Introduces basic issues in comparative literature and basic problems in literary history. Provides an overview of history and rationale of the discipline, traditional areas of research, and recent developments. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Explores similarities and differences between literature and film as narrative arts. Studies novels, short stories, and plays and films made from them. Examines problems in point of view, manipulation of time, tone, structure, and setting. Same as ARTF 5003. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
An introductory study of nineteenth-century German philosophy (especially Kant, Hegel, and Marx). Required course for the graduate certificate in Critical Theory. GRMN 5030 and COML 5030 are the same course. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Serves as an introduction to the "Frankfurt School" and Critical Theory with particular emphasis upon rationality, social psychology, cultural criticism, and aesthetics. Through close readings of key texts by members of the school (Horkheimer, Benjamin, Adorno, Habermas) we will work toward a critical understanding of the analytical tools they developed and consider their validity. Taught in English. GRMN 4051, 5051 and COML 5051 are the same course. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduces students to debates surrounding migration and race in contemporary Germany. Emphasis on reading texts in context using tools of cultural studies, integrating analyses of gender, race, nation, and sexuality. Texts may include film, literature, television, magazine images, etc. Topics include: questioning multiculturalism, self-representation, integration, Islam, citizenship, violence, public space, youth culture, racism and nationalism. Taught in English. Same as GRMN 5301. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines both short and long narrative prose fiction from a variety of periods and from diverse national literatures. Focuses on issues of defining genre and on the origins and significance of narrative prose within its cultural context. May be repeated once for credit. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines the Russian novel and its evolution as well as Western and Russian theories of the novel as they engage and reflect upon the claims of modernity. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Same as RUSS 5352. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Covers selected drama topics using a comparative approach. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Explores topics and problems in rhetoric and poetic practice from antiquity to the present day. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Review of theories and practices of literary translation in their linguistic, historical, cultural, and other contexts. Translation of literary and other works from chosen foreign languages, commentaries, and analyses. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Systematic study of the Faust motif in Western literature, with major emphasis on Faust I and II by Goethe and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus. Same as HUMN 4504 and GRMN 5504. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Explores the literary, intellectual, and aesthetic culture of the European baroque of the late 16th and 17th centuries through different topics pertinent to this period. Presents an interdisciplinary analysis of baroque literature, philosophy, science, and art. Illuminates the complex historical transition from the Renaissance to the modernity of the Enlightenment. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Explores how feminist theorists have understood gender and how it interrelates to our understandings of race, ethnicity, sexuality, embodiment and knowledge. Meets the requirements for the WGST certificate. Same as WMST 6090. Requisites: Restricted to Comparative Literature (CMLT) graduate students only.
Explores feminist methodology across a range of disciplines. Themes include experience and interpretation, the social position of the researcher, language and argument structure, knowledge and power, bias and objectivity, and the ethics and politics of research. Meets the requirements for the WGST certificate. Same as WMST 6190. Requisites: Restricted to Comparative Literature (CMLT) graduate students only.
