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Ph.D. In Literature
Course Descriptions
Fall 2008
Students must get approval from the Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) or the Director for all courses in which they enroll.
Minimum 9 credit hours per semester
Maximum of 15 credit hours per semester
(Language classes do not count
toward the 9 credits)
M = Monday
T = Tuesday
W = Wednesday
R = Thursday
F = Friday
TR = Tuesday & Thursday
There are more courses than this which you may sign up for—these are ones that have been pre-approved.
Ph.D. in Literature
Course Descriptions
Fall 2008
World Literature: Required course
All first & second year students must take the following course.
Literature and Life: The Comparative Approach
LIT 73929
CRN: 17683
M 6:15 – 9:00 PM
Pietro Boitani
The course aims at establishing links between literature and the central problems of human life. If literature does not speak to the living, then it is worth absolutely nothing. There will be four main themes, organized as an itinerary or progression from one to the other: Death, Wonder and Knowledge, Compassion, Recognition and Rebirth. Death is the problem of each single human being; the pursuit of knowledge is one way of removing or overcoming death; compassion is a way of adding personal feeling to knowledge of the other in the flesh; recognition (knowledge of the other in the flesh) can lead to rebirth and possibly resurrection.
These themes will be studied by means of literary (and philosophical) texts, in a comparative manner, as follows:
Death: Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea; Chaucer, Pardoner’s Tale, Leopardi, Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell’Asia; Shakespeare, Hamlet III, I, 78-85; Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilich; Dante, Convivio IV, xxviii; Malherbe, Consolation a M. Du Perier; Dante, Purgatorio V.
Wonder and Knowledge: Dante, Convivio IV, xxv; Aristotle, Metaphysics I, 2; Thomas Aquinas, In duodecim libros Metaphyscorum Aristotelis I, l. III; Aristotle, Poetics; Of the Sublime; Homer, Iliad XVIII, 483-9 and VIII, 555-61; Creation theme from Genesis, Job, Psalms and Proverbs to Hesiod, Theogony, Plato, Timaeus and Ovid, Metamorphoses I to Boethius, Bede and Alain de Lille; Dante, Comedy; Michelangelo, Vault of Sistine Chapel; Du Bartas; Tasso; Milton, Paradise Lost VII; Haydn, The Creation; Contemplation of the stars in Joyce, Ulysses; Mann, The Magic Mountain; Broch, The Death of Virgil; T.S. Eliot, Dry Salvages (short, selected passages from all these works will be provided).
Com-passion: Sophocles, Electra; Aristotle, Poetics; Genesis 2; Aeschylus, Agamemnon; Homer, Odyssey VIII, 487-93, XXIII, 233-40, XI, 216-22; Dante, Inferno XV and Purgatorio XXIII; Proust, Temps Retrouvé (matinee); Tolstoy, War and Peace IV, 4, XVI and III, 3, XVII (short, selected passages from all these works will be indicated beforehand).
Recognition and Rebirth: Dante, Purgatorio XXX; Shakespeare, King Lear V, iii, 8-19 and IV, vii, 60-71; the final scenes of Shakespeare, Pericles, Cymbeline, Winter’s Tale.
Literary Criticism: Required course
All first year students must take the following course.
Literary Criticism from Aristotle to Jakobson
LIT 73928
CRN: 17682
TR 9:30 – 10:45 AM
Vittorio Hösle
This course will render the students familiar with some basic texts from two millennia. We will begin with Aristotle’s “Poetics”, discuss Horace’s “ars poetica” and Longinus’s “on the sublime”. The medieval period will be represented by a work of Dante. A special focus will lie on the creation of
modern literary criticism in German idealism, but we will also discuss post-idealistic works (including Nietzsche) and end with roman Jakobson’s groundbreaking structuralist approach to the nature of poetic language.
Required course: Learning the Profession
All second and third year students must take the following course each semester.
Students in other years are encouraged to take it.
