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2009 Summer Session Course Listings
Note: Northwestern day school students need permission from the dean of their school to enroll in School of Continuing Studies courses. SCS courses are indicated by a -CN after the course number (example: ACCOUNT 204-CN Sec. 28). The majority of Summer Session courses do not need dean approval.
Comparative Literature
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
For related classes, please see the departments of English, French, Italian, and Slavic Languages and Literature.
COMP LIT 375-0 Sec. 28
Cancelled
Exile in Twentieth Century Literature
CAESAR Class Number: 40632
8 weeks,
EVAN,
6/22 - 8/10
M 2 - 5:30pm
Leah Culligan-Flack
This course will be held in University Hall room 112.
Exile, a condition of homelessness, displacement, and alienation, has been what Edward Said argues is a "potent, even enriching, motif of modern culture." Literary history abounds with exiles. Famous exiled writers include Ovid, Dante, Pushkin, Joyce, Conrad, Pound, Eliot, Solzhenitsyn, Beckett, Kundera, and hundreds of others, including postcolonial writers like Said, Achebe, and Rushdie. How has exile-as a loss of the orienting structures of family, home, language, community, nation-produced so many famous writers and shaped international literary history? Although it may initially seem intuitive to conclude that exile, a state of perpetual deprivation and loss, would hinder creativity, literary history suggests otherwise: that exile has actually given rise to a rich literary tradition of writers who wrote not in spite of but rather because of exile's losses.This course will explore the paradoxical relationship between exile and literary creativity in the twentieth century, what Said calls the "age of the refugee." We will read works by Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, Vladimir Nabokov, Milan Kundera, Marilynne Robinson, Edward Said, and Salman Rushdie in our examination of the broad range of experiences and representations of homelessness underlying twentieth-century literary history.Course requirements: regular course attendance and participation; posts to Blackboard; class presentation with a handout; final paper.
COMP LIT 390-0 Sec. 28 
Topics in Comparative Literature: Postmodern Cinema
CAESAR Class Number: 40050
8 weeks,
EVAN,
6/22 - 8/10
M 6:30 - 9:30pm
Scott Durham
This course will be held in Kresge Hall room 1375.
This course explores the place of film in postmodern culture. It examines how postmodern filmmakers have reinvented the aesthetic and narrative forms of film as well as the how their films have contested the dominant culture of postmodernity from a variety of ideological and aesthetic perspectives. The course begins by providing the conceptual and historical background of postmodernism through analysis of a number of key films from the 1960s and 1970s. Interrelated themes in films by such directors as Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Jacques Tati, Ridley Scott, and Chris Marker include the new experiences of urban space characteristic of postmodern culture; the new cultural forms associated with the triumph of consumerism; and the emergence of a new global culture of the image. Students then explore current debates about the nature and limits of postmodernism - the place of dystopian and utopian fantasy in postmodernity, the possibilities of and alternatives to realist representation of postmodern experience, and the representation of new forms of sexual and ethnic identity and the intertwining of individual and collective histories in an age of globalization - through discussions of cinematic works by directors from Europe, the Americas, and Asia, including Gianni Amelio, Patricio Guzman, Stanley Kubrick, David Cronenberg, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Todd Haynes, Antonia Bird, Quentin Tarantino, Isaac Julien, Raoul Ruiz, and Tsai Ming-Liang.
Indicates an Evening Course.
Indicates a Study Abroad Course.
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