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Comparative Literature Graduate Course Offerings
Spring 2004

CPLT 751 000 Literature and Psychoanalysis: Primal Scenes

Elissa Marder
W 1:00-4:00
Max 10
[Crosslisted with FREN 780]

Content: How can literary and psychoanalytic models of interpretation be read with, through and against each other? In this course we will examine both how some key psychoanalytic concepts are based on literary and rhetorical structures as well as how literary texts articulate and challenge the psychoanalytic notions of truth and knowledge. We will focus on the Freudian conception of the ‘primal scene’ as a way of examining how psychoanalytic theory challenges traditional conceptions of narrative production. Questions raised throughout the course will relate to problems of temporality, repetition, sexuality and desire, psychoanalytic articulations of sexual difference, fetishism, the status of the historical event, language and intersubjectivity, and writing and mourning.

Texts: The Interpretation of Dreams (Freud); Freud’s case histories (including ‘Dora’, ‘The Wolf-Man’, ‘The Rat-Man,’ ‘Little Hans’, and ‘Schreber’) Oedipus Rex (Sophocles); Phèdre (Racine), Madame Bovary (Flaubert), Le Ravissment de Lol V. Stein (Duras); Moderato cantabile (Duras).

Particulars: This course will be taught in English, but reading knowledge of French is required.

CPLT 751 001 Critiques of Judgment

Geoffrey Bennington
T 1-4
Max 10
[Crosslisted with FREN 780]

Content: The course will attempt to unpack Kant's thinking about judgment (both 'aesthetic' and 'teleological') as presented especially in the third Critique, and in some of the political writings. We will go on to explore the readings of this material in some recent French thought, and attempt to develop a more general logic of political concepts (with special reference to the concept of democracy) characterized by a self-interrupting teleology.

Texts: Kant, Critique of Judgement, Kant's Political Writings; Lyotard, Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime; Derrida, The Truth in Painting; Bennington, Frontières kantiennes.

CPLT 751 002 Abelard and Heloise

Claire Nouvet
Th 7-10
Max 5
[Crosslisted with FREN 520, RLTS 771]

Content: Focusing on the notion of "letter," this course will explore
the following issues: the translation of the theological articulation
of the concepts of law, letter, and sacrifice into a literary context;
the redefinition of castration as an encounter with the law of the
letter; the notion of magister and the institution of the university;
the link between the feminine and the letter as well as the inscription
of a feminine desire in the perversion of a theological conversion.

Texts: Abélard and Héloïse, Correspondance; Augustine: De Magistro;
Derrida: La Carte postale; Paul: Epistle.

CPLT 751 003 The Rhetoric of Fragmentation: Representing Subjective Experience in Modernity

Elizabeth Goodstein
W 1-4
Max 5
[Crosslisted with ILA 790]

Content: Since the late eighteenth century, it has become ever more commonplace to speak of the “fragmentation” of subjectivity and subjective experience in modernity. Through an interdisciplinary inquiry into the literary, sociological, and historical uses of this distinctive metaphor, we will reflect on the constitution and evolution of the discourse on fragmentation and consider its impact on modern modes of self-understanding. We will be concerned not only with the rhetoric of reflection on fragmentation but also with the rhetoric of the fragment—with the genres that represent the experience of self and world as fragmented: the (ostensibly) broken or unfinished text, the montage, the aphorism, the feuilleton, the essay.

Texts: Readings may include Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Broch, Freud, Foucault, Kafka, Klein, Kracauer, Holz, Lacan, Nietzsche, Plato, Proust, Marx, Schiller, Simmel, Musil.

