| Mind and Body in 20th-Century French Fiction | How fiction articulates the tensions among the sensuous, the sensual, the embodied, and the aspiration to purity, abstraction, and transcendence. Focus is on questioning dichotomies such as nature/culture, masculine/feminine, sacred/profane, and written word/voice. Authors include Gide, Camus, Butor, Duras, and Tournier. | Spr |
| Theater of the Absurd | The theater of the absurd as an evolving commentary on modern alienation and attempt to make a humorous yet philosophical peace with it through the concreteness of performance. Authors include Jarry, Marinetti, Pirandello, Salacrou, Cocteau, Camus, and Sartre. | Win |
| Modern Italian Poetry | An exploration of the main themes and movements in 20th-century Italian poetry, including avant-garde experimentation, war poetry, existential and religious quests, political activism, and feminism. Poets such as Govoni, Palazzeschi, Ungaretti, Montale, Sereni, Rosselli, Pasolini, Merini, Zanzotto. In Italian.
| Aut |
| French and Italian Women Writers | How does women's writing evolve from the very early twentieth-century, when women's liberation movements first began, and World War One brought major social changes, all the way to the big flowering of "feminine writing" in the 1970s and beyond? What is the relationship
between women writers, women filmmakers, and feminism? Is it legitimate to consider women writers in a separate category? To what extent does a reevaluation of women writers mean reconsidering modern literary history? Authors/filmmakers include Aleramo, Yourcenar, de
Beauvoir, Banti, Duras, Cavani.
| Aut |
| French and Italian Women Writers | How does women's writing evolve from the very early twentieth-century, when women's liberation movements first began, and World War One brought major social changes, all the way to the big flowering of "feminine writing" in the 1970s and beyond? What is the relationship
between women writers, women filmmakers, and feminism? Is it legitimate to consider women writers in a separate category? To what extent does a reevaluation of women writers mean reconsidering modern literary history? Authors/filmmakers include Aleramo, Yourcenar, de
Beauvoir, Banti, Duras, Cavani.
| Aut |
| Women Mystics from the Middle Ages to the Present | This course explores the predominantly female mystical experience or direct embodied encounter with a spiritual reality that is difficult, perhaps impossible, to reduce to words, or to explain rationally. Through a variety of European texts from the Middle Ages to the
present, by women and men, we will explore attempts to convey the experience metaphorically, to interpret it theologically and philosophically, and finally, to transmit it actively to others.
| Win |
| Women Mystics from the Middle Ages to the Present | This course explores the predominantly female mystical experience or direct embodied encounter with a spiritual reality that is difficult, perhaps impossible, to reduce to words, or to explain rationally. Through a variety of European texts from the Middle Ages to the
present, by women and men, we will explore attempts to convey the experience metaphorically, to interpret it theologically and philosophically, and finally, to transmit it actively to others.
| Win |
