Comparative Literature|

Comparative Literature:

• COML 2000 - Introduction to Visual Studies (crosslisted)
• COML 2005 - Punk: Literature, Art, Music (crosslisted)
• COML 2010 - [Great Books]
• COML 2020 - Great Books
• COML 2021 - Humans and Climate Change (crosslisted)
• COML 2030 - Introduction to Comparative Literature
• COML 2040 - [Global Fictions]
• COML 2050 - [Introduction to Poetry]
• COML 2150 - [Comparative American Literatures] (crosslisted)
• COML 2200 - Thinking Surrealisms (crosslisted)
• COML 2213 - [Theater and the Birth of Film: A 20th Century Drama]
• COML 2214 - Robots, Automatons, and Androids
• COML 2230 - The Comic Theatre (crosslisted)
• COML 2270 - [Life and Love in Two Languages]
• COML 2632 - [Paranoia and Conspiracy Fact or Fiction] (crosslisted)
• COML 2754 - [Introduction to Near Eastern Civilization: Wondrous Literatures of the Near East] (crosslisted)
• COML 2760 - Desire (crosslisted)
• COML 3010 - Hispanic Theatre Production (crosslisted)
• COML 3025 - [Literature and the Bomb]
• COML 3040 - An Introduction to the Literature of Colonialism
• COML 3111 - [Literature, Art, and the Environment]
• COML 3115 - Video and New Media: Art, Theory, Politics (crosslisted)
• COML 3150 - Literature and Media in Japan (crosslisted)
• COML 3260 - Christianity and Judaism (crosslisted)
• COML 3280 - [Literature of the Old Testament] (crosslisted)
• COML 3300 - [Political Theory and Cinema] (crosslisted)
• COML 3341 - [Twentieth Century European Culture and Intellectual History] (crosslisted)
• COML 3440 - The Tragic Theatre (crosslisted)
• COML 3450 - Theater, Film and Thought in the Early 20th Century (crosslisted)
• COML 3480 - Shakespeare and Europe (crosslisted)
• COML 3530 - [Monsters A-X (Aristotle-X-files)] (crosslisted)
• COML 3630 - [The European Novel]
• COML 3640 - The European Novel
• COML 3723 - [The Arabian Nights: Then and Now] (crosslisted)
• COML 3725 - [Ideology 2: Contemporary Continental Political Thought] (crosslisted)
• COML 3730 - [Literature of the Outlaw] (crosslisted)
• COML 3735 - [Puppetry: Comic, Dramatic, and Political]
• COML 3800 - Poetry and Poetics of the Americas (crosslisted)
• COML 3820 - [Greeks, Romans, and Victorians] (crosslisted)
• COML 3850 - [Partition/Fiction and Film] (crosslisted)
• COML 3860 - Literature and Film of South Asia (crosslisted)
• COML 3980 - Theorizing Gender and Race in Asian Histories and Literatures (crosslisted)
• COML 3891 - Occupied France Through Film (crosslisted)
• COML 4015 - Passion and Literary Enlightenment
• COML 4030 - [Writing America Post 9/11] (crosslisted)
• COML 4040 - [Troubadours and Heretics] (crosslisted)
• COML 4055 - Theater, Theory, Polis
• COML 4061 - [The Task of the Cleric] (crosslisted)
• COML 4069 - [Transatlantic Decadence] (crosslisted)
• COML 4105 - Soundscapes of the Americas (crosslisted)
• COML 4118 - Zoontotechnics (crosslisted)
• COML 4155 - [Thinking The Event: Theory, Politics, History] (crosslisted)
• COML 4165 - In the Vein of Kafka
• COML 4181 - Neurosis and Systemic Risk (crosslisted)
• COML 4182 - Indebted Histories: Credit and Debt in Critical Thought (crosslisted)
• COML 4190 - Independent Study
• COML 4200 - Independent Study
• COML 4205 - [Aesthetic Theory and Participatory Act] (crosslisted)
• COML 4220 - [Literature and Oblivion]
• COML 4240 - [The Animal] (crosslisted)
• COML 4250 - Marx, Freud, Nietzsche (crosslisted)
• COML 4255 - Genius and Madness in Literature (crosslisted
• COML 4260 - Biblical Seminar II (crosslisted)
• COML 4280 - [Biblical Seminar I] (crosslisted)
• COML 4290 - Postcolonial Poetry and the Poetics of Relation (crosslisted)
• COML 4339 - [Bodies at the Border] (crosslisted)
• COML 4365 - [Caribbean Crossings]
• COML 4369 - [Performing Latinidades] (crosslisted)
• COML 4500 - [Renaissance Poetry] (crosslisted)
• COML 4515 - Ariosto, Rabelais, Spenser (crosslisted)
• COML 4520 - [Renaissance Humanism] (crosslisted)
• COML 4571 - Africa Writes Back (crosslisted)
• COML 4580 - [Studies in Contemporary World Fiction]
• COML 4600 - [New York, Paris, Baghdad: Poetry of the City] (crosslisted)
• COML 4700 - [Translation and Cultural Difference] (crosslisted)
• COML 4741 - Topics in Modern European Intellectual History (crosslisted)
• COML 4750 - Contemporary Readings of the Ancients (crosslisted)
• COML 4771 - [Indigenous Art, Film, and New Media: Anti-Colonial Strategies] (crosslisted)
• COML 4790 - Introduction to Media Theory (crosslisted)
• COML 4791 - Seminar II in Cinema (crosslisted)
• COML 4798 - [Autonomia: Cinema, Literature, Art and Politics in and around Italy, c. 1962-1979] (crosslisted)
• COML 4800 - [Baudelaire in the Lyric]
• COML 4830 - Imagining the Holocaust (crosslisted)
• COML 4860 - Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (crosslisted)
• COML 4900 - [Energy, Empire, Modernity]
• COML 4901 - [The Transnational Hookup: Radio/Literature in the Americas]
• COML 4930 - Senior Essay
• COML 4940 - Senior Essay
• COML 4945 - Body Politics in African Literature (crosslisted)
• COML 4999 - Seminar in Theory
• COML 6050 - [Contemporary Global Fiction]
• COML 6015 - [Kant’s Political Reason] (crosslisted)
• COML 6032 - [The Diary: Writing Time and Self] (crosslisted)
• COML 6090 - [Comparison and Cultural Difference]
• COML 6130 - [Spaces of Literature] (crosslisted)
• COML 6155 - [Explosive Histories] (crosslisted)
• COML 6160 - [Translation, in Theory] (crosslisted)
• COML 6170 - [Hans Blumenberg: Metaphore, Myth, Paradigm] (crosslisted)
• COML 6190 - Independent Study
• COML 6200 - Independent Study
• COML 6225 - Literary Theory and Cognitive Science (crosslisted)
• COML 6335 - [Borderworks] (crosslisted)
• COML 6339 - [Bodies at the Border] (crosslisted)
• COML 6341 - Aesthetics of Excess: Psycho-Philosophical Approaches to Cinematic Technologies (crosslisted)
• COML 6349 - [Performing Latinidades] (crosslisted)
• COML 6350 - Postcolonial Poetry and the Poetics of Relation (crosslisted)
• COML 6360 - [Comparative Modernisms/Alternative Modernities]
• COML 6362 - Bandung Blues: Colonialism After Colonialism
• COML 6365 - [Caribbean Crossings]
• COML 6385 - [The Fiction of Empire] (crosslisted)
• COML 6445 - [Early Modern Literature] (crosslisted)
• COML 6465 - [Black Feminist Theories: Sexuality, Creativity, and Power] (crosslisted)
• COML 6500 - [Renaissance Poetry] (crosslisted)
• COML 6515 - Ariosto, Rabelais, Spenser (crosslisted)
• COML 6520 - [Renaissance Humanism] (crosslisted)
• COML 6565 - [Aesthetic Phenomena and Art: 1900 - 1970] (crosslisted)
• COML 6630 - Nietzsche and Heidegger (crosslisted)
• COML 6600 - [Visual Ideology] (crosslisted)
• COML 6661 - [Persecution and the Art of Writing] (crosslisted)
• COML 6665 - [Media Theory: Film and Photograph] (crosslisted)
• COML 6680 - Theorizing Gender and Race in Asian Histories and Literatures (crosslisted)
• COML 6702 - No Milieu for Philosophy: Contemporary Italian Thought and the Political (crosslisted)
• COML 6710 - [Transnational Imaginaries: Globalization and Culture]
• COML 6723 - [The Arabian Nights: Then and Now] (crosslisted)
• COML 6727 - Contemporary Readings of the Ancients (crosslisted)
• COML 6730 - Topics in Modern European Intellectual History (crosslisted)
• COML 6765 - [Libertinage and Perversion] (crosslisted)
• COML 6771 - [Indigenous Art, Film, and New Media: Anti-Colonial Strategies] (crosslisted)
• COML 6779 - [Psychoanalysis and Sexual Difference] (crosslisted)
• COML 6785 - [What is an Act?] (crosslisted)
• COML 6786 - Constructing the Death Drive (crosslisted)
• COML 6840 - [Hopkins and Baudelaire] (crosslisted)
• COML 6865 - Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (crosslisted)
• COML 6870 - [New York, Paris, Baghdad: Poetry of the City] (crosslisted)
• COML 6880 - [Postcolonial Theory and German Studies] (crosslisted)
• COML 6900 - [Energy, Empire, and Modernity]
• COML 6911 - [The Total Work of Art] (crosslisted)
• COML 6945 - Body Politics in African Literature (crosslisted)
• COML 6960 - [Rites of Contact: Emergent German Literature and Critical Method] (crosslisted)
• COML 6970 - Cosmopolitanism (crosslisted)
• COML 6980 - [Precarieta / Precariousness] (crosslisted)

