01:195:101 Introduction to World Literature (3) Study of outstanding works of fiction, plays, and poems from European, North and South American, African, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and Middle-Eastern parts of the world through a different theme every semester. Focus on questions of culture, class, gender, colonialism, and on the role of translation.

01:195:135 Short Fiction (3) Study of various genres of short fiction, in English translation, by some of the most important writers in world literature. Course themes focus on the city, the nation, migration and exile, colonialism, science fiction, the fantastic, magical realism, horror, mystery, among others.

01:195:140 Being Human (3) Definitions in literature and film of what it means to be human. Ancient conceptions of the ideal human being; early modern and modern definitions of the human in relation to ethnic others, animals, aliens, and machines.

01:195:150 World Mythology (3) Story, structure, and meaning in myths of many cultures. Myth as a primary literary phenomenon, with some attention to anthropological and psychological perspectives.

01:195:160 Topics in Comparative Study (2) Designed to introduce students to the discipline of comparative literature by exposing them to six major literary texts within the context of critical and theoretical texts both of the period in which they originated and of later periods.

01:195:201 Literature across Borders (3) Concept and practice of comparative literature across historical periods, cultures, and genres. Topics vary from year to year: war, metamorphosis, friendship, sex, being human, poison, and love among others.

01:195:203 Masterworks of Western Literature (3) Journey through Western literature from its beginnings to the 20th century. The epic, love poetry, drama, novels, and short novels. Classic Greek and Roman, medieval, Renaissance, modern French, German, English, and Russian literatures. European literary texts in their literary and sociopolitical contexts.

01:195:216 Introduction to World Literatures in English (3) Survey of English language literatures, including Asian, African, and Caribbean, in a global context. Credit not given for both this course and 01:351:216.

01:195:220 The Ecological Imagination in Literature, Film, and Media (3) Study of the imagining of human and nonhuman relationships in recent world literature, film, and media. Interpretation of texts and visual artifacts within their cultural traditions, and in dialogue with local, regional, or planetary environmental changes and activism.

01:195:231 Masterpieces of Hispanic Literature in Translation (3) Reading and interpretation of outstanding Hispanic writers.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:940:241.

01:195:232 Women Writers of South Asia (3) Survey of recent writings by women from a variety of cultural, linguistic, and regional areas of South Asia.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:013:232 or 01:098:232.

01:195:237 Arabic Classical Literatures (3) Survey of a wide selection of Arabic literary texts in translation, dating from the sixth to the 12th centuries, including poetry and prose in both classical and colloquial Arabic. Credit not given for both this course and 01:013:343. All works studied in translation.

01:195:241 Masterpieces of Modern Greek Literature (3) Reading and discussion of great works of modern Greek literature including short stories, poetry, and a novel. Course will include selected parallel films for additional insight and analysis.
In translation. Credit not given for both this course and 01:489:241.

01:195:242 The Portuguese-Speaking World: A Literary Introduction for English Speakers (3) Introduction to literary texts from the Portuguese-speaking world� (Portugal, Brazil, and Lusophone Africa).� Credit not given for both this course and 01:810:242.

01:195:243 Introduction to the Literatures of South Asia (3) Literatures of South Asia from their origins to the present.

01:195:244 Introduction to Myth (3) Myths of various cultures; their structures and functions in social and especially literary contexts.

01:195:245 Introduction to Folklore (3) Major genres of folklore, including folktale, folk song, and legend, with attention to the methods of collecting and analyzing these materials. Credit not given for both this course and 01:351:245.

01:195:246 Fairy Tales Then and Now (3) Analysis of structure, meaning, and function of fairy tales and their enduring influence on literature and popular culture.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:470:225.

01:195:249 Modern Literatures of South Asia (3) Literary works from modern South Asia. Credit not given for both this course and 01:013:331. All works studied in translation.

01:195:250 Comparative Approaches to African Literatures (3) Reading and discussion of literature in translation from different geographic, linguistic, and cultural areas of Africa.

