16243 |
LIT 3028
Sound in American Literature |
Alexandre
Benson |
T 3:10 pm-5:30
pm |
OLIN 309 |
ELIT |
Cross-listed: American Studies; Experimental Humanities We often describe
literary form in sonic terms—voice, tone, echo—even as we set the silent,
graphic medium of writing in opposition to the noisy, melodious stuff of speech
and song. This paradox generates some knotty questions of aesthetics,
sensation, and media. Put them in the context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century
American literature, and more arise. In what ways, for instance, does the
representation of sound participate in the construction of race, region, and
gender? And how do individual artists' approaches to writing sound respond to
the development of new recording technologies? This seminar will explore these
questions through works of scholarship in literary theory and sound studies;
through adaptations that bring texts into other sonic media (phonograph, radio,
film); and above all through written works whose expressive contours are shaped
by the phenomenon of sound.
16250 |
LIT 3206
Evidence |
Thomas
Keenan |
M
1:30 pm-3:50 pm |
OLINLC 210 |
HUM |
Cross-listed: Human Rights What can literature and
the arts teach us about evidence? Evidence would seem to be a matter of facts,
far from literary or artistic invention. But, whether fact or fiction, we are
regularly confronted by all sorts of signs, and we need to learn how to read
the traces of things left behind at this or that scene, of a crime for
instance. Matters of interpretation, presentation, even rhetoric arise
immediately. Evidence, at a minimum, is presented for our deliberation and
calls for us to make decisions, form conclusions, or reach judgments. Hence its legal meanings. On the basis of the traces of what
has happened —whether in the form of statistics, objects, images, or
testimony—we have to decide. This holds even or especially when the evidence
seems least equivocal, as in the case of forensics. Sometimes what we see and read seems to
compel action, while at other times it appears to immobilize us. As more and more of our world is exposed to
view, what becomes of the would-be foundational character of evidence? What is
it to ignore evidence? This seminar will explore the theory and practice of
evidence, with special attention paid to the different forms evidence can take
and the disputes to which it can give rise, especially when violations of, and
claims for, human rights are at stake.
16245 |
LIT 330
Innovative Novellas & Short Stories |
Justus
Rosenberg |
M
10:10 am-12:30 pm |
OLIN 305 |
ELIT |
An in-depth study
of the difference between the short story, built on figurative techniques
closely allied to those employed in poetry which allows the writer to achieve
remarkable intimacy and depth of meaning in the space of a few pages, and the
novella that demands the economy and exactness of a short work while at the
same time allowing a fuller concentration and development of both character and
plot. We explore the range and scale of the artistic accomplishments of such masters
in these genres as Voltaire, de Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, Chekhov, Sholem Aleichem, Thomas Mann, Isaac Babel, A. France,
Camus, Kafka, Colette, Borges. In addition to writing
several analytical papers, students are asked to present a short story or novella
of their own by the end of the semester. Class
size: 15
16212 |
LIT 331
Translation Workshop |
Peter
Filkins |
Th 1:30
pm-3:50 pm |
OLIN 310 |
FLLC |
The workshop is
intended for students interested in exploring both the process of translation
and ways in which meaning is created and shaped through words. Class time will
be divided between a consideration of various approaches to the translation of
poetry and prose, comparisons of various solutions arrived at by different translators, and the students' own translations into English
of poetry and prose from any language or text of their own choosing.
Prerequisite: One year of language study or permission of the instructor. Class
size: 12
16244 |
LIT 333
New Directions in Contemporary Fiction |
|
M
1:30 pm-3:50 pm |
OLIN 205 |
ELIT |
This seminar is
devoted to close readings of novels and collections of short stories by
innovative contemporary fiction writers published over the last quarter
century. We will explore both the great diversity of voices, styles, and forms
employed in these narratives as well as the cultural, historical, political,
and philosophical issues they chronicle. Particular emphasis will be
placed on analysis of fiction by some of the groundbreaking practitioners of
the form, including Noy Holland, Cormac McCarthy,
William Gaddis, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, Kazuo Ishiguro, David Foster
Wallace, Robert Coover, Ian McEwan, and Jamaica
Kincaid. Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, and Brian Evenson
will visit class to talk with students about their books and writing process,
and read from recent work. Class size: 15
16247 |
LIT 405
Senior Colloquium: Literature |
Deirdre
d'Albertis |
M
4:40 pm-6:00 pm |
RKC 103 |
|
1 credit Literature Majors writing a project are
required to enroll in the year-long Senior Colloquium. An opportunity to share working methods,
knowledge, skills and resources among students, the colloquium explicitly
addresses challenges arising from research and writing on this scale, and
presentation of works in progress. A
pragmatic focus on the nuts and bolts of the project will be complemented with
life-after-Bard skills workshops, along with a review of internship and
grant-writing opportunities in the discipline. Senior Colloquium is designed to
create a productive network of association for student scholars and critics:
small working groups foster intellectual community, providing individual
writers with a wide range of support throughout this culminating year of
undergraduate study in the major. Class size: 50
CROSS-LISTED IN
LITERATURE:
See primary section
for description.
16189 |
CLAS 316
Epic in European Literature |
Daniel
Mendelsohn |
T 1:30 pm-3:50
pm |
OLIN 301 |
ELIT |
16192 |
FREN 321
Vocabularies of Contempt |
Marina
van Zuylen |
Th 1:30
pm-3:50 pm |
OLINLC 118 |
FLLC |
16164 |
SPAN 301
Intro to Spanish Literature |
Patricia
Lopez-Gay |
M
W Th
3:10 pm-4:30 pm |
OLINLC 208 |
FLLC |
16209 |
SPAN 325
Archive Fever: Lit and Film |
Patricia
Lopez-Gay |
T 1:30 pm-3:50
pm |
OLINLC 208 |
FLLC |
16365 |
PHIL 238
Philosophy and Literature |
Ruth
Zisman |
T Th 11:50
am-1:10 pm |
OLIN 202 |
HUM |
16531 |
PS 132 Political and Literary Imaginations of Subjectivity after
1945 |
Jana
Schmidt |
M
W 1:30
pm-2:50 pm |
HEG 300 |
HUM |