Students can take a minimum of three courses and a maximum of four, not including language acquisition courses. (Language classes do not count toward the 9 credit.) Every effort should be made to acquire language proficiency as early as possible. Please bear in mind, the language exams will be rigorous and must be satisfied by the end of the third semester of residence.

Students are required to consult with the Program Director/and or Director of Graduate Studies prior to enrolling in any course. Students should select their courses from the listings described in this booklet. However, in special circumstances and with prior authorization from the Program's Director and/or Director of Graduate Studies, graduate level courses not listed here can be taken for credit.

Students are reminded of the Program's requirements in Core, Primary and Related Fields. With the advice of the Director/ Director of Graduate Studies, and/or advisors in their field students, will, at the appropriate time, be expected to demonstrate what constitutes Primary and Related fields of study.

ART HISTORY
High Renaissance in Rome & Florence
LIT 73634
CRN: 28271
Robert Coleman    
T/R 2:00–03:15 
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Bramante, and Raphael provide the basis of study of one of the most impressive periods of artistic activity in Italy—the High Renaissance in Rome and Florence.  The course also investigates the origins of mannerism in the excessive achievements of Jacopo Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino, and the succeeding generation of late-Renaissance maniera artists who helped to formulate a new courtly style.  3 credits

 

CLASSICS
Greek and Roman Epic Poetry
LIT 73561
CRN: 28013
Catherine Schlegel
T/R 9:30–10:45
This advanced course in literature provides detailed study of the major epic poems of the classical literary tradition-the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, the Aeneid of Virgil, and the Metamorphoses of Ovid.  Discussion centers on the cultural contexts in which the works were written or produced, and the literary conventions on which they rely for their ever-appealing aesthetic and emotional power.

ST. EPHREM THE SYRIAN GRADUATE SEMINAR
LIT 73564
CRN: 28023
Joseph P. Amar
M 9:35–12:35
This Seminar explores the life and literary legacy of St. Ephrem the Syrian (c. 310 - c. 373), Father and Doctor of the Church. The singular importance of Ephrem derives from the fact that he is the most eloquent representative of Christian faith expressed in its native Semitic milieu.  Long after Greco-Latin writers embraced the analytical categories of philosophy and classical rhetoric, Syriac-speaking Christianity in the person of Ephrem continued to articulate its faith in the richly allusive and nuanced language of Symbolic Theology. Ephrem’s poetic sensibility combined with his arresting interpretive skills earned him the title “Master” of Christian Aramaic biblical exegesis and catechesis. In short, Ephrem represents the unique phenomenon of Christianity in cultural and linguistic dialogue with the thought-world of Late Second Temple Judaism while anticipating the language and religious milieu of nascent Islam. Contemporary scholarship unanimously regards Ephrem as the most influential theologian-poet in all of early Christianity.

The primary focus of the Seminar will be on Ephrem’s major theological works which will be considered for both theological content and methodology. All primary sources will be read in English; hence, knowledge of Syriac is not necessary.

Participants will also read essential critical studies on the works of Ephrem in order to gain an appreciation for the thought-world of Syriac-speaking Christianity. The Seminar will adopt an interdisciplinary approach that integrates Ephrem into the complex world of Christian thought as it developed outside the Greco-Roman world.

As stated above, knowledge of Syriac is not necessary, but participants must have reading knowledge of either German or French in order to access the secondary material.

A Reading Group will be available in conjunction with the Seminar for those participants who have reading knowledge of Syriac and who would like to read selections from Ephrem’s major works in Syriac.

 

ENGLISH
Beowulf
LIT 73630
CRN: 28583
Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe
T/R 9:30–10:45
What relationship do we expect between "heroic" texts and the society which produced and enjoyed them? What cultural investments of our own lead us to read certain Old English texts and not others? How did Beowulf receive canonical status? What strategies of reading permit the past to offer a critique of the present? Using Beowulf as both focus and foil, this course will examine a wide range of textual and material cultural issues presented by the surviving
verse from Anglo-Saxon England. Pre-requisite: Reading knowledge of Old English. Required work: Mid-term examination, oral report, critical paper, final examination.

