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Comparative Literary Studies
School of Languages, Literatures and Comparative Literary Studies: Comparative Literary Studies
Dunton Tower 1416
Telephone: 520-2177
Fax: 520-2564
E-mail: comp_lit@carleton.ca
Associate Director, Gurli A. Woods
Supervisor of Graduate Studies, F.G. Loriggio
Comparative Literary Studies offers programs of graduate study leading to the degrees
of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literary Studies.
The purpose of the program in comparative literature is to study literature in its
international context, and to relate and compare
literary phenomena usually studied in isolation because of linguistic barriers and the
traditional departmental division of academic disciplines. Thus, taking into account the
interrelation of all humanistic studies, such as
the various literatures, philosophy, psychology, sociology, the visual arts,
and history, comparatists view literary creation within
the total complex evolution of world literature. The historical flow of literary archetypes,
the role of folklore and myth in literature, recurrent problems of literary theory, and
consideration of the less well known literatures
of the world are some of the objects of comparative literary studies.
Qualifying-Year Program
The regulations governing admission to the qualifying-year program are outlined in
the General Regulations section of this Calendar.
Applicants will normally have the equivalent of a Combined Honours BA with high
honours standing.
The total course program must be determined in consultation with the supervisor of
graduate studies. Formal admission to the master's program may be considered at the end of
the first term.
Master of Arts
Admission Requirements
The regulations governing admission to the M.A. program are outlined in the General
Regulations section of this Calendar (see p. 51).
The specific requirements for admission to the M.A. program in Comparative
Literary Studies are as follows:
* An Honours B.A. degree (or the equivalent) with at least high honours standing in a
literature (studied in the original language) or
in two literatures or in a literature and a
related arts subject
* Proficiency in English
* An ability to work at the graduate level in an additional language approved by
Comparative Literary Studies. Students whose record
does not clearly demonstrate this ability will be required to take as part of their program
at least 0.5 credit in the literature of this
second language in the original language
Program Requirements
Master's candidates in Comparative Literary Studies will follow one of two 5.0 credit
options:
Thesis Program:
* Comparative Literary Studies 17.501 (0.5 credit), and 17.502 (0.5 credit)
* 1.5 credits at the 500-level selected from those courses offered by Comparative
Literary Studies (max. 0.5 credit Directed Studies included)
* 0.5 credit at the 500-level selected from any course offered in Comparative Literary
Studies or from other programs in the University with the approval of the graduate committee.
* 17.599 (2.0 credits)
Non-Thesis Program
* Comparative Literary Studies 17.501 (0.5 credit), and 17.502 (0.5 credit)
* 2.5 credits at the 500-level selected from those courses offered by Comparative
Literary Studies (max. 0.5 credit Directed Studies included)
* 0.5 credit at the 500-level selected from any course offered in Comparative Literary
Studies or from other programs in the University with the approval of the graduate committee.
* 17.593 (1.0 credit)
Guidelines for Completion of Master's
Degree
The master's program is normally completed no later than two years or six terms after
initial full-time registration and six years or
eighteen terms after initial part-time registration.
Doctor of Philosophy
Admission Requirements
Please note: Admission to the Ph.D. program
in Comparative Literary Studies has been suspended.
The normal requirement for admission to the Ph.D. program is an M.A. degree in
literary studies (or in related subjects approved
by Comparative Literary Studies) with at least
high honours standing, normally with no grade below
B_.
Each applicant must supply proof, by means of a research effort that has resulted in
an extensive essay, that he or she is capable of producing a publishable paper. Such
proof will be submitted at the time of application
to the program.
Students admitted into the program with a master's degree earned in another
department or institution will be required to make up
any deficiencies in course work as required by Comparative Literary Studies.
In exceptional cases, an outstanding student who has completed the B.A. Honours
degree and who meets the language requirements outlined below, may be admitted directly
to the doctoral program. The program requirement for these students is normally 15.0
credits.
A student who transfers from the master's program in Comparative Literary Studies
must meet the language requirements on admission as well as those listed under program
requirements.