CPLT 751 004 Philosophy of Technology

John Johnston
W 10-1
Max 12
[Crosslisted with ENG 789]

Content: Is human being technological in its essence? With this question in mind, we will first review of some of the primary positions and inherited frames for ascertaining the significance of technology in the West, from Plato and Aristotle on techné to Heidegger’s “questioning of technics.” We will then examine a series of more contemporary issues: Gilles Deleuze on the cinematic image, Jack Goody on writing as technology, Bernard Stiegler on the repression of technology within philosophy, Daniel Dennett on intentional systems and his assertion that research in Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life are new ways of “doing philosophy.” Finally, we will consider the challenges to philosophy of mind and cognitive science posed by the “biotechnological merger with new machines” as framed by Andy Clark in his recent book Natural-Born Cyborgs and the challenges to the definition of the human posed by biotech engineering as framed by Francis Fukiyama in Our Posthuman Future.

Texts: The Philosophy of Technology, ed. Robert C. Scharff and Val Dusek; a packet of xeroxed essays; Andy Clark, Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies and the Future of Human Intelligence; and Francis Fukiyama, Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnolgy Revolution.

Particulars: an oral report and seminar paper.

CPLT 752 000 Bakhtin and his Circles: Dialogues Across the Disciplines

W. Reed and M. Epstein
Th 1:00-4:00
Max 3
[Crosslisted with ENG 789, ILA 790, RUSS 550]

Content: This seminar will study the major writings of the 20th c. Russian thinker Mikhail Bakhtin, placing them in dialogue with writings of others--those on whom he drew most deeply and those on whom he has been most influential. In some cases, as with his close associates in the 1920s, Voloshinov and Medvedev, or with the Russian Formalists, these “circles” are historically immediate. In other cases, as with Bakhtin’s studies of Dostoevsky and Rabelais, or his influence on Western cultural studies and Russian postmodernism, they are culturally mediated. The course will focus on the most innovative and cross-disciplinary aspects of Bakhtin’s work, including his theories of dialogue, authorship, metalinguistics, and philosophical anthropology, as well as on his own dialogical engagements with Marxism and Existentialism. In addition to the two instructors, who will lead the weekly discussions together, several other faculty from Emory and beyond will join the seminar at various points in the semester.

Texts: Bakhtin: Problems in Dostoevsky’s Poetics, trans. Emerson; The Dialogic Imagination, trans. Holquist and Emerson; Rabelais and His World, trans. Iswolsky; Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, trans. McGee. The Bakhtin Reader, ed. Morris. Bakhtin/Voloshinov, Marxism and the Philosophy of Language, trans. Matejka and Titunik; Bakhtin/Medvedev, The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship, trans. Wehrle. Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground; Lukacs, Theory of the Novel; Kaufmann, ed. Existentialism; Felch and Contino, eds. Bakhtin and Religion; Morson and Emerson, Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics ; assorted essays by others.

Particulars: Active participation in discussion, a fifteen-minute presentation to the class, and a term paper will be required of each student in the seminar.

CPLT 752 001 "History is What Hurts": Literature and Violence

D. Bahri and G. Higgins
Tu 10-1
Max 3
[Crosslisted with ENG 789]

Content: This course will focus on literature and theory that respond to the violence of historical events. How do writers portray historical violence and grief without compromising the 'actual' experience of events? In Seamus Heaney's words, "What do I say if they wheel out their dead?" How do writers and theorists render the historic poetic, the traumatic theoretical, the violent aesthetic? We will begin by examining the violence of the imperial project and then focus on certain historical experiences as they become material for art: Easter 1916, the partition of the Indian subcontinent, the "troubles" in Northern Ireland, the effects of colonization in Zimbabwe. Students will be asked to discuss the relationship between art and violence, poesis and polis, memory and commemoration.

Texts: Writers will include Boland, Dangarembga, Deane,
Fanon,Friel, Heaney, Longley, Roy, Spivak, Said, Sidhwa, Walcott.