Learning the Profession: Studying, researching, and
teaching literature in a time of globalization
LIT 62000
CRN: 18687
Every other Friday from 1:55 – 3:00 pm (1.5 credits)
Professors: Olivier Morel and Joe Buttigieg
Important: The course will be taught next Fall and Spring Semester
This one.five credit course focuses on preparing doctoral students for a scholarly career in the humanities. It pursues two goals: share experiences and practical knowledge about the field of literature and literary studies and elaborate a common thought on what literature is in today’s globalized world. With respect to the first goal, we will focus on the technical aspects of preparing for an academic profession in literature: we will share experiences and points of view on such questions as methodology, getting ready for the job market, facing challenges, and taking advantage of opportunities in the academic field; we will also review the various dimensions of the Ph.D. in Literature Program, from requirements to examination procedures. The second goal is to conduct an overall reflection on what defines literature: More than ever before, literature today circulates across national and cultural boundaries, helping reshape relations among peoples. For Edward W. Said, “Weltliteratur transcends national literatures without, at the same time, destroying their individualities.” Milan Kundera has argued for the need “to embrace the larger context of world literature.” The concept of Weltliteratur enables us to supersede national approaches, to examine new relations between Europe and the globe, between antiquity and modernity, between mass culture and elite productions, as David Damrosch explains it. The various forms of displacement that characterize literature today form the basis for continuing theoretical approaches, from “Global literature” (Jameson) to “cosmopolitanism” (Robbins, Brennan, Appiah) to “transnationalism” (Spivak) and the “postcolonial sphere” (Said, Bhabha, Lionnet).
Marxism, Religion, and Utopia
LIT 73963
CRN: 18685
Thursday 6:30 – 9:15 PM
Christopher Kendrick
Classical Marxism originated as an agnostic and anti-utopian movement and problematic, yet classical and subsequent Marxisms have had much to say about, and to do with, religious and utopian visions. The course will focus on modern, especially Marxist theories of religion and utopia, and on the relations between them. We will read a mix of theoretical works (Marx, Durkheim, Charles Taylor) and literary texts (Thomas More, Leguin, Premchand), the latter especially for their theories of religion and utopia.
The Literature of Madness and Altered States
LIT 73930
CRN: 18611
M 6:15 – 9:00
Alain Toumayan
This course will examine the literary representation of the alteration of consciousness through madness, alcohol, drugs, or other means such as metamorphosis or the proximity of death. The investigation of complex and original configurations of subjectivity and intersubjectivity, and the analysis of unusual experiences of time and space, will afford an explicit formaulation of the manners in which the culture of the West has posed the question: "Who am I?" The role of literature and art in this interrogation will also be considered. Texts by Euripides, de Quincey, Balzac, Baudelaire, Nerval, Maupassant, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Mann, Cortázar, Fitzgerald, Beckett, Blanchot, and Artaud and perhaps a film by Polanski. Secondary readings in Freud, Deleuze, lacan and Foucault.
Classics
Intro to Christian Latin Texts
LIT 73677
CRN: 15718
MW 11:45 – 1:00 PM
Martin Bloomer
Prerequisite: Third year Latin
This course has two goals: to improve the student's all-around facility in dealing with Latin texts and to introduce the student to the varieties of Christian Latin texts and basic resources that aid in their study. Exposure to texts will be provided through common readings which will advance in the course of the semester from the less to the more demanding and will include Latin versions of Scripture, exegesis, homilectic, texts dealing with religious life, formal theological texts, and Christian Latin poetry. Philological study of these texts will be supplemented by regular exercises in Latin composition. Medieval Latin Survey will follow this course in the spring term.
Roman History Writing: The younger Pliny's 'Letters'
LIT 73600
CRN: 18448
TR 2:00-3:15
Keith Bradley
This advanced course in Latin prose literature begins with an introduction to the genre of history-writing in classical antiquity, and examines representative readings from the major Roman historians Sallust, Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus Marcellinus. It concentrates, however, on alternative modes of preserving memory in Latin prose writing, and takes as its primary text the 'Letters' of the younger Pliny, which are studied from two points of view: first as a self-conscious portrait for posterity of a prominent Roman senator of the early Antonine age, and secondly as a set of documents exposing features of Roman social, political, economic and cultural life. The biographical 'Lives of the Twelve Caesars' by Pliny's contemporary Suetonius are also considered.
Euripides
LIT 73602
CRN: 18449
TR 3:30 – 4:45 PM
Isabel Torrance
Prerequisite: Third year Greek
This advanced course offers accelerated reading and detailed study of the tragic plays of Euripides, the last of the great tragedians of classical Athens-and the object of ridicule from the comic writer Aristophanes. Euripides' plays depart from those of his predecessors first because of their escapist and romantic plots and secondly because of their fierce engagement with contemporary Athenian politics and society. The course dwells on this development, and also considers why Euripides is sometimes considered the most radical of the Athenian tragedians.
