Courses

• CAS XL 382: Topics in Gender and Film (in English translation)
  Topic for Fall 2013: Gender and Sexuality in Middle Eastern Film. A study of Middle Eastern representations of the controversies, trade-offs, and dilemmas surrounding the impact of globalization on men and women, through Egyptian, Iranian and Turkish film and literature. Also offered as CAS WS 305 C1.
• CAS XL 383: Dante's Hell (in English translation)
  A close reading of one text, Dante Alighieri's Inferno, with attention to its medieval contexts: philosophical, theological, and historical. Analysis of the poetic means by which Dante represents both human evil and human hope. Bilingual text. Lectures and discussions in English. Also offered as CAS LI 555 and CAS RN 555.
• CAS XL 384: Arthurian Lit
  
• CAS XL 401: Sr Indep Work
  
• CAS XL 402: Sr Indep Work
  
• CAS XL 441: 1001 Nights in the World Literary Imagination
  What is The Thousand and One Nights? How has this ever-expanding collection appealed to its diverse audiences? Focus on Nights structure and themes, notable translations and offshoots in western literature and art, and later appropriations by Arab and Muslim writers. Also offered as CAS EN 590 and CAS LY 441.
• CAS XL 459: Primo Levi Within Holocaust Literature
  A study of Primo Levi's writings and scientific, literary, theological, and philosophical approaches to the Holocaust. Other theorists (Arendt, Wiesel, and Muller-Hill) and other survivors' testimonies (Delbo, Borowski, Fink) are read in conjunction with Levi's works. Also offered as CAS LI 459 and RN 459.
• CAS XL 470: Topics in Comparative Literature
  Three topics are offered Fall 2013. Students may take one, two, or three for credit. Section A1: Music and Poetry. An historical survey of the relations between the two arts from the Greeks to the present. Discussions of poetry in many languages; emphasis on English. Chant, song, madrigal, opera, and other forms. Ability to read music is required. Also offered as CAS EN 493 A1 and CFA MU 594. Section B1: Studies in Literature and Gender: Early Modern Women Authors. A survey of European women writers from the 1400s to the early 1600s, and of the modern critical thinking that has redefined their literary- historical importance. Christine de Pizan, Theresa of Avila, Marguerite de Navarre, Gaspara Stampa, Elizabeth I, and others. Also offered as CAS EN 475. Section C1: Jorge Luis Borges. (The prerequisites for C1 are CAS LS 350 and two 400-level literature courses; or consent of instructor.) Hoaxes, plagiarism, rumors, gossip turned into fact, characters and plots emerging from sources as diverse as Cervantes, Poe, Kafka, Emerson, and Macedonio are some of the elements of this kaleidoscopic consideration of the poetry and prose of Jorge Luis Borges. Also offered as CAS LS 554 A1.
• CAS XL 491: Ds Comp Lit
  
• CAS XL 492: Ds Comp Lit
  
• CAS XL 520: Theory of the Novel
  Introduction to the theory of the novel in a comparative context. Readings may include Watt, Lukács, Bakhtin, Barthes and others on topics such as narrative voice, narrative closure, characterization, description, and desire in narrative. Novels by Austen, Flaubert, and Melville.
• CAS XL 540: Theory and Practice of Literary Translation
  Weekly series of presentations by translators from Boston and elsewhere, open to registered students and to the public. Registered students complete special projects and attend workshops.
• CAS XL 560: Topics in Religion and Literature
  Topic for Fall 2013: Autobiography of Minority Experiences. Autobiographical works from multiple religious and ethnic traditions that describe self-fashioning in the face of parental disapproval, immigration, diaspora, persecution, and other displacements. Authors include Antin, Singer, Joyce, Wiesel, Spiegelman, Duras, Weil, Satrapi, Kashua, Oz. Also offered as CAS RN 524.

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