CPLT 752 002 "Coming to Terms" with Nazi Past? Post-1945 Literature & Films as Historical Sources for WW II Germany & the Holocaust

C. Schaumann and H. Afflerbach
W 2:00-5:00
Max 3
[Crosslisted with HIS 585]

Content: This class will examine the legacy of the Nazi past on postwar German culture and identity. How do Germans in retrospective depict the years between 1933 and 1945 and how do they confront the stigma of having been perpetrators or bystanders? How do men and women, members of the “first” and “second” generation, and citizens of former East and West Germany differ in their approaches to this past? How have the student movement, left-wing terrorism, right-wing revisionist historiography, unification, violence against foreigners, and the reemergence of Jewish life in Germany shaped literary and filmic accounts? Can we speak of a “German national trauma,” and if so, what does this trauma entail and how is it conceptualized? This course presents an overview of German postwar literature and films by different generations, from the “literature of the ruins” in 1945 to the current discussions on the traumatic impact of Allied air raids. We will analyze examples of “high” and “low” post-1945 German culture to trace the historical, philosophical, psychological, and political debates on the Nazi past and their significance for the present.

Texts: Wolfgang Borchert The Man Outside (1946); Max Frisch Andorra (1961); Günter Grass Cat and Mouse (1961), Crabwalk (2003); Uwe Johnson Anniversaries (1975-83); Ruth Rehmann The Man on the Culprit (1979); Bernhard Schlink The Reader (1995) ; Peter Schneider Vati (1989); Winfrid Georg Sebald Austerlitz (2001) ; Peter Weiss The Investigation (1965) ; Christa Wolf Patterns of Childhood (1976); Selected films and various secondary sources.

Particulars: Accurate weekly reading and class participation, a 15-20 page research paper, three book reviews.

CPLT 752 003 The Face of the Other: The Master Slave Dialectic from Homer to Levinas

Kevin Corrigan
Th 9-12
Max 6
[Crosslisted with ILA 790]

Content: The influence of Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic (in the context of the whole Phenomenology of Spirit) has proved decisive for the modern world. It not only provoked the profound reactions of such diverse thinkers as Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, De Beauvoir (as well as Irigaray, Cixous etc.) and Sartre, but it also left an equally deep mark upon the history of the 20th century (particularly in Germany, France, and Russia) and has influenced the works of major contemporary critical theorists. This _course will take Hegel as its starting point and examine the problem of otherness both diachronically and synchronically, going back first to explore some of the roots of the problem in the Ancient, Mediaeval and Renaissance Worlds and then tracing the subsequent heritage of this dialectic in particular, in the literature, philosophy, critical theory, feminist theory, and theology of the modern and contemporary periods. The aim of this course will be to have students explore the rich diversity and yet fine_ balance of the problem in terms both of the various strategies of power and of the inversion, correspondingly, of power and apparent weakness.

Texts: The principal text is the special Anthology provided by the professor. This must be supplemented by specific bibliographies for individual research topics, bibliographies compiled in each case by the student in consultation with the professor. The recommended readings below are intended to be a preliminary help for the reading and understanding of Hegel and they must be supplemented by selected secondary material for each of our other readings. Nonetheless, the primary and most important text in each case will be the Anthology- text that will require our closest reading.

CPLT 752 004 Studies in the 20th-Century American Lyric & Long Poem

Walter Kaladjian
Th 4:00-7:00
Max 2
[Crosslisted with ENG 752, WS 585, ILA 790]

Content: This foundational course will consider modern and contemporary poetics in both fixed forms and vers libre. We will examine the modes of both subjective lyricism and objective, encyclopedic verse forms. Attention will be paid to major literary schools and movements including imagism and the modern avant-gardes, surrealism, the Harlem Renaissance, Black Mountain, the Black Aesthetic Movement, the San Francisco Renaissance and Language poetry.

Texts: Featured poets will include Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Hilda Doolittle, Mina Loy, Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Allen Ginsberg, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Susan Howe and Charles Bernstein, among others. In addition, discussions will consider how the cultural work of poetry’s formal innovations and thematic visions achieve racial, sexual, and social change in the public sphere.

