Overview
Description
A wide-ranging study of literature from the world at large, emphasizing works from non-Anglophone contexts. Non-English works will be read in translation. Students will also read scholarship engaging in historic and current debates surrounding world literature.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
- analyze a literary work in its cultural and historical contexts.
- articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
- evaluate and articulate the distinctive features of world literature.
- synthesize course-based readings with relevant academic/literary works in written work and class presentations.