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Comparative Literature Graduate Course Offerings
Spring 2003
CPLT 750 000 Literary Theories
Cathy Caruth
Th 1:00-4:00
Max 8
[Crosslisted with ENG 789]
Content: An introduction to literary theoretical thinking, focusing on twentieth century structuralism, post-structuralism and contemporary theory.
CPLT 751 000 Levinas' Later Work
Jill Robbins
T 1:00-4:00
Max 15
Content: This course centers on the reading of Levinas's 1974 Otherwise than Being. Our reading will be cross-referenced with key transitional texts from the sixties ("The T race of the Other" and "Enigma and Phenomenon") and philosophical essays from the seventies and eighties ("No Identity," "God and Philosophy," "Useless Suffering," "Dying For"). We will attend closely to the influential interpretations of Levinas by Derrida, Blanchot and Lyotard.
Texts: Levinas, Otherwise than Being, Collected Philosophical Papers, selections from Entre Nous; Derrida, "At this Very Moment in this Work Here I am"; Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster, selections from Lyotard, The Differend.
CPLT 751 001 The Romantic Fragment
Deborah White
W 4:00-7:00
Max 5
[Crosslisted with ENG 730]
Content: The course explores the romantic interest in the incomplete, the ruined, and the fragmentary -- with attention given both to deliberate experimentation with 'the fragment' as a genre and the proliferation of seemingly failed or unfinished poetic projects in which the question of any intended genre appears to be suspended. How does the romantic experience of the fragment produces new theorizations of literature and literary history: Does the fragment constitute a new genre or does it bring the very concept of genre to a crisis? What is its relation to romantic theories of irony and wit? Special attention to the philosophical and historiographical speculations of the early German romantics, as well as the proliferation of British poetic productions published as (or as if) incomplete.
Texts: Authors to include Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats as well as De Man, Derrida, Hartman, Lacoue-Labarthe, Nancy, Schulte-Sasse. Although reading knowledge of German is encouraged, all readings will be available in English.
CPLT 751 002 The Literature of Theory
Carl Good
W 4:30-7:30
Max 5
Content: The seminar will survey criticism from antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century, with special attention given to the role of literature in critical philosophy. A central node of the course will be the critical reformulations at the turn of the 18th century associated with Kant and the fragmentary aesthetics of early German romanticism. We will also examine the ways in which the altercations of the Luso-Hispanic baroque contributed to and predated those reformulations. Although the course will emphasize criticism prior to the 20th century, our interpretations will draw on the tools and problems of more recent critique, and the course will thus serve to familiarize students with the major dispositions of 20th century theory in its readings of older criticism. Rhetorical theory will be stressed, and seminar participants will be expected to acquire a working knowledge of different rhetorical devices and achieve a general sense of rhetoric's relation to critical thought and literature.
Texts: We will read many "literary" as well as "theoretical" texts, although part of our task will be to question the distinction between these categories. The "literary" texts will be mostly Luso-Hispanic poetry and short fiction from such writers as Cervantes (Novelas ejemplares and selections from the Quijote), Camões (poetry), Góngora (Soledades and sonnets), Lope (essays), Quevedo (poetry), Tirso (Burlador de Sevilla), Ruiz de Alarcón (La verdad sospechosa) and Jáuregui (essays). Seminar readings will also include works and selections from Plato (Republic), Aristotle (Poetics), Augustine (On Christian Doctrine), Vico (New Science), Gracián (Agudeza y arte de ingenio), Descartes (Discourse on Method), Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and Critique of Pure Reason), Schlegel (Fragments), Hegel (Lectures on Aesthetics), Kierkegaard (Fear and Trembling), Marx (The German Ideology), Nietzsche (The Birth of Tragedy), Saussure (Course of General Linguistics) and Freud (The Interpretation of Dreams).
Particulars: students will write occasional short papers, give one oral presentation and write a 10-page final exam paper (take-home).