01:195:251 Major French Writers in Translation (3) Landmarks of French literature from the Renaissance to the present. Plays, novels, and essays of such authors as Moli�re, Voltaire, Rousseau, Balzac, Flaubert, Sartre, and Camus. Credit not given for both this course and 01:420:241 or 242.

01:195:255 The City and Literature (3) Reading and discussion of different forms of representation of major cities in the United States, South America, Europe, and East Asia. Analysis of poetry, short stories, novels, film, and critical essays with emphasis on the similarities and differences between discourses about urban centers such as Paris, New York, London, Mexico City, S�o Paulo, Moscow, Tokyo, and Shanghai.�

01:195:256 Introducing Italy, City by City (3) A sequence of courses, each concentrating on one Italian city. Initial semester, Naples, to be followed by other semester courses taught by different members of the Italian department.�� Language of instruction, English. Credit not given for this course and 01:560:256.

01:195:257 The Postcolonial City (3) Study of literary and cultural representations of cities around the postcolonial world. Discussions regarding issues of community, violence, migration, displacement, homelessness, mass communication, and mass transportation.

01:195:260 Introduction to Caribbean Literature (3) Reading and discussion of poetry, prose, and drama by major literary figures representative of different histories and cultures of the Caribbean and its diaspora.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:595:270 or 01:940:270.

01:195:261 Introduction to Theater (3) Survey of various genres of theater across multiple cultures; its function in social and literary contexts.

01:195:267 Latino Literature (3) Latino experiences in the United States through literary voices drawn from the Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Central American, and Cuban diasporas and native cultures. Topics include: cultural identity, hybridity, mestizaje, border writing, transnationalism, transculturation, language appropriation, subversion and negotiation, and gender issues. Credit not given for both this course and 01:595:267.

01:195:268 Cuban Literature (3) Study of the development of Cuban literature from the Spanish colonial period to the present.� Emphasis on major writers such as Pl�cido, Manzano, Mart�, Guill�n, Fernando Ortiz, Arenas, Casal, Achy Obejas, and Rivera-Vald�s. Credit not given for both this course and 01:595:268 or 01:940:331, 332.

01:195:269 Dominican Literature (3) Study of the development of Dominican literature from the Spanish colonial period to the present. Emphasis on major writers such as Columbus, Pan�, Galv�n, Bosch, Alvarez, Danticat, And�jar, Rita Indiana, and Junot D�az. Credit not given for both this course and 01:595:269 or 01:940:331,332. Reading knowledge of Spanish recommended.

01:195:270 Past Today (3) Analysis of 21st-century conflicts through historical context, using literature, film, and other visual arts, music, architecture, and other forms of cultural production.

01:195:280 Textual Transformations (3) Introduction to a broad range of possible textual transformations such as literary translation, film adaptation, transcription, ekphrasis, and dramatization. Discussion regarding notions of originality and derivation and examination of the ways artists use form to domesticate, subvert, celebrate, or modernize other artists' works.�

01:195:295 Latino and Caribbean Cultural Studies (3) Comparative study of Latino and Caribbean cultures by reviewing key definitions of culture, paying attention to the historical and disciplinary development of the term, as well as the key debates on cultural studies in the humanities.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:595:295 or 01:050:295.

01:195:301 Introduction to Literary Theory (3) An examination of theoretical concepts and contexts that constitute and frame contemporary views of literature. Critical analysis of formalist, psychoanalytic, structuralist, poststructuralist, Marxist, and feminist approaches to theory and literature. Structured to familiarize students with recent debates in critical and cultural theory.

01:195:302 Writing in the Discipline: Literary and Cultural Studies (3) Advanced writing course for students of literature and humanities. Introduction to research methods, library resources, and scholarly writing in general. Assignments include the writing of abstracts, book reviews, research papers, and preparation for longer writing projects such as honors theses and sample writings for admission to graduate school. Prerequisite: One second-level writing course or permission of the department.

