburgh from the Act of Union with England (1707) to the present, through architecture, philosophy, religion, cultural history, literature, and film. Links the city to Scotland’s attempt to define its identity and achieve greater political autonomy. Some authors studied include David Hume, Adam Smith, Irvine Welsh. Includes a study trip to Edinburgh. Satisfies CL4000 Topics requirement. 4 Credits. Offered periodically.
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May 23, 2024
In-depth study of Ancient Greek and Latin texts or authors of both literary and philosophical interest. Subjects may include: comparison of Greek and Roman philosophy; close reading of the oeuvre, or part of an oeuvre, of one author; the literary and philosophical analysis of a collection of thematically and connected passages.
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May 23, 2024
Considers closely three moments when the practice of writing changed radically in response to historical and cultural processes, from Ancient Greece to 1800 (specific contents change each year). Investigates the forces that inform creative imagination and cultural production. Places those moments and those forces within a geographical and historical map of literary production, and introduces the tools of literary analysis.
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May 23, 2024
Workshops a range of professional writing and presentation skills for the cultural sphere (cultural journalism, reviewing, grant applications, creative pitches, page layout). Students collectively produce and maintain a website of cultural activity in Paris. Practical work is placed in culturaland theoretical contexts, including introduction to the publication industry, legal contexts, and cultural studies. 4 Credits. Offered periodically.
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May 23, 2024
Considers closely three moments when the practice of writing changed radically in response to historical and cultural processes, from 1800 to the present day (specific contents change each year). Investigates the forces that inform creative imagination and cultural production. Places those moments and those forces within a geographical and historical map of literary production, and introduces the tools of literary analysis.
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May 23, 2024
Presents the work of Chaucer in the perspective of the European philosophical, humanistic, and poetic developments of his age. The Latin philosophical background includes consideration of the Augustinian ideal of Christian humanism and the traditions of speculation on Divine Providence. Considers the French poetic tradition and multilingual poetic traditions supporting the generic diversity of The Canterbury Tales.
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May 23, 2024
Introduces the methodology of Gender Studies and the theory upon which it is based. Examines contemporary debates across a range of issues now felt to be of world-wide feminist interest: sexuality, reproduction, production, writing, representation, culture, race, and politics. Encourages responsible theorizing across disciplines and cultures.
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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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May 23, 2024
Examines how experiences of Paris have been committed to the page from the first century to the present. Considers the uses and effects of overviews, street-level accounts, and underground approaches to describing the city and its inhabitants. Includes visits to the sewers and museums, revolutionary sites and archives, with multiple members of the comparative literature faculty speaking on their areas of expertise.
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May 23, 2024
Examines how experiences of Paris have been committed to the page from the first century to the present. Considers the uses and effects of overviews, street-level accounts, and underground approaches to describing the city and its inhabitants. Includes visits to the sewers and museums, revolutionary sites and archives, with multiple members of the comparative literature faculty speaking on their areas of expertise.
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May 23, 2024
Begins with Old English literary texts, then examines selections from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the conventions of Middle English drama and lyrics, earlier Renaissance styles of lyric poetry (Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney), and then Shakespeare’s sonnets and a major Shakespeare play. Reviews the dominant styles of Metaphysical and Cavalier poetry (Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Crashaw, Suckling, Waller, Milton).
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May 23, 2024
From the Romantic period, covers major examples of: prose the transition from the 19th century models to Modernist experimentation; poetry the development of modern poetic form and the fortunes of European hermetic influence in an increasingly politicized century; and drama examples of absurdist and left-wing drama which have dominated the British stage since the 1950s. 4 Credits. Offered periodically.
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May 23, 2024
Traces modern continental and Latin American literature from the Molieresque comedy of Moratn to the magical realism of Garca Mrquez. Readings include Spanish authors (fiction by Galds, Unamuno, Cela, Goytisolo), Spanish-American writers (poetry of Neruda, Paz and tales by Borges, Rulfo), and one Brazilian writer (Clarice Lispector). Conducted in English. Written work accepted in English or Spanish. 4 Credits. Offered periodically.
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May 23, 2024
The end of the Cold War raised numerous questions concerning the boundaries of what had once been known as Mitteleuropa large swath of territory at the geographic heart of Europe, much of which belonged to the multi-ethnic Habsburg Empire before World War I.
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May 23, 2024
Examines the major tenets, philosophical perspectives, and critical orientations of literary theory from Plato and Aristotle to the present. Students study critical texts from literary and non- literary disciplines, schools, and voices that have come to impact the Western theoretical canon, including psychoanalysis, Marxism, Russian formalism, structuralism, deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, new historicism, and post-colonialism.
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