UCSB 2009-2010 Catalog Course Search
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| C LIT 27 - Memory: Bridging the Humanities and Neurosciences |
| (3) Kosik, Jullien |
| Neurosciences now ask some of the same profound questions posed by writers, artists and philosophers for centuries, thus opening surprising perspectives on memory and morality, dreams and perception, identity and agency. This course explores this emerging concordance. |
| C LIT 30A - Major Works in European Literature |
| (4) STAFF |
| A survey of European literature. Classical and medieval literature from Homer to Dante. |
| C LIT 30B - Major Works in European Literature |
| (4) STAFF |
| A survey of European literature. Renaissance and Neoclassical literature from Petrarch to Diderot. |
| C LIT 30C - Major Works in European Literature |
| (4) STAFF |
| A survey of European literature. Romantic and modern literature from Rousseau to Solzhenitsyn. |
| C LIT 30H - Honors Section |
| (1) Corum |
| Prerequisites: Honors standing. |
| Seminar course for honors students enrolled in Comparative Literature 30 designed to enrich the large lecture experience and to supplement the weekly seminar meetings. May include additional readings, more intensive study of syllabus selections, and supplemental writings. |
| C LIT 31 - Major Works of Asian Literatures |
| (4) STAFF |
| An introduction to the diverse literary traditions of Asia through an examination of selected works. Regional focus on East, South, and SoutheastAsia varies. |
| C LIT 32 - Major Works of Middle Eastern Literatures |
| (4) STAFF |
| An introduction to the diverse literary traditions of the Middle East through an examination of selected works. Regional focus on North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia varies. |
| C LIT 33 - Major Works of African Literatures |
| (4) Strongman, Akudinobi |
| An introduction to the diverse literary traditions of Africa through an examination of selected works. Regional focus on North, West, East, Central, and South Africa varies. |
| C LIT 34 - Literature of the Americas |
| (4) STAFF |
| An introduction to the diverse literary traditions of the Americas through an examination of selected works. Regional focus on North America, the Caribbean, and Latin America varies. |
| C LIT 35 - The Making of the Modern World |
| (4) Derwin |
| Description and analysis of decisive events contributing to the world we are inhabiting. Various themes presented: City planning, war and industrial warfare, technology and media-technology, ideologies of modernity, and modern master theories. |
| C LIT 36 - Global Humanities: The Politics and Poetics of Witnessing |
| (4) Weber, Carlson |
| What do literature and critical theory contribute to the reflection on human rights and the analysis of their violation? Inquiry into different ways in which the humanities can reframe the debate on human rights and act as a social force. |
| C LIT 100 - Introduction to Comparative Literature |
| (4) Derwin |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Addresses questions of methodology and also developments and debates in the history of literary and critical theory. |
| C LIT 101 - Writers’ Theories |
| (4) Levy, Lupi |
| Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. |
| Writers have also something to say about literature: What is it? How do they write it? How are we to read it? What does it mean? What tools do they provide us to analyze it? |
| C LIT 103 - Going Postal: Epistolary Narratives |
| (4) Cook |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Investigates reappearance of the letter-novel at particular historical moments, and paradoxes built into the letter-form itself. Range of works emphasizing eighteenth- and later twentieth-century novels, likely works by Austen, Goethe, Hoffman, James, Montesquieu, Choderlos de Laclos, Lydia Davis, Pynchon. |
| C LIT 104 - Women and Revolutino, 1790s and 1960s |
| (4) Carlson |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Focuses on fictional and non-fictional texts written by women during two periods of intense social and feminist activism, the 1790s in England, France, and the West Indies, and the 1960s in the U.S. and France. |
| C LIT 107 - Voyages to the Unknown |
| (4) Skenazi |
| Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50. |
| The impact of the voyages of discovery on late 15th and 16th century Europe. Readings on real and imaginary voyages: Columbus, Cartier, Lery, More, Rabelais, Montaigne. |
| C LIT 109 - Game and Literature |
| (4) Maurseth |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| An interdisciplinary inquiry into the motive of game in 18th-20th century literature. Focus is on the moral, psychological and epistemological dimensions of game according to both form and function. Considerations of the stylistic, narrative and rhetorical components of texts.
