COML0540 - Benjamin Franklin Seminar: History of Literary Criticism

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Benjamin Franklin Seminar: History of Literary Criticism
Term
2023A
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML0540401
Course number integer
540
Meeting times
TR 1:45 PM-3:14 PM
Meeting location
BENN 224
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Rita Copeland
Description
This is a course on the history of literary theory, a survey of major debates about literature, poetics, and ideas about what literary texts should do, from ancient Greece to examples of modern European thought. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
Course number only
0540
Cross listings
CLST3508401, ENGL0540401
Use local description
No

COML2420 - Cultural Studies Seminar

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Cultural Studies Seminar
Term
2023A
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML2420401
Course number integer
2420
Meeting times
TR 12:00 PM-1:29 PM
Meeting location
BENN 138
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
James English
Description
This course explores an aspect of cultural studies intensively. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
Course number only
2420
Cross listings
ARTH2930401, CIMS2420401, ENGL2420401
Fulfills
Cross Cultural Analysis
Use local description
No

COML3120 - The Translation of Poetry/The Poetry of Translation

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
The Translation of Poetry/The Poetry of Translation
Term
2023A
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML3120401
Course number integer
3120
Meeting times
TR 10:15 AM-11:44 AM
Meeting location
BENN 224
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Taije Jalaya Silverman
Description
“No problem is as consubstantial with literature and its modest mystery as the one posed by translation.”—Jorge Luis Borges In this class we will study and translate some of the major figures in 19th- and 20th-century poetry, including Gabriela Mistral, Wislawa Szymborska, Mahmoud Darwish, Anna Akhmatova, Rainer Maria Rilke, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Arthur Rimbaud, and Shu Ting. While the curriculum will be tailored to the interests and linguistic backgrounds of the students who enroll, all those curious about world poetry and the formidable, irresistible act of translation are welcome. Those wishing to take the translation course should have, at least, an intermediate knowledge of another language. We will study multiple translations of major poems and render our own versions in response. Students with knowledge of other languages will have the additional opportunity to work directly from the original. A portion of the course will be set up as a creative writing workshop in which to examine the overall effect of each others’ translations so that first drafts can become successful revisions. While class discussions will explore the contexts and particularity of poetry writen in Urdu, Italian, Arabic, French, Bulgarian, and Polish, they might ultimately reveal how notions of national literature have radically shifted in recent years to more polyglottic and globally textured forms. Through famous poems, essays on translation theory, and our own ongoing experiments, this course will celebrate the ways in which great poetry underscores the fact that language itself is a translation. In addition to the creative work, assignments will include an oral presentation, informal response papers, and a short final essay.
Course number only
3120
Cross listings
ENGL3120401
Use local description
No

COML2082 - Hard Times and the American Dream: The Literature of the Great Depression

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Hard Times and the American Dream: The Literature of the Great Depression
Term
2023A
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML2082401
Course number integer
2082
Meeting times
T 3:30 PM-6:29 PM
Meeting location
VANP 625
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Catherine C Turner
Description
The course explores an aspect of 20th-century American literature intensively; specific course topics will vary from year to year. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
Course number only
2082
Cross listings
ENGL2082401
Use local description
No

COML0590 - Cinema and Politics

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Cinema and Politics
Term
2023A
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML0590401
Course number integer
590
Meeting times
TR 10:15 AM-11:44 AM
Meeting location
BENN 322
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Rita Barnard
Description
This course explores an aspect of film studies intensively. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
Course number only
0590
Cross listings
ARTH3890401, CIMS0590401, ENGL0590401
Fulfills
Cultural Diviserity in the U.S.
Arts & Letters Sector
Use local description
No

COML1013 - Global Chaucers: Poetry, Voice, and Interpretation

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Global Chaucers: Poetry, Voice, and Interpretation
Term
2023A
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML1013401
Course number integer
1013
Meeting times
MW 12:00 PM-1:29 PM
Meeting location
VANP 627
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
David Wallace
Description
Watching Chaucer at work, modern poet Lavinia Greenlaw says, is like meeting English "before the paint has dried." Before rules (even of spelling) have hardened. Before live oral performance is subordinated to written record. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
Course number only
1013
Cross listings
ENGL1013401
Use local description
No

Apurva Prasad

Apurva Prasad is a dual PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and South Asia Studies. Her research interests include women’s writing, authorship studies, adaptation studies, literary traditions of northern India in the 20th-21st century and the intersections of law and literature.