CWL 581

Spring 2020 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 21-May 6

Seminar Lit Themes

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Credit: 4 hours.

Study of a theme or type (the Faust myth, the romantic hero, etc.) to discover its essential components in all the literatures studied and the significance of national variations. The subject of the seminar varies each term.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours if topics vary.

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CWL 581 class schedule data for spring 2020
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	63444	Lecture-Discussion	RR	2:00PM -4:50PM	R	3024 Foreign Languages Building	Rushing, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Section Title: Semina Lit Themes Section Info: The Echo-Logical and Politics In this seminar, we’ll attempt to put together a number of different ways of thinking about sound, from the biopolitical (sound as what binds and disrupts the community) to the phenomenological (sound as a “vibrational practice” that unites the subject with the surrounding space) to environmental humanities (sound as a marker of the health of environment — as well as what disrupts it), all trying to understanding sound as one of the principal ways we understand our environment — also as a political space. Readings include Esposito, Agamben, Waltham-Smith, Eidsheim, Cavarero, Merleau-Ponty, Sterne, Lacoue-Labarthe, Calvino, Proust, and more; equally importantly, we will listen to a wide variety of speech, music (particularly Chris Cerrone’s award-winning opera of Invisible Cities) and noise, including films that fetishize the sounds of surveillance (Écoute le temps, The Conversation, In ascolto, Blow Out, Contact...).