Courses

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Study of a theme or of a significant author or group of authors selected from Hebrew prose or poetry [since the beginning of the 19th century] from the late 1800s up to the creation of the state of Israel. Course may be repeated once for credit when the topic changes.

Study of a theme, or of a significant authors or group of authors writing in Israel since 1948. Course may be repeated once for credit when the topic changes.

Readings in modern Hebrew literature in translation. The authors to be read varyfrom semester to semester, announced in advance. May be repeated for credit provided the content is different.

History of the Indian subcontinent in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The development of colonialism in India, anti-colonial movements, the partition of the subcontinent, the experience of women in colonial and post-colonial South Asia, the interplay between religion and national identity, and modern popular culture.

A study of modern Irish writers in the context of Irish history and culture. Authors will include W.B. Yeats, Lady Augusta Gregory, J.M. Synge, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Edna O’Brien, Eavan Boland, Seamus Heaney, and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.

A multi-genre study of texts, theories, and cultures of the modernist period (approximately 1900-1945). Topics may include literary/aesthetic experiments likesurrealism and abstraction; individuality and anonymity; cosmopolitanism, liberalism, and the rise of fascism; colonialism, imperialism, and mass migration; the World Wars and the experience of trauma; comparative modernities and modernisms; women’s rights movement.

This course will detail, analyze, and observe modern Israeli society, its social organization, development, and various ethnic groups. Included are the North Africans, Eastern and Western Europeans, Arabs, Armenians, and Americans who make up the texture of modern Israeli society.

Readings in English translation of modern Japanese fiction from the late nineteenth century to the present. Through close readings of selected texts by a wide range of authors (as well as by viewing films where appropriate), the course will examine such issues as problems of representation; the language, form, and position of the "novel" modernization/westernization vs. the "tradition" modernity and nationalism; gender, family, and society.

Survey from the wars of independence to the present; special attention to political concepts, foreign imperialism, social and economic problems.