UCLA
The Department of Comparative Literature
From the recent Andalusian play, “Clytemnestra. Una mujer.” Faculty expert, Kathleen L. Komar. Banner image: John Locke. Faculty expert, Kirstie McClure.
Seminar, three hours. Requisite: course 200A. Study of methodology of comparative literature, with emphasis on its history. S/U or letter grading.
Seminar, three hours. Preparation: reading knowledge of one appropriate foreign language. Study of modern European and American works that are concerned both in subject matter and artistic methods with growing self-consciousness of human beings and their society, with focus on works of Kafka, Rilke, Woolf, Sartre, and Stevens. May be concurrently scheduled with course C163. Graduate students required to prepare papers based on texts read in original languages and to meet as group one additional hour each week. S/U or letter grading.
(Same as Gender Studies CM270.) Seminar, four hours. Designed for graduate students. Investigation of narrative texts by contemporary French, German, English, American, Spanish American, African, and Asian women writers from cross-cultural perspective. Common themes, problems, and techniques. Concurrently scheduled with course CM170. S/U or letter grading.
Is it surprising that literary and philosophical tradition--that tends to shun self, subject, author, and truth--is nonetheless replete with works that engage both frontally and cryptically with autobiographical? Exploration of this tension in 20th-century French and Francophone tradition. Consideration of varied forms and genres this autobiographical expression takes; as well as implied relation between philosophy, literature, and confession. Thinkers considered may include Althusser, Blanchot, de Beauvoir, Cixous, Deleuze, Derrida, Des Forêts, Duras, Fanon, Foucault, Klossowski, Lejeune, Memmi, and Mudimbe.