Victorian Literature and Culture
LIT 73761
CRN: 28586
Chris VandenBossche
T/R 12:30–1:45
This course will explore the Victorian concern with the ways literature seeks to act on its readers as well as the ways it portrays agency, the capacity for action, transformation, and reform. We will focus in particular on the period between the two great Reform Bills, of 1832 and 1867, during which recurrent debates about reform shaped conceptions of gender, class, and nation. The course will cover the range of major authors and genres, including works by Matthew Arnold, Charlotte Brontë, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Carlyle,
Charles Dickens, George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, William Morris, Christina Rossetti, John Ruskin, and Alfred Tennyson. Students will complete a series of assignments (bibliography, prospectus, etc.) leading up to completion of a substantial research essay. Prior to
the start of the semester, an online syllabus will be posted at www.nd.edu/~cvandenb.

Studies in Rhetorical Theory
LIT 73885
CRN: 28507
John Duffy
W 1:30–4:00
A comparative review of schools of rhetorical theory

Text Culture in Middle Ages: Voice, Literariness, and Textual Culture in the Middle Ages
LIT 73679
CRN: 28584
Katherine Zieman
R 6:30–9:00
Close analysis of several preserved Middle English texts, with a focus on the interchange of texts between audiences.

Poetry & Political Thought Seventeenth Century
LIT 73737
CRN: 28504
Graham Hammill
M 3:00–5:30
A study of the nexus between poetry and politics in the Seventeenth Century

The Enlightenment Novel:  Characters, Sex, Myth, and Discourse
LIT 73749
CRN: 28505
Doody, Margaret
T 2:00–4:30
The notion that the Novel was born in 18th century England is a fiction in itself, partly arising from English hubris. But the impression is partly related to the role the Novel begins to take in public discourse in England, though arguably France led the way with the orchestrated discussion in the 1670s of Mme de Lafayette’s novel about adultery, La Princesse de Clèves. The Novel becomes an indispensable party to social, political and moral public debate, even as it represents or seems to represent the “private life”. It is particularly interested in questions of sexual conduct and morality, in gender roles and all laws affecting familial power and related laws regarding inheritance and legitimacy. The Novel is always the conveyor of a myth, which makes it part of timeless time, and acts in interesting if hidden conflict with its new newsiness. The individual novel, however, persuades us to love it neither because of its discursive power or mythic core, but because of its “characters” and characterization is a dominant concern. Characters arouse heated responses, commanding detestation and devotion, at the same time as they may attach themselves to popular commercial objects .
            We shall be reading one great non-fiction contemporary work, John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding, a major Enlightenment text, in order to obtain some idea of 18th century thought about personality, and how the mind works. It also offers disconcerting notions about the construction of reality and the nature of perception.
            The mythic level of novelistic meaning is strongly represented in the modern ‘social’ and ‘realistic’ novel by representation of erotic pain and misunderstanding, which remains central to the telling of tales about social placement and displacement and the strenuous evolution of modern society. We begin with a novel of the 2nd century CE, illustrating the deep use of erotic stress in prose fiction, and end with a (recommended rather than required) later Victorian novel about loss of a love.  Fictional Texts will include major novels by French and German writers, as well as British.

Forms of Democracy in 19th C U.S. Literature
LIT 73735
CRN: 25173
Sandra Gustafson
R 2:00–4:30
This course will explore two central concerns in American literary studies: what is ‘democratic’ about literature written in the United States? And how does the problem of representative politics influence literary and textual representation? From F.O. Matthiessen’s definition of a canon of five authors who shared a ‘devotion to the possibilities of democracy’ in American Renaissance (1941); to the efforts to broaden that Cold War canon to be more democratically representative in the anthology projects and multicultural criticism of the 1980s; to the New Americanist project of decoupling ‘democracy’ and ‘America’ in order to critique U.S. imperial hegemony in the 1990s, democracy has been a central concept in the study of U.S. literature. One emphasis of this course will be on historical and contemporary theories of democracy as they relate to literary
texts.

Worldwide Underground: Black Writers and the Post-National Constellation
LIT 73738
CRN: 28589
Ivy Wilson
T 6:30-9:00
By reading writers from the larger hemisphere of the Americas, this graduate seminar seeks to rethink the relationship between transnational subjectivities, globalization, and modern social formation as they are represented in literature.  Rather than accepting America as a synonym for the United States, this course approaches "America" as a dynamic contact zone, as the embodiment of the overlapping interstices of cultures that the political designation of the nation too easily belies.  Topics of consideration will include the global South, sexuality and nationality as liminal categories of being, cultural forms of hybridity and syncretism within diasporic systems, and the social meanings and possibilities of the current geo-political moment.   Writers may include Dionne Brand and Lawrence Hill from Canada, Claude McKay from Jamaica, Edwidge Danticat from Haiti, and W.E.B. DuBois and Langston Hughes from the U.S., among others.

