CWL 395

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Special Topics Comp Lit I

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Credit: 3 hours.

Presentation and discussion of subjects relating literature to other disciplines; topic varies.

May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours.

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CWL 395 class schedule data for spring 2010
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	52707	Lecture-Discussion	NB1	3:00PM -4:20PM	MW	G36 Foreign Languages Building	Blake, N	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/10-05/05/10 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: TOPIC: EROTICISM EAST AND WEST. This class for all undergraduates. The focus of this seminar is on the cross-cultural uses of eroticism by societies from feudal Europe with the Tristan and Isolde legend which gives enduring form to the love and death duet in the Western canon, on the one hand, to the Tale of Genji from Heian Japan, on the other, the origin of the figure of an Asian Casanova, the model for countless avatars. We will also examine the Hindu Kalinka Purana for mythological forms taken by the erotic before turning to more contemporary renditions of the themes in narrative, opera, film, plastic arts, and song. ? According to Freud, love is a �short psychosis,� while philosopher Georges Bataille defines eroticism as �assenting to life up to the point of death� and intellectual historian Michel Foucault finds that the power structures in societies do not so much repress sexuality as they make use of the energy generated by its seemingly transgressive nature in order to better control all of us.
	50461	Lecture-Discussion	NB2	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	212 1205 W Oregon	Blake, N	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/10-05/05/10 Degree Notes: Camp Honors/Chanc Schol course. Credit: 3 hours Section Info: TOPIC: EROTICISM EAST AND WEST. This class for undergraduate students in the Campus Honors Program. The focus of this seminar is on the cross-cultural uses of eroticism by societies from feudal Europe with the Tristan and Isolde legend which gives enduring form to the love and death duet in the Western canon, on the one hand, to the Tale of Genji from Heian Japan, on the other, the origin of the figure of an Asian Casanova, the model for countless avatars. We will also examine the Hindu Kalinka Purana for mythological forms taken by the erotic before turning to more contemporary renditions of the themes in narrative, opera, film, plastic arts, and song. ? According to Freud, love is a �short psychosis,� while philosopher Georges Bataille defines eroticism as �assenting to life up to the point of death� and intellectual historian Michel Foucault finds that the power structures in societies do not so much repress sexuality as they make use of the energy generated by its seemingly transgressive nature in order to better control all of us.