Fall 2009
30B - Major Works of European Literature
Jocelyn Holland
TR 9:30-10:45, Embarcadero Hall
Enroll via discussion section
Students interested in taking the honors section should speak with the professor the first day of class.
A survey of European literature. Renaissance and Neoclassical literature from Petrarch to Diderot.
31 — Asian Literatures
Katherine Saltzman-Li
MW 9:30-10:45, South Hall 1431
Enroll via discussion section
An introduction to the diverse literary traditions of Asia through an examination of selected works. Regional focus on East, South, and Southeast Asia varies.
103 — Going Postal
Larry Rickels
TR 12:30-1:45, TD-W 1701, Enroll: 55715
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 the eighteenth- and later twentieth-century novels, likely including works by Austen, Goethe, Hoffman, James, Montesquieu, Choderlos de Laclos, Lydia Davis, Pynchon.
107 — Voyages to the Unknown
Cynthia Skenazi
TR 5:00-6:15, 387 103, Enroll: 53843
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50.
Same course as French 154A.
The impact of the voyages of discovery on late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe. Readings on real and imaginary voyages: Columbus, Cartier, Lery, More, Rabelais, Montaigne.
154 — Science Fiction in Eastern Europe
Katia McClain
MW 3:00-3:15, Girvetz 2108, Enroll: 55707
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
Same course as Slavic 164B.
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.
179C — Mediatechnology
Wolf Kittler
TR 9:30-10:45, Phelps 1508, Enroll: 55723
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
Same course as German 179C. Not open for credit to students who have completed German 180.
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.
188 — Narrative Studies
Joao Camilo Dos Santos
MW 12:30-1:45, Girvetz 2108, Enroll: 55749
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
Study of various forms, e.g., novel, shorty 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.
199 — Independent Studies in Comparative Literature
Staff
1-5 units, Enroll: 04614
Prerequisites: upper-division standing; completion of two upper-division courses in comparative literature. Must have a minimum 3.0 grade-point average for the preceding three quarters. Students are limited to 5 units per quarter and 30 units total in all 98/99/198/199/199AA-ZZ courses combined. Comparative Literature 199 may be repeated for credit to a maximum of 30 units, but only 12 units may be applied toward the major.
Independent studies with any faculty member. To permit study of a subject desired by the student but not covered in course offerings.
GRADUATE SEMINARS
200 — Psychoanalytic Investigations of Trauma, Rage and Reparation
Susan Derwin
Prerequisite: graduate standing
Cross-listed with German 210 (56671)
Tuesday 3:00-5:50 PM, Phelps 6320, Enroll: 55756
This course will explore modalities of recovery in the aftermath of trauma. We will consider this issue in the context of the healing of individuals and of societies, and we will do so in view of psychoanalytic approaches to recovery. How can varying conceptualizations of the relation of a person’s traumatic past to his or her present, our knowledge about the impact of trauma on identity, and our understanding of the process of a survivor’s recovery from traumatic experience, help us think about mechanisms of repair and reparation by social groups or societies committed to a politics of reconciliation? Conversely, what role does society play in the healing of the individual? We will address aftermaths of rape, the Holocaust, the Chilean Rettig Commission, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Readings to include: Melanie Klein, Love, Hate and Reparation; Jacques Derrida, On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness; Susan Brison, Aftermath, Violence and the Remaking of a Self; Jeffrey Prager, “Healing from History: Psychoanalytic Considerations on Traumatic Pasts and Social Repair,” Donald Winnicott, ‘The Theory of the Parent-Infant Relationship,’ Andre Schaap, Political Reconciliation, Ariel Dorfman, “Death and the Maiden,” as well as additional testimonial and theoretical literature.
200 — Literature and Moral Dilemma
Didier Maleuvre
Prerequisite: graduate standing
Thursday 3:00-5:50 PM, Phelps 5313, Enroll: 04622
Ethics is the study of the human good and how to achieve it. How should I live? Why should I live this way? How best to achieve it? Morality is commonly assumed to take the form of rules issuing from customs, the law, or religion. But is there more to morality than social conventions? Literary works depict the subjective experience of reality. It is the story of individuals making choices with a sense of how their actions shape their lives. Literature therefore stages how moral situations arise, how an individual wrangles with choices and lives with consequences. It gives us a picture of what it is like to be a moral agent in a complex world of split allegiances and obligations between self-realization and social responsibility.
In this course, we will explore why and how literature connects with morality; how ethical problems are presented in fiction, and whether literature is essentially moral. Topics of discussion include literature and religious law, the problem of evil, guilt, authority and dissent, honor, loyalty.
Readings will include some of the following: Bible, Sophocles, Milton, Rousseau, Melville, Kierkegaard, Conrad, Tolstoy, Kafka, Sartre.
260 — Literary Translation: Theory and Practice
Suzanne Jill Levine
Prerequisite: graduate standing
Wednesday 3:00-5:50PM, Phelps 6320, Enroll: 52936
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.
591 — TA Practicum
Katherine Saltzman-Li
Units earned to not apply toward completion of advanced degrees
TBA, Enroll: 59360
Supervised teaching of lower-division comparative literature courses at UCSB. Participation in occasional workshops related to the field of teaching will be required.
591 — TA Practicum
Jocelyn Holland
Units earned to not apply toward completion of advanced degrees
TBA, Enroll: 59378
Supervised teaching of lower-division comparative literature courses at UCSB. Participation in occasional workshops related to the field of teaching will be required.
596 — Directed Reading and Research
Staff
Minimum of 2 units per quarter. No more than half of units required for M.A. may be taken in 596 series (Graduate Division requirement). Comparative Literature Program requirement: only 4 units of 596 credit may count for credit toward the M.A.
Letter grade only.
TBA, Enroll: 04671
Individual tutorial. A written proposal for each tutorial must be approved by the program chair.
597 — Individual Study for M.A. Comprehensive and Ph.D. Examinations
Staff
No unit credit allowed toward advanced degree.
Enrollment limited to 24 units per examination (12 units maximum in any one examination quarter). S/U grading only.
TBA, Enroll: 04671
For individual study with major professor of chair of director of student’s program.
598 — Master’s Thesis Research and Preparation
Staff
No unit credit allowed toward advanced degree. S/U grading only
TBA, Enroll: 04697
For research and writing of the master’s thesis.
599 — Ph.D. Dissertation Research and Preparation
Staff
S/U grading only.
TBA, Enroll: 04705
For research and writing of the doctoral dissertation. Instructor should be chair of the student’s doctoral committee.