CPLT 751 003 Women's Coming-of-Age Narratives
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
T 1:00-4:00
Max 3
[Crosslisted with HIST 585, WS 585, ENG 789]
Content: Whether for private reflection, to share with friends and family, or for public consumption, women have often seen the passage from girlhood to womanhood - the business of "growing up" or becoming a mature "self" - as compelling, and the topic has figured prominently in the writings of amateur and professional writers. Such narratives may range from private diaries and correspondence (frequently preserved in manuscripts and family formation or education). The common thread that links these various genres lies in the question in the question, how did I become myself - or, in the fictional version, how did she become herself. Consequently all may be seen as narratives of education in the broad sense. Especially for women with scant opportunity to act officially in the public sphere, the "journey" or "progress" toward genuine selfhood constituted a matter of great significance, and it often embodied a strong sense of spiritual quest to endow private lives with meaning and purpose as well as to hold them to high standards. This semester, we will explore a variety of narratives in a variety of genres by women of different backgrounds and historical periods with a view to the features they share and the ways in which they differ, with special attention to women's sense of their lives' informing purpose and their relations to their intimate connections and to their society at large. We shall also attend closely to the influence of the different genres in which women wrote upon the ways in which they structured their narratives. Finally, we shall consider some theories of autobiography and textual self-representation.
Texts: (Subject to change and addition of texts) Toni Morrison, Sula, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Gail Goodwin, Father Melancholy's Daughter, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, St. Augustine, The Confessions, Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, The Making of a Southerner, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth.
Particulars: The principal requirement consists in completion of the reading and participation in discussion, and regular attendance. Each member of the seminar will take responsibility for leading discussion once or twice during the semester. Writing assignments will include short argument notes and a final critical bibliographical essay.
CPLT 751 004 Menippean Satire: Theory and Practice
Bracht Branham
W 1:00-4:00
Max 15
Content: In this course we will investigate the literary branch of Cynic philosophy known as Menippean satire.
Texts: We will read theoretical accounts by Bakhtin, Relihan, Branham et al. and primary texts by Lucian, Erasmus, Voltaire, Peacock and the Irish Menippeans of the 20th century.
CPLT 751 005 Walter Benjamin's French Corpus: Baudelaire, Proust & the Surrealists
Elissa Marder
W 1:00-4:00
Max 8
[Crosslisted with FREN 770]
Content: Before his untimely suicide in 1940, Walter Benjamin spent much of the last decade of his life in Paris working on his great unfinished book on the Paris Arcades known now as the Passagen-Werk. In this course we shall read Benjamin's "French" writings as a way of approaching his conceptions of materialist historiography, translation, experience, the body, and allegory in his late works. Throughout the course, we shall pay special attention to the ways in which French writers (Proust, Valéry, Aragon, etc), French artists & architecture, the French language, French philosophy and history inflect his later texts culminating in his final, unwritten book on Baudelaire. By reading Benjamin through Baudelaire and Baudelaire through Benjamin, we will attempt to enrich our understanding of the specificity and importance of both figures.
Texts: Benjamin: The Arcades Project, Charles Baudelaire and selected essays on Proust, surrealism, translation, etc. Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, Proust, Le Temps retrouvé.
CPLT 751 006 Derrida
Geoffrey Bennington
T 4:30-7:30
Max 8
[Crosslisted with FREN 780]
Content: The aim of the course is to come to a general understanding of Derrida's thinking since the 1960s. In the first part of the course we shall concentrate on texts from the 60s and early 70s in an endeavour to clarify key Derridean terms such as différance, écriture, dissémination and trace. In the second part we shall explore some more recent developments, especially in the areas of ethics, politics and religion.
CPLT 751 007 Theories of Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Laurie Patton
W 7-10
Max 4
[Crosslisted with RLAR 703M and ILA]
Content: Historian of religion Ivan Strenski has characterized the concept of "myth" as "an idiosyncratic oddity of cultural history." This course will take up Strenski's critique, and consider the treatment of myth in a number of intellectual contexts--literary, philosophical, and historical. We will examine, among others, the writings of philosophers Ernst Cassirer, Leszek Kolakowski, and Paul Ricoeur; literary critics Northrop Frye, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and Marcel Detienne, and historians of religion Charles long, Ivan Strenski, Bruce Lincoln, Sam Gill, Wendy Doniger, and Robert Ellwood. Each section of the course will also involve essays from collections of essasy on myth published in the last decade, which attempt to break new ground in each of these areas. Special attention will be paid to the following themes: 1) myth as an ontological category; 2) myth as a function of religious experience; 3) the role of myth in the study of literature; 4) the relationships between mythical and historical narratives; and 5) myth as a political category of analysis. Previous work in the modern study of religion, the anthropology of religion, the philosophy of religion, or comparative literature is most helpful.
