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Comparative Literature

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COMP S-107 Study Abroad in Greece: Cross-Cultural Contact between East and West from Ancient Times to the Present (31605)
(Print version)
Gregory Nagy, Anna Stavrakopoulou, Sahar Bazzaz, Dimiter G. Angelov, Panagiota Batsaki, Dimitris J. Kastritsis, and Ilham Khuri-Makdisi
Limited enrollment.
July 2-August 3. Study abroad programs are restricted to students 18 years of age or older.

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COMP S-109 Reality, Desire, and the Epic Form: Homer, Dante, and Joyce (31482)
(Syllabus) (Print version)
Theoharis C. Theoharis
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) T,Th 12:30-3 pm, Sever Hall, Room 310. Eight-week session. Tuition $2,275.

The relation of desire and reality has been a constant topic in literature. The most comprehensive and influential treatments of that relation have come in the epic, which presents the real and the longed for as the poles organizing civilization and individual experience. This class is a close reading of Homer's Odyssey, Dante's Commedia, and Joyce's Ulysses, to see how epic presentation of human love and knowledge, especially metaphoric depiction of these as journeys, has changed and stayed the same from the ancient to the modern world.

COMP S-211 Study Abroad in Venice: Mysticism and Literature (32132)
(Print version)
Luis M. Girón Negrón
Limited enrollment.
June 21-August 3. Study abroad programs are restricted to students 18 years of age or older.

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