RMST-355-2022W
Explore Neorealist Italian cinema from the rubble-strewn world of the immediate post-WWII period, including masterly films by Rossellini, Visconti, De Santis and De Sica (and Zavattini). This course was previously taught as ITST (Italian Studies) 385 and is currently cross-listed with RMST 355. View full description. Language of instruction: English
RMST-345-2022W
This course offers students from diverse backgrounds foundational knowledge about the phenomenon of “F-ism” as, in successive incarnations, as it arose and ran its course in the context of neo-Latin societies and cultures. View full description. Language of instruction: English. Cross-listed with ITAL 345.
RMST-343-2022W
Re-visit the children’s story of ‘Pinocchio’, along with other modern classics, in the light of Jiddu Krishnamurti’s critical dictum: « It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society ». Explore how the individual and society can be (mis)aligned. View the full description. Language of instruction: English
RMST-321-2022W
Marvellousness suffuses French and global premodern literatures. From monsters to miracles, from mysterious other-worldly beings to marginal drolleries, from imaginative marvels and their preservation through storytelling, explore texts that help us to understand perceptions of pre-modernity and their continuity into our present world. View full description. Language of instruction: English
RMST-305-2022W
“Film is a form of writing that borrows from other forms of writing.” Examine films that have been adapted from literary works in French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish using general techniques of film analyses in relation to global and social issues, identity, class, and gender. View full description. Language of instruction: English
RMST-302-2022W
Why does theatre and poetry of the Romance World matter to us, and what can we learn from it? How are questions of gender, race, colonialism, and different power relations encapsulated in performative, poetic, and audiovisual documents from the Romance World? Explore these questions and more. View full description.
RMST-202-2022W
Love is a central virtue of humankind. Traverse cultures (Francophone, Italian, Latin American, Portuguese, Spanish), time periods, and genres to evaluate how love gushes (or cuts!) through literature of influential works-in-translation on love and its (dis)pleasures. View full description. Language of instruction: English
RMST-201-2022W
What can we create when we give free rein to our imaginations? In our journey through varied European, Transatlantic and Mediterranean landscapes we will encounter monsters, pirates, witches and knights as we explore the worlds created by authors such as Dante, Cervantes, Rabelais, Ariosto, Marguerite de Navarre and Sor Juana. View full description. Language of […]
RMST-322-2021W
France endured profound crises during the twentieth century, with the two World Wars scarring its society to its core. Explore how literature would reflect these transformations and how it impacted the French worldview at every turn. View full description.
RMST-321-2021W
Title: “Tales of Love and Adventure: King Arthur and the Matter of Britain in Medieval French Literature” | Why was it so important for King Arthur and his knights to find the Grail? Was the “damsel in distress” cliché as prevalent as we believe in medieval literature? View full description.