MAGICAL REALISM AND POSTMODERNITY

ILS 371

Selected interdisciplinary topics in literature and art with emphasis on social, historical and political contexts.

ENGL 879

Study of a topic or theme in literature.

COMARTS 669

Survey of significant trends within both classical and contemporary film theory. Designed for those interested in reading, analyzing, and evaluating the central concepts and intellectual history of writings about film, particularly with respect to film as a medium presenting an array of aesthetic, psychological, and social potentialities. Whereas classical film theory attempts to treat cinema as a unique art form, contemporary film theory addresses issues related to cinema as a mode of communication, a source of visual pleasure, and as an ideological tool. Much contemporary theory attempts to incorporate the insights of other critical and analytical paradigms, such as semiotics, psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory, critical race theory, postmodernism, and cognitive science. Questions regarding the ontology of cinema, its relation to existing theories of art, its effects on spectators, and the various ways in which its formal properties create meaning are considered.

SPANISH 852

Studies in the emergence of the modern novel with the invention of short and long novel forms as well as the development of intellectual and scientific works, including literature about other parts of the world, picaresque novels, courtly novels, pastoral novels, Moorish novels, autobiographies, travel narratives, mystic writings, humanistic dialogues, histories, geographies, and treatises on a wide array of topics.

ENGL 361

Survey of modern and contemporary American literature including fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism.