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inquiry as to the novels ability, as a literary genre, to accommodate realism. Students will read Stendhals Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme; Balzacs Le P re Goriot and La Cousine Bette; Flauberts Madame Bovary and LEducation sentimentale. Norman Araujo RL 799 Readings and Research (Fall/Spring: 3) The Department RL 807 Tasso and His World (Fall: 3) Conducted in Italian. Undergraduates may enroll with permission of the instructor. The course explores Tassos Gerusalemme liberata in the context of late sixteenth-century Italian society, a period when the Church sought to extend its moral authority. Turks threatened invasion, Protestantism was severing nations from the Churchs body, and the known world was expanding rapidly. Tasso portrays Christian soldiers gradually becoming aware of their egocentric lust for sex and glory, then repenting to find their way back to a society governed by obedience and Truth. Readings will include Tassos writings on aesthetics, excerpts from his Gerusalemme conquistata, and works on politics, religion, and exploration. Laurie Shepard RL 820 Svevo and Joyce (Fall: 3) Conducted in Italian. Offered Periodically Il rapporto reciproco (di selezione ed esclusione o di accoglienza e rispetto) tra le culture nazionali, la loro specificit , lidentit e dallaltra il carattere mondiale della letteratura, assumono oggi una valenza particolare allinterno delle discussioni sullidentit e unitariet della cultura europea. La situazione culturale-letteraria di Treste dei tempi di Svevo e di Joyce, citt multietnica e multiculturale, offre un eloquente esempio di tale tematica. Il seminario si propone di discuterla in base alle opere di Svevo e in particolare al suo rapporto con Joyce. Lapparato storico e critico sar fornito da scritti scelti (E. Montale, C, Magris, e al.) Rena Lamparska RL 836 Foscolo and Leopardi (Spring: 3) Conducted in Italian. Offered Periodically The literary trends of Foscolos and Leopardis epoch. Their place in the European discussion on Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Their works and their poetics. Rena Lamparska RL 859 Plague in Italy (Fall: 3) Conducted in Italian. Offered Periodically An interdisciplinary exploration of Italian literature and culture from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries from the unique perspective of the bubonic plague, that universal calamity that struck the peninsula with disastrous frequency from the late medieval to early modern periods. Analysis of the literary texts will be accompanied by a reading of scientific and ecclesiastical treatises, historical chronicles, diaries and other primary sources, together with the documentation offered by the visual arts, especially painting. Our goal is to arrive at a global understanding of the social-medical-literary-religious phenomenon of the plague and changing Italian response to it. Franco Mormando RL 880 Ph.D. Thesis Seminar (Fall/Spring: 1) For Ph.D. students only This bimonthly seminar provides Ph.D. students with a forum in which to discuss their works in progress and further develop the variety of skills necessary for conducting effective academic research and bringing to successful completion the writing of their dissertation. Senior Faculty of the Department RL 888 Interim Study (Fall/Spring: 0) Required for masters candidates who have completed all course requirements but have not taken comprehensive examinations. Also for masters students (only) who have taken up to six credits of Thesis Seminar but have not yet finished writing their thesis. Harry L. Rosser RL 899 The Art and Craft of Literary Translation (Spring: 3) Prerequisite: Knowledge of a Classical, Germanic, Romance or Slavic language beyond the intermediate level. Conducted entirely in English as a workshop. Instructors permission required for undergraduates and for other languages. Cross Listed with SL 427, EN 675 Offered Periodically Permission of instructor required for undergraduates in the cases of Hebrew, Yiddish and other languages. Literary translation as an art. Discussion of the history and theory of literary translation in the West and in Russia, but mainly practice in translating poetry or artistic prose from Germanic, Romance, Slavic, or Classical Languages, into English. Maxim D. Shrayer RL 901 Advanced Textual Analysis in Spanish (Fall: 3) Conducted in Spanish. Required of all beginning graduate students in Hispanic Studies. An intensive writing workshop designed to improve students skills in textual analysis, this course includes the practice of various types of professional writing: summaries, critical analyses, book reviews, as well as oral presentations. Students confront a sophisticated range of critical terms from the fields of linguistics and critical theory, and practice using those terms. Class members engage in peer review, summarize critical readings, and conduct advanced bibliographic research. Sarah Beckjord RL 913 Medieval Spanish Literature (Fall: 3) Conducted in Spanish. Chronologically broad, politically chaotic, and religiously charged, the Spanish Middle Ages is also a literary cornucopia, abounding in epic poetry, oriental folktales, gaming treatises, ballads, erotic poetry, and novelistic stirrings. While gaining an overview of the entire literary spectrum, students will pay particular attention to the Poema de mio Cid, Libro de buen amor, and Celestina. The works social, artistic, and historical context will be considered in detail. Dwayne E. Carpenter RL 914 Heroic Paradigms of Early Modern Spain (Spring: 3) Conducted in Spanish. Offered Periodically This seminar examines prescriptive codes of heroism along the axis of gender and class, and as well as the relationship between those codes and historical events during the periods of the Renaissance, Transition ARTS AND SCIENCES The Boston College Catalog 2006-2007 235

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