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The '''Proseminar in Comparative Literature''' is organized around five questions. 1. Is there an epistemological object that might be the determination of comparative literature as a discipline? 2. Is the putative disciplinarity of comparative literature a methodological possibility? 3. Is the possibility of comparative literature given by the fact of a shared sensibility, or an affective being-in-common? 4. Is comparative literature's only question the question of its own possibility? 5. Is comparative literature perhaps a historical, social, political, practice?
The '''Proseminar in Comparative Literature''' is organized around the question of comparative literature: What has been the historical, social-political practice of the discipline? How do theories become transnational, transdisciplinary practices of comparative literature? What is the state of the discipline today?
 
==Format==
 
Seminar. Three short papers (8-10 pages) required.
 
==Prerequisites==
 
Students other than comparative literature graduate students new to Binghamton University, including undergraduates, may be admitted as space permits and with consent of instructor.


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Revision as of 17:32, 10 February 2007

The Proseminar in Comparative Literature is organized around the question of comparative literature: What has been the historical, social-political practice of the discipline? How do theories become transnational, transdisciplinary practices of comparative literature? What is the state of the discipline today?

Format

Seminar. Three short papers (8-10 pages) required.

Prerequisites

Students other than comparative literature graduate students new to Binghamton University, including undergraduates, may be admitted as space permits and with consent of instructor.