Upper Division Courses

100. Introduction to Comparative Literature: Histories, Theories, Practices, and Perspectives. (5)
Lecture, four hours. Preparation: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing and College Writing requirements. Requisites: two courses from Comparative Literature 1 or 2 series or English 10 series or Spanish 60 series, etc. Seminar-style introduction to discipline of comparative literature presented through a series of texts illustrative of its formation and practice. Letter grading.

M101. Hebrew Literature in English -- Literary Traditions of Ancient Israel: Bible and Apocrypha. (4)
(Same as Jewish Studies M150A.) Lecture, three hours. Study of literary culture of ancient Israel through examination of principal compositional strategies of the Hebrew Bible and the Apocrypha (read in translation). P/NP or letter grading.

102. Classical Tradition: Epic. (4)
Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Analysis of Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Gerusalemme Liberata , and Paradise Lost both in relation to their contemporary societies and to literary traditions. Emphasis on how poets build on work of their predecessors. P/NP or letter grading.

C105. Comic Vision. (4)
Lecture, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Literary masterpieces, both dramatic and nondramatic, selected to demonstrate varieties of comic expression. May be concurrently scheduled with course C205. Undergraduate students read all works in translation. P/NP or letter grading.

106. Archetypal Heroes in Literature. (4)
Seminar, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Survey and analysis of function and appearance of such archetypal heroes as Achilles, Ulysses, Prometheus, Oedipus, and Orpheus in literature from antiquity to the modern period. All works read in translation. P/NP or letter grading.

120. The Individual and Society in the Renaissance. (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: one course from 1A, 1B, 1C, 2AW, 2BW, 2CW, or English Composition 3 or 3H. Explorations of a change in Western man's relationship to his world, himself, and his art; reading of such works as Don Quixote , Montaigne's Essays, Gargantua and Pantagruel, The Praise of Folly, Utopia . P/NP or letter grading.

C122. Renaissance Drama. (4)
Lecture, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Broad introduction to subject matter and types of plays in Renaissance, with consideration of historical and literary influences on plays. Readings include works of such dramatists as Tasso, Machiavelli, Lope de Vega, Racine, Jonson, Shakespeare. May be concurrently scheduled with course C222. Undergraduate students read all works in translation. P/NP or letter grading.

C152. Symbolism and Decadence. (5)
Seminar, four hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Study of symbolist and decadent movements in 19th- and 20th-century English and French poetry and prose, including authors such as Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Wilde, Yeats, and Eliot. May be concurrently scheduled with course C252. Undergraduate students may read all required French texts in translation. P/NP or letter grading.

C153. Post-Symbolist Poetry and Poetics. (5)
Seminar, four hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Study of specific poets and poetics related to them during first half of the 20th century. Texts may include poets such as W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Paul Valéry, R.M. Rilke, Gunnar Ekelöf, and Wallace Stevens. May be concurrently scheduled with course C253. Undergraduate students may read all works in translation. P/NP or letter grading.

154. Adventures of the Avant-Garde. (4)
Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Interdisciplinary study of avant-garde literature and art, including futurism, Dadaism, Expressionism, Surrealism, new avant-gardes. Works by Marinetti, Boccioni, Picasso, Stein, Malevich, Popova, Mayakovsky, Brecht, Fritz Lang, Duchamp, Breton, Bunuel, Lispector, Warhol, Orlan. Emphasis on cross-fertilization among different kinds of aesthetic expression. P/NP or letter grading.

C155. Hemispheric Exchanges. (5)
Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. In "Reading North by South," Neil Larsen claims that North American interest in Latin American Boom literature was of sinister intent, being largely product of U.S. Cold War politics, investing in fiction that could produce images of areas ripe for development. From poetry perspective, dynamic was quite different. In the 1930s, North American poets became involved in labor of love, reading, circulating, and translating recent or contemporaneous poetry by their counterparts to south, producing lingua franca with unexplored consequences for poetry north and south of border. Study of poetry translations by writers from both hemispheres and examination of consequences of these preliminary translations for later development of poetry on both sides of continental divide. Concurrently scheduled with course C255. P/NP or letter grading.

C156. Fantastic Fictions. (4)
(Formerly numbered C167.) Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Time and again in modern literature, corpses become conduits or catalysts for revelation. What are ghosts that fiction frequently cannot put to rest, and what is their connection to national history or nation language or narrative? Readings from James Joyce, John Banville, Henry James, Toni Morrison, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Juan Carlos Onetti, Juan Rulfo, and Carlos Fuentes, with films by Alejandro Amenabar, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Kenji Mizoguchi. May be concurrently scheduled with course C256. Undergraduate students read all works in translation. P/NP or letter grading.

