A study of representative masterpieces of Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, German and Slavic literatures. Assigned reading, lectures, discussion, essay writing.
Designed to give students an appreciation for both the common and contrasting elements in style, sensibility and manner of viewing the world of great Germanic, Slavic and Hispanic writers through the study of some of their important representative literary works.
Selections from French, Germanic, Hispanic and Slavic literatures. All class lectures and readings in English. Authors studied may include Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Anouilh, Sartre, Brecht, Kafka, and Sembene Ousmane. Students majoring in Comparative Literature will have a one-hour tutorial each week to read and discuss in the original language the literary selections pertinent to their language specialization.
Selections from French, Germanic, Hispanic and Slavic Literatures. All class lectures and readings in English. Selections may include works of Voltaire, Conrad, Nabokov, Gogol, Shevchenko, Paul Celan, Thomas Mann, Brecht, Martí, Rubén Darío, Neruda, García Márquez. Students majoring in Comparative Literature will have a one-hour tutorial each week to read and discuss in the original language the literary selections pertinent to their language specialization.
Literary selections from French, Germanic, Hispanic and Slavic Literatures. All class lectures and readings in English. Selections may include Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, García Márquez's Erendira, Mérimée's Carmen, Christa Wolf's Cassandra, Kant's and Nietsche's commentaries about women. Students majoring in Comparative Literature will have a one-hour tutorial each week to read and discuss in the original language the literary selections pertinent to their language specialization.
The development of the Faust and Mephisto figures from the Renaissance to the twentieth century in literature and other media such as opera, ballet, and film. French, Germanic, Hispanic and Slavic works will be included. All class lectures and readings will be in English. Students majoring in Comparative Literature will have a one-hour tutorial each week to read and discuss in the original language the literary selections pertinent to their language specialization.
Intended for advanced students of literature. European and American novels, representing traditional types, are read in English, with attention to conventional structures and the theory of genre.
A reading course on a specialized topic combining the literatures of the student's two languages. This course will also provide an initiation into research methods leading to an honours thesis.
Special Topics
These courses are offered occasionally by visiting
faculty and in other special situations. Students interested in these courses should contact the department for more information.