PROBLEMS IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURES AND CULTURES

COMPLIT 358

Comparative study of the nature and substance of genre distinctions; relations between genre and mode in diverse literatures; critical analysis of texts in the context of literary distinctions of genre and mode - with attention to cross-cultural, transnational and historical perspectives.

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 350

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 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).

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.