CL - Comparative Literature Course Descriptions
Study of major themes, genres, and periods. Basic introduction to ways of comparing various literatures and to the relations between literature and other art forms. Readings from world literature (in translation, as necessary) and from secondary sources.
3 hr./wk.
A changing series of innovative and experimental cases on topics not generally covered in regular courses. Students should consult the list of course offerings each semester to determine which selected topic will be offered.
3 hr./wk.
This course is a continuation of CL 35000, Introduction to Comparative Literature. It begins in the early modern period with English and French drama and then the eighteenth-century enlightened novel. The course will examine nineteenth-century romantic literature with themes of the new cult of feeling, authenticity, and the problem of conscience in an age of ideology. The course concludes with twentieth-century modernism. Students will study a variety of primary texts from across the world with secondary assignments when appropriate and relate them to other art forms and historical developments.
CL 35000, enrollment in Hertog Scholars Program.
3 hr./wk.
Intensive study of a particular period, theme, genre, or literary movement, or of a particular problem in the theory and methods of comparative literature.
CL 35000 or approval of the instructor.
2 hr./wk.