01:195:304 Fiction and Ideology (3) Fictional narratives as statements about the social order. Texts by major thinkers such as Marx, Luk�cs, Goldmann, Benjamin, and Williams.

01:195:306 Literature and Cultural Conquest (3) Dissemination and reception of hegemonic literatures: the function of travel literature; the transformation and appropriation of popular cultures. Credit not given for both this course and 01:359:345. 01:353:326 may be counted for major core requirement with permission of undergraduate director.

01:195:307 Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures and Theories (3) Study of novels, poetry, essays, and films from regions of the world deemed postcolonial, which may include Africa, Latin America, South and Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. Discussion of major issues in postcolonial theory and criticism. Credit not given for both this course and 01:013:307.

01:195:308 Gender, Race, and Textual Imagination (3) Literature as the privileged representation of the other. The connection between the form(s) of creative writing and the evolution of the very notion of sexual and/or racial differences.

01:195:309 Major Literary Trends (3) Survey of the major literary periods or movements such as classical, medieval, Renaissance, romanticism, realism, and naturalism.

01:195:310 Literary Institutions (3) Literature as a socially determined phenomenon. The historical evolution of the status of the writer, of the work, of the critic, as well as of the means of, and the obstacles to, the dissemination of literary writing in various societies.

01:195:311 Dostoevsky (3) Major works in historical, intellectual, and aesthetic contexts. The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, and short works. All readings and discussion in English.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:860:330.

01:195:312 Literature and Psychoanalytical Theory (3) Texts by Freud, Lacan, and Jung. Introduction to the various literary questions raised by modern theories in psychology, particularly psychoanalysis.

01:195:315 Dante and Medieval Culture (3) Dante's work in historical perspective: the theological antecedents, memory of the classical writers, and new profane literary experience. Credit not given for both this course and 01:560:315.

01:195:316 Politics, Literature, and the Arts (3) Discussion and analysis of political elements in selected aesthetic works that vary with the instructor. Credit not given for both this course and 01:790:316.

01:195:318 Postmodern Approaches to Sacred Literature (3) Postmodern literary analysis of religious texts drawn from Jewish, Christian, and Hindi traditions.

01:195:319 Unraveling Race in Latino and Latin American Studies (3) Study of the history and cultural representation of race and ethnicity in Latin American and Latino Studies from the colonial period to the present. Emphasis on major writers: Christopher Columbus, Inca Garcilaso, Sor Juana, Clorinda Matto, de Turner, Gertrudis G�mez de Avellaneda, Arturo Schomburg, Fernando Ortiz, Jos� Vasconcelos, Nicol�s Guill�n, Gilberto Freyre, Frantz Fanon, C.L.R. James, Jes�s Col�n, Piri Thomas, Jos� Luis Gonz�lez, Gloria Anzald�a, and Richard Rodr�guez. Credit not given for both this course and 01:595:319.

01:195:320 World Cinema I (3) Developments in French, Italian, British, Russian, and other national cinemas from 1896 to World War II; also examines cross-influences between foreign and American cinema.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:354:320 or 01:175:320.

01:195:321 World Cinema II (3) Major developments in global filmmaking from the 1950s to the present, with an emphasis on specific national and transnational cultures and their industrial and artistic practices. Credit not given for both this course and 01:354:321 or 01:175:321.

01:195:324 Twentieth-Century Literature in a Global Context (3) Twentieth-century writing in English other than British and American.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:358:361.

01:195:326 Backgrounds of Homoerotic Literature (3) Survey of gay and lesbian literature from the Greeks to the 1920s, stressing formal and generic analysis and connections between cultures.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:326. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.

01:195:327 Women's Traditions in Literature (3) Fiction and poetry by women in three periods: Heian Japan (800-1200), the continental European Renaissance, and 19th-century England. Focus on the social context of a feminine literary tradition and the relationship between gender and genre.
Prerequisite: One course in women writers or permission of instructor.