English
Introduction to Old English
MI 60110
CRN:
TTH 9:30-10:45
Katherine O’Brien O'Keeffe
(See MI for registration authorization)
This introduction to the study of Old English will focus on the elements of the language preparatory to reading and analyzing a variety of prose and verse texts. Issues for discussion and study will include: current and past constructions of philology, the canon, the politics of editing, issues in translation, interpretative strategies, subject formation, issues in period construction, research tools, possibilities for future work. No prior experience with Old or Middle English is necessary. Requirements: an ungraded midterm assessment, daily class work, a brief paleography assignment, a short paper, a final exam.
Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
LIT 73939
CRN: 18622
TR 3:30-4:45
Thomas Hall
A seminar on the manuscripts and book culture of Anglo-Saxon England, emphasizing the transmission of Latin and Old English texts, the curriculum of study in early English schools, the history of early English libraries and scriptoria, and varieties of literacy and reading practices. Students will gain experience reading and researching Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and will transcribe and edit texts in Latin and Old English.
Middle English Drama
LIT 73942
CRN: 18630
MW 1:30-2:45
Katherine Zieman
This course will survey the extant canon of both "religious" and "secular" dramatic texts—primarily those from the fourteenth-century up the the establishment of the professional theaters in the sixteenth in England, though we will also attend to antecedent practices in liturgy and civic spectacle. In addition to this survey, the course will also provide an introduction to primary source material in the Records of Early English Drama to allow us to investigate dramatic performance in historical context and will examine some of the more recent critical trends in scholarship by Carol Symes, Sarah Beckwith, and Ruth Nissé, among others, who have examined the definition and role of "drama" in medieval culture more broadly. Assignments will include a few short papers and presentations and one larger research project.
Tudor/Stuart Drama
LIT 73943
CRN: 18631
MW 3:00-4:45
Jesse Lander
This course will survey Tudor-Stuart drama. A collective Stock Exchange of ideas, as well as, a laboratory of and for the new social relations of agricultural and commercial capitalism, the new professional theater quickly developed a number of innovative genres and provided an outlet for a wide variety of dramatists. Our objective will be to recapture this broad cultural ferment by reading a representative range of plays by Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Dekker, Heywood, Beaumont, Chapman, Fletcher, Webster, and Ford. There are no prerequisites, but some familiarity with Shakespeare's major works will be helpful. Students will be asked to do an in-class presentation and write a 25-page research paper.
Nature Poetry and Ecocriticism
LIT 73944
CRN: 18632
TR 5:00 – 6:15
Prof. John Sitter
Consideration of poetic constructions of Nature (an idea of order or totality) and nature (the unbuilt environment) in English and American poetry from the late Renaissance to today. Poets studied will include some of the following: Andrew Marvell, Alexander Pope, James Thomson, Charlotte Smith, Erasmus Darwin, William Wordsworth, John Clare, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, G.M. Hopkins, Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, Robinson Jeffers, Wallace Stevens, Ted Hughes, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, Maxine Kumin, Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, and Pattiann Rogers. Decisions regarding some of these poets will be made taking into account the fields of the students who enroll.
We will be concerned with changing ideas of nature and natural aesthetics (as Adorno remarked, “Natural beauty, purportedly ahistorical, is at its core historical”) and with how poetry grounded in pastoral and agricultural traditions moves beyond the garden and comes to include mountains, then wilderness, and, lately, the idea of an ecosystem. We will try to understand continuities as well as differences (e.g., the relation of 18th and 19th-century worldviews embodied in natural theology or “physicotheology” to contemporary ecotheology and “deep ecology”). Ecocritical readings will include recent works on several of the poets we study and sections of more general ecologically oriented works by Jonathan Bate (The Song of the Earth, 2000), Lawrence Buell (Writing for an Endangered World, 2001), Dana Phillips (The Truth of Ecology, 2003), and others. We will also discuss some foundational texts--such as Heidegger’s essays on poetry, place, and dwelling-- and sections of recent philosophical interventions, such as Kate Soper’s What Is Nature? (1995) and Bruno Latour’s The Politics of Nature (2004). Requirements will include several short papers, one or two reports, and a term paper.