CPLT 752 005 The Picaresque: Race, Gender, and Performance

Maria Carrion
W 1-4
Max 2
[Crosslisted with SPAN 530, WS, Theater Studies]

Contents: An inquiry into the canonic categories of the Spanish Picaresque (as literature, cultural form, and tradition), as well as its role in the origins of the novel, its dissemination throughout Europe and the Americas until the twentieth century. Issues of race, gender, and performance will be taken into account to problematize conventional elements of the Spanish Picaresque (hunger, corporal punishment, physical and social nomadism, and delinquency, among others). The first seven weeks of the course will be devoted to studying the Spanish Picaresque as a product and producer of polemics conerning Renaissance and Baroque poetics, the sociedad estamental, grammar and language theories and practices, and questions of religious / racial orthodoxy and heterodoxy. In the remaining time, the course will be driven by students' interests in the originas and dissemination of the Picaresque in the Middle Esat, Germany, France, England, and the Americas. Class discussions will be
motivated by theoretical and practical questions concenring the elaboration of a literary tradition (politics, economics, the Law, genre, translation, and current debates on the Spanish Picaresque), and their intersection with issues of race, gender, performance. In Spanish.

Texts: Rojas, La Celestina. Anónimo, Lazarillo de Tormes. Castillo
Solórzano, La hija de la Celestina. Mateo Alemán, Guzmán de Alfarache. Miguel de Cervantes, Novelas ejemplares. Francisco López de Úbeda, La pícara Justina. Luis Vélez de Guevara, El diablo cojuelo. Francisco de Quevedo, El Buscón llamado Don Pablos. al-Hamadhani, Maqamat. H. Grimmelhausen, The Adventourous Simplicissimus. Lesage, Histoire de Gil Blas. Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders. Henry Fielding, Tom Jones. Concolorcorvo, Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes.
William Brown, Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave. Juan Francisco Manzano, Autobiografía de un esclavo.

Particulars: Attendance and class participation (45%), class presentations (10%), and one research paper (possibly substituted by a final exam in consultation with Professor Carrión and the Director of Graduate Studies) (45%).

CPLT 753 000 Teaching of Literature

Dalia Judovitz
Tu 10-1
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.