01:195:329 Modern Japanese Novel and the West (3) Introduction to Japanese literature in translation from 1885 to the present, focusing on the influence of Western cultural ideals and literary forms. Special emphasis on the development of the novel form. Authors: S�seki, T�son, Akutagawa, Tanizaki, Kawabata, and Mishima.

01:195:330 Literature and Culture of Brazil (3) Reading and discussion of selected works of fiction and nonfiction with emphasis on their place in the development of Brazilian literature and their relationship to Brazilian culture. Credit not given for both this course and 01:810:330.

01:195:331 The Novel, East and West (3) The novel of the last one hundred years as a cross-cultural form. Comparison of novels from America, Europe, Asia, India, and Africa.

01:195:332 The Samurai Tradition in Japanese Literature and Film (3) The samurai warrior as a focus of cultural and political expression in Japanese literature and cinema. Supplementary readings of secondary sources on samurai culture and thought.� Credit not given for both this course and 01:565:320.

01:195:333 Modern Writers and East Asia (3) Influence of Asian literature and philosophy on the development of Western poetry, drama, and fiction of the 20th century. Works include poems of Pound, Brecht, and Gary Snyder; plays of Yeats and Brecht; novels of Forster, Conrad, and Hesse.

01:195:334 Empire in Russian Culture (3) Study of empire in 19th-21st-century Russian literature, visual arts, and film. Credit not given for both this course and 01:860:334.

01:195:336 Literatures of Migration, Immigration, and Diaspora (3) Writings, mainly in English, that foreground representations of place, community, and identity in relation to national and international movement and displacement. Credit not given for both this course and 01:358:384.

01:195:337 Literature and Memory in the Arab World (3) Explores the interconnections between memory and literature through close readings of memoirs, novels, poems, short stories, films, and graphic art.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:013:346 or 01:685:347.

01:195:338 Caribbean Pluralities and Indo-Caribbean Literature (3) A study of some of the major canonical works of the Anglophone Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean writers.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:013:335.

01:195:340 Renaissance and Baroque (3) Intellectual currents and representative works, including epic, lyric, prose fiction, and drama of the European Renaissance. Readings from Marlowe, Rabelais, Montaigne, Erasmus, More, and others.

01:195:341 European Neoclassicism (3) European literature in the 17th and early 18th centuries and its connections with political, philosophical, and scientific thought of the time. Authors: Galileo, Descartes, Corneille, Moli�re, Milton, Dryden, Pope, and Grimmelshausen.

01:195:342 The Romantic Movement (3) Intellectual currents and representative works, including lyric, prose fiction, and drama of the European romantic movement. Major romantic texts of France, Germany, and Russia.

01:195:345 Literary Modernism (3) Exploration of the concept of "modernism" through major literary works written in English and other languages.

01:195:346 Classical Backgrounds of Literature (3) Influence on literature of classical Greek and Roman epic, tragedy, comedy, and other literary forms. Credit not given for both this course and 01:358:302.

01:195:347 The Life and Works of Odysseus Elytis (3) Examination of the works of Odysseus Elytis; the writers and artists who influenced his work. Credit not given for both this course and 01:489:347.

01:195:349 The Bible and Western Literature (3) Influence of the King James and other versions of the Bible on literature in English. Credit not given for both this course and 01:351:319.

01:195:350 Theory of Narrative (3) Logic of narrative and its implications in modern culture. Theoretical texts by Jakobson, Foucault, Genette, and Propp. Modern fiction (Poe, Borges, Robbe-Grillet), newspaper articles, and advertisements. Prerequisite: One course in literature or permission of instructor.

01:195:352 The European Novel (3) Comparative study of the emergence of forms, themes, and techniques of the novel from the Renaissance to the 20th century.

01:195:354 The 19th-Century Novel (3) Major works of fiction in their historical and social context. Authors may include Balzac, Stendhal, Dickens, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Eliot, and Mann.

01:195:356 Modern Fiction (3) Major works of fiction from 1900 to 1945 in their historical and political context. Works by such authors as Lawrence, Gide, Woolf, Mann, Malraux, Kafka, Proust, S�seki, and Lu Xun.

