Please
note that sections of cross-listed World literature courses are designated
in TRACS by either the prefix ENG or the prefix FL, depending
upon the home department of the instructor.
Readings are in English translation.
ENG or
FL 219: Traditional Non-Western Literature.
Readings in traditional
literature, in translation, from Africa, the MIddle East, South Asia,
China, Japan, and the Americas. Students will be introduced to the origins
and efflorescence of these oldest cultures through the oral and written
stories, poems, essays, and plays that have become the defining work of
these societies. At the same time, students will examine the geographical,
historical, and political contexts from which these texts arose. Readings
may include such works as the Upanishads, the Ramayana, the Sundiata,
Gilgamesh, A Thousand and One Nights, and the Quran and such authors as
Confucius, Oe Kenzaburo, Omar Khayyam, and Rumi
ENG or
FL 220: Studies in Great Works of Western Literature.
Readings in English translation of Western literary masterpieces from
the beginning of literacy in the Middle East and Europe to the present.
May include such authors as Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Ovid, Augustine
Dante, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Cervantes Swift, Goethe, Austen, Flaubert,
and Woolf.
ENG or
FL 221: Literature of the Western World I.
Readings from Biblical, Classical, Medieval, and Early Renaissance literature
including such authors as Homer, Plato, Sappho, Virgil, Ovid, St. Augustine,
Marie de France, and Dante. Films will be shown to complement readings.
Emphasis on the interrelations of the arts and literature in a social
context.
ENG or
FL 222: Literature of the Western World II.
A study of Western literature from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.
Authors may include Molière, Blake, Goethe, Ibsen, Kafka, Woolf,
Eliot, and Pirandello. Emphasis on the relationships between literature,
history, politics, the visual arts, and music.
ENG or
FL 223: Contemporary World Literature I.
Twentieth-century literature of some of the following cultures: Russian,
Eastern European, Latin American, Canadian, and Australian.
ENG or
FL 224: Contemporary World Literature II.
A survey of contemporary imaginative literature by Asian, Arab, African,
and Native American writers. Discussion of major themes, stylistic developments,
and connections between literature and recent history.
ENG or
FL 392: Major World Author.
Intensive study in
English, of the writings of one (or two) author(s) from outside the English
and American traditions. Sample subjects: Homer, Virgil and Ovid, Lady
Murasaki, Marie de France and Christine de Pizan, Dante, Cervantes, Goethe,
Balzac and Flaubert, Kafka, Proust, Lessing and Gordimer, Borges and Marquez,
Neruda, Achebe, Soyinka, Calvino, Walcott and Naipaul. Topics will vary
from semester to semester.
ENG or
FL 393: Studies in Literary Genre.
Concentrated treatment of one literary genre, such as the epic, the lyric,
the drama, satire, romance, autobiography, the essay, the novel, or the
short story. Treatment of materials from several national or ethnic cultures
and several periods. All readings in English.
ENG or
FL 394: Studies in World Literature.
Study of a subject in world literature; for example, African literature,
Asian literature, Hispanic literature, East European literature, comedy,
the epic, the lyric, autobiography, the Faust legend, or metamorphosis.
Subjects vary according to availability of faculty.
ENG or
FL 406: Modernism.
International modernist movement in literature, from its nineteenth-century
origins to its culmination in the early twentieth century. Definitions
of modernity, as embodied in a variety of genres. Placement of Modernist
texts within a variety of cultures that produced them.
ENG or
FL 407: Postmodernism.
Literary expressions of Postmodernism, from its origins in the Modