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Comparative Literature and Culture 3345F/G
TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE
The course explores modernist, avant-garde and postmodernist literatures, arts and theories, and discusses topics such as high-brow culture, political aesthetics, kitsch, and pop, from Rilke, Woolf and GarcĂa Lorca to Nabokov, Pynchon and Pelevin; Chaplin to Tarantino; Braque to de Kooning; and Tzara and Breton to Kristeva and Jameson.