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LITR S-34t Summer Seminar—Experimental Fiction (32827)
Class times: Tuesdays, Thursdays, noon-3 pm.
Course tuition: undergraduate credit $2,700.
Summer seminars are open only to Secondary School Program juniors and seniors, and to college undergraduates.
Limited enrollment.
The seminar explores experimentation in prose fiction and the place of subversion in literature. Its primary focus is on the twentieth century and the way experimentation, both as technical innovation and as a radical challenge to the conventional, characterizes modernist and postmodernist fiction, as reflected in the works of Kafka, Gertrude Stein, Joyce, Beckett, Nabokov, Robbe-Grillet, and others. It examines the fantastic; formal play with narrative and perspective; stream-of-consciousness, fragmentation, and collage; and varieties of the comic and the parodic. Recent trends at the intersection of prose, poetry, and visual art are also considered. (4 credits)
LITR S-107 Study Abroad in Greece: Cross-Cultural Contact Between East and West from Ancient Times to the Present (32256)
Gregory Nagy, Anna Stavrakopoulou, Sahar Bazzaz, Dimitris J. Kastritsis, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, Nikolaos Panou, and George Syrimis.
Limited enrollment.
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LITR S-109 Reality, Desire, and the Epic Form: Homer, Dante, and Joyce (32251)
Class times: Tuesdays, Thursdays, 3:15-6:15 pm.
Course tuition: noncredit, undergraduate, and graduate credit $2,700.
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The relation of desire and reality has been a constant topic in literature. The most comprehensive and influential treatments of that relation have come in the epic, which presents the real and the longed for as the poles organizing civilization and individual experience. This course is a close reading of Homer's Odyssey, Dante's Commedia, and Joyce's Ulysses, to see how the epic presentation of human love and knowledge, especially metaphoric depiction of these as journeys, has changed and stayed the same from the ancient to the modern world. (4 credits)
LITR S-134 Study Abroad in Aix-en-Provence, France: The Arab World and France, Textual Encounters (32668)
Limited enrollment.
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LITR S-137 Study Abroad in Aix-en-Provence, France: The Arab and European Mediterranean from Colonial to Postcolonial (32669)
Limited enrollment.
See Study Abroad for more information.
