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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. One final research paper. Several short reports.
 
==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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Latest revision as of 19:55, 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. One final research paper. Several short reports.

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.