C157. Memory and Forgetting. (5)
Seminar, four hours. Reading of theoretical accounts of nature of traumatic memory and consideration of relationship between memory and history, meanings of both writing and reading about traumatic events, and discussion of ethical (personal and communal) commitment to memory. Reading of memoirs of survivors and questioning of importance of authenticity in regard to representations of past. Is memory necessarily based on actual past? What is role of testimony in maintenance of collective memory? How is value of testimony judged? What are criteria on which authenticity is claimed? Concurrently scheduled with course C257. P/NP or letter grading.

158. Colonial Encounters. (4)
Seminar, three hours. Discussion of how a Western textual system restricts cultures of colonized peoples to an encounter with the European. As a means of understanding limits to a European frame of reference, reading of English literary works alongside their postcolonial counterparts. Investigation of how reversal of perspective affects the telling of a tale. P/NP or letter grading.

159. Exilic Pleasures: Memory, Writing, and Belonging in Contemporary Thought and Writings. (5)
(Not the same as course 159 prior to Fall Quarter 2004.) Lecture, four hours. Engagement of theoretical and literary texts about experience of living in exile and questioning of political and poetic possibilities and limitations that this condition brings about. Exploration of relationships between exile, poetic expression, freedom, memory, writing, and collective identification. Clarification of difference between "exile by choice" and "forced exile," proceeding to distinguish between exile understood in terms of (modernist) literary trope -- and sociohistorical condition of living in exile, asking what does it mean to think about exile in comparative terms? P/NP or letter grading.

C160. Literature and Visual Arts. (4)
Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Knowledge of art history valuable but not required. Assuming that literature and visual arts are in some degree expressions of cultural and philosophical patterns of eras, study of relationships between writers and movements in painting, architecture, and sculpture. Interdisciplinary investigation of similarities and differences between plastic and verbal arts in comparative study. May be repeated for credit with instructor and/or topic change. May be concurrently scheduled with course C260. Undergraduate students read all works in translation. P/NP or letter grading.

C161. Fiction and History. (4)
Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Analysis of use of historical events, situations, and characters in literary works of the Renaissance and/or modern period. Texts and individual assignments range from Renaissance historical narratives (Italian humanists, Machiavelli) to 19th- and 20th-century novels by authors such as Stendhal, Verga, Tomasi di Lampedusa, Carpentier, and Kundera. Use of fictional methods by historians. Emphasis on how aesthetic, ideological, and political factors influence authors' choice and use of historical material. May be concurrently scheduled with course C261. P/NP or letter grading.

C163. Crisis of Consciousness in Modern Literature. (5)
Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Study of modern European and American works that are concerned both in subject matter and artistic methods with growing self-consciousness of human beings and their society, with focus on works of Kafka, Rilke, Woolf, Sartre, and Stevens. May be concurrently scheduled with course C263. Undergraduate students may read all works in translation. P/NP or letter grading.

C164. Modern Continental Novel. (5)
Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Study of modern European novel's development from the 19th to 21st centuries. Use of authors such as Hardy, Strindberg, Lagerkvist, Gide, Proust, Mann, Joyce, Kafka, Woolf, Nabokov, Grass, Christa Wolf, and Enquist to focus on development of themes such as shifting authority, gender conflicts, change versus stability, formal experimentation, and self-consciousness in narrative. May be concurrently scheduled with course C264. Undergraduate students may read all works in translation but are encouraged to read in original language whenever possible. P/NP or letter grading.

M165. Holocaust in Literature. (4)
(Same as Jewish Studies M187.) Lecture, three hours. Requisite: History M182D or 183A or 183B. Investigation of how Holocaust informs variety of literary and cinema works and raises wide range of aesthetic and moral questions. P/NP or letter grading.

M166 Modern Jewish Literature in English: Diaspora Literature. (4)
(Same as Jewish Studies M151A.) Lecture, three hours. Study of literary responses of Jews to modernity, its challenges, and threats. Readings in texts originally written in English or translated from Hebrew, Yiddish, German, Russian, French, and Italian. Analysis of formal aspects of each work. P/NP or letter grading.

M168. Korean American Literature. (4)
(Same as Asian American Studies M132B.) Seminar, three hours. Comprehensive introduction to Korean American literature, with emphasis on Korean American experience, problems of gender, race, and class, nationalism, generational relationships, and impact of traditional Korean culture on Korean American literature. P/NP or letter grading.

169. Continental African Authors. (4)
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: one course from 1A, 1B, 1C, 2AW, 2BW, 2CW, or English Composition 3 or 3H. Introduction to new set of African authors and attempt to discern similarities or differences they may have with major authors such as Achebe, Ngugi, Armath, Soyinka, etc. P/NP or letter grading.

CM170. Alternate Traditions: In Search of Female Voices in Contemporary Literature. (5)
(Same as Women's Studies CM170.) Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Investigation of narrative texts by contemporary French, German, English, American, Spanish American, African, and Asian women writers from cross-cultural perspective. Common themes, problems, and techniques. May be concurrently scheduled with course CM270. Undergraduate students read all works in translation. P/NP or letter grading.

