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What is a story ? How do you tell it ? Where does it lead you ? Why might fiction be the most effective means to see more deeply into the resistant texture of the arts ? What is the divine madness of a masterpiece and how can one focus its meaning ? What is the attraction of what Thomas Mann called « a tense, sustained neck-breaking game played by art at the edge of impossibility » ?These and other questions will stretch our readerly awareness in this seminar devoted to the European Novel and its evocations of Art and Music. Artists such as Cézanne, Piero Della Francesca, Van Gogh, Nolde, Goya, Watteau, Schoenberg, and J.S. Bach will be in our spotlight.A class for readers !
Course Requirements
Readings, active participation and attendance are essential. * Attendance will be taken regularly and your preparation for class meetings will compose a significant part of your final grade. This is not a lecture class and its success very much depends on everyone coming to class prepared and ready to contribute to the discussion. * Course readings and listenings are obligatory.* Active participation in the classroom is required and shall count 50% toward the final grade.* Attendance will be taken regularly.*Writing Assignments will count for 30% of the final grade. Students shall write a Midterm Essay and* two papers (5 to 7 pages each) one due around mid-term, the other towards the end of the term, and one class presentation. * There will be a Final exam which counts as 20% of the final grade.
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