Courses

The courses listed below are offered chiefly by the core staff over a period of years. Students are encouraged and expected to take courses in the regular language and literature departments (English, French, German, Slavic, etc.) where a great number of course offerings by distinguished staffs are relevant to comparative literature interests. Such courses are described in the departmental listings in these Announcements.

30100, 30200, 30300. Seminar: Introduction to Comparative Literature
Staff

30500, 30600. History and Theory of Drama I, II
Bevington, Rudall

31100. Goethe: Theory of the Lyric
Wellbery

31200. Narrative Systems
Wellbery

31400. Narratives of Foundation
Wellbery

31500. Paul Celan and Emily Dickinson
von Hallberg

31700. Introduction to Religion and Literature
Yu

31900. Gottfried Benn and T.S. Eliot
von Hallberg

32200. Soviet Art and Film Culture of the 1920s
Tsivian

32400. History of International Cinema I: The Silent Era
Tsivian

32500. History of International Cinema II: Sound Cinema to 1960
Tsivian

33100 Philosophical Thought and Expression in Twentieth-Century Europe
Davidson

34400. Lost Illusions by Balzac
Pavel

34600. 1848 in France
Meltzer

This list was last revised on 9/03/2003.

36000. Medieval Allegory
Murrin

36500 Renaissance Romance
Murrin

37400. Baudelaire et Mallarmé
Meltzer

38100. Travellers on the
Silk Road
Murrin

38400, 38500. The Journey to the West I, II
Yu

40400. Realism/Modernism/Socialism: The Politics of Literary Form
Kruger

40500. Brechtian Representations: Theatre, Theory, Cinema
Kruger

42600. Seminar: Drama, Theatre, Image, Performance
Kruger

43100. Tragedy:Theories and Texts
Yu

43400. Ethics, Religion, Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan, Levinas, Blanchot
Meltzer

50100. Practices of the Self
Davidson

51000, 51100. Seminar: The Story of the Stone I, II
Yu

50500. The Politics of Taste
Rothfield

52000. Poetry and Sociolinguistics
von Hallberg