The Idea Of The Local In The Nineteenth Century
LIT 73945
CRN: 18634
MW 1:30-2:45
Sara Maurer
In Great Britain, the rise of modern abstractions – uniform measurements of time and space, standardized print culture, and the universal equivalent of money – brought with it the corollary idea of the local – that space whose intimacy and particularity transcends easy translation. In the nineteenth-century this notion of the local was by turns romanticized as transcendent, vilified as backwards, cultivated as a space safe from rapid change, gendered as female, and used by minority cultures as a site of resistance. Paying particular attention to the anomalous relationship of England to the Celtic regions of Wales, Scotland and Ireland, this course will explore the uses and literary forms of the local, with an eye toward understanding Great Britain’s imagination of itself in a global context. In addition to exploring cultural formations of the local – the Ordnance Surveys of Great Britain and Ireland, the Welsh Blue Book Controversy of 1847 – we will read texts by William Wordsworth, Robert Burns, William Cobbett, Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth, Mary Russell Mitford, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, William Carleton, and Margaret Oliphant. Readings will also include current scholarship on place and identity.
Out of Bounds: Space, Nationalism, and the Cartographies of Desire in 19th C. U.S. American Literature
LIT 73946
CRN: 18635
TR 3:30-4:45
Ivy Wilson
By using the concept of phantasmagoria as warrant, this graduate seminar traces the permutations of boundaries as they emerge in a number of domains--the codes of respectability, the corpus of the body, and the intersection of contact zones--that regulate various modes of sociality in the U.S. More specifically, the course will examine these permutations as articulations of three forms of subjectivity--the liminal or transcendent, the hybrid, and the excessive--throughout nineteenth-century U.S. literature. Texts may include Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee, Julia Ward Howe's The Hermaphrodite, Herman Melville's Pierre, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, Martin Delany's Blake, Lydia Maria Child's "A Romance of the Republic," Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby," Charles Chesnutt's The House Behind the Cedars, and Henry James's The Wings of the Dove, among others. Course requirements include one presentation and 25-page research paper.
Reading Readings: Poetics of the Lyric
LIT 73948
CRN: 18638
MW 3:00-4:15
John Wilkinson
This seminar reads lyric poetry through influential readings of poems by scholars and poets from the beginnings of modern ‘close reading’ in the 1920s to the present, discussing ideological and poetic challenges to close reading practice. While most readings are drawn from English language poetry and Anglo-American criticism, theories of lyric developed by Adorno and Heidegger will also receive attention.
Close reading was institutionalized in the academy as the supposedly ideologically neutral ‘practical criticism’ (UK) and New Criticism (US), and subsequently has been challenged, ironically enough, for its blindness – to history, to class struggle, to gender, to race, and to precisely what is not present in the scrutinized text. But these challenges remain dependent on close reading to provide a misreading they can arraign, and to give edge to their revised readings. This seminar will look at developments in close reading, and will test close reading in engagement with the poetic repertoire on which it was developed, and with more recent lyric performances which seem to frustrate its ambitions.
This seminar will exercise students in researching and presenting influential poetics of reading from Oscar Wilde to Mutlu Konuk Blasing, and in intense reading of poetic texts from Shakespeare to J.H. Prynne. As a graduate seminar, this will be a collective enterprise at heart, even if instruction cannot be wholly resisted. By the end participants should find themselves more confident and less anxious to dominate in their relationships with lyric poems. Course requirements are weekly brief response papers; one substantial presentation; a final paper based on research and close reading; and regular participation.
