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| Introduction to Comparative Literature: Literary Metamorphoses | |||
| Blocks 1 and 2, 2004 | Corinne Scheiner Re Evitt |
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| What is literature? What are genres? How should they be read, interpreted and evaluated? What social and personal functions does writing have? How is writing related to oral tradition? How do writers compare themselves to others (admiration and imitation, rejection, transformation)? Why are so many authors obsessed with the morphic qualities of the human and of language? This course will treat literature as a venue for experiences of transformation and recognition such as Odysseus? return in Homer?s Odyssey, Marie de France?s self-discovery of the bestial human in the werewolf-self in Bisclavret, Dante?s journey of self-judgment in Hell, Shakespeare?s exploration of performative selves in The Taming of the Shrew, Blake?s poetical account of the transformation of spirit into matter, Orlando?s experience of gender morphing over time in Woolf?s Orlando, and Gregor Samsa?s awakening as a bug in Kafka?s The Metamorphosis. As the course texts suggest, we will also look at the morphic capacity of genre itself. This course emphasizes close reading of literary texts as well as critical research, analysis, and writing. | |||
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| Introduction to Comparative Literature: Literary Metamorphoses | |||
| Blocks 1 and 2, 2005 | Lisa B. Hughes Corinne Scheiner |
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| What is literature? What are genres? How should they be read, interpreted and evaluated? What social and personal functions does writing have? How is writing related to oral tradition? How do writers compare themselves to others (admiration and imitation, rejection, transformation)? Why are so many authors obsessed with the morphic qualities of the human and of language? This course will treat literature as a venue for experiences of transformation and recognition such as Odysseus? return in Homer?s Odyssey, the city of Rome arising from the ashes of Troy in Virgil?s Aeneid, Shakespeare?s exploration of performative selves in The Taming of the Shrew, Blake?s poetical account of the transformation of spirit into matter, and Gregor Samsa?s awakening as a bug in Kafka?s The Metamorphosis. As the course texts suggest, we will also look at the morphic capacity of genre itself. This course emphasizes close reading of literary texts as well as critical research, analysis, and writing. | |||
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| Introduction to Comparative Literature: The Speaking Voice | |||
| Blocks 1 and 2, 2007 | Corinne Scheiner Rob Kendrick |
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| What is literature? What are genres? How should they be read, interpreted and evaluated? How do writers compare themselves to others (admiration, imitation, rejection, and transformation)? Why are so many authors obsessed with the speaking voice? This course will treat literature as a venue for explorations of the possibilities inherent in narrative, dramatic, and lyric modes, such as Vergil?s delicate negotiation of poetic integrity in his commissioned Aeneid, Antony and Cleopatra?s self-representations in Shakespeare?s play, Spenser?s creation of an English identity in The Faerie Queene, the creation of poetic personas in the work of poets such as Petrarch and Bishop, Woolf?s use of stream of consciousness to mirror identity in To the Lighthouse, and Borges? erosion of the boundary between fiction and ?reality? in his Ficciones. This course emphasizes close reading of literary texts as well as critical research, analysis, and writing. | |||
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