01:195:357 Contemporary Novel (3) Major novels written since 1945. Authors may�include Camus, Solzhenitsyn, Kundera, B�ll, Tanizaki, Kawabata, Lessing, and Pavese.

01:195:358 Odysseus, the Hero (3) Explores the Homeric figure Odysseus in literature from Homer and Vergil, through Dante and modern masterpieces by Nikos Kazantzakis, James Joyce, and Derek Walcott. Additional explorations in poetry, as well as selected modern films. Taught in English.

01:195:359 Literature of the Fantastic (3) Short stories of the 19th and 20th centuries, with some consideration of longer forms and parallel literary developments in ancient and Eastern cultures. Structuralist and psychological approaches to genre.

01:195:360 Autobiography (3) Major works with special focus on theory and poetics. Credit not given for both this course and 01:351:341.

01:195:361 Brazil and the United States: Comparative Approaches (3) Comparative and interdisciplinary study of Brazilian literature and culture as it relates to contemporary issues of race relations, diversity, cultural dependency, and globalization. Course taught in English. Credit not given for both this course and 01:810:361.

01:195:362 Contemporary Caribbean Writers (3) Reading and discussion of recent writings by women from the Anglophone, Francophone, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean.

01:195:363 Women Writers of Africa (3) Survey of recent writings by women from a variety of cultural, linguistic, and regional areas of Africa. Credit not given for both this course and 01:013:311.

01:195:370 Germany Confronts the Holocaust (3) Analysis of the shifting role of the Holocaust in postwar German public life--in art, literature, museums and other memorials, film, television, and political discourse. Some attention will also be given to Austria and Switzerland; contrasts will be drawn to the place of the Holocaust in postwar and contemporary America. Credit not given for this course and 01:470:370 or 01:563:370.

01:195:371 Holocaust Media (3) Examines the wide array of uses of media to represent the Holocaust, from during World War II to the present. Examples range from wartime radio broadcasts and newsreels to documentaries, television dramas, videotaping of Holocaust testimonies, art photography, as well as the use of media in museum displays and tourist practices. Credit not given for both this course and 01:563:366.

01:195:374 Marx, Nietzsche, Freud (3) Exploration of the work of three German writers who revolutionized modern philosophy, theology, psychology, aesthetics, social and political science, gender studies, historiography, literature, and the arts.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:470:371 or 01:730:344.

01:195:375 The Devil in the Text (3) An investigation of the devil's image in literature across cultures and centuries. Departing from the biblical text, a study of the personalization of evil as reproduced in literary works.

01:195:377 Topics in World Cinema (3) Study of a particular region, time period, movement, or theme in world cinema. Specific topic announced at preregistration time. Credit not given for both this course and 01:175:377. May be taken more than once, if content is different.

01:195:380 German-Jewish Literature and Culture from the Enlightenment to the Present (3) Survey of German-Jewish culture, 18th century to the present. Literature in political-historical context, with some attention to music, philosophy, and film. Credit not given for both this course and 01:470:380.

01:195:383 Nikos Kazantzakis (3) Works of Nikos Kazantzakis (1885-1957) and the Eastern and Western ideas that influenced him: Homer, Henri Bergson, Nietzsche, Freud, and Buddhist philosophy. Pre- or corequisite: 01:489:241 or permission of instructor. Credit not given for both this course and 01:489:383.

01:195:384 Poetry (3) Poetry from the ancient Greeks to the 20th century, including Western and Asian poetry.

01:195:385 Modern Poetry (3) Comparative survey of poetry in languages other than English from 1850 to the present. Poets include Baudelaire, Mallarm�, Rimbaud, Rilke, Brecht, Neruda, Vallejo, Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Pessoa, Apollinaire, and Artaud.

01:195:386 Twentieth-Century Greek Poetry (3) Modern Greek poetry from 1900 to 2000. Credit not given for both this course and 01:489:386.

