[CW-Grad] Another grad seminar for you to consider next year

[Robin Russin]

Check it out:

Professor Michelle Bloom, CPLT 210: Canons in Comparative Literature: Scandal and Censorship

Fall 2011, W 4-7pm.

>From the course catalogue: "Studies the concept of the canon and literary texts included in it and excluded from it. Considers the distinction between "mainstream" and "marginal" works. Examines how the canon of texts changes over time. Course is repeatable as topics change."

In Fall 2011, with Professor Michelle Bloom, this seminar will focus on Scandal and Censorship. Concepts studied will include sexuality (homosexuality, lesbianism, incest and prostitution), death (art and death) and politics (government censorship).   Nineteenth-century European literature, with an emphasis on France (eg. Flaubert, Baudelaire, Manet), as well as secondary attention to the U.K. (Wilde) and fin-de-siècle Vienna (TBD), will provide one constellation of focus; recent and contemporary Sinophone cinemas (directed by mainland and Taiwanese auteurs such as Zero Chou, Dai Sijie, Jia Zhangke, Tsai Ming-liang, Wang Xiaoshuai) will offer another main area of study; recent French novels written by Chinese writers in exile (Dai and Gao Xingjian) will offer a third area of emphasis.  Critical and theoretical works (TBA) will be studied in conjunction with these works of fiction.

This seminar is open to graduate students (and, with permission/recommendation, advanced undergraduates, for instance in MCS and Women’s Studies, as well as CPLT) in not only Comparative Literature, but also in related fields including Art History, Art, Creative Writing, Dance, English, History, Philosophy and Political Science.

 

Questions? Prof. Bloom @ michelle.bloom at ucr.edu or during office hours/by appointment.

 


Robin Russin

Associate Professor and Director
MFA for Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts
Department of Theatre
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
(951) 827-2707
(213) 949-1061 cel
robin.russin at ucr.edu
http://robinrussin.com

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