Texts: Bruce Lincoln, Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship Shlomo Biderman, ed. Myths and Fictions: Their Place in Philosophy and Religion Schillbrack, Ed. Thinking through Myths: Philosophical Perspectives Leszek Kolakwoski, The Presence of Myth Paul Ricoeur, Figuring the sacred : religion, narrative, and imagination William K. Doty, Mythographies Ivan Strenski, Four Theories of myth in the Twentieth Century Robert Ellwood, The Politics of Myth Roland Barthes, Mythologies Marcel Detienne, The Creation of Myth Sam Gill, Mother Earth Walter Benjamin, Selections from the Arcades Robert Ellwood, The Politics of Myth Ernst Cassirer, Myth and Language Wendy Doniger, The Implied Spider.
Requirements: Regular attendance, vigorous Participation in class discussion, regular presentations and writing throughout class; one final research paper on a topic of the student's choosing.
CPLT 751 008 The Metanovel
Candace Lang
M 1-4
Max 6
[Crosslisted with FREN]
Content: While not a new genre, the metanovel, or novel about the writing and/or reading of novels, was a particularly characteristic mode of fictional production in the twentieth century. In this course, we shall study various theories and techniques of metafiction with constant reference to the nineteenth-century “realist” novel of which they constitute a critique, and with attention to their implications regarding the role of the author and the reader, and the ontological status of the fictional text.
Texts: Works by Balzac (Eugénie Grandet), Proust (Du côté de chez Swann, Le temps retrouvé), Gide (Les Faux-monnayeurs), Sartre (La Nausée), Sarraute (Portrait d’un inconnu), Robbe-Grillet (La Jalousie).
CPLT 751 009 Technopoetry: Electronic Literature and New Media
John Johnston
W 10 - 1
Max 6
[Crosslisted with ENG 789]
Content: Since the late 1980s many writers have turned to the electronic medium as a site for the creation and dissemination of literary texts. Initially these hypertext fictions and poems were only available on computer disks, but increasingly writers have made their work available on the Internet, and the number of sites devoted to electronic literature has greatly expanded. In the mid-90s some writers began to add images and sounds to their electronic texts, producing works of "hypermedia" that blur the boundary between electronic literature and Web or Net art. This course will explore this new "writing space," and the new textual organizations, esthetic issues and reading practices that it produces. For example: Why are so many hypertext narratives organized around traumatic moments, and what new articulations of word, sound, and image does the electronic medium make possible? In attending to these kinds of questions we will of course have to consider some basic properties of the new medium, particularly its capacity to assimilate and transform other media and to produce new dynamic verbal-visual morphologies. Thus some attention will be given to popular literary games like Myst, artificial life games like "Creatures," and artworks like those of Eduardo Kacs that "jump across" different media and discourse networks.
Texts: Electronic poems and fictional narratives: Nick Montfort, "Winchester's Nightmare"; Judy Malloy, "10ve0ne"; Michael Joyce, "afternoon, a story"; Stuart Moulthrop, "Victory Garden"; Shelley Jackson, "Patchwork Girl"; Mary-Kim Arnold, "Lust"; J. Yellow lees Douglas, "I Have Said Nothing"; Mark America, "Grammatron"; Talan Memmott, "Lexia to Perplexia"; Diana Slattery, "Glide"; M.D. Coverly, "Califia"; Stephanie Strickland, "The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot"; Thomas Swiss, "Genius," "Shyboy"; Deena Larsen, "Sea Whispers," "The Language of the Void"; Jennifer Ley, "Catch the Land Mind"; John Caley "noth'rs." Books of theory: Jay David Bolter, Writing Space: Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print Espen Aarseth, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergotic Literature Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media
Particulars: a seminar paper and oral report
CPLT 752 000 Rhetoric and Poetics, Antiquity to Modernity
Jeffrey Walker
F 1:00-4:00
Max 3
[Crosslisted with ENG 789, ILA 790]
Content: This course will examine the evolution of and fluctuating relationships between rhetorical theory and poetics from antiquity to modernity. Among our concerns will be the ways a "rhetoric" can function as a "poetics" (a literary theory), and vice versa, and what it may mean to talk about "rhetorical poetics" or do "rhetorical" criticism. We will also be concerned with matters of historical perspective, in particular the emergence of rhetoric in antiquity and its connection to sophistic, Platonic and Aristotelian epistemologies; the subsequent evolution of "grammatical" approaches to literature; the fate of rhetoric (and poetics) under a post-classical "regime of Truth"; the rediscovery of "the Sublime"; and the re-emergence of "new" rhetorics from Nietzsche into the 20th century.