20th Century British Poetry: Gender, Nation, and Form
LIT 73878
CRN: 28587
Huk, Romana
T 2:00–4:30
An analysis of British poetics.

FRESHMAN YEAR COMPOSITION PRACTICUM
ENGL 92001 Practicum: The Teaching of Writing
The Teaching of Writing introduces graduate students to contemporary rhetoric and composition pedagogy and prepares them to teach within the argument centered framework of the University Writing Program’s First Year Composition curriculum. In essence, this practicum aims to provide graduate students with both the pedagogical preparation necessary to teach college composition and the disciplinary knowledge essential to compete in the academic job market.

 

FRENCH
Baudelaire 
LIT 73724
CRN: 27372
Alain Toumayan 
MW 3:00–4:15 
The purpose of this course will be to undertake a sustained and in-depth study of Baudelaire's poetic and critical works. Our goal will be to arrive at an understanding of Baudelaire's aesthetics that is both detailed and broad. Special attention will be given to his situation with respect to French Romanticism. Several representative secondary works will be considered as well. Requirements include one oral presentation and two essays of moderate length.

Metamorphoses in Prose Fiction, 17th–19th century
LIT 73722
CRN: 27371
Julia Douthwaite 
R 3:30–6:15
This course offers advanced students a foundational study of the origins and development of the novel from the roman précieux of courtly society to the politically-informed historical novel of post-revolutionary France. The course includes attention to genre and style, as well as literature's role in historical and esthetic context. Texts to be studied include: D'Urfé, L'Astrée (1607–27); Mme de la Guette, Mémoires (c. 1676); Voltaire; Le Monde comme il va, ou Vision de Babouc (1748); Diderot, Jacques le fataliste et son maître (written 1760–76; pub. 1796); Anon., Le Fils de Babouc (1790); Stendhal, Le Rouge et le noir (1830); Hugo, Quatre-vingt-treize (1874).

 

GERMAN
Law and Justice on the German Stage
LIT 73762
CRN: 28367
Tobias Boes
 MW 1:30–2:45
The relationship between spectacle and law, narrative resolution and ethical justice is a recurrent theme in the German theatrical tradition from the 18th century to the present.  This course will focus on a number of plays that dramatize the contentious relationship between state power and the individual, between personal conscience and the normative demands of society.  We will pay special attention to the disquieting similarity between the theater and the courtroom, between the dramas that divert us and those by which we decide between right and wrong.  Readings will be drawn from Lessing, Goethe and Kleist, as well as from the Brechtian tradition, which includes, besides Brecht himself, also Peter Weiss and Heiner Müller.

20th Century German Prose and Poetry
LIT 73874
CRN: 28366
Vera Profit                                                                                                     
MW 3:00–4:15
In order to acquaint the student with the rich diversity characteristic of 20th-century German literature, a wide variety of materials will be studied. They will not only encompass various genres: the short story, the drama, and the poem, but will also represent various time periods: from the beginnings of the 20th century to the ’50s. Among others, readings will include Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung; Wolfgang Borchert, Draussen vor der Tür; and poems from Rilke to Celan. An oral report, two papers, and a two-hour final will supplement thorough and engaging
class discussions based upon close readings of the selected texts to epitomize rapid and spectacular modernization in Germany that started before World War I and continued during the Weimar Republic. Berlin had it all: gigantic industrial factories, glamorous boulevards, street lights, dazzling shop windows, night life, movies and entertainment, armies of white-collar employees, housing barracks, modern architecture, shopping, traffic, crime, and social problems. This course offers an introduction to one of the most dynamic periods in German.


GREEK
Athenian Oratory
LIT 73626
CRN: 28091
Christopher Baron
MWF 10:40–11:30
Prerequisite: CLGR 20004/60004
This third-year course builds on the work of CLGR 20003 and CLGR 20004 and offers close reading of passages from the speeches of Lysias and Isocrates.  Athenian oratory provides valuable information on fifth-and fourth-century Greek politics and society, and on the Greek system of rhetorical education which it reflects.  Lysias' and Isocrates' speeches are discussed in their historical and cultural context, and their variations in rhetorical style are examined.  This course prepares students for advanced offerings in Greek literature, especially CLGR 40024, CLGR 40034, and CLGR 40044.  Offered in spring semester, alternate years.

