Firstbridge courses are offered to degree seeking freshmen and registration is done via webform in pre-arrival checklist.
Term:
Fall 2021
Discipline:
CL (Comparative Literature)
Credits:
4 credits
Type:
CCI
Level:
Undergraduate
Can be taken twice for credit?:
No
Exam Date:
Monday, December 20, 2021 - 12:30
Pre-requisites:
None
Co-requisites:
None
Professor(s)
Notes
Seeing a literary text as a “system” with its own “rules” is one of the major developments in contemporary literary criticism. But do literary architectures have their limits? What happens when we push these conventions to the extreme? We will investigate the supernatural in Russian fairy tales, mind-bending paradoxes in Zen poetry and science fiction, cubist juxtapositions in French literature as well as Alice in Wonderland, where mathematical logic and madness run wild.
Learning Outcomes
- Develop a formalist literary approach to texts based on an understanding of genre and rhetorical devices
- Situate a work of literature within its socio-historical context and literary traditions
- Present a literary analysis in oral and written forms
- Address issues of knowledge and truth as questions of representation that can be thought through from multiple perspectives
- Aesthetic Inquiry and Creative Expression: Students will engage with artistic or creative objects (e.g., visual art, theatrical works, film) in different media and from a range of cultural traditions (CCI LO2)
- Exploring and Engaging Difference: Students will think critically about cultural and social difference; they will identify and understand power structures that determine hierarchies and inequalities that can relate to race, ethnicity, gender, nationhood, religion, or class (CCI LO3)
- Information Literacy: Students will comprehend how information is produced and valued in order to discover, evaluate, use, and create information and knowledge effectively and ethically. In FirstBridge, students will demonstrate the conversational nature of scholarship, and recognize their potential role and responsibilities as contributors to that conversation. For each discipline taught in FirstBridge, students will identify reference works, journals, databases and/or major works in history, in order to start effective research in the field.
- Life at University: Students will acquire the study skills, time management, and interpersonal skills needed to meet the demands of university-level academic work at a Liberal Arts College individually or as a team. Students will value the multiple meanings of place through experiential learning at AUP and beyond in the Parisian or global context.
Syllabus
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Book List
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN Number |
|---|---|---|---|
4. Life: A User's Manual | PEREC, Georges | Vintage | 9780099449256 |
1. Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Though the Looking Glass | CARROLL, Lewis | Penguin | 9780141439761 |
2. Russian Fairy Tales | AFANAS’EV, Aleskandr | Pantheon | 9780394730905 |
3. Zen Poems of China and Japan | STRYK, Lucien and Takashi IKEMOTO | Grove Press | 9780802130198 |
Schedule
Start Date:
Monday, September 6, 2021
End Date:
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 12:10 | 13:30 | Q-704 |
Thursday | 12:10 | 13:30 | Q-704 |