Contemporary Conceptual Literature
LIT 73949
CRN: 18640
TR 12:30-1:45
Steve Tomasula
Anyone who looks beyond best-seller lists quickly sees that there’s a wild west of writing out there where anything goes. In fact, judging by the variety of contemporary writing practices and materials, the use of language as an art medium seems to parallel visual art where the mainstream is conceptual and can just as easily be video as it can be made of tennis shoes or DNA. In this class we will be reading works that tend to expand the definition of literature rather than close it down to accepted conventions: fiction, poems, electronic and other hybrids whose authors have adopted much of the idioms, rhetorical strategies, or styles of earlier conceptual, modern and postmodern work, either self-consciously or not, as they engage with contemporary thought, and social formations, even as they move further from ideas of originality, the oppositional stance of the avant-garde, and other assumptions that informed earlier writing. Variously called experimental, conceptual, avant-garde, hybrid, postmodern, innovative, extreme, alternative, e-, anti-, or new literature, our readings will include works from the collaborative flash poems of Heavy Industry, to the visual-text hybrids of Johanna Drucker, to the reworking of pulp “Nurse Betty” novels by Stacey Levine. Tentative reading list: The People of Paper (by Salvador Plascencia); Electronic Literature Collection <http://collection.eliterature.org/1/> (Katherine Hayles, et al eds.); Love in a Dead Language (Lee Siegel); Frances Johnson (Stacey Levine); Wittgenstein’s Mistress (David Markson); City of Glass (Paul Auster); Notable American Women (Ben Marcus); Altmann’s Tongue (Brian Evenson); The Jirí Chronicles (Debra Di Blasi); Europeana: A Brief History Of The Twentieth Century (Patrik Ourednik); The Blue Guide to Indiana (Michael Martone). Course pack of short fiction and poetry. Course requirements: 2 short papers, 1 long. Short quizzes. Midterm, final.
Theatrical Realism
LIT 73950
CRN: 18642
MW 11:45-1:00
Susan Harris
Producing the Real: Theory and Practice of Theatrical Realism
Ever since realism became the dominant mode of the nineteenth-century stage, most avant-garde movements in Western drama have defined themselves against it. But what exactly is realism? Where did it come from, and how does it change? How are spectators persuaded to “recognize” certain conventions, strategies, or content as realistic˜ and then to reject those conventions and accept new ones? Is realism inherently conservative “as many of its critics argue” or does it contain the revolutionary potential that realist playwrights so often claim for it? Now that once-radical antirealist techniques have been adopted by commercial theaters, does realism still exist? And how is the practice of realism on the modern or contemporary stage related to changing conceptions of human nature, human behavior, human society, or the “real world”?
This course will investigate the practice and the theory of realism in English-language theater from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. Alongside the plays and criticism of the leading British, Irish, and American realists, we will read the critiques of realism that have emerged in contemporary critical theory. We will situate our study of realism in its historical, political, and economic contexts, and we will also look at the acting and production techniques that made realism possible. Playwrights may
include but are not necessarily limited to: George Bernard Shaw, T. C. Murray, J. M. Synge, Sean O‚Casey, Teresa Deevy, John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Edward Bond, Brian Friel, Lillian Helmann, Clifford Odets, Eugene O‚Neill, Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, August Wilson, David Mamet, Conor Macpherson, Tony Kushner. Students will produce one conference-length (10-page) paper and one seminar-length (20-25 page) paper and will be responsible for at least one in-class presentation.
Spenser and the Epic Romance
LIT 73954
MW 4:30 – 5:45
Thomas Roche
In the more than forty years that I have been teaching Spenser at Princeton, I have become more and more convinced that one cannot teach him without teaching Virgil, Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso as well. One can do without almost all of Malory; the Faerie Queene makes a single cameo appearance. Therefore the first three weeks of this seminar are devoted to the achievement of Virgil in creating Aeneas, the founder of Rome. As the Middle Ages wear on, other heroes arrive, in particular, the Roland of the Chanson de Roland that great epic of France. Sometime in the fifteenth century Roland crosses the Alps and takes on a new life and name – Orlando – and becomes the hero of two of the most important romance epics of Italian literature: Boiardo's Orlando inamorato and Ariosto’s Orlando furioso. We will end this Italian sojourn reading Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata, his epic on the First Crusade. The rest of the term will be devoted to how Spenser converted this Italian material to his English purposes.
French
Francophone Lit & Postcolonial
LIT 73931
CRN: 18653
R 03:30-06:00
Alison Rice
This course will closely examine Francophone literary texts within the context of their composition, taking into account the conditions of their writing and the politics of their publishing. Novels, plays, and poems will be examined along with theoretical works that shed light on the dynamics of postcolonial literary production.
Ronsard
LIT 73936
CRN: 18649
M 3:30 – 6:15
Joann DellaNeva
An in-depth reading of the love lyrics of Ronsard or Maurice Sceve, particularly as they relate to the Italian Petrarchist tradition.
