Instructor Class Description

Time Schedule:

• Summer Quarter 2008
• Autumn Quarter 2008

Yomi Braester
C LIT 322
Seattle Campus

Studies in Asian and Western Literatures

Topics designated by individual instructors.

Class description

How do urban literature and film inform our understanding of modern material conditions and ideolologies? How do narrative structures and cinematic images celebrate the metropolis and convey the anxieties associated with it? The course examines these questions through novels and films, mostly from the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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Modified:August 20, 2008