Texts: Extensive (and intensive) readings in key representatives of ancient and modern rhetoric and poetics, some in extracts, some full-length. We will focus mainly on ancients and modernists, with some glances toward postmodernity. Readings may include, e.g., the early sophists, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Horace, "Longinus," Augustine, Sidney, Shelley, Hugh Blair (who?), Nietzsche, I.A. Richards, Kenneth Burke, Chaim Perelman, and others, as well as selected postmodern figures (depending on student interests).
Particulars: A number of in-class presentations (some shorter, some longer), and a full-length (about 20 pp.) seminar paper.
CPLT 752 001 Literature and Democracy
Gary Wihl
Th 4:15 - 7:15
Max
[Crosslisted with ]
Content: This course considers the role of the novel and poetry in the development of political theories of constitutional democracy. How does George Eliot's interpretation of Machiavelli's concept of republicanism in Romola square with the work of Quentin Skinner on Machiavellian republicanism? Why does Whitman's poetry and his prose tract Democratic Vistas play such an important part in the writings of George Kateb on democratic individualism? Rorty promotes a new concept of liberal democracy and protection from cruelty based on the capacity of the novel to arouse sympathy. How does Rorty's view of the novel compare with Kundera's in Testaments Betrayed? What can Doctorow's retelling of Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas tell us about civil disobedience as a feature of democracy? This course has two related aims: first, to provide precise examples of a field of study that could be called literature and democracy; second to demonstrate the reciprocal influences of literary and political texts within this field.
Texts: George Eliot, Romola, Quentin Skinner, Liberty Before Liberalism,Whitman, Leaves of Grass and Democratic Vistas Kateb, The Inner Ocean Rorty, Contingency, Solidarity, Irony Kundera, Testaments Betrayed Kleist, Michael Kohlhass Doctorow, Ragtime Rawls, A Theory of Justice (section of civil disobedience)
Particulars: Members of the seminar will be responsible for presentations of one or more readings. The main requirement will be a research paper at the end of the course.
CPLT 752 002 Social Thought
Ivan Karp
W 2:00-5:00
Max 4
[Crosslisted with ILA 772H, ANT 585]
Content: Social Thought is a foundation course that examines central themes in the history of social thought, focusing primarily on the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Mauss, Nietzsche, Simmel, and Weber. The course examines how modern social thought was formed out of the tension between enlightenment and romantic conceptions of the relationship between individual and society, and how this tension is resolved in the works of these writers. Special attention will be given to different concepts of system, ideas about personhood and agency and the relationship between political economy and culture, as these were developed in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Texts: Social Theory by Alex Callinicos The Roots of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin The Marx-Engels Reader, 2nd Edition ed. by Robert C. Tucker Nietzsche, Friedrich, On the Genealogy of Morals, trans. and ed. by Walter Kauffmann and R.J. Hollingdale Emile Durkheim on Morality and Society, ed. Robert Bellah Georg Simmel on Individual and Social Forms, ed. Donald N. Levine Simmel on Culture, edited by David Frisby and Mike Featherstone From Max Weber edited by C. Wright Mills and Hans Gerth The Antonio Gramsci Reader, ed. By David Forgacs The Bakhtin Reader, ed. By Pam Morris (OPTIONAL)
CPLT 752 003 Deconstruction, Iconoclasm and the Other
Eric Reinders
M 9:30-12:30
Max 5
[Crosslisted with RLAR 737D]
Content: The seminar will consider destruction as historical force, performance, and creative act. What is created by destruction? And what is destroyed by our efforts to preserve? How do the disciplines of Religious Studies, Art History, and Theology deal with iconoclasm differently? Is "iconoclasm" a useful term, does it refer to one thing? How is destruction displayed? How are displays (and cultures of display) destroyed? Are there "traditions" of destruction? What are the relations of material destruction and destruction of the body? What do we do with our terminology: icon, iconoclasm, idol, idolatry, image, fetish, superstition, statue? We will explore these questions and others with attention to a variety of historical cases, primarily the Protestant Reformation, Indian icons and iconoclasm, and Chinese and Japanese iconoclasm; but also touching on the "Vandalism" of the French Revolution, the destruction of art in museums, and the exhumation of corpses in the Spanish Civil War. Probable topics for discussion: ironies and ambiguities of iconoclasm; the powers of images; icons as living beings; semiotics of Buddhist cosmology; the move to 'sanitize' obeisance to icons; missionaries as agents of iconoclasm, and reactions against missionary discourses; Biblical, Reformation, & Modernist rhetoric against idolatry; "Protestant Buddhism;" iconoclasm and violence on the body; persecutions and cultural revolutions; iconoclasm and memory; Art History, museums and the international art market as agents of iconoclasm. And: your own questions.
