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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2022 |
Registration ID | CSTSB240001 |
Course Title | (Re)Productions |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Classical Studies |
Instructor | Lam,Erin |
Times and Days | TTh 12:55pm-02:15pm
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Room Location | TAYC |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2214 How might Ancient Greek and Roman values regarding leisure time, labor, poetic production, and reproduction intersect with those of modern capitalism? Why are texts considered the children of ancient (male) authors, and where do women fit into this textual reproductive activity? What does a queer (i.e. non-essentialist, non-binary) reproduction look like? What makes art art, and does the reproduction of art, such as Roman copies of Greek statues, entail the loss of some special uncapturable quality? This course considers the above questions, investigating ancient and modern cultural attitudes towards (re)production through intersectional feminist and queer theory. Students will explore modern textual and filmic representations of pregnancy, abortion, creation, domestic labor, and artistic labor to enrich their readings of ancient texts. Texts will include Ancient Greek tragedies such as Euripides’ Medea and Sophocles’ Antigone, Latin poetry such as Horace’s Ars Poetica and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, novels such as Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, films such as My Fair Lady, and modern poetry by Johanna Hedva and Dionne Brand. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); |
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