1999-2000 Undergraduate Calendar Programs | 1999-2000 Undergraduate Calendar Programs |
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| 1999 - 2000 UNDERGRADUATE CALENDAR | ||
| Carleton University |
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Telephone: 520-5644
Fax: 520-3544
Professor Emeritus
A.T. Tolley, B.A.(Oxford), R. Polzin, B.A.(San Diego), Ph.D. (Harvard)
Glyn Barratt, M.A.(Cantab.), Ph.D.(London), F.R.A.S., F.R.Hist.S. • Jacques Chevalier, B.Ph.(Ottawa), B.A.(Carleton), Ph.D.(Edinburgh) • Jutta Goheen, Dr. Phil.(Potsdam) • F.J. Hernandez, Lic.Fa.Letras(Barcelona), M.A., Ph.D.(Toronto) • Francesco G. Lorrigio, B.A.(British Columbia), M.A., Ph.D.(California at Los Angeles) • Patricia Smart, B.A.(Toronto), M.A.(Laval), Ph.D.(Queen's), F.R.S.C.
Arnd Bohm, B.A., M.A.(Alberta), Ph.D.(Johns Hopkins) • Gurli A. Woods, Forprove (Aarhus), Ph.D.(British Columbia)
J. Bessiere • A. de Toro • P. Imbert •
W. Krysinski • P. Laurette • R. Polzin •
A. Ponzio • B. Rutland • H. Sullivan •
J. L. Urbina
Students currently enrolled in degree programs offered by the Discipline of Comparative Literary Studies are governed by the requirements contained in the 1997-98 Undergraduate Calendar.
| Category for Breadth | Courses in this unit |
| The temporal dimension of human societies, analyzing times before the present era or societies other than our own |
(17.)207*, 208* |
| The artifacts of the imagination in literature and/or other forms, or that addresses the life of the imagination and culture. | All Comparative Literary Courses not listed in any other category |
| The understanding of social, technological and/or natural processes and the ways in which that understanding is obtained in science and social science. | |
| Matters of human values, ethics and social responsibilities |
Not all of the following courses are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for 1999-2000, please consult the Registration Instructions and Class Schedule booklet published in the summer.
Study of major literary traditions in Europe and their interrelations from antiquity to the present. Authors, such as Homer, Sophocles, Vergil, Dante, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Cervantes, Molière, Goethe,
Flaubert, Austen, Dostoevsky, Proust, Joyce, Pirandello, Kafka, Woolf, Calvino. All texts in English. Limited enrolment.
Prerequisite: Normally restricted to students entering the First year of a B.A. program.
Seminar three hours a week
Study of major literary traditions in Europe and their interrelations from antiquity to the present. Authors, such as Homer, Sophocles, Vergil, Dante, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Cervantes, Molière, Goethe, Flaubert, Austen, Dostoevsky, Proust, Joyce, Pirandello, Kafka, Woolf, Calvino. All texts in English.
Lectures and seminar three hours a week.
Through the analysis of representative texts from the 19th and 20th centuries, the course will examine issues pertaining to the interrelation between the literatures of North and South America. All texts in English. Topics may vary from year to year.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or permission of the Discipline.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.
Issues arising from the literatures of the Asian continent. Topics may vary from year to year. Texts will be read in English, which is also the language of instruction. Topic for 1999-2000 to be announced.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or permission of the Discipline.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week
Issues arising from the literatures of the African continent and the Middle East. Topics may vary from year to year. All texts will be read in English, which is also the language of instruction. Topic for 1999-2000 to be announced.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or permission of the Discipline.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week
The comparative study of a specific theme or genre through texts drawn from several historic periods. Topics may vary from year to year. Topic for 1999-2000 to be announced.Prerequisite: Second-year standing or permission of the Discipline.
Seminar two hours a week, tutorials one hour a week.
Comparative Study of primary and secondary sources which define international literary movements such as Renaissance, Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, and Post-modernism. Topics may vary from year to year. Topic for 1999-2000: Postmodernism: Comparative Perspectives.
Precludes additional credit for Comparative Literary Studies 17.200.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or permission of the Discipline.
Seminar three hours a week.
Study of autobiographical writing, novels, short stories, and poetry by women writing in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s in a variety of cultural settings. Cross-cultural point of view informed by poststructuralist feminist criticism. All texts available in English translation.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or permission of the Discipline.
Seminar three hours a week.
The history of the discipline of comparative literature is studied, including its beginning in nineteenth-century France, its evolution, and its current status in Europe, the United States and Canada.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Discipline.
Seminar three hours a week.
Twentieth-century literary theories in the context of comparative studies. Over-all view of the theoretical discussion of literature from 1920 to the present: Russian Formalism; American New Criticism; structuralist, semiotic, socio-cultural and hermeneutic approaches.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Discipline.
Note: Students enrolling in this course under the cross-listed number Spanish 38.402* should note the requirements of Spanish.
Seminar three hours a week.