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CSLC - Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture

• 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 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 131 Slavic Pagan Culture and its Legacy
• CSLC 132 Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy
• 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 150 The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons: Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Literature
• 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 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 The Wake of the Ancient
• 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 220 Memory, Trauma, and Victim Culture
• 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 232 Bakhtin: The Prosaic Imagination
• CSLC 233 Codes, Cultures, and Killing
• 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 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 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 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 No­Place 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 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