Applicants must demonstrate a capacity to work at the graduate level in at least two
languages other than English. The two languages must be approved by Comparative
Literary Studies. Normally, one of the two
languages must be French. Applicants must also be
proficient in English. Students whose native
tongue is not English may be required to pass the TOEFL test with a minimum score of 600.
Program Requirements
* 3.0 credits at the 600-level to be chosen
from courses offered by the discipline. (0.5
credit may be at the 500-level.)
* 0.5 credit at either the 500- or 600-level in
the social sciences to be approved by the graduate adviser.
* 0.5 credit at the 600-level outside the area
of specialization of the student to be chosen from the courses offered by the discipline.
* A 1.0 credit comprehensive examination, both oral and written parts to be taken prior to the approval of the Ph.D. thesis prospectus.
* A thesis equivalent to 5.0 credits.
Comprehensive Examinations
The comprehensive examination is designed to test the candidate's competence both
in comparative literary theory and in the chosen area of specialization. The
comprehensive examination is to be completed after
course requirements for the Ph.D. have been completed.
Students admitted to the program who have a master's degree in the area of literary
studies (or in related subjects approved by
Comparative Literary Studies) must normally satisfy
the comprehensive examination requirement by the end of the third term in the program.
Those students either admitted directly into the program from the B.A. Honours
program or transferring from the master's to the
doctoral program must satisfy the comprehensive examination requirement no later
than the end of the third year or ninth term of study.
Normally the comprehensive examination must be completed no later than four
years or twelve terms after the initial part-time
registration following the M.A. (or equivalent).
Students admitted directly from the B.A. Honours program or transferring from the
master's to the doctoral program must earn 15.0 credits beyond the B.A. honours and most
of the master's program in Comparative Literary Studies, with the exception of the
comprehensive examination which may be replaced by course work equivalent to 1.0 credit.
Thesis
Comparative Literary Studies appoints a thesis supervisor and an advisory committee for
each doctoral candidate. A minimum of two faculty members will constitute the thesis
advisory committee and one of the two members will be from outside Comparative
Literary Studies. Both the thesis supervisor and
the advisory committee determine when a thesis proposal may proceed to the graduate
committee of Comparative Literary Studies for approval.
Specialization Requirements
Each candidate must demonstrate competence in an area of specialization chosen from
the following list: postmodernism, post-colonialism, feminism, gender and literature, the
Hebrew Bible, intellectual history, Latin Ameri
can literature, literary history, literary theory, literature and historical studies, literature
and linguistics, literature and religious studies,
literature of the Francophonie, literature written in English, language and social
sciences, medieval and early renaissance Hispanic
literature, modern theatre and dramatic literature, nineteenth- and twentieth-century
French literature, nineteenth- and
twentieth-century German literature, nineteenth- and
twentieth-century Italian literature.
Candidates who enter the Ph.D. program with a master's degree in a special area or
discipline, and who wish to either continue in
that area or discipline or choose another specialization in their doctoral program, will be
tested in their chosen area in the specialization
portion of the comprehensive examination.
Candidates admitted directly from a B.A. Honours program or transferring from the
master's to the doctoral program will be required to take the equivalent of 3.0 credits in the
area of specialization, and will be tested in this area in the specialization portion of their
comprehensive examination.
Language Requirement
Doctoral students must acquire a reading knowledge in a third language, to be
approved by Comparative Literary Studies, before
beginning the comprehensive examination. Candidates must successfully complete either
0.5 credit at the master's level in the
literature(s) of that language (extra-to-the-degree) or a
reading proficiency test administered by Comparative Literary Studies.
Academic Standing
All candidates are required to maintain a GPA of
B_.
Of the 10.0 credits required beyond the master's level, no more than 1.0 credit may be
at the 500-level.
Guidelines for Completion of Doctoral Degree
Students admitted with a B.A. (Honours) degree and registered full-time must
normally complete the comprehensive examination requirement by the end of the third year
or ninth term of full-time study. The thesis proposal must normally be presented after
three and one-half years or ten terms of study.
Students admitted with a master's degree and registered full-time must normally
complete the comprehensive examination requirement by the end of the third term of study.
The thesis proposal must normally be presented no later than the fourth term of study.
Students admitted with a B.A. (Honours) degree and registered part-time must
normally complete the comprehensive examination requirement by the end of the ninth year
or after twenty-seven terms of study after their initial part-time registration. The thesis
proposal must normally be presented no later than ten years or thirty terms of study
following the initial part-time registration.
Students admitted with a master's degree and registered part-time must normally
complete the comprehensive examination requirement by the end of the fourth year or after
twelve terms of study after the initial part-time
registration. The thesis proposal must normally be presented no later than five years or
fifteen terms of study after the initial part-time
registration.
Graduate Courses
Not all of the following courses are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date
statement of course offerings for 1999-2000,
please consult the Registration Instructions
and Class Schedule booklet published in the summer.
F,W,S indicates term of offering. Courses offered in the fall and winter are followed by
T. The number following the letter indicates the credit weight of the course: 1 denotes
0.5 credit, 2 denotes 1.0 credit, etc.
A prerequisite for all graduate-level courses
is appropriate linguistic ability and approval of Comparative Literary Studies.
A student will not receive credit for both a
0.5 credit course and a 1.0 credit course which bears the same topic title.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.501F1
Comparative Literature: History and Theory
Major developments within discipline of comparative literature from
19th to late 20th century; contributions of discipline to
literary criticism; issues and problems today.
Prerequisite: Permission of Comparative Literary
Studies.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.502W1
Problems in the Theory of Literature
Study of key issues arising from the theoretical consideration of literary studies in
modern or pre-modern criticism. For 1999-2000, the topic is: Discourse Analysis I: Classical
and Medieval Rhetoric. Study of persuasion by the Greeks including a theory of what is
called in the 20th Century "discourse analysis".
Division by Aristotle of discourse into three
kinds: deliberative, forensic and epideictic prefigure distinction between oratory and
literature, argumentation and poetry, historiography and fiction, mimesis
and diegesis. Examples of theory of Classical and Medieval discourse as discussed by critics
and practised by writers. (Also listed as Comparative Literary Studies 17.650.)
Prerequisite: Permission of Comparative Literary
Studies.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.521F1
Literary History: Periods, Styles and Movements I
For 1999-2000, the topic is: Texts and Images from Antiquity to the Renaissance. The
relationship between texts and images in the Western Tradition: Theoretical perspectives
and historical survey. The "sister arts" in
ancient rhetoric; memory and imagery. Case
studies: from the pagan gods of Antiquity to
Renaissance emblemata. The Canon vs. "Popular Culture". (Also listed as Comparative
Literary Studies 17.655).
Prerequisite: Permission of Comparative Literary Studies
Comparative Literary Studies 17.522F1 or W1
Literary History Periods, Styles, and Movements II
Topic may vary from year to year. Students should consult Comparative Literary
Studies regarding the topic offered.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.523 F1 or W1
Literary History: Themes and Genres
Topic may vary from year to year. Students should consult Comparative
Literary Studies regarding the topic offered.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.532F1 or W1
Studies in the Literature of Identity
For 1999-2000, the topic is: Female Identity: Writing by Women in the Twentieth
Century. An exploration of topics such as gender
and narrativity, women's space, marginalization, women and madness, and mothers and
daughters in writing by women in the first half of the twentieth century in northern Europe
and North America. The texts are discussed from a cross-cultural perspective with reference
to poststructuralist literary theory, including
feminist criticism.
Prerequisite: Permission of Comparative Literary Studies.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.554F1 or W1
Comparative Perspectives on Literature and Globalization I
Topic may vary from year to year. Students should consult Comparative Literary
Studies regarding the topic offered.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.556F1 or W1
Comparative Perspectives of Literature and Globalization II
Topic may vary from year to year. Students should consult Comparative Literary
Studies regarding the topic offered.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.558W1
Comparative Canadian Literature
For 1999-2000, the topic is: Canadian Women's Autobiography.
