Courses

A study of the major writers of the period, with emphasis on the poetry of Palamas, Cavafy, and Sikelianos and regionalist prose writers such as Papadiamantis and Karkavitsas. Discussion of European literary movements such as Realism, Naturalism, and Symbolism and their manifestations in Greece.

A study of the principal modern writers with selected readings from among the following: Seferis, Elytis, Ritsos, Kazantzakis, Venezis and the "generation of the '30s," and contemporary novelists. Discussion of the European and Greek settings that gave rise to Symbolism, Modernism, Surrealism, and ideological literature.

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The painting, sculpture, and architecture of western Europe from 1300 to 1750 including major figures and cultural ideals of the early modern period, from Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Bernini, Caravaggio, and Rembrandt.

The development of Russian literature from the beginnings to the end of the eighteenth century.

The development of Russian literature from Pushkin to the 1890s.

The development of Russian literature from the end of the tsarist monarchy through socialist realism and perestroika to the present day.

Reading and analysis of representative works, presented within the context of social, political, and intellectual history, form the pre-Columbian period through late nineteenth-century modernismo.

Reading and analysis of representative works, presented within the context of social, political and intellectual history, from the early twentieth-century vanguardia movement through contemporary Spanish American fiction, poetry, and drama.

(Formerly SPAN 205) Reading and analysis of representative works from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century; special emphasis on literary values and history. Required for majors and other students planning to take elective courses in the department.