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Approaches to Interdisciplinary Studies in the Arts & Humanities
[HUMA 5300] Professor Rainer Schulte Email: schulte@utdallas.edu Tel. 972-883-2092 Fall 2005
Addressing the Humanities
Interpretation as translation Methods of reading Comparative approaches: formation of general statements Multiple translations and multiple interpretations Inside of a text and outside of a text Communication as translation The interpretive perspectives The dimensions of literacy in the 21st Century Verbal, visual, musical Forms of verbal, visual, and musical expressions New media Promotion of scholarship and research in the humanities The role of the university presses The scholarly monograph The scholarly journal The Websites The ethical dimension The aesthetic dimension The study of the future The building and function of a discipline Resources for research in the humanities Databases Conferences Scholarly and artistic associations Scholarly journals Research centers Institutes for promoting and recording the humanities Archival libraries Museums Library of Congress, Bibliothèque Nationale, et. al.
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Syllabus and assignments
Throughout the semester, the instructor will provide bibliographical information and additional texts in the form of photocopies, floppies/CDs, or on the Webct. At the beginning of each seminar session, students will offer short reports on scholarly journals. Students will also give presentations about scholarly monographs and articles. All of this seminar’s essays, articles, and monographs are related, which means that discussions will not be restricted to one text during a seminar session. Rather, we will strive for a continuous interaction among the various verbal, visual, and musical texts.
Session I
General orientation
Presentation of reading lists Reference journals Emerson. “Culture” Nabokov Copland Back to the Essay Latin American texts
Assignment
Vladimir Nabokov. "Good Readers and Good Writers" Robert Con Davis-Undiano. “Back to the Essay” Exercise: Ralph Waldo Emerson Essay. “Culture” Translation of an English text. Full text of essay on Internet
Session II Aspects of interpretation
The structure of the Emerson Essay: “Culture” Discussion of seminar requirements
Assignment
Short stories from:
Continental Short Stories: The Modern Tradition.
Charles Frankel. “Why the Humanities?” O. Paz. “Translation: Literature and Letters”
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Session III Approaches to reading a text
Texts by Aichinger, Kafka, Benn, etc., in
Continental Short Stories
The technique of horizontal reading Reference orientation: Erich Auerbach,
Mimesis
Schulte, essay: “Translation and Reading”
Assignment
James Paul Gee.
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy.
Session IV Concept of perspectives
Exercise. Preparation of an abstract (book and article)
Assignment
Begin Bernstein’s
The Unanswered Question
(Charles Ives)
Session V
Exercise: writing a book review
Assignment
Huizinga,
Homo Ludens
Session VI The concept of play in culture
Exercise: Annotation
Assignment
L. Bernstein,
The Unanswered Question,
continued Aaron Copland,
What to Listen for in Music
Richard Florida,
The Rise of the Creative Class
(paperback if available)
Session VII Multiple interpretations
Discussion of multiple interpretations of a musical text J.S. Bach,
Italian Concerto
; Beethoven,
Sonata
Erich Auerbach,
Mimesis
(continued)
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