For students concurrently enrolled in CLT 300, wishing to read and discuss in French the literary theory at the foundation of contemporary debates. Readings of such seminal contributors as Saussure, Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Cixous, Kristeva, Irigaray, Fanon, Deleuze, Baudrillard. Optional course.

The interpretation of literary and other cultural texts by psychoanalytic, Marxist, structuralist and post-structuralist critics. Emphasis on the theory as well as the practice of these methods: their assumptions about writing and reading and about literature as a cultural formation. Readings include Freud, Lacan, Barthes, Derrida and Foucault. Enrollment limited to 25.

Where is Main Street? What times, spaces or places does the expression conjure? Are there equivalent concepts and places in other cultures? What are the aesthetics, the life and livelihoods, the politics that we associate with it? How are images and the concept manipulated to affect us, in the arts, in environmental issues, and in public discourse? When do we treasure this landscape, and when do we flee it? We will begin by looking at American Main Streets, and then explore related concepts in British, French, German and Russian texts and other media.

Same as EAL 232 A window into China, Taiwan, and Tibet and Chinese diasporas, this course introduces themes and movements from the late imperial period to the present. We will explore questions of political engagement, social justice, class, gender, and human freedom and responsibility. Readings are in English translation and no background in China or Chinese is required.

Topics course. Don Quixote is statistically the most famous, read and rewritten of novels in the world. Don Juan is the central modern myth of seduction. Why do these two 16th century Spanish texts continue to attract so many readers and writers to this day? First, because they are fun. Moreover, because fractured Spanish identity (Jewish, Islamic, Christian) made possible the surge of our contemporary sensibility. Finally, because these texts pose fundamental questions about the nature of fiction, humor, sex, power, madness and seduction.

CLT 202/ENG 202, like CLT 203/ENG 203, is among the courses from which Comparative Literature majors choose two as the basis of the major. Students interested in Comparative Literature and/or the foundations of Western literature and wanting a writing-intensive course should take 202 or 203, or both.

CLT 202/ENG 202, like CLT 203/ENG 203, is among the courses from which Comparative Literature majors choose two as the basis of the major. Students interested in Comparative Literature and/or the foundations of Western literature and wanting a writing-intensive course should take 202 or 203, or both.

CLT 202/ENG 202, like CLT 203/ENG 203, is among the courses from which Comparative Literature majors choose two as the basis of the major. Students interested in Comparative Literature and/or the foundations of Western literature and wanting a writing-intensive course should take 202 or 203, or both.

Admission by permission of the department; for majors/minors and advanced students who have had three Classics or other courses on the ancient world and two intermediate courses in Greek or Latin.

The principal myths as they appear in Greek and Roman literature, seen against the background of ancient culture and religion. Focus on creation myths, the structure and function of the Olympian pantheon, the Troy cycle and artistic paradigms of the hero. Some attention to modern retellings and artistic representations of ancient myth.