Demosthenes
LIT 73627
CRN: 28108
Christopher Baron
MWF 10:40–11:30
Prerequisite:  Third year Greek
This advanced course offers accelerated reading and detailed study of the speeches of Demosthenes, one of the major orators of late Classical Greece.  Demosthenes' speeches provide invaluable information on Athens' response to the rise of Philip of Macedon and his son Alexander the Great, and also on the theory and practice of Greek rhetoric.  The speeches are discussed in their historical and cultural context, and the main features of Demosthenes' rhetorical style are examined.

 

IRISH
Ulysses, Cultural Studies, Postcolonialism
LIT 73824
CRN: 28510
David Lloyd
R 6:30–9:00
The course is organized around a semester long reading of James Joyce's Ulysses.  Our first objective will be to read and comprehend and enjoy this work collectively and all participants will be required, formally and informally, to contribute to our reading.  Using Ulysses as our principal referent point, we will then be working through a number of key texts in the following areas: Joyce criticism, cultural studies and postcolonialism.  This is intended to be an introduction to these bodies of work, not an exhaustive survey or even representative sampling.  We will, accordingly, be reading these texts with constant reference to the ways in which they illuminate Ulysses and, beyond it, the colonial and postcolonial culture of Ireland.  Towards the end of semester we will concentrate on discussing both the value of the different kinds of approaches we have encountered and tried to deploy and the ways in which methods we have used here might be applicable in other domains of cultural and literary studies.  Since this is a research seminar, students will be expected to follow up their readings and deepen their knowledge of at least one of the domains of secondary material we have addressed (e.g., psychoanalysis, popular culture, postcolonialism etc.) and write a paper using this material to read a chapter or a thematic concern of Ulysses.

Gender and Identity in Irish Language Texts
LIT 73875
CRN: 27859
Professor: Bríona Nic Dhiarmada
Time: T/R 12:30–1:45
This course will interrogate issues of gender and identity in the work of contemporary Irish language writers. We will examine the ways in which contemporary writers in Irish writing from a constellation of identities, sexual, cultural and linguistic question explore these issues as they
articulate them in specific cultural forms. Drawing on recent theoretical work in gender studies and postcolonial studies the course will look at texts which question and problematize essentialist notions of cultural identity. It will explore in particular some of the tensions inherent in the articulation of a cross-cultural sexual identity and the specificity of linguistic and cultural
inheritance in contemporary writing in Irish. We will read, among others, texts from writers such as Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Biddy Jenkinson, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Pearse Hutchinson, Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Seán Mac Mathúna and Micheál Ó Conghaile.

Word and Image in Irish Culture, 1750–2000
LIT 73772 
CRN: 28588
Luke Gibbons
W 6:00–8:30
Known for its way with words and proliferation of writers, Irish culture is also notable for the (relative) absence of a visual imagination. Why this predominance of word over image? In this seminar, the tensions between verbal and visual expression in Irish culture will be examined, from its basis in the eighteenth century aesthetics of ‘the sublime’ in Edmund Burke and the painter James Barry, to the visual effects of nineteenth-century Irish romanticism in painting,
fiction (e.g. Lady Morgan) and melodrama (e.g. Dion Boucicault), and the modernist experiments of James Joyce. Special emphasis will be placed throughout on the competing claims of narrative and spectacle, time and space, on the Irish cultural landscape, with a view towards analyzing the distinctive features of an emergent Irish/Irish-American cinema, as evidenced in the work of John Ford, Neil Jordan and others.

The West of Ireland – An Imagined Space
LIT 73773
CRN: 28156
Prof. Bríona NicDhiarmada
T/R 3:30–4:45 pm
This course will interrogate and examine representations of the West of Ireland in various twentieth century texts focusing, in particular on the role of ‘the West of Ireland’ in state formation and legitimization during the early decades of independent Ireland and its role in the construction of an Irish identity. We will look at how images of the West of Ireland were constructed in various utopian or romanticized formulations as well as examining more dystopian versions. This course will take an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on the visual arts and film as well as on literary texts in both Irish and English. (Irish language texts will be read in translation).

