TR 1:00-2:15 ,  BH

*Satisfies COAS Cultural Studies and A & H requirements

The theme of this course is the City, meaning both real and imagined
cities, in modern literature and the other arts.  We will examine
theories of the city, life in the material world of the city, and
more by reading about, viewing and comparing their representations
in literature, painting, architecture, music and film.

The goals of the course are to help you understand fundamental
themes and practices in modern artistic periods (from neoclassicism
through postmodernism), to practice the mechanics of both
comparative literature and comparative arts, and to analyze the
growth of cities and their relationship to human creativity and
imagination.

Texts include selections from Gulliver's Travels, Blake, Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Poe, a Sherlock Holmes story, Freud, Joyce, T.S. Eliot,
Italo Calvino and others. Paintings include Panini, David,
Friedrich, Delacroix, Turner, Monet, Rivera, and Warhol.  Films will
be selected with the help of students, but may include Dark City,
Brazil, or the Fisher King.