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Undergraduate courses in Italian General

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ITALGEN 41N. Imagining Italy

ITALGEN 149. New Frontiers in Italian Cinema

ITALGEN 181. Philosophy and Literature

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Italian General (ITALGEN) Courses

ITALGEN 41N. Imagining Italy

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Literary responses to Italy by writers in English during the past hundred years and how they continue to constuct myths of Italy. How these myths have been transformed into commodities in consumer culture, making Italy a profitable fiction. Authors include Hawthorne, Howells, James, Wharton, Forster, Unsworth, Hellenga, and Mayes. GER:DB-Hum

3-4 units, Spr (Springer, C)

ITALGEN 149. New Frontiers in Italian Cinema

A new generation of Italian filmmakers who examine the contradictory encounters between Italians and the migrant others in contemporary Italy. Critical texts from film studies, gender studies, ethnic and cultural studies, psychoanalysis, and history. I English; films, in Italian with English subtitles, by Amelio, Ozpetek, Munzi, Garrone, Melliti, Tornatore, and Giordana. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Spr (Nathan, V)

ITALGEN 181. Philosophy and Literature

Required gateway course for Philosophical and Literary Thought; crosslisted in departments sponsoring the Philosophy and Literature track: majors should register in their home department; non-majors may register in any sponsoring department. Introduction to major problems at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Issues may include authorship, selfhood, truth and fiction, the importance of literary form to philosophical works, and the ethical significance of literary works. Texts include philosophical analyses of literature, works of imaginative literature, and works of both philosophical and literary significance. Authors may include Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Borges, Beckett, Barthes, Foucault, Nussbaum, Walton, Nehamas, Pavel, and Pippin. GER:DB-Hum

4 units, Win (Anderson, L; Vermeule, B)

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