Texts: Dario Gamboni, The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism since the French Revolution; David Freedberg, The Power of Images; Richard H. Davis, Lives of Indian Images; Jun Jing, The Temple of Memories: History, Power, and Morality in a Chinese Village. Other readings will include selections from Lee Palmer Wandel, Sergiusz Michalski, Roger Corless, Eric Crystal, Jean-Paul Barbier, Jacques Gernet, Mao Zedong, Fabio Rambelli, Eric Reinders, Bruce Lincoln, Michael Taussig, Bernard Faure, & a selection of East Asian original sources in translation.
CPLT 752 004 20th Century American Literature. Love, Hate, Envy and Gratitude: Object Relations in Modern and Contemporary American Literature
Walter Kaladjian
Th 4:00-7:00
Max 2
[Crosslisted with ENG 752, WS 585, ILA 752]
Content: What can object relations theory tell us about such primal emotive states as love and hate, envy and gratitude, guilt and reparation? What is the relation between emotion and aesthetic creation, between anxiety and symbolization? What is the difference between objects and persons? How does one discern the trace of the object in literature? How are object relations inflected by sexual, racial, and ethnic difference? Reading at the intersection of literature and psychoanalysis, this course will explore, and seek to answer, such fundamental questions in close readings of major works of twentieth-century American literature.
Texts: Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories, Finca Vigia Edition Nella Larsen, Quicksand and Passing Robert Lowell, Selected Poems Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems Toni Morrison, Sula Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl Erica Kates, On the Couch: Great American Stories about Therapy Secondary Readings: Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood Juliet Mitchell, ed. The Selected Melanie Klein Julia Kristeva, Melanie Klein D. W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality Hanna Segal, Dream, Phantasy, and Art Bernard Burgoyne, ed. The Klein-Lacan Dialogues
Particulars: Requirements for this seminar include a response paper, a research essay, and a presentation.
CPLT 752 005 The City in Modernist Literature
Max Aue
TTh 4:00-5:15
Max 8
[Crosslisted with GER 550]
Content: This course will be conducted in English. It has been argued - and shall be taken as the heuristic starting point of this course - that German literary modernism can be defined as the reaction of German writers to Friedrich Nietzsche, most of it occurring after his death in 1900. Nietzsche's attempt to better understand the irrational, for instance, or his disregard for and breaking up of closed metaphysical systems find clear expression in the "aestheticist" and "expressionist" directions of early 20th century German literature. By carefully reading and analyzing selected texts from this period, we shall attempt to gain an insight into the variety of its thematic concerns and the richness of its formal imagination which have left their mark on literature and art to this day.
Texts: Final selection has not been made, but will include works by writers such as G. Benn, H. Broch, A. Doblin, S. George, H. Hesse, H.v. Hofmannsthal, F. Kafka, G. Kaiser, E. Lasker-Schuler, Th. Mann, Ch. Morgenstern, R. Musil, R.M. Rilke, F. Wedekind.
