Comparative Literature at Bryn Mawr College
PS#CRS#CRTITLE OF COURSEProfessor(s)/Instructor(s)DIV
1190B200 011.0Intro to Comparative LitSeyhan
TTH 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
HU III
TAYB
1451B209 011.0Philosophical Apprch to Crit.
Cross listed with GERM B209 and PHIL B209.
Seyhan
W 2:00 PM-4:00 PM
HU III
EHI
1443B213 011.0Qu’est-ce que la théorie?
An overview of the history of modern French thought from structuralism to the present. Focus on trends of recent French thought engaged in questioning the status of the subject in the fields of art, history, sociology, anthropology, sexual/gender politics. Designed to provide a variety of critical perspectives for examining artistic production, primarily in literature. Readings will include Lévi-Strauss, Saussure, Barthes, Foucault, Bourdieu, Beauvoir, Wittig, Sartre, Fanon, Lyotard, Lipovetsky, Rancière, Virilio, Gauchet, Nora, as well as fictional works from Perrault, Diderot, Duras, Perec, Cixous. Cross listed with FREN 213.
Mahuzier
TTH 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
HU III
TH102
1462B222 011.0Aesthetics
Nature and Experience of Art
Enrollment limited to 18 students. Cross-listed with PHIL B222. Prerequisite: 1 course in Philosophy or Literature.
Krausz
T 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Nature and Experience of Art
HU III
TH251
1441B234 011.0Postcolonial Lit in English
Cross-listed ENGL B234. Enrollment is limited to 30 students.
Tratner
TTH 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
HU III
EHLEC
1191B257 011.0The Realist Novel RevisitedAllen
M 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
HU III
TAYD
1474B260 011.0Ariel/Caliban/el discurso amer
Counts towards the Hispanic American Studies Concentration. Cross-listed with SPAN B260.
Sacerio-Garí
TTH 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
HU III
BYC106
1431B274 011.0From Myth to Cinema
Greek Tragedy in Contemporary Film
This course explores how contemporary film, like Greek drama, a creative medium appealing to the entire demographic spectrum, looks back to the ancient origins. Examining both films that are based on Greek plays and films that insert, adapt or distort classical material, it applies a variety of methodological approaches such as film and gender theory, psychoanalysis and feminist theory in addition to literary-historical interpretation. Enrollment limited to 35 students. Cross-listed with CSTS B274
Baertschi
TTH 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
HU III
TAYE
1454B321 011.0Adv Topics German Cultural St
Berlin in the 20s
Cross listed with CITY B319 and GERM B321.
Meyer
M 2:00 PM-4:00 PM
HU III
CARP13
1463B323 011.0Culture and Interpretation
Cross-listed with PHIL B323. Enrollment limited to 18 students.
Krausz
TH 12:00 PM-2:00 PM
HU III
TH251
1445B350 011.0Voix médiévales/échos moderne
Cross listed with FREN B350
Armstrong
W 2:00 PM-4:00 PM
HU III
TAYC
1517B403 011.0Supervised WorkHU
Comparative Literature at Haverford College
H205A011.0Legends of Arthur
Cross-listed in English
Prerequisite: Freshman Writing
Enrollment limited to 30 students.
Lottery preference: 7 slots for Class of '12; 23 to others.
M.McInerney
TTh 2:30-4:00

HU III
Hall 007
 
 
H221A011.0The Ancient Novel
Cross-listed in Classical Studies

NEW COURSE.An exploration of the earliest prose fiction in the Western literary tradition in relation to other ancient genres and to the early modern novel, with attention to formulations of gender, heroism, truth, love, and violence.
R.Germany
TTh 2:30-4:00

HU III
Stokes 207
 
 
H222A011.0Rethinking Latin America in Contemporary Narrative
Cross-listed in Spanish
SPAN 102, place in a 200 level course, or consent.
Enrollment limited to 25 students.
NEW COURSE.This course explores literary texts and films produced after the 80's. These texts address political issues including memory, gender, violence, and border, and destabilize foundational identities and mythic representations found in the Latin American Boom narrative.
A.Gomez Unamuno
TTh 11:30-1:00

HU III
Hall 007
 
 
H230A011.0Beauty, Rhetoric, Aesthetics, Philosophy
Cross-listed in Independent College Programs and Philosophy

NEW COURSE.This course will examine contemporary attempts to revitalize and reaffirm art's relation to beauty, aesthetic pleasure, and seduction. Readings will be drawn from the works of Plato, Longinus, Edmund Burke, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, as well as the contemporary champions of beauty: Gilbert-Rolfe, Hickey, Scarry, Schjeldahl, and Steiner.
J.Muse
TTh 2:30-4:00

HU III
Stokes 102
 
 
H308A011.0Mystical Literatures of Islam
Cross-listed in Religion
Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Lottery preference to Religion Majors.
NEW COURSE.Overview of the literary expressions of Islamic mysticism through the study of poetry, philosophy, hagiographies, and anecdotes. Topics include: unio mystica; symbol and structure; love and the erotic; body / gender; language and experience.
T.Zadeh
T 1:30-4:00

HU III
Link 205
 
 
H312A011.0La Revolution Haitienne: Histoire et Imaginaire
Cross-listed in French
K.Anyinefa
M 1:30-4:00

HU III
Fdrs 032
 
 
H320A011.0Contemporary German Fiction

TOPIC: One of the most interesting & exciting aspects of contemporary German Fiction is its aesthetic diversity that eludes any clear-cut literary-historical definition. Instead, we are confronted with the coexistence of multiple literary models, including documentary, feminist, meta-fictional, autobiographical, & immigrant literatures - compelling evidence that the notion of a single German literature has become totally obsolete. Focusing on exemplary texts, the seminar will closely analyze the diverging literary concepts and writing practices, characteristic of the literary scene today. Readings include prose texts by P. Weiss, Handke, Bachmann, Kluge, Bernhard, H. Muller, P. Schneider, Kirchhoff, Ozdamar, Schlink, Sebald, and Schulze.
U.Schoenherr
T 7:30pm-10:00pm

HU III
Gest 103
 
 
H343A011.0The Latin American City and its Narratives.
Cross-listed in Spanish
SPAN 200 level course, or consent.

NEW COURSE.An exploration of how literary and visual arts texts have imagined the Latin American metropolitan space. Students will reflect on the representation of urban communities in Latin American cities such as Buenos Aires, Mexico and Havana among others.
G.Michelotti
TTh 2:30-4:00

HU
Hall 107
 
 
H398A011.0Theories and Methods in Comparative Literature
Open only to students majoring or minoring in Comp Lit. Occasionally open, with permission, to Jr. Comp Lit majors who plan to study away
I.Burshatin
T 7:30pm-10:00pm

HU III
Hall 106