Three topics are offered 2010/2011. Students may take one, two, or three for credit. Topics for Fall 2010: Section A1: Queer Theory and the Literary. Major texts of queer theory read alongside literary texts from various traditions. Discussion of how sexuality is expressed, shaped, and imagined in literature. Authors include Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, Eileen Chang, Roland Barthes, and Matsuura Rieko. Section B1: Greek Tragedy and Film. Explores Greek tragic myth's afterlife, both directly and obliquely, in cinema and in modern literature spawning cinema: how certain Greek tragic myths have come to life as film and how "non-mythic" stories have acquired a mythic power in literary and cinematic form. Topic for Spring 2011: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. This sixteenth century romanticized novel tells the story of the separation of the Han Dynasty into three kingdom and draws on history, legend, poetry, and drama, with unforgettable scenes of love, loyalty, bravery, and heroism. Also offered as CAS LC 470 and CAS RN 526.