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305-306. History and Theory of Drama I, II (=Eng 138-139, GS Hum 248-249). This course covers Aeschylus to Ayckbourne and Sophocles to Sade. D. Bevington, D. N. Rudall. Autumn, Winter.

321. The Detective and the Judge: Crime Fiction in English and Chinese (=EALC 225, Eng 222, Hum 213). The aim of this course is to juxtapose two genes from different traditions (Western detective fiction and Chinese court case fiction) and explore the issues that arise from reading them together. The point is not to try to conflate the two or subsume them in one, larger or universal genre but to help students come to a better understanding of each through attention to the questions raised between them. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his contemporaries, writing between 1890 and 1914, furnish most of our readings in English. One anonymous collection, the Bao Longtu Pan Baijia Gongan (Bao Longtu Adjudicates 100 Court Cases) and a few other collections from the late Ming (ca. 1590-1640 C.E.) furnish most of the Chinese stories. J. St. André. Winter.

341. Postwar Cinema and History: "History Written in Lightning" (=CMS 225, GS Hum 228/328, German 232/332). From its beginning, the cinema has been preoccupied with historical subjects to restage the past. This course focuses on a body of postwar films (including works by Rossellini, Straub and Huillet, Pasolini, Watkins, Jansco, Syberberg, Schroeter, Pontecorvo, Kluge, Resnais, Wajda, Szabo, Solanis and Gettino, Ray, Sanders-Brahms, Angeloupolos, and Rouan) that use materialist, documentarist, structuralist, annalistic, mythopoetic, and psychoanalytic models to think about historical events and experience. Authors read include Lévi-Strauss, Braudel, LeRoy Ladurie, Auerbach, Sartre, Fanon, Momigliano, Foucault, Ferro, and Koselleck. K. Trumpener. Spring.

372. History of Literary Theory: The Modern Background (=DivRL 373). PQ: Consent of instructor. Readings and class discussions cover materials from Kant to contemporary theorists. A. C. Yu. Winter.

387. Narrators and Focalizers in Homer, Vergil, Tolstoy, and Flaubert (=ClCiv 241, Class 341). This course studies representative passages in these four writers using Genette's system, with a view to testing the system's adequacy and to establishing an author's strategies. W. R. Johnson. Spring.

418. Seminar: Chinese Literary Thought (=Chin 521). PQ: At least two years of classical Chinese and consent of instructor. This course makes use of Stephen Owen's Readings of Chinese Literary Thought, supplemented by selected chapters of the Wenxin diaolong. A. C. Yu. Autumn.

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