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| C LIT 111 - Dreaming in Cultural Context |
| (4) Plane |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Explores dreams and dreaming in multiple historical and cultural contexts and pays particular attention to dreams and dream reports as unconscious and intra-psychic as well as social and cultural communications. A variety of historical, ethnographic, psychoanalytic, and literary texts are considered. |
| C LIT 113 - Trauma, Memory, Historiography |
| (4) Derwin, Weber |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| How do individuals, communities, cultures, nations remember and/or forget, preserve and/or erase, traumatic events? |
| C LIT 115 - Introduction to Folk Tales |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: English 10 or Writing 50 or upper-division standing. |
| Broad survey of folk tales from all over the world. Types, motifs, research, and history. |
| C LIT 117B - European Romanticism(s) |
| (4) Holland |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Cultivation: Romantic literature and science in their manifold relation to nature. |
| C LIT 119 - Psychoanalytic Theory |
| (4) Derwin, Weber |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Topic to be addressed each quarter will be chosen from the following: origins of psychoanalysis; sado-masochism; the death-drive; psychoanalysis and the law; group psychology; psychoanalysis and the media; literature andpsychoanalysis. |
| C LIT 120 - Adventures of Chivalry, Courtship and War: Arthurian Romance and the Rise of the Chivalric Novel |
| (4) Sharrer |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Arthurian and chivalric fiction from the medieval period to the time of Cervantes. The evolution of the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and the rise of new chivalric heroes and modes of fiction. |
| C LIT 121 - What is a Hero? |
| (4) Jullien |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Focus on the idea of heroes and heroism in the Western tradition through readings of the three major epics of Greek and Latin Antiquity (the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid), along with selections from modern variations on these old stories. |
| C LIT 122A - Representations of the Holocaust |
| (4) Derwin |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Close reading of post-Holocaust literature. Taught in English. |
| C LIT 122B - Holocaust in France |
| (4) Derwin |
| Through analysis of testimonies, memoirs, fiction, and film, this course focuses on France under the Nazi occupation. Topics include the Vichy Regime (1940-1945), the Resistance Movement, the Church under Vichy, anti-Semitism, deportations and concentration camp imprisonment, and national memory after World War II. |
| C LIT 124 - Old Comedy/New Comedy |
| (4) Young |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| What is comedy? Is it what prompts laughter? Is it a particular structural form? Study of theories of comedy and comic forms across cultures and timesunder the headings of "old" and "new" to work through the nature of comedy. |
| C LIT 126 - Comparative Black Literatures |
| (4) Strongman |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Using a social constructist approach to race, this course examines the multiple ways in which racial discourses operate in global literary cultures. Emphasizes that blackness need not be a homogenous concept in order to continue to be a powerful agent in our postmodern world. |
| C LIT 128A - Children's Literature |
| (4) Snyder |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Classic texts and theories of children's literature, from Perrault and Wilde to Freud and Propp. Examination of narrative and ideological strategies for constructing and representing "childhood" in modernity, with emphasis on their relationship to the family and the marketplace. |
| C LIT 128B - Representing Childhood |
| (4) Derwin |
| Course examines European and American representations of childhood in works of fiction, painting, photography, psychoanalysis, and pedagogy from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Topics include religious views of the child, sexuality and childhood, play, and children in media. |
| C LIT 129 - Theory and Text: Petrarch and Shakespeare's Sonnets |
| (4) Corum |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| An opportunity to bring several powerful theoretical discourses to bear on the two most exceptional sonnet sequences of early modern cultures-- Petrarch's at the beginning, Shakespeare's at the end. |
| C LIT 146 - Robots |
| (4) Kittler |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| From eighteenth-century clockwork automata to Turing's universal machine, investigation of the function and representation of machines in literature,philosophy, film and animation. Texts by Kant, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Kafka, Wiener, and Alan Turing, SciFi films and computer games. |
| C LIT 148 - Creative Chaos |
| (4) Holland |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Chaos: is it primordial mahem and confusion? Or does chaos permit the possibility of form and creativity? Course explores the order and disorder of chaos within literary, scientific, and philosophical narratives. From Hesiod and Ovid through Diderot, Wordsworth, and Pynchon. |
| C LIT 149 - Rhetoric of Crime |
| (4) Enders |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Focusing on the interrelations between law and literature this course examines American and European representations of crime and punishment in the lawcourts, theater, cinema, and television from Euripides to the Court-Television network. Readings and screenings from writers, judges, andjurists. In English. |
| C LIT 150 - Contemporary Literary Criticism |
| (4) STAFF |
| Studies in modern and post-modern literary theory. In any one quarter, the course will examine two or three basic orientations such as structuralism, semiotics, hermeneutics, deconstruction, or the esthetics of reception. |