ITALIAN
Manzoni
LIT 73822
CRN: 27390
Christian Moevs 
R 3:30–6:00 
A close reading of the Promessi Sposi in its historical and cultural context, with special attention given to its artistic and social aims as a novel at once historical, political, and self-consciously Catholic.

Dante II  
LIT 73665
CRN: 23228
Christian Moevs
T/R 12:30–1:45
Dante's Comedy is one of the supreme poetic achievements in Western literature. It is a probing synthesis of the entire Western cultural and philosophical tradition that produced it, a radical experiment in poetics and poetic technique, and a profound exploration of Christian spirituality. Dante I and II are a close study, over two semesters, of the entire Comedy, in its cultural (historical, literary, artistic, philosophical) context. Dante I covers the works that precede the Comedy (Vita Nuova, Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia) and the Inferno, Dante II covers the Purgatorio and Paradiso, along with the Monarchia. These are separate courses, and can be taken independently, though they do form an integrated sequence. The course and all discussion will be conducted in English. Dante's minor works will be read in English translation; all critical articles will be in English. The Comedy will be read in facing-page translation, and we will refer to it in Italian. Acquaintance with Latin or a Romance language is therefore helpful, though not strictly necessary.

Italian Media Systems
LIT 73876
CRN: 27385
Peppino Ortoleva 
W 3:30–6:00
This course explores the explosive changes in the Italian media system over the past three decades in relation to the transformation of politics and society. Cultural production in fashion and design, popular and serious music, television and cinema, book publishing, the cell phone phenomenon and new media will be analyzed within the broader dynamics of general media change.  Taught in English

 

LATIN
Lucretius
LIT 73628
CRN: 28049
Catherine Schlegel
T/R 12:30–1:45
This advanced course introduces students to Lucretius' epic poem, De rerum natura, whose subject is Epicurean philosophy.  Close reading of passages from the poem reveals its didactic character and highlights important topics: the atomic nature of matter, the mortality of the soul, the vanity of religion, and the importance of achieving intellectual tranquility.  Lucretius' contribution to defining Epicureanism and the place of philosophy in the cultural life of Rome's elite citizens are key themes for discussion in the course.

Medieval Latin Survey
LIT 73629
CRN: 28083
Martin Bloomer
MW 1:30–2:45
The aim of this course is to experience a broad spectrum of Medieval Latin texts.  Readings representative of a variety of genres (literary and subliterary), eras, and regions will be selected.  Students planning to enroll in this course should be completing Introduction to Christian Latin Texts or they must secure the permission of the instructor.  Those with interests in particular text types should inform the instructor well in advance so that he can try to accommodate their interests.

 

MEDIEVAL
Medieval and Renaissance Platonism
LIT 73680
CRN: 28622
T/R 11:00–12:15
The course aims to study the transition between medieval and Renaissance philosophy with special reference to the Platonic tradition.  In order to achieve this aim, we will focus on a small group of central figures and study some of their works in detail.  Texts to be studied in whole or part will include Nicholas of Cusa: On Learned Ignorance, On the Beryl, On the Vision of God, Marsilio Ficino: Platonic Theology, On Love, On Plato's Phaedrus, and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, On the Dignity of Man, On Being and Unity, Heptaplus.  We will study not only the general question of the impact of Humanism on the scholastic method of the Middle Ages but also such more specific questions as the expansion of the "Platonic" corpus and the new viewpoints on the history of philosophy.  Knowledge of Latin will be helpful but not essential (since all the above texts are available in English).  Written requirement: one final paper of ca. 20 pp.

Introduction to Meister Eckhart
LIT 73681
CRN: 28618
T/R 12:30–1:45
This course will attempt to introduce Eckhart's thought by reading a selection of his most important Latin works.  This close textual study will demonstrate the extent to which Eckhart presents a possibly unique combination of extreme technical exactitude and exegetical flexibility and how, thanks to these skills he is able to develop a radically Neoplatonic (Dionysian) philosophy within the context of Augustinian readings and a methodology responsive to the demands of the Aristotelian or Scholastic traditions. .  Selections will be from works including the Exposition of Genesis, the Book of the Parables of Genesis, the Exposition of John, the Parisian Questions, the Prologue to the Tripartite Work, and the Prologue to the Work of Propositions.  Although the works to be selected for study are available at least in German and sometimes also in French or English translations, a reading of knowledge of Latin is essential for this course.  Requirements: regular translation exercises (written and oral) and one short oral presentation.

