Gilles Pontecorvo, Kapo Since the course will be conducted as a seminar, a great deal of emphasis will be placed on active class participation. Attendance at the Tuesday screenings is required. An examination of the varieties of Jewish thought current from ca. 300BCE to ca. 617.401 A critical examination of recent history and theory in cultural and social anthropology.
Emphasis is on major schools and trends in America, Britain, and France.
An introduction to French literature by close reading of key representative works from hagiography, chanson de geste, romance, and lyric. The course will consider the creation and the functioning of these new generic forms in the French vernacular. Particular attention will be given to questions of authority, truth, and language. Reading Modernity T 3-5 Trommler Crosslisted with GRMN 672.401 Modern writers and artists have included the audience in the process of aesthetic production more intensively than earlier generations. This course attempts a rethinking of modernity since the late 19th century as a 'production' through a re-evaluation of theories of reading and reception.