| C LIT 153 - Border Narratives |
| (4) Gutierrez-Jones |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Examination of novels, short stories, and films that engage U.S./Mexico border dynamics. Considering the ways diverse, interactive processes are affecting border culture, and inquiring into the ways cultural products critically respond to these processes. |
| C LIT 154 - Science Fiction in Eastern Europe |
| (4) McClain |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| The genre of science fiction and its development in literature and film in the various cultures of eastern europe. Topics include utopia, dystopia,technology, the "mad" scientist, etc. Taught in English. |
| C LIT 161 - Literature of Central Europe |
| (4) Spieker |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Investigation of the prolific literatures of central Europe, one of the culturally and linguistically most diverse regions of the European continent that has produced writers such as Italo Svevo, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, Bruno Schultz, and others. Readings in English. |
| C LIT 170 - Literary Translation: Theory and Practice |
| (4) Levine |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Examination of translation and the canon, questioning thr hierarchial division between translation and original, illustrating the concept of the original as translation and the literary text as "work-in-progress" in which translation forms part of the creative process. |
| C LIT 171 - Post-Colonial Cultures |
| (4) Prieto |
| Study of fiction from the Caribbean, West Africa, and the Maghreb. Born of the
conflict between and hybridization of widely differing cultural traditions, this
course provides insights into the vibrancy of contemporary post-colonial
societies, the ongoing legacy of colonialism, and the meaning of
multiculturalism. In English. |
| C LIT 173 - Life Stories: Biography and Autobiography in a Comparative Context |
| (4) Saltzman-Li |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| An exploration of biography and autobiography. Examples to be chosen from western European, American, Japanese, and Chinese literature with a view towards defining these two terms with comparative and historicized significance. |
| C LIT 174 - Metamorphosis |
| (4) Holland |
| Narratives of metamorphosis challenge our preconceived notions of identity and form. This course investigates metamorphosis as a scientific, social, and philosophical problem, drawing from literature (Ovid, Stevenson, Kafka, Cortazar, etc.) and the visual arts, including film. |
| C LIT 179B - Mysticism |
| (4) Weber |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Analysis of German mystical writing, its roots in ancient Greek texts, revolutionary impact, links with other mystical traditions, and influence on secular literature. Texts include Hildegard von Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Mechthild von Magdeburg, Novalis, Rilke, etc. Taught in English. |
| C LIT 179C - Mediatechnology |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Telegraph, telephone, phonograph, and film are techniques that have engendered new forms of representation, communication, and thinking. Course studies the impact of these transformations in literature and on literature. Taught in English. |
| C LIT 180 - The European Renaissance |
| (4) Helgerson |
| Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50; or Writing 109AA-ZZ or English 10. |
| The generic forms of cultural issues characteristic of early modern European poetry, fiction, and drama. Such authors as Petrarch, Boccaccio, More, Rabelais, Ariosto, Montaigne, Camoes, Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and Cervantes. |
| C LIT 183 - The Quest for Narrative in Late Imperial China |
| (4) Powell |
| An exploration of quest themes, narrative forms and performative modes in the culture of Late Imperial China based on a reading of an English translation for the sixteenth century masterpiece, The Journey to the West (Monkey). |
| C LIT 186 - Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature Studies |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Interdisciplinary examination of selected topics, theories, disciplinary issues, and/or methodological questions in the combined study of literature, and other areas of the humanities and humanistic sciences. Course focus will be determined by the instructor(s). |
| C LIT 186RR - Romantic Revolutions: Philosophy, History, and the Arts in Europe |
| (4) Donelan |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Interdisciplinary investigation of the revolutionary changes in European history, culture during the Romantic era, 1789-1830. Readings include works by Wordsworth, Byron, and Hegel, paintings by Friedrich and Constable, music by Beethoven and Schubert to better understand political revolt and reform, romantic self-consciousness, and the romantic sublime. |
| C LIT 187 - Strauss and Hofmannsthal |
| (4) Hsu |
| Prerequisites: upper-division standing |
| A course in the collaboration between composer and poet. A study in the operas, the correspondence, and related developments in German music in the early twentieth century. |
| C LIT 188 - Narrative Studies |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Study of various narrative forms, e.g., novel, short story, essay, memoir, with a specific focus each quarter. Topics to be addressed may include strategies of narration, the history of particular narrative forms, what is meant by literary style. |
| C LIT 191 - Fantasy and the Fantastic |
| (4) Levy, Jullien |
| Course explores the creation of a space where a fantastic perception of reality developed and thrived, hesitating between the real and the supernatural, in the intermediate space of the unexplained and unexplainable. Works by Balzac, Poe, Stevenson, James, and Borges.
