Overview
Description
Literature in English and English translation, following a historical (e.g., Classicism, Romanticism, Modernism) or a formal (e.g., narrative and fiction, drama) approach.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Attributes
StandardRepeatable up to 6 credits
Learning Outcomes
- examine how literary works represent urban life and will be able to put literary representations in dialogue with other ways of representing and analyzing urban experience.
- mobilize their knowledge of literary urbanism to produce consequential oral and written literary criticism.
- use comparative analysis to identify significant connections and contrasts among texts emerging out of diverse global contexts.
- use historical and sociopolitical knowledge and appropriate theoretical concepts to show how literary form can illuminate the contexts out of which texts emerge.
- show how literary representations of urban experience are shaped by their distinctive local, national, international, and transnational contexts.