A study of narrative structures and of the markers of gender, as well
as of national, ethnic, race and class difference in selected autobiographical works by
English-Canadian and Québécois women writers.
A knowledge of French is recommended but not required.
Prerequisite: Permission of Comparative Literary
Studies.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.580F1
Seminar in Comparative Literary Studies
For 1999-2000, the topic is: Freudian Impulses on Literature and Culture. A
critical examination of Sigmund Freud's intellectual
heritage, including N. Abraham, B. Bettelheim, J. Kristeva, J. Lacan, J.-B. Pontalis and S.
Zizek, focusing on psychoanalytic problems of literary and cultural studies.
Prerequisite: Permission of Comparative Literary Studies.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.582W1
Seminar in Comparative Literature
For 1999-2000, the topic is: Symbolism in Literary Analysis. The presuppositions of
major symbolic systems (allegory, typology, emblematics) and their use in producing
texts. Possibilities for and constraints upon symbolic interpretation, with the focus on
Jung, Auerbach, Frye and Curtius, and some of
their respective adherents.
Prerequisite: Permission of Comparative Literary Studies
Comparative Literary Studies 17.593F2,W2,S2
Comprehensives
Comparative Literary Studies 17.595F3, W3
Study Abroad
Under the terms of the accord with l'Université de Picardie in France,
Università di Bari in Italy, Universität Leipzig in
Germany, and Universidad Ibero-americana and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México in Mexico, Universidad de Buenos Aires
in Argentina, students may do a part of their work for the M.A. in Comparative
Literary Studies in France, Italy, Argentina,
Germany, or Mexico. The content of the study will
be decided by Comparative Literary Studies at Carleton.
Only students sponsored by Com
parative Literary Studies under the exchange may take this course.
Prerequisite: Permission of Comparative Literary Studies.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.597F1, W1, S1
Directed Special Studies
From time to time, students whose main interests are not covered by courses offered
in a given year may pursue independent research, subject to the availability of a qualified
adviser and relevant library resources at
Carleton. Interested students should apply directly
to the supervisor of graduate studies.
Precludes additional credit for Comparative Literary Studies 17.598.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.599F4, W4, S4
M.A. Thesis
Comparative Literary Studies 17.601F1
Doctoral Seminar I: Literature and Other Discourses
For 1999-2000, the topic is: Paratextuality: from Antiquity to Gutenberg. A study of the
material presentation of written texts in the
West. Evolution of material supports, layout, margins, illustrations, indexing and other
aspects of paratextuality, including relations
between scripta and text in the manuscript
traditions of authors, such as Jean de Meun, Juan
Ruiz and Petrarch.
Prerequisite: Permission of Comparative Literary Studies.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.602 W1
Doctoral Seminar II: Literature and Other Discourses
For 1999-2000, the topic is: Agency in Literature and Other Discourses. The
notion of agency in literary and other discourses
(primarily anthropology and philosophy). Agency and humanism. Modern and postmodern
debates on the notion. Among authors to be studied: Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Vico,
Freud, Sapir, Beckett, Habermas, Foucault,
Ricoeur, Archer.
Prerequisite: Permission of Comparative Literary Studies.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.603F1
Modernism
For 1999-2000, the topic is: Literary Representations of the Passionate Self: Pragmatics,
Semiotics and Cognition of Emotional Disclosure. Discourse of passion in poetry, drama
and fiction. Perceptual processes of understanding; strategies of interpretation. Text
selections from early modern to postmodern works.
Prerequisite: Permission of Comparative Literary Studies.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.604F1
Postmodernism
Topic may vary from year to year. Students should consult Comparative Literary
Studies regarding the topic offered.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.610W1
Narrative and Non-Fiction
Topic may vary from year to year. Students should consult Comparative
Literary Studies regarding the topic offered.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.620F1 or W1
Literary History
Topic may vary from year to year. Students should consult Comparative
Literary Studies regarding the topic offered.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.625F1 or W1
Hermeneutics and Aesthetic Experiences of Literature
Topic may vary from year to year. Students should consult Comparative
Literary Studies regarding the topic offered.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.630W1
Text Theory
For 1999-2000, the topic is: Intertexts of Postmodern Fiction: Recent Challenges to
Text Theory. An investigation of intertextual relations in postmodern American,
Canadian, European, and Hispano-American fiction as
a challenge to standard theories of textuality.