Proust
LIT 73941
CRN: 18625
W 6:00-8:30
Maud Ellmann
This course provides an opportunity to engage with one of the most captivating novels in world literature, Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, which has exercised a profound influence on modern writing and thought. We will explore Proust’s reinvention of the novel in relation to a number of Proustian problems and themes: his analyses of desire, perversion and sexuality; his reflections on the nature of time and memory; and his exploration of the relationship of art to life. We will also consider Proust’s powers as a satirist and critic of ideology, who mercilessly dismantled the individual and collective illusions of his contemporaries. Despite its acerbity, the Search is one of the funniest, most charming novels ever written; it is also one of the most unbearably beautiful. We will be reading the novel in Scott Moncrieff’s revised English translation, using the 2003 Modern Library Edition. Some knowledge of French is desirable but not required. We will start at the beginning of the novel and try to reach the conclusion by the end of the semester. There will also be an opportunity to read some of the remarkable criticism inspired by Proust’s novel. Written requirements: weekly 1-2-page response papers and a final 20-page paper.
Irish
Scottish Gaelic
LIT 60213
CRN: 18298
TR 2:00 - 3:15pm
Peter McQuillan
The aim of this course is to provide an intensive introduction to the reading of texts in Scottish Gaelic. We will cover a wide spectrum of texts ranging from short stories, poetry, as well as journalistic and academic writing. No previous knowledge of Scottish Gaelic is required but students should have studied at least three semesters of Modern Irish to prepare them for this course.
Clasaicí nd Gaelilge
LIT 73951
CRN: 18299
W 6:00 – 9:00
Breandan O’Bauchalla
Déanfar staidéar sa chúrsa seo ar na príomhshaothair a scríobhadh sa Ghaeilge sa tréimhse 1600 -1900. Déanfar cúram den teanga is den litríocht i dteannta a chéile; cuimseoidh an cúrsa idir staidéar téacsúil agus anailís liteartha. Iniúchfar cúlra na dtéacsanna go mion agus pléifear an chritic agus an tráchtaireacht atá déanta orthu go dtí seo.
Ideology, Poetry & Politics in Jacobite Ireland
LIT 73726
CRN: 18296
TR 2:00 – 3:15 PM
Breandan O’Bauchalla
Jacobitism, or allegiance to the cause of the House of Stuart (from Latin Jacobus ‘James’ the deposed James II), was the common voice of political dissent in 18th century Ireland, Scotland and England. Irish Catholic advocacy of the Stuart cause had already become a political orthodoxy in the course of the 17th century and when the Stuarts were deposed by William of Orange (‘King Billy’) later succeeded by the Hanoverians (1714) the culture of dispossession and displacement and the rhetoric of return and restoration became firmly entrenched in the political ideology of Catholic Ireland. This course will examine the development of Irish Jacobitism in its various literary, historical and ideological aspects in addition to placing it within its wider British and European context in the 18th century.
Italian
History of Italian Language
LIT 73932
CRN: 18669
Tuesday 12:45 –3:15
Ted Cachey
The advances introduction to the history of the Italian language from Le origin to the High Renaissance with special emphasis on Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio during the medieval period and Bembo, Castiglione, and Machiavelli for the Renaissance.
Vico's New Science
LIT 73935
CRN: 18670
Tuesday 3:00 – 5:30
Vittorio Hösle
Vico's "New Science", which we will read in the third edition of 1744, is doubtless the most important work of Italian philosophy. But the work is not simply of historical interest; it remains still today one of the most valid attempts to develop a theory of human culture and to grasp the peculiar methods of the humanities - "the new science" to be added to natural science and psychology, as they had been conceived by Descartes. We will try to reconstruct the wealth of insights of this book in the fields of philosophy of language, aesthetics, philosophy of law, political philosophy and philosophy of history
and discuss later developments in the humanities and social sciences that have partly confirmed, partly confuted Vico's conception of the humanities.
Spanish
From Reconquest to Renaissance: Medieval Literature
LIT 73933
CRN: 18659
M 3:30-06:15
Dayle Seidenspinner-Nunez
The defining feature of medieval Spain is the Reconquest, the fluctuating repossession of lands conquered by Muslim invaders in 711 that lasted from seven to more than seven hundred years. This course will survey the masterworks of the Spanish Middle Ages within the ideological, social, cultural, and political context of reconquest Spain and will include the kharjas, Poema de mio Çid, romancero, Los milagros de nuestra Señora by Gonzalo de Berceo, Conde Lucanor by Don Juan Manuel, Libro de buen amor by Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Talavera by Alfonso Martínez de Toledo, Cárcel de amor by Diego de San Pedro, Celestina by Fernando de Rojas, and miscellaneous selections. Primary texts in Spanish will be supplemented with critical, scholarly, cultural, and theoretical readings in Spanish and English. The course is crosslisted with the Medieval Institute and will be taught in English; coursework will comprise oral presentations, midterm and final exams, and a paper.
