All courses numbered 500 and above are graduate courses.
Undergraduates need to submit a course permit to enroll.
HIST 599 How to Read a Text
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
The seminar is cross-listed with the Departments of Romance Languages, English and Comparative Literature. This seminar will be devoted to examine the different approaches proposed for reading texts: analytical bibliography, rezeptionstheorie, nouvelle critique, begriffsgeschichte, new historicism, the sociology of texts, history of reading, etc. Its aim is twofold: to understand the articulation of the literary or intellectual productions of a time within the entire framework of the written culture, to measure the compatibility (or incompatibility) of the different theoretical and methodological manners of dealing with the written word. The seminar will deal mainly with English, Spanish, and French examples. It is intended to help the students in their own research by proposing to them technical and conceptual tools.
Course Syllabus (PDF)