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| C LIT 195 - Junior/Senior Seminar |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Selected methodological issues in comparative literature. Topics vary with each instructor. |
| C LIT 196H - Senior Honors Independent Research |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Comparative Literature majors only. |
| Student engages in research leading to a paper of considerable depth and complexity on a topic dealing with the literature of the student's focus. |
| C LIT 197 - Upper Division Special Topics |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Content will vary with each instructor. |
| C LIT 199 - Independent Studies in Comparative Literature |
| (1-5) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing; completion of 2 upper-division courses in Comparative Literature. |
| Independent studies with any faculty member. To permit study of a subject desired by the student but not covered in course offerings. |
| C LIT 200 - Seminar in Comparative Literature |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. |
| Addresses issues of methodology and literary theory. Specific authors and topics vary from class to class. |
| C LIT 205A - History of Literary Criticism |
| (4) STAFF |
| Criticism from antiquity to the present. |
| C LIT 209 - Religion and Politics in Pier Pasolini and Georges Bataille |
| (4) Wittman |
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. |
| Explores how recent interest in the connections between religion and politics has brought to the fore the works of director, poet, and political agitator Pier Paolo Pasolini, and philosopher and founder of the College de Sociologie Georges Bataille. |
| C LIT 235 - Symbolism, Decadence, and the Origins of Modernism in Italy and France |
| (4) Staff |
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. |
| From Mallarmé to Marinetti, this course explores the continuities between the obsessions of decadence (the dandy, the femme fatale, and the "death of God"), and the revolutionary claims of Modernism (asserting artistic autonomy, freeing the unconscious, politicizing the personal). |
| C LIT 236 - Media History Theory |
| (4) Warner |
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. |
| Interweaves a study of the emergence of several kinds of twentieth century media including radio, film, television, and the internet, with keytexts of media theory including Benjamin, Adorno, MdLuhan, Debord, Hall, and others. |
| C LIT 237 - Literature and the Sacred |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. |
| Explores theories of the sacred, and its radical otherness, in relation to writing and poetics, in twentieth century French and Italian thought. Authors include: Caillois, Bataille, Paulhan, Eco, Ricoeur, Cacciari, Blanchot, Vattimo, Kristeva, Derrida, Lacan, Irigaray. In English. |
| C LIT 249 - Music and Literature |
| (4) Prieto |
| Study of interrelations of music and literature, with emphasis on modernist interest in using principles from one art to guide creation in the other. Literary texts from Symbolists to Beckett and Burgess; theory: Aristotle to Adorno; music: from Wagner to S. Reich. |
| C LIT 253 - Techno Theory |
| (4) Kittler, Maleurve, Rickels |
| With the advent of the new media technologies and the "new" discourse on technology associated with Freud and Heidegger, critical discourse has finally met its match and maker in the machine. |
| C LIT 256 - Critical Traditions |
| (4) Hernadi |
| Significant theories of literature and related cultural formations from Plato and Aristotle to the present. |
| C LIT 260 - Literary Translation: Theory and Practice |
| (4) Levine |
| Examination of translation and the canon, questioning the hierarchical division between translation and original, illustrating the concept of the original as translation and the literary text as "work-in-progress" in which translation forms part of the creative process. |
| C LIT 264 - Chinese Theories of Literature in Comparative Perspective |
| (4) Egan |
| Selected readings from major early texts (in English translation) on the theory and uses of literature. Attention also to recent competing of Chinese literary thought in comparison with Western theories of the Classical, Romantic, and Postmodern eras. |
| C LIT 265 - Studies in Renaissance Literature: Comparative Study of Early Modern European Literature |
| (4) Helgerson |
| Topics and content will vary and may include: the place of the domestic in early modern european drama and painting, petrarchism and the formation of national literatures in Spain, France, and England, and renaissance fiction from More to Cervantes. |
| C LIT 266 - Memories of the Middle Ages |
| (4) Enders, Fradenburg |
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. |
| From the standpoints of both rhetoric and psychoanalysis, memory is a powerful cultural tool for a contextualized study of medieval english and french literature. Focusing on theoretical and literary texts, exploration of the socio-historical and cultural circumstances of remembrance, creation, mourning. |
| C LIT 287 - Strauss and Hofmannsthal |
| (4) Hsu |
| A course in the collaboration between composer and poet. A study of the operas, the correspondence, and related developments in German music in theearly 20th century. |
| C LIT 591 - Teaching Assistant Practicum |
| (4) STAFF |
| Supervised teaching of lower-division comparative literature courses at UCSB. Participation in occasional workshops related to the field of teaching will be required. |
| C LIT 594 - Special Topics |
| (1-4) STAFF |
| A special seminar on research subjects of current interest. |
| C LIT 596 - Directed Reading and Research |
| (2-18) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Minimum of two units per quarter. Letter grade only. |
| Individual tutorial. A written proposal for each tutorial must be approved by the program chair. |
| C LIT 597 - Individual study for M.A. Comprehensive and Ph.D. Exams |
| (1-12) STAFF |
| For individual study with major professor or chair or director of student'sprogram. |
| C LIT 598 - Master's Thesis Research and Preparation |
| (2-12) STAFF |
| For research and writing of the master's thesis. |
| C LIT 599 - Ph.D. Dissertation Research and Preparation |
| (2-12) STAFF |
| For research and writing of the doctoral dissertation. Instructor should be chair of the student's doctoral committee. |