Readings will represent foreign travelers to Latin America as well as Latin Americans abroad. Storytelling is a fundamental process in all human communities, fulfilling a variety of social, psychological and aesthetic needs. The course also surveys approaches to the study of narrative in folkloristics and related fields, and students learn to identify and work with some of the major theoretical approaches brought to the cultural study of narrative. Storytelling is a fundamental process in all human communities, fulfilling a variety of social, psychological and aesthetic needs. The course also surveys approaches to the study of narrative in folkloristics and related fields, and students learn to identify and work with some of the major theoretical approaches brought to the cultural study of narrative.
All readings are in translation.
No background in Hebrew is required. 300.401 Modern Italy has added to the traditional belle arti of painting, sculpture and architecture new fields like fashion, industrial design and film. Yet this same country has been involved in the last hundred years in two terrible world wars, a brutal fascist dictatorship, violence both political and criminal and a flood of emigration. In this course we will review that history, its triumphs and disasters by combining film and written texts. Both media are equally important and ought to enrich each other.