Cuban Literature
LIT 73934
CRN: 18660
W 3:30 – 6:00
Thomas Anderson
This course will offer a panoramic view of Cuban literature written over the last 150 years. Through readings of short fiction, novels, poetry, theater, and essays by authors such as Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, José Martí, Nicolás Guillén, and Alejo Carpentier, we will explore various topics such as colonialism, slavery, U. S. imperialism, and the Cuban Revolution.
Imperialism, Colonial, Humanism
LIT 73937
CRN: 18650
TR 2:00 – 3:15
Patricio Boyer
An in-depth study of a particular theme, author, or genre on colonial Latin American literature.
Teaching Practicum for Romance Languages
All second-year students who are teaching for Romance Languages are required to take Acquisition & Instr Methods and one of the practicums. Be aware of the week-long workshop before classes start (August 18 – 25).
Acquisition & Instr Methods (3 credits)
LIT 61603
CRN: 61603
Tuesday 12:45–3:15 or Thursday 12:45-03:15
Colleen Ryan-Scheutz
This course introduces language instructors to the theoretical background and debates that inform current teaching methodologies for second language learning. Language instructors will learn to develop a communicative classroom environment that blends listening, speaking, reading, and writing while building toward a proficiency goal. Students will familiarize themselves with key concepts in linguistics and research methodologies. They will gain a historical perspective on theories of second language acquisition and foreign language teaching methodologies and be encouraged to develop informed views of their own. Projects include presentations, peer observations, self-assessment, small research components, micro-teaching demos, and developing basic elements of the FL teaching portfolio.
Practicum in French (1.5 credits)
LIT 61605
CRN: 12945
W 01:00-02:15
STAFF
This course will prepare students to teach elementary French courses. It will cover basic teaching techniques/methods used in the ND French curriculum, setting up and maintaining a grade book, course management, as well as test design and evaluation techniques.
Practicum in Italian (1.5 credits)
LIT 61606
CRN: 12946
W 01:00-02:15
STAFF
This course is designed for graduate students in the M.A. program in Italian/PhD. Lit and is mandatory during their first year of teaching. It complements the theoretical basis for foreign language teaching methodology provided in LLRO and gives students hands-on practice with the organizational tasks and pedagogical procedures that are pertinent to their daily teaching responsibilities.
Practicum in Spanish (1.5 credits)
LIT 61604
CRN: 12944
Thursday 04:30-05:45
STAFF
This weekly practicum is designed for graduate students who serve as Spanish Teaching Assistants in the Department of Romance Languages. The course focuses on the development of organizational and presentation skills needed to excel as a foreign language teacher. Students carry out micro-teaching projects and collaborate to develop a portfolio of their own activities based upon the principles learned in the course.
 Gender Studies Graduate Minor
CoreGrad.Sem: Think Gender
GSC 63500 – 01
CRN: 18144
M 3:00 - 5:30P
TBA
This course explores the intersection between theology and anthropology in three stages. In the first, we will read pivotal earlier theoretical work on gender and theory in anthropology, and then contemporary ethnographic work that problematizes sex and gender and illustrates contemporary methodological approaches. In the second, we'll explore similar questions in western feminist theology, beginning with important early work and moving to recent work in theological ethics. In the third segment of the course, we'll put the two disciplines together, reading works that creatively combine ethnographic research with theological reflection. Assignments will include seminar discussion papers and a final project/paper.
Philosophy & Theology courses must be approved by Professor Buttigieg
Please note: this listing of courses may change
for various reasons.
Courses will be scheduled on the following days:
M = Monday
T = Tuesday
W = Wednesday
R = Thursday
F = Friday
MW = Monday & Wednesday
TR = Tuesday & Thursday
Fall 2002 Courses
Spring 2003 Courses
Fall 2003 Courses
Spring 2004 Courses
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