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2026-2027 Catalog > Course Descriptions > CSLC - Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture

CSLC - Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture

CSLC 106 You Must Change Your Life: Rilke, Brecht, German Modernism
CSLC 107 Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
CSLC 108 Art, Nature, Self: German Romanticism
CSLC 109 From Kafka to Twitter: Small Forms of the Literary
CSLC 112 The Sickness unto Death: Selfhood and Despair in Literature and Philosophy
CSLC 113 Grim Tales: The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
CSLC 114 Goethe and the Art of Living
CSLC 115 Kleist, Kafka, and the Poetics of Madness
CSLC 116 Heidegger and the Ecstasy of Being
CSLC 118 What Was the Enlightenment?
CSLC 120 Metamorphic Bodies: Fluid Forms from Ovid to Kafka
CSLC 122 Rage, Rave, and Revolution: German Literature and Philosophy Post-45
CSLC 130 Truth, Trust, and Propaganda: Postmodern Theory and the Practice of Dissent
CSLC 131 Slavic Pagan Culture and its Legacy
CSLC 132 Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy
CSLC 133 Eastern European Myth and Folklore
CSLC 134 Exploding Tongues: Language Art & Russian Avangard
CSLC 135 Tolstoy's "War and Peace"
CSLC 136 The Russian Novel: Idiots, Atheists, and Nihilists
CSLC 138 Russian Literature: Dreamers, Realists, and The In-Between
CSLC 139 The Demonic in Eastern European Literature and Film
CSLC 140 Sex in the Satyricon: Romance in the Ancient Novel
CSLC 142 Prostitutes, Prophets, Soldiers, and Slaves: Non-elite Culture in Ancient Rome
CSLC 145 Meaning in a Material World: Lucretius On the Nature of Things
CSLC 146 Libertas or Licentia? Free Speech and Literature from Antiquity to Now
CSLC 147 From Emperor to Antichrist: Rome in the Age of Nero
CSLC 150 The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons: Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Literature
CSLC 161 Modern Japanese Literature
CSLC 165 From Jomon to Pokemon: Japan’s Cultural History
CSLC 181 Violent Femmes: Drama in the Polis
CSLC 182 Love's Song: A Poetic-Philosophic History
CSLC 186 The Tragic in Iranian Literature and Culture
CSLC 187 Prometheus: Agonies of the Absolute
CSLC 188 The Political Imaginary: What Follows Postcolonialism?
CSLC 190 The Hero vs. Death and God (The Early Years)
CSLC 195 Topics in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
CSLC 197 Independent Study
CSLC 200 Literature, Culture, Self: Being in the Wor(l)d
CSLC 201 Forms of Feeling, and a Feeling for Form: Literature and Its Lifeworlds
CSLC 202 Being-With, The Early Years: Language, Literature, and Culture in the Premodern Era
CSLC 203 Being-With: The Politics, and Poetics, of Community
CSLC 204 Between Desire and Despair: Roman Literature Survey
CSLC 205 Comedy Philosophy Romance: Hellenistic Literature
CSLC 210 Reading Bodies: Face, Race, Space in German Thought
CSLC 211 Literature, Media, Technology: Scenes of Writing
CSLC 214 Torture, Sex, and Metaphysics: Dehumanization Before Abu Ghraib and After
CSLC 222 Myth: the Greco-Roman gods
CSLC 223 The Hero in Ancient Greece and Rome
CSLC 225 Probing the Limits of Representation: The Holocaust in Literature and Film
CSLC 226 Terrorism and Film: Bonnie and Clyde in Germany
CSLC 230 Becoming-Human: Deleuze, Chekhov, and the Possibility of New Futures
CSLC 232 Bakhtin: The Prosaic Imagination
CSLC 233 Codes, Cultures, and Killing
CSLC 235 Grotesque Bodies, Eccentric Minds: Carnival Perversions from Gogol to Zizek
CSLC 236 Zizek, Bakhtin: A Pervert's Guide to Eastern Europe
CSLC 237 The Novel as Philosophy: Recollecting Lost Time
CSLC 241 Spectacle and the Stage in Ancient Rome
CSLC 242 Sex, Murder, and Medieval Philosophy: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
CSLC 246 Cognitive Science and Culture: New Encounters with Ancient Rome
CSLC 247 Why Do We Suffer? Ancient Therapies of the Soul
CSLC 248 Defending the Republic
CSLC 249 Beyond Resentment: The Literature of Life-Affirmation from Ancient Rome to the American Blues
CSLC 250 Passages: African American writers and Greco-Roman Literature
CSLC 251 Nahuatl Language, Writing, and Culture
CSLC 252 To Dwell or to Wander: Reading Confucius and Zhuangzi
CSLC 253 The Golden Era: Literature of China's Tang and Song Dynasty
CSLC 260 Popular Culture and Literary Traditions of Early Modern Japan
CSLC 262 Love and Death in Japanese Literature before 1900
CSLC 270 Tales of Sexuality from the Couch, the Court, and the Confessional
CSLC 280 Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger: Tragic Philosophy
CSLC 281 From Rom-Com to Sci-Fi: Hellenistic Literature (and You!)
CSLC 283 Style and "Substance": Philosophy and the Arts
CSLC 284 Foreign Bodies: Exile and Embodiment
CSLC 285 Impolitic Bodies: A Comedic History
CSLC 286 Ulysses: The No-Place That's Home
CSLC 288 No-Body, Some-Body, Every-Body: The Poetics of the Flesh, from Plato to Jean-Luc Nancy
CSLC 292 Love's Song - A History
CSLC 295 Topics in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
CSLC 297 Independent Study
CSLC 300 Contemporary Theory and Literature
CSLC 303 Genres in Classical Literature
CSLC 315 Nature, Science, and Subjectivity in the Age of Goethe
CSLC 331 Modern Korean Fiction
CSLC 395 Special Topics in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
CSLC 397 Independent Study
CSLC 490 Senior Seminar
CSLC 497 Independent Study
CSLC 499 Honors

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