Particulars: Active class participation; 1-2 seminar reports on primary (and selected secondary) literature; final term paper.
CPLT 752 006 Aesthetics and Hermeneutics
Rudolph Makkreel
W 1-4
Max 8
[Crosslisted with PHIL 789]
Content: In this seminar we will examine certain basic problems of hermeneutics by focusing on three important philosophical responses to the arts: Kant's theory of aesthetic judgment as a reflective interpretation of beauty, sublimity, and aesthetic ideas, Dilthey's theory of aesthetic experience as a historically based understanding of the meaning of art, and finally Gadamer's ontology of the work of art and its hermeneutic significance. The roles of prejudice, critical judgment, and method in interpretation will also be evaluated.
Texts: Required: Kant, Critique of Judgment, trans. by Pluhar (Hackett) Dilthey, Poetry and Experience (Princeton University Press) Gadamer, Truth and Method, 2nd revised edition (Crossroad) Recommended: Alison, Kant's Theory of Taste (Cambridge University Press) Makkreel, Imagination and Interpretation in Kant (University of Chicago Press) Makkreel, Dilthey, Philosopher of the Human Studies (Princeton University Press)
CPLT 752 007 Poetics/Politics: The Political Imaginary
Cynthia Willett
F 10-1
Max 8
[Crosslisted with PHIL 789]
Content: Artists claim that since politicians no longer discuss politics, this task is left to the artists themselves. What do theories of art and culture reveal about the political imaginary? How do contemporary theories of politics speak to the motives, desires, and fantasies that define the imaginary realm? Among our themes are the tragic and the comic in relation to the political. The seminar sessions will weave back and forth between theories of culture and theories of democracy.
Texts: (tentative) Seyla Benhabib, The Claims of Culture Iris Marion Young, Inclusion and Democracy Democracy Unrealized, Documenta11_Platform1, eds. Okwui Enwezor et al (essays by Hardt and Negri, Bhabba, Laclau, Mouffe) Slavoj Zizek, Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? Dennis Schmidt, On Germans and Other Greeks: Tragedy and the Ethical Life Bergson, Laughter Susanne Langer, Feeling and Form Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World Susan Bordo, The Male Body (Chapter) Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, Lectures on Art
Particulars: Seminar Presentations, Seminar Paper
CPLT 752 008 Issues in the Philosophy of History
David Carr
M 1-4
Max 12
[Crosslisted with PHIL 789]
Content: The aim of this course is to consider various approaches that philosophers have taken to history. It begins with the classical "substantive" theories of history exemplified by Hegel and Marx, and then examines the severe criticism to which such philosophies of history have been subjected (Lowith, Popper, Danto). We then turn to the analytical approach, (e.g. Hempel) which conceives historical knowledge on the model of science, and the narrative approach (e.g. Hayden White), which tries to assimilate it to literature. Finally, debates about modernity, post-modernity and legitimacy (Blumberg, Habermas, Pippin) will be examined as a recent revival of the substantive philosophy of history.
Texts: Selections from the authors mentioned above.
Particulars: Two brief presentations and a term paper.
CPLT 753 000 Teaching of Literature
TBA
Max 15
Content: A seminar in pedagogy that meets the requirement of the graduate School's TATTO program for graduate students in Comparative Literature, this course prepares graduate students to teach comparative literature to undergraduates, particularly in Emory's Literature 110, Literature 201 and Literature 202. Two hours of seminar in the spring of the student's first year in the program are followed by two hours of workshop the following fall or spring when the student begins teaching at Emory. Topics covered in discussion include: teaching poetry, teaching literature in translation, teaching novels, teaching literary theory, and teaching film. More general issues such as the use of technology in and around the classroom, the authority of a literary canon in the college curriculum, the teaching of writing through the study of literature will be addressed as well.
Text: No required text; in-class handouts.
Particulars: Oral presentations; survey and analyses of teaching resources; preparation, presentation, and critical analysis of a syllabus.
CPLT 797R Directed Readings
By Permission of the Director of Graduate Studies. Please contact the Program Office (N101 Callaway) for more information.
CPLT 799R Dissertation Research
By Permission of the Director of Graduate Studies. Please contact the Program Office (N101 Callaway) for more information.