01:195:387 Hybrid Western Modernity in Literature and the Arts (3) The formation of European modernity in literature and the arts from the 1880s-1930 under the impact of Japanese and other non-Western aesthetics.

01:195:388 The Cultures of the Middle Ages (3) Detailed introduction to a particular aspect of the rich cultural diversity of the European Middle Ages. Topics vary. Credit not given for both this course and 01:350:388 or 01:667:388.

01:195:389 Love and Power in the Italian Renaissance (3) Interdisciplinary investigation of early modern Italian culture, seen through the perspective of power structures.� Credit not given for both this course and 01:560:358.

01:195:390 Comedy (3) Study of the major comic traditions, especially the Menandrian (Menander, Plautus, Terence, Moli�re) and its modern descendant, the comedy of social criticism (Beaumarchais, Gogol, Chekhov, Shaw).

01:195:391 Tragedy (3) Study of the literature and theory of tragedy from the Greeks to the 20th century. Credit not given for both this course and 01:351:326.

01:195:392 The Realistic Theater (3) History of the realistic presentation of theatrical spectacles in Europe from the 18th to the 20th century. Equal emphasis on staging and playwriting. Includes Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw, and Becque.

01:195:395,396,397,398 Issues in Comparative Literature (3,3,3,3) Separate sections focusing on comparative, interdisciplinary topics. Specific titles announced at the time of registration. May be taken more than once. Content will differ each semester.

01:195:399 Service Learning Internship (1) One-credit community service placement in comparative literature. Must be taken in conjunction with a designated CESEP (Civic Engagement and Service Education Partnerships) course offered in comparative literature.

01:195:419 History of Criticism (3) History of criticism from Plato and Aristotle to the 20th century.

01:195:420 History of Criticism (3) Major criticism of the 20th century.

01:195:430 Gender, Nation, and Literature in South Asia (3) Course focuses on how representations of women have shaped ideas of modern Indian citizenship and belonging in colonial and postcolonial periods.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:013:430 or 01:988:431.

01:195:437 Twentieth-Century Arabic Literature (3) Survey of representative works of Arabic literature in translation, including poetry, the novel, the short story, and plays. Emphasis on how new literary trends reflect sociocultural change in the Arab world, including debates over tradition, gender relations, and cultural pluralism. Prerequisite: At least one prior course in literature (English or world) or one course in Middle Eastern studies. Credit not given for both this course and 01:013:437 or 01:685:437.

01:195:440 Seminar: Topics in Genre (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a particular genre (e.g., pastoral, epic, comedy, lyric) or relationship among genres. Topics vary; consult department. Credit not given for both this course and 01:351:440.

01:195:477 Advanced Topics in World Cinema (3) Intensive study of a particular issue in world cinema, with special attention paid to theoretical approaches. Specific topic announced at preregistration time. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. May be taken more than once, if content is different. Credit not given for both this course and 01:175:477.

01:195:475 The Tale of Genji as World Literature (3) The Tale of Genji in the context of world literature as court romance, psychological novel, and feminist text. Extensive readings from critical literature in English and discussion of issues in translation.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:565:475.

01:195:480 Special Topics in Comparative Literature (3) Variable content. Special studies in particular ideas, themes, forms, and historic units in literature. Designed by individual instructor. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

01:195:489 Tolstoy's War and Peace (3) Detailed study of Leo Tolstoy's monumental novel War and Peace (1869) in its historical, cultural, and critical context. All readings and discussion in English. Credit not given for both this course and 01:860:489.

01:195:493,494 Independent Study (BA,BA) Independent reading under supervision of a member of the department. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and department.

01:195:495,496 Honors in Comparative Literature (3,3) Independent research on the honors thesis. Prerequisite: Permission of the department.

01:195:497 Capstone Seminar Workshop (1) Assessment of the undergraduate experience as a major in comparative literature. Debate around the present state of the discipline. Series of workshops intended to explore professional and academic careers, including preparation for graduate school and grant writing.� Open to comparative literature seniors only.