ENGL 563

Fall 2021

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Seminar Themes and Movements
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Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: One year of graduate study of literature or consent of instructor.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
39506
Lecture-Discussion
A
12:30PM -2:50PM
R
36 English Building
Basu, A
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/23/21-12/08/21
Section Title:
Seminar Lit Movements
Section Info:
ENGL 563, Seminar Themes and Movements (Orientalism and the Question of World Literatures) - Anustup Basu - This seminar will revisit the legacy of Edward Said’s magisterial work Orientalism in order to freshly understand contemporary, post-globalization questions about a purported ‘World Republic of Letters’ and that of a global Anglophone. We will begin with Eric Auerbach’s monumental work Mimesis and his seminal essay ‘Philology and World Literature,’ both of which were foundational to Said’s own work. We will read Orientalism after that and then follow that up by exploring, to a certain extent, its complicated discursive and intellectual legacy in the works of Srinivas Aravamudan (Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel), Pascale Casanova (The World Republic of Letters), Aamir Mufti (Forget English! Orientalisms and World Literatures) and extracts from thinkers like Gayatri Spivak, Franco Moretti, and Paul Bove. Apart from looking at the many valences of the ‘Orientalism legacy’ in the present configuration of the neo-liberal empire, these are some of the questions the seminar will focus on: How do we re-conceptualize the secular in our current moment? How do we rethink the literary in the age of New Media? What is the present task of secular criticism and the kind of humanism that Said represented? How do we rethink the global Anglophone in an era in which the epicenter of the English language and literary practice is shifting away from the western world, to South Asia and China? Students will be expected to write one 20-25 page term paper at the end of the semester.
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