Russian Literature:

A variety of courses is offered in Russian Literature. Readings may be in English translation or in the original Russian or both (see course descriptions). Instruction often encompasses culture and intellectual history as well as literature. Some courses are crosslisted with appropriate departments.

• RUSSL 2207 - [Themes from Russian Culture]
• RUSSL 2208 - [Themes from Russian Culture]
• RUSSL 2209 - [Readings in Russian Prose and Poetry]
• RUSSL 2212 - [Readings in Twentieth Century Russian Literature]
• RUSSL 3331 - Introduction to Russian Poetry
• RUSSL 3333 - [Twentieth Century Russian Poetry]
• RUSSL 3334 - The Russian Short Story
• RUSSL 3335 - [Gogol]
• RUSSL 3338 - [Lermontov’s Hero of Our Time]
• RUSSL 3367 - The Russian Novel
• RUSSL 3368 - [20th-Century Russian Literature]
• RUSSL 3385 - Reading Nabokov (crosslisted)
• RUSSL 4415 - [Post-Symbolist Russian Poetry]
• RUSSL 4430 - [Practice in Translation]
• RUSSL 4432 - Pushkin
• RUSSL 4433 - [Short Works of Tolstoy]
• RUSSL 4492 - Supervised Reading in Russian Literature
• RUSSL 6611 - Supervised Reading and Research

Russian Language:

Detailed information and schedules of the Russian language courses, as well as office hours of the instructors, are available at: russian.cornell.edu.

Suggested tracks for first- and second-year Russian language study:

• First-year intensive: RUSSA 1103  + RUSSA 1121  in the fall, RUSSA 1104  + RUSSA 1122  in the spring.
• First-year nonintensive: RUSSA 1121  in the fall, RUSSA 1122  in the spring.
• Second-year intensive: RUSSA 1125  + RUSSA 2203  in the fall, RUSSA 1126  + RUSSA 2204  in the spring.
• Second-year nonintensive: RUSSA 2203  in the fall, RUSSA 2204  in the spring.
• Second-year “mostly reading; lighter load”: RUSSA 1125  in the fall, RUSSA 1126  in the spring.

• RUSSA 1103 - Conversation Practice
• RUSSA 1104 - Conversation Practice
• RUSSA 1121 - Elementary Russian through Film
• RUSSA 1122 - Elementary Russian through Film
• RUSSA 1125 - Reading Russian Press
• RUSSA 1126 - Reading Russian Press
• RUSSA 2203 - Intermediate Composition and Conversation
• RUSSA 2204 - Intermediate Composition and Conversation
• RUSSA 3300 - Directed Studies
• RUSSA 3303 - Advanced Composition and Conversation
• RUSSA 3304 - Advanced Composition and Conversation
• RUSSA 3305 - Reading and Writing for Heritage Speakers of Russian
• RUSSA 3306 - Reading and Writing for Heritage Speakers of Russian
• RUSSA 3308 - Russian through Popular Culture
• RUSSA 3309 - Advanced Reading
• RUSSA 3310 - Advanced Reading
• RUSSA 4401 - [History of the Russian Language] (crosslisted)
• RUSSA 4403 - [Linguistic Structure of Russian] (crosslisted)
• RUSSA 4413 - Advanced Conversation and Stylistics
• RUSSA 4414 - Advanced Conversation and Stylistics
• RUSSA 4491 - Reading Course: Russian Literature in the Original Language
• RUSSA 6601 - Old Church Slavonic (crosslisted)
• RUSSA 6602 - Old Russian Texts (crosslisted)
• RUSSA 6633 - Russian for Russian Specialists
• RUSSA 6634 - Russian for Russian Specialists
• RUSSA 6651 - [Comparative Slavic Linguistics] (crosslisted)