M171. Chinese Immigrant Literature and Film. (4)
(Same as Asian American Studies M130B and Chinese M153.) Lecture, three hours. Knowledge of Chinese not required. In-depth look at Chinese immigrant experience by reading literature and watching films. Theories of diaspora, gender, and race to inform thinking and discussion of relevant issues. P/NP or letter grading.

C172. The Postmodern Novel. (4)
Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Study of postmodern novel as it developed out of modernism. Postmodernism defined in three different ways -- philosophically, scientifically, and economically. Emphasis on relationship of recent novels to theories of structuralism and poststructuralism. Readings include authors such as Borges, Beckett, Nabokov, Pynchon, Fuentes, Grass, Böll, and Calvino. Concurrently scheduled with course C272. Undergraduate students read all works in translation. P/NP or letter grading.

C173. Postmodernism and the Third World. (4)
Seminar, three hours. Exploration of intersection between concepts of postmodernism and Third World culture and politics, including topics such as post-Marxism and revolution; historical thought; gender, ethnicity, imperialism, and their relationship to cultural politics; and recent Latin American literary production. Concurrently scheduled with course C273. P/NP or letter grading.

M174. Film and Literature of the Spanish-Speaking World. (4)
(Same as Spanish M161.) Lecture, three hours. Exploration of perceptions of reality offered by different authors from Spain, Latin America, and the Chicano community. P/NP or letter grading.

M176. Literature and Technology. (4)
(Same as Japanese M156.) Lecture, three hours. Knowledge of Japanese not required. Examination of representation of technology in 20th-century fiction. Discussion of impact of technology on shifting images of gender, subjectivity, and national identity. P/NP or letter grading.

C178. India Ink: Literature and Culture of Modern South Asia. (5)
Seminar, three hours. Survey of significant issues in history of 20th-century Indian literature and culture. Great works of modern Indian culture by such figures as Rabindranath Tagore, Satyajit Ray, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, and U.R. Anantha Murthy, including novels, short stories, poetry, films, music, and works in cultural criticism and historical scholarship. Central and defining issue for 20th-century Indian culture is experience of British colonial rule and massive cultural and material changes that accompanied it. Exploration of manner in which literature and culture have developed in interaction with powerful social forces, such as struggle for national independence from Britain under leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and expansion of Indian diaspora. Concurrently scheduled with course C278. P/NP or letter grading.

C187. Reading across Culture. (5)
Seminar, three hours. What is it we do when we try to understand words, habits, gestures, and beliefs not our own? Do we understand something foreign to us by immersing ourselves in it or by standing apart? Does ability to understand something foreign imply taking universal standpoint? Can we make judgments about beliefs other than our own? Questions of cultural interpretation have long history in both Western and non-Western cultures. Discussion of history of questions about cross-cultural interpretation and comparative interpretation of cultures in both comparative literature and cultural anthropology. Reading of some very complex and influential works by such writers as Claude Lévi-Strauss, Amitav Ghosh, James Clifford, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, and Erich Auerbach. Concurrently scheduled with course C287. P/NP or letter grading.

190. Research Colloquia in Comparative Literature. (2)
Seminar, three hours. Designed to bring students doing supervised tutorial research together in seminar setting with one or more faculty members to discuss their own work or related work in discipline. Led by one of supervising faculty members. P/NP grading.

191. Variable Topics in Comparative Literature. (4)
(Formerly numbered 194.) Seminar, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Study and discussion of limited periods and specialized issues and approaches in literary theory, especially in relation to other modes of discourse such as history, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, anthropology. Development of culminating project required. Consult Schedule of Classes for topics to be offered in specific term. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

197. Individual Studies in Comparative Literature. (2 to 4)
Tutorial, three hours. Limited to juniors/seniors. Individual intensive study, with scheduled meetings to be arranged between faculty member and student. Assigned reading and tangible evidence of mastery of subject matter required. Individual contract required. P/NP or letter grading.

198. Honors Research in Comparative Literature. (2 to46)
(Formerly numbered 197H.) Tutorial, three hours. Limited to senior comparative literature honors students. Development and completion of honors thesis or comprehensive project on comparative topic selected by student and written under supervision of core faculty member. Students expected to meet regularly with supervisor throughout term. May be repeated once for a maximum of 8 units. No more than one course may be used to fulfill the four-course requirement for Comparative Literature majors. Individual contract required. Letter grading.

199. Directed Research or Senior Project in Comparative Literature. (2 to 4)
Tutorial, three hours. Requisite: course 100. Limited to juniors/seniors. Supervised individual research or investigation under guidance of faculty mentor. Culminating paper or project required. May be repeated for credit with consent of chair. Individual contract required. P/NP or letter grading.