UCLA
The Department of Comparative Literature
A modern play upon Dante, “Devil May Cry” (2015). Faculty Dante expert: Massimo Ciavolella.
Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1D or 2DW. Study and discussion of major literary texts usually overlooked in courses that focus only on canon of Western literature, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts may include the following areas: African, Caribbean, East Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern literature. Texts may include works by authors such as Achebe, Can Xue, Desai, Emecheta, Kincaid, Neruda, Ngugi, Pak, Rushdie, and El Saadawi. Analysis of texts includes focus on structures, processes, and practices that generate inter-group inequities or conflicts as well as those that support fairness and inclusiveness. Consult Schedule of Classes for topics to be offered in specific term. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Study of world literature, with emphasis on Western civilization as it grapples with its past and with other civilizations. Examination of works such as Dante's Divine Comedy, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Shakespeare's King Lear, and Sor Juana's Mexican poetry. P/NP or letter grading.
Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1D or 4DW. Study of major literary texts usually overlooked in courses that focus only on canon of Western literature, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts from at least three of following areas read in any given term: African, Caribbean, East Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern literature. Analysis of texts includes focus on structures, processes, and practices that generate inter-group inequities or conflicts as well as those that support fairness and inclusiveness. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Lecture, four hours. Preparation: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing and College Writing requirements. Requisites: two courses from Comparative Literature 1 or 2 series or English 10 series or Spanish 60 series, etc. Seminar-style introduction to discipline of comparative literature presented through series of texts illustrative of its formation and practice. Letter grading.
Seminar, three hours. Engagement with current debates and key theoretical texts about film adaptation. Exploration of art of film adaptation in broad sense, including transformation of short stories, plays, novels, historical accounts, biographies, paintings, musical compositions, or philosophical concepts into multilayered medium of cinema. Adaptations addressed include selection of films from range of cultural and linguistic traditions by directors such as Kiarostami, Varda, Kurosawa, Babenco, Rossellini, Hitchcock, Antonioni, Kieslowski, and Taymor. Specific directors, films, and cinematic traditions vary year to year. P/NP or letter grading.
Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper-division literature majors. 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 C263. Undergraduate students may read all works in translation. P/NP or letter grading.
(Same as Japanese M156.) Lecture, three hours. Knowledge of Japanese not required. Examination of representation of technology in 20th-century fiction. Discussion of impact of technology on shifting images of gender, subjectivity, and national identity. P/NP or letter grading.
Students read some classic texts in postcolonial theory, indigenous decolonial theory, and settler colonial theory. Aim is to understand and analyze two different kinds of colonial conditions across globe--classic colonialism and settler colonialism--and theorizations of both. Study also foregrounds indigenous knowledge, resistance, and survivance. Readings include work by indigenous thinkers in Australia, New Zealand, and U.S. Selections include The Post-Colonial Studies Reader and Veracini's Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview.
What if time were seen as malleable? Examination of how different ethnic and racial groups across the Americas manipulate experiences of time through music, visual art, and storytelling to reclaim their worlds. Understanding of time has been used to control populations of Abiayala (the Americas) since beginning of colonial period. But through different cultural understanding of time, experimental bookmaking, and other modes of creative expression, time can be experienced anew. Attention paid to how different storytelling and art formats alter one's experience of present. Study also identifies how different ways of arranging events, visuals, and words reconfigure relationship between past, present, and future. Includes fictional and theoretical works by Kency Cornejo (Salvadoran American), Dylan W. Robinson (Xwélmexw First Nation), and Manuel Gabriel Tzoc Bucup (Guatemalan K'iche'), among others.
Seminar, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Study and discussion of limited periods and specialized issues and approaches in literary theory, especially in relation to other modes of discourse such as history, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, anthropology. Development of culminating project required. Consult Schedule of Classes for topics to be offered in specific term. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.