Comparative Literature Program - Course Descriptions

Term: F26W26S26F25W25S25F24W24S24F23W23S23Y23Z23F22W22S22Y22Z22F21W21S21Y21Z21F20W20S20Y20Z20 

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Dept	Course No and Title	Instructor
COM LIT (F26)	9  GLOBAL CALIFORNIA	CARROLL, A.
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COM LIT (F26)	10  COMICS	STAFF
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COM LIT (F26)	60A  WORLD LITERATURE	NEWMAN, J.
CL60A: WORLD LITERATURES IN DIALOGUE (on-line course) People call the Avatar movies “epic science fiction.” Do James Cameron’s post-modern movies like Avatar (2009) or Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) mimic the ancient Greek poet Homer’s pre-modern epic, the Odyssey, in some way to merit this designation? What can we learn about any nation’s interests and concerns today from its engagement with the masterpieces of either its own tradition or with other traditions from a different time and place? How do the world’s cultural and literary texts circulate around the globe and to what end? In Comparative Literature 60A, we read some of the greatest texts of World Literature – from the ancient Greek, Argentine, English, French-Caribbean, German, Irish, Nigerian, Persian, and U.S. traditions – in dialogue with one another as a way of answering these questions. Texts include the poems of the 14th century Persian poet and mystic Hafiz in various translations and as they were read by the 19th century German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; the Persian poet Firdowsi’s 10th century epic, the Shahnameh, and its afterlife in miniature illustrations, oral recitations in coffee houses, and re-significations as Iran’s national epic; the British medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th century Canterbury Tales as those tales have been taken up by the contemporary British-Nigerian rapper and performance artist Patience Agbabi (b. 1965); the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles’ Antigone (442 b.c.e.) as it is retold in Argentine playwright Griselda Gambaro’s Antígona Furiosa play (1986); Sophocles’ Philoctetes (409 b.c.e.) as it dialogues with Irish playwright Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy (1990 /1991) and the U.S poet Adrienne Rich’s “Twenty One Love Poems” (1974-76);  Euripides’ Bacchae (405 b.c.e.) in conversation with Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka’s The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite (1973), and Shakespeare’s Tempest (1611) in dialogue with French Caribbean writer Aimé Césaire’s A Tempest (1969) and as it was performed by inmates at the Luther Luckett Correctional  Complex in La Grange, Kentucky, in 2005.  - These dialogues will help us understand the many ways that the traditions we study can have multiple afterlives across traditions and around the world. Comparative Literature 60A is the first quarter of the “World Literature” track in the Comp. Lit. major, but the course is open to all students. It fulfills the GE IV and VIII campus-wide requirements. Requirements for this course include: Doing the assigned readings, watching the lecture videos, watching two movies and short film clips, quizzes, Discussion Board posts on the readings, and Workshop Exercises on the readings. There is no midterm in this course. For the final work,  there is the possibility of doing a creative project or taking an oral exam on a text of your choice.
COM LIT (F26)	130  RELATIONALITY	CARROLL, A.
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COM LIT (F26)	131  FREUD	AMIRAN, E.
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COM LIT (F26)	150  THE STRANGER	FITOUSSI, M.
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COM LIT (F26)	160  INDIGENOUS FILM	GAMBER, J.
CL 160: Global Indigenous Film This class engages in central issues of Indigeneity and explores contemporary film, video games, and literature created by Indigenous people from nations including those currently called Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, and Sweden. Primary questions we will address this include: What does it mean to be Indigenous? How do contemporary Indigenous people represent themselves? What issues are important to specific Indigenous communities? What issues are important across Indigenous communities? We will further pay particular attention to representations of gender and sexuality and human relationships to the other-than-human across these works
COM LIT (F26)	199  INDPT STDY COMP LIT	AMIRAN, E.
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COM LIT (F26)	199  INDPT STDY COMP LIT	CARROLL, A.
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COM LIT (F26)	199  INDPT STDY COMP LIT	COLMENARES GON, D.
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COM LIT (F26)	199  INDPT STDY COMP LIT	JOHNSON, A.
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COM LIT (F26)	199  INDPT STDY COMP LIT	HARRIES, M.
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COM LIT (F26)	199  INDPT STDY COMP LIT	MOR, L.
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COM LIT (F26)	199  INDPT STDY COMP LIT	RAHIMIEH, N.
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COM LIT (F26)	199  INDPT STDY COMP LIT	SCHWAB, G.
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COM LIT (F26)	199  INDPT STDY COMP LIT	TERADA, R.
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COM LIT (F26)	199  INDPT STDY COMP LIT	STAFF
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