Editing Medieval Manuscripts
LIT 73682
CRN: 28621
W 2:00–4:30
In this course, students will be introduced to the principles and basic procedures involved in editing later medieval Latin texts from manuscripts: the reading and transcription of manuscripts, the collation of manuscripts, the preparation of an apparatus criticus and a apparatus fontium, the presentation of critically edited texts in print, etc. Students will learn the importance of paleographic, codicological, philiological, and historical-bibliographical analysis in critical editions executed according to the "historical method." By reference to exemplary critical editions of later medieval Latin works, students will also be introduced to hermeneutical issues involved in editing. Moreover, students will be introduced to the techniques, sources and instruments of primary research among the manuscripts, and will prepare a term-long heuristic project. Having passed the Medieval Institute Latin examination (or some equivalent) is a prerequisite for enrolling in the course; any exceptions to the prerequisite must be approved by the teacher, after consultation with him.

 

SPANISH
Borges & Cortazar
LIT 70865
CRN: 27373
Hugo Verani 
MW 1:30–2:45
This course will examine the short narrative (short story and novellas) of twentieth-century authors Jorge Luis Borges, and Julio Cortázar. The emphasis will be on close readings of the texts along with recent developments in critical theory. In addition to class participation, final grade will be determined by two exams and a term paper (15–20 pages).

Cervantes and His Time 
LIT 73723
CRN: 27379
Encarnacion Juarez 
W 3:30–6:00 
A close reading of Cervantes' Don Quijote in relation to the prose tradition of the Renaissance: novella, the pastoral romance, the romance of chivalry, the humanist dialogue, and the picaresque novel. We will also pay attention to the historical, social, and cultural context of the work.

Literature, Women and Society:  The Southern Cone in the 20th Century
LIT 73877
CRN: 27370
Maria-Rosa Olivera-Williams 
T 3:30–6:00
This course designed as a graduate seminar aims to critically analyze some of the most important narrative texts by twentieth-century Argentine, Chilean and Uruguayan women authors. Some of the writers to be studied include Somers, Geel, Guido, Peri-Rossi, Mercado, Eltit, and Valenzuela among others. 

PHILOSOPHY

Plato's Republic
PHIL 83209 01
CRN: 28026
O'Connor
M/W 1:30–2:45
This is a graduate seminar on Plato’s Republic. If there is space, a few undergraduates with special backgrounds may also be admitted. The first half of the semester, we will simply read the Republic, along with some of the epic poetry of Homer and Hesiod through and against which Plato defines his own project. The second half of the semester, we will go through the Republic again, this time reading contemporary essays in two recent collections intended for a broad audience, the Cambridge Companion to Plato’s Republic and Blackwell’s Guide to Plato’s Republic. This should strike a balance between considering Plato in his own place and time and considering his importance to recent scholarship.

The course will be taught in translation, but there will be a supplemental one-credit Greek reading course, focusing on Plato’s critique of poetry.

Introduction to Meister Eckhart
LIT 73681
CRN: 28618
T/R 12:30–1:45
This course will attempt to introduce Eckhart's thought by reading a selection of his most important Latin works.  This close textual study will demonstrate the extent to which Eckhart presents a possibly unique combination of extreme technical exactitude and exegetical flexibility and how, thanks to these skills he is able to develop a radically Neoplatonic (Dionysian) philosophy within the context of Augustinian readings and a methodology responsive to the demands of the Aristotelian or Scholastic traditions. .  Selections will be from works including the Exposition of Genesis, the Book of the Parables of Genesis, the Exposition of John, the Parisian Questions, the Prologue to the Tripartite Work, and the Prologue to the Work of Propositions.  Although the works to be selected for study are available at least in German and sometimes also in French or English translations, a reading of knowledge of Latin is essential for this course.  Requirements: regular translation exercises (written and oral) and one short oral presentation.

Recent French Philosophy
PHIL 93325 01
CRN: 28035
Gutting
T/R 12:30-1:45
The course will center on fairly brief but central texts from four recent French philosophers: Foucault's "Man and His Doubles" (Order of Things), Derrida's "Differance", something from Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, and something from Badiou's Being and Event. In each case, I will provide some background via lectures, and then we will proceed to a close reading of the text. The readings will pay particular attention to questions about clarity and obscurity (e.g., does this make any sense? are there anything like arguments here?) and about what the significant philosophical achievement of each text might be.

 

THEOLOGY

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