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This class will investigate the ways in which the formal aspects of Western storytelling in various media have shaped both fantasies and perceptions, making certain understandings of experience possible through the selection, arrangement, and processing of narrative material. Surveying the field chronologically across the major narrative ge
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- literature
- literature
- western
- narrative
- storytelling
- media
- epic
- novel
- performance
- film
- video games
- ideology
- psychology
- technology
- culture
- literary theory
- anthropology
- communication
- homer
- sophocles
- herodotus
- christian evangelists
- marie de france
- cervantes
- la clos
- poe
- lang
- cocteau
- disney
- pixar
- maxis
- electronic arts
- propp
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Roman Literature of the Golden Age of Augustus Caesar, produced during the transition from Republican to Imperial forms of government, was to have a profound and defining influence on Western European and American societies. These writings ultimately established lasting models of aesthetic refinement, philosophical aspiration, and political
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- literature
- classical roman literature
- augustan rome
- augustus caesar
- golden age
- republic
- imperial
- western europe
- philosophy
- society
- aesthetic
- politics
- latin
- history
- culture
- art
- cultural context
- textuality
- empire
- public
- private
- class
- gender
- pleasure
- caesar
- cicero
- catullus
- livy
- virgil
- horace
- ovid
- cassius dio
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The course explores the literary masterworks of three of the most celebrated authors of the Middle Ages in their original literary and historical contexts. The various themes they take up - the importance of writing in the vernacular; the discourse of love as a form of discipline practised upon the self; the personal and political aspiratio
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- literature
- literature
- masterworks
- middle ages
- writing
- vernacular
- discourse of love
- discipline
- self
- personal
- political
- aspirations
- society
- ideal forms
- social organization
- religion
- life
- western literature
- divine comedy
- decameron
- troilus and criseyde
- troubadour tradition
- dolce stil nuovo.
- dolce stil nuovo
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This survey provides a general introduction to medieval European literature (from Late Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century) from the perspective of women writers from a variety of cultures, social backgrounds, and historical timeperiods. Though much of the class will be devoted to exploring the evolution of a new literary tradition by and fo
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- literature
- medieval europe
- literature
- late antiquity
- fifteenth century
- 15th
- culture
- society
- women
- history
- roman empire
- religion
- literacy
- chivalry
- scholasticism
- university
- education
- heretics
- nationalism
- class
- hierarchy
- hildegard of bingen
- heloise of paris
- marie de france
- christine de pizan
- joan of arc
- margery kempe sp
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The course examines the earliest emergence of stories about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in the context of the first wave of British Imperialism and the expanded powers of the Catholic Church during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The morphology of Arthurian romance will be set off against original historical documen
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- literature
- literature
- celtic
- colonization
- king arthur
- knights of the round table
- british imperialism
- catholic church
- twelfth century
- thirteenth century
- morphology
- arthurian romance
- historical documents
- english conquests
- brittany
- wales
- scotland
- ireland
- bede
- geoffrey of monmouth
- chr?tien de troyes
- marie de france
- gerald of wales
- pe
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