POETICS AND LITERARY THEORY

COMPLIT 750

Comparative study - historical, theoretical, critical - of literatures and literary studies in their interaction with cultural themes, with social formations, with seminal concepts and ideas, with non-literary disciplines as they inform reading and analysis of literature.

COMPLIT 202

Critical study of modern literature, from the 15th century to the 20th century; broad survey covering many national literatures, stressing cross-cultural literary relations and including emergent literatures.

COMPLIT 370

Comparative study of literatures of historical periods, international and inter-linguistic relations, flux of ideas, forms, styles; literary movements and trends, principles linking literary texts, their diversity and variation, their connection to relevant debates in aesthetics, philosophy, or other fields.

COMPLIT 500

Topics will vary and cover a wide range of comparative topics - literary, cultural, philosophical, historical, legal - with connections to traditional disciplines of comparativist faculty.

COMPLIT 203

Introduction to the critical study of specific literary forms (e.g., comedy, short story) and the connections between literary forms and other cultural and artistic phenomena (e.g., cinema, TV, music, visual arts).