CMLT-C 301 SPECIAL TOPICS IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (3 CR.)
Special topics concerning two or more literary traditions or literature and other areas in the humanities.
1 classes found
Spring 2024
Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
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LEC | 3 | 30931 | Open | 1:15 p.m.–2:30 p.m. | MW | BH 231 | Emery J |
Regular Academic Session / In Person
LEC 30931: Total Seats: 5 / Available: 3 / Waitlisted: 0
Lecture (LEC)
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq
- Above class meets with CMLT-C 603, SLAV-R 328, and SLAV-S 540
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
Topic: Nabokov
This course introduces Vladimir Nabokov¿s work in both Russian and English. The focus is on his fiction, including Lolita, but we will also consider him as a poet, playwright, critic, translator, and constructor of crossword puzzles. In analyzing Nabokov¿s major works, we will explore the themes that make Nabokov a central figure of twentieth century literature: the poetics of exile and nostalgia; translation and transnational culture; literary trickery and deceit; paranoia as a tactic of reading; the relationship between the aesthetic and the sadistic; artifice and the imagination; and art as an image of a higher reality. All readings are available in English.