Prerequisite: Permission of Comparative Literary Studies.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.635F1 or W1
Translation Studies: Theory and Practice
Topic may vary from year to year. Students should consult Comparative
Literary Studies regarding the topic offered.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.640F1 or W1
Gender and Literature
Topic may vary from year to year. Students should consult Comparative Literary Studies regarding the topic offered.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.650W1
Rhetoric and Literature
For 1999-2000, the topic is: Discourse Analysis I: Classical and Medieval Rhetoric.
Study of persuasion by the Greeks including a
theory of what is called in the 20th Century
"discourse analysis". Division by Aristotle of
discourse into three kinds: deliberative, forensic and epideictic prefigure distinction
between oratory and literature, argumentation and
poetry, historiography and fiction, mimesis and diegesis. Examples of theory of Classical
and Medieval discourse as discussed by critics and practised by writers.(Also listed as
Comparative Literary Studies 17.502)
Prerequisite: Permission of Comparative Literary Studies
Comparative Literary Studies 17.655F1
Iconicity and Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature
For 1999-2000, the topic is: Texts and Images from Antiquity to the Renaissance. The
relationship between texts and images in the
Western Tradition: Theoretical perspectives and historical survey. The "sister arts" in
ancient rhetoric; memory and imagery. Case
studies: from the pagan gods of Antiquity to
Renaissance emblemata. The Canon vs. "Popular Culture". (Also listed as Comparative
Literary Studies 17.521.)
Prerequisite: Permission of Comparative Literary Studies.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.660F1 or W1
Sign, Language and Society
For 1999-2000, the topic is: Sign, Theory, and the Interpretive Practice: A Multi-Media
Seminar. This course explores different approaches to the relationship between signs and
language, culture and social structure, with an
emphasis on the contributions of anthropology.
Scripts taken from different sources (myths, folk
narrative, rituals, the scriptures, modern literature) and from different social and
cultural contexts are examined with a view to
illustrating various modes of interpretation and
conflicting views on the nature and functions of signs in society.
Prerequisite: Permission of Comparative Literary Studies.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.683F1
Seminar in Comparative Literary Studies
For 1999-2000, the topic is: Space, Travel and Displacement in Literature and Other
Discourses: Before Modernity. Historical, critical and theoretical questions pertaining to
exile, emigration, exploration and other modes of travel in Western literature and other
discourses (historiography, philosophy etc.) up to the early 1600s. Among the authors
studied: Homer, Aeschylus, Herodotus, Vergil,
Dante, Boccaccio and Montaigne.
Prerequisite: Permission of Comparative Literary Studies.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.684W1
Seminar in Comparative Literary Studies
For 1999-2000, the topic is: Space, Travel and Displacement in Literature and Other
Discourses: The Twentieth Century. Historical, critical and theoretical questions pertaining
to exile, emigration, colonialism, post-colonialism, tourism, nomadism and other modes
of travel in twentieth century literature and related discourses (anthropology, geography,
etc.) Among the authors studied: Achebe, Conrad, Forster, Joyce, Paci, Tan, Bakhtin, Deleuze,
Lévi-Strauss and Said.
Prerequisite: Permission of Comparative Literary Studies.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.693F2,W2,S2
Comprehensives
Comparative Literary Studies 17.695F3,W3
Study Abroad
Under the terms of the exchange agreements with the University of Picardie,
the University of Bari, Universidad de Buenos
Aires, Universität Leipzig, Universidad Iberoamericana, and Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México, students may do
part of their work for the Ph.D. in Comparative Literary
Studies in France, Italy, Argentina, Germany, or Mexico. The content and
nature of the course involved will be decided by
Comparative Literary Studies. Only students sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
under the exchange may take this course.
Comparative Literary Studies 17.699F, W, S
Ph.D. Thesis
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