Courses

• 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 390 A1 and CAS LY 441 A1.
• 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 Müller-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
  Topic for Fall 2016: Self and Other Through Middle Eastern Texts. The construction of identity in Middle Eastern literature and film, with references also to works from Europe and America. Topics include autobiography, gender, travel, cultural encounters, identity politics.
• CAS XL 491: Directed Study: Comparative Literature
  Application form available in department.
• CAS XL 492: Directed Study: Comparative Literature
  Application form available in department.
• 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
  Three topics are offered 2014/2015. Students may register for one, two, or three for credit. Topic for Fall 2014: Apocalypse and Literature. Literary responses to the biblical book of Revelation, from ancient to modern times. Systematic analysis of the biblical text. Readings from Dante, Langland, Rabelais, Blake, Hölderlin, Dostoevsky, García Lorca, Samuel Beckett, and Flannery O'Connor. Reference to artistic and musical representations of apocalypse. Also offered as CAS RN 524 A1. Topics for Spring 2015. Section A1: Russian Literature and Spirituality (in English translation). Explores literary experimentation with concepts of Eastern Christianity (e.g., spirit, soul, heaven, hell, crucifixion, resurrection, kenosis, sin, immortality) in the increasingly anti-religious environment of late imperial and Soviet Russia. Authors include Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Platonov, Tarkovsky. Readings from philosophy/theory. Also offered as CAS LR 383 A1 and as CAS RN 524 A1. Section B1. The Unique Individual in Literature (narrative fiction) and in Religious Thought. Readings from the fiction of Goethe, Melville, Dostoevsky, Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, poetry and short stories of Poe. Comparison between the discursive (religious thought) and non-discursive forms (literature) for apprehending and expressing the mystery, paradox, and fragility of human life. Also offered as CAS RN 524 B1.

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