	graduate program handbook courses spring 2007 fall 2006 spring 2006 fall 2005 spring 2005 fall 2004 spring 2004 fall 2003 spring 2003 fall 2002 spring 2002 fall 2001 students admissions Comparative Literature Graduate Course Offerings Spring 2004 CPLT 751 000 Literature and Psychoanalysis: Primal Scenes Elissa Marder W 1:00-4:00 Max 10 [Crosslisted with FREN 780] Content: How can literary and psychoanalytic models of interpretation be read with, through and against each other? In this course we will examine both how some key psychoanalytic concepts are based on literary and rhetorical structures as well as how literary texts articulate and challenge the psychoanalytic notions of truth and knowledge. We will focus on the Freudian conception of the ‘primal scene’ as a way of examining how psychoanalytic theory challenges traditional conceptions of narrative production. Questions raised throughout the course will relate to problems of temporality, repetition, sexuality and desire, psychoanalytic articulations of sexual difference, fetishism, the status of the historical event, language and intersubjectivity, and writing and mourning. Texts: The Interpretation of Dreams (Freud); Freud’s case histories (including ‘Dora’, ‘The Wolf-Man’, ‘The Rat-Man,’ ‘Little Hans’, and ‘Schreber’) Oedipus Rex (Sophocles); Phèdre (Racine), Madame Bovary (Flaubert), Le Ravissment de Lol V. Stein (Duras); Moderato cantabile (Duras). Particulars: This course will be taught in English, but reading knowledge of French is required. CPLT 751 001 Critiques of Judgment Geoffrey Bennington T 1-4 Max 10 [Crosslisted with FREN 780] Content: The course will attempt to unpack Kant's thinking about judgment (both 'aesthetic' and 'teleological') as presented especially in the third Critique, and in some of the political writings. We will go on to explore the readings of this material in some recent French thought, and attempt to develop a more general logic of political concepts (with special reference to the concept of democracy) characterized by a self-interrupting teleology. Texts: Kant, Critique of Judgement, Kant's Political Writings; Lyotard, Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime; Derrida, The Truth in Painting; Bennington, Frontières kantiennes. CPLT 751 002 Abelard and Heloise Claire Nouvet Th 7-10 Max 5 [Crosslisted with FREN 520, RLTS 771] Content: Focusing on the notion of "letter," this course will explore the following issues: the translation of the theological articulation of the concepts of law, letter, and sacrifice into a literary context; the redefinition of castration as an encounter with the law of the letter; the notion of magister and the institution of the university; the link between the feminine and the letter as well as the inscription of a feminine desire in the perversion of a theological conversion. Texts: Abélard and Héloïse, Correspondance; Augustine: De Magistro; Derrida: La Carte postale; Paul: Epistle. CPLT 751 003 The Rhetoric of Fragmentation: Representing Subjective Experience in Modernity Elizabeth Goodstein W 1-4 Max 5 [Crosslisted with ILA 790] Content: Since the late eighteenth century, it has become ever more commonplace to speak of the “fragmentation” of subjectivity and subjective experience in modernity. Through an interdisciplinary inquiry into the literary, sociological, and historical uses of this distinctive metaphor, we will reflect on the constitution and evolution of the discourse on fragmentation and consider its impact on modern modes of self-understanding. We will be concerned not only with the rhetoric of reflection on fragmentation but also with the rhetoric of the fragment—with the genres that represent the experience of self and world as fragmented: the (ostensibly) broken or unfinished text, the montage, the aphorism, the feuilleton, the essay. Texts: Readings may include Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Broch, Freud, Foucault, Kafka, Klein, Kracauer, Holz, Lacan, Nietzsche, Plato, Proust, Marx, Schiller, Simmel, Musil. CPLT 751 004 Philosophy of Technology John Johnston W 10-1 Max 12 [Crosslisted with ENG 789] Content: Is human being technological in its essence? With this question in mind, we will first review of some of the primary positions and inherited frames for ascertaining the significance of technology in the West, from Plato and Aristotle on techné to Heidegger’s “questioning of technics.” We will then examine a series of more contemporary issues: Gilles Deleuze on the cinematic image, Jack Goody on writing as technology, Bernard Stiegler on the repression of technology within philosophy, Daniel Dennett on intentional systems and his assertion that research in Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life are new ways of “doing philosophy.” Finally, we will consider the challenges to philosophy of mind and cognitive science posed by the “biotechnological merger with new machines” as framed by Andy Clark in his recent book Natural-Born Cyborgs and the challenges to the definition of the human posed by biotech engineering as framed by Francis Fukiyama in Our Posthuman Future. Texts: The Philosophy of Technology, ed. Robert C. Scharff and Val Dusek; a packet of xeroxed essays; Andy Clark, Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies and the Future of Human Intelligence; and Francis Fukiyama, Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnolgy Revolution. Particulars: an oral report and seminar paper. CPLT 752 000 Bakhtin and his Circles: Dialogues Across the Disciplines W. Reed and M. Epstein Th 1:00-4:00 Max 3 [Crosslisted with ENG 789, ILA 790, RUSS 550] Content: This seminar will study the major writings of the 20th c. Russian thinker Mikhail Bakhtin, placing them in dialogue with writings of others--those on whom he drew most deeply and those on whom he has been most influential. In some cases, as with his close associates in the 1920s, Voloshinov and Medvedev, or with the Russian Formalists, these “circles” are historically immediate. In other cases, as with Bakhtin’s studies of Dostoevsky and Rabelais, or his influence on Western cultural studies and Russian postmodernism, they are culturally mediated. The course will focus on the most innovative and cross-disciplinary aspects of Bakhtin’s work, including his theories of dialogue, authorship, metalinguistics, and philosophical anthropology, as well as on his own dialogical engagements with Marxism and Existentialism. In addition to the two instructors, who will lead the weekly discussions together, several other faculty from Emory and beyond will join the seminar at various points in the semester. Texts: Bakhtin: Problems in Dostoevsky’s Poetics, trans. Emerson; The Dialogic Imagination, trans. Holquist and Emerson; Rabelais and His World, trans. Iswolsky; Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, trans. McGee. The Bakhtin Reader, ed. Morris. Bakhtin/Voloshinov, Marxism and the Philosophy of Language, trans. Matejka and Titunik; Bakhtin/Medvedev, The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship, trans. Wehrle. Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground; Lukacs, Theory of the Novel; Kaufmann, ed. Existentialism; Felch and Contino, eds. Bakhtin and Religion; Morson and Emerson, Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics ; assorted essays by others. Particulars: Active participation in discussion, a fifteen-minute presentation to the class, and a term paper will be required of each student in the seminar. CPLT 752 001 "History is What Hurts": Literature and Violence D. Bahri and G. Higgins Tu 10-1 Max 3 [Crosslisted with ENG 789] Content: This course will focus on literature and theory that respond to the violence of historical events. How do writers portray historical violence and grief without compromising the 'actual' experience of events? In Seamus Heaney's words, "What do I say if they wheel out their dead?" How do writers and theorists render the historic poetic, the traumatic theoretical, the violent aesthetic? We will begin by examining the violence of the imperial project and then focus on certain historical experiences as they become material for art: Easter 1916, the partition of the Indian subcontinent, the "troubles" in Northern Ireland, the effects of colonization in Zimbabwe. Students will be asked to discuss the relationship between art and violence, poesis and polis, memory and commemoration. Texts: Writers will include Boland, Dangarembga, Deane, Fanon,Friel, Heaney, Longley, Roy, Spivak, Said, Sidhwa, Walcott. CPLT 752 002 "Coming to Terms" with Nazi Past? Post-1945 Literature & Films as Historical Sources for WW II Germany & the Holocaust C. Schaumann and H. Afflerbach W 2:00-5:00 Max 3 [Crosslisted with HIS 585] Content: This class will examine the legacy of the Nazi past on postwar German culture and identity. How do Germans in retrospective depict the years between 1933 and 1945 and how do they confront the stigma of having been perpetrators or bystanders? How do men and women, members of the “first” and “second” generation, and citizens of former East and West Germany differ in their approaches to this past? How have the student movement, left-wing terrorism, right-wing revisionist historiography, unification, violence against foreigners, and the reemergence of Jewish life in Germany shaped literary and filmic accounts? Can we speak of a “German national trauma,” and if so, what does this trauma entail and how is it conceptualized? This course presents an overview of German postwar literature and films by different generations, from the “literature of the ruins” in 1945 to the current discussions on the traumatic impact of Allied air raids. We will analyze examples of “high” and “low” post-1945 German culture to trace the historical, philosophical, psychological, and political debates on the Nazi past and their significance for the present. Texts: Wolfgang Borchert The Man Outside (1946); Max Frisch Andorra (1961); Günter Grass Cat and Mouse (1961), Crabwalk (2003); Uwe Johnson Anniversaries (1975-83); Ruth Rehmann The Man on the Culprit (1979); Bernhard Schlink The Reader (1995) ; Peter Schneider Vati (1989); Winfrid Georg Sebald Austerlitz (2001) ; Peter Weiss The Investigation (1965) ; Christa Wolf Patterns of Childhood (1976); Selected films and various secondary sources. Particulars: Accurate weekly reading and class participation, a 15-20 page research paper, three book reviews. CPLT 752 003 The Face of the Other: The Master Slave Dialectic from Homer to Levinas Kevin Corrigan Th 9-12 Max 6 [Crosslisted with ILA 790] Content: The influence of Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic (in the context of the whole Phenomenology of Spirit) has proved decisive for the modern world. It not only provoked the profound reactions of such diverse thinkers as Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, De Beauvoir (as well as Irigaray, Cixous etc.) and Sartre, but it also left an equally deep mark upon the history of the 20th century (particularly in Germany, France, and Russia) and has influenced the works of major contemporary critical theorists. This _course will take Hegel as its starting point and examine the problem of otherness both diachronically and synchronically, going back first to explore some of the roots of the problem in the Ancient, Mediaeval and Renaissance Worlds and then tracing the subsequent heritage of this dialectic in particular, in the literature, philosophy, critical theory, feminist theory, and theology of the modern and contemporary periods. The aim of this course will be to have students explore the rich diversity and yet fine_ balance of the problem in terms both of the various strategies of power and of the inversion, correspondingly, of power and apparent weakness. Texts: The principal text is the special Anthology provided by the professor. This must be supplemented by specific bibliographies for individual research topics, bibliographies compiled in each case by the student in consultation with the professor. The recommended readings below are intended to be a preliminary help for the reading and understanding of Hegel and they must be supplemented by selected secondary material for each of our other readings. Nonetheless, the primary and most important text in each case will be the Anthology- text that will require our closest reading. CPLT 752 004 Studies in the 20th-Century American Lyric & Long Poem Walter Kaladjian Th 4:00-7:00 Max 2 [Crosslisted with ENG 752, WS 585, ILA 790] Content: This foundational course will consider modern and contemporary poetics in both fixed forms and vers libre. We will examine the modes of both subjective lyricism and objective, encyclopedic verse forms. Attention will be paid to major literary schools and movements including imagism and the modern avant-gardes, surrealism, the Harlem Renaissance, Black Mountain, the Black Aesthetic Movement, the San Francisco Renaissance and Language poetry. Texts: Featured poets will include Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Hilda Doolittle, Mina Loy, Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Allen Ginsberg, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Susan Howe and Charles Bernstein, among others. In addition, discussions will consider how the cultural work of poetry’s formal innovations and thematic visions achieve racial, sexual, and social change in the public sphere. CPLT 752 005 The Picaresque: Race, Gender, and Performance Maria Carrion W 1-4 Max 2 [Crosslisted with SPAN 530, WS, Theater Studies] Contents: An inquiry into the canonic categories of the Spanish Picaresque (as literature, cultural form, and tradition), as well as its role in the origins of the novel, its dissemination throughout Europe and the Americas until the twentieth century. Issues of race, gender, and performance will be taken into account to problematize conventional elements of the Spanish Picaresque (hunger, corporal punishment, physical and social nomadism, and delinquency, among others). The first seven weeks of the course will be devoted to studying the Spanish Picaresque as a product and producer of polemics conerning Renaissance and Baroque poetics, the sociedad estamental, grammar and language theories and practices, and questions of religious / racial orthodoxy and heterodoxy. In the remaining time, the course will be driven by students' interests in the originas and dissemination of the Picaresque in the Middle Esat, Germany, France, England, and the Americas. Class discussions will be motivated by theoretical and practical questions concenring the elaboration of a literary tradition (politics, economics, the Law, genre, translation, and current debates on the Spanish Picaresque), and their intersection with issues of race, gender, performance. In Spanish. Texts: Rojas, La Celestina. Anónimo, Lazarillo de Tormes. Castillo Solórzano, La hija de la Celestina. Mateo Alemán, Guzmán de Alfarache. Miguel de Cervantes, Novelas ejemplares. Francisco López de Úbeda, La pícara Justina. Luis Vélez de Guevara, El diablo cojuelo. Francisco de Quevedo, El Buscón llamado Don Pablos. al-Hamadhani, Maqamat. H. Grimmelhausen, The Adventourous Simplicissimus. Lesage, Histoire de Gil Blas. Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders. Henry Fielding, Tom Jones. Concolorcorvo, Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes. William Brown, Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave. Juan Francisco Manzano, Autobiografía de un esclavo. Particulars: Attendance and class participation (45%), class presentations (10%), and one research paper (possibly substituted by a final exam in consultation with Professor Carrión and the Director of Graduate Studies) (45%). CPLT 753 000 Teaching of Literature Dalia Judovitz Tu 10-1 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.

Comparative Literature Graduate Course Offerings Spring 2004

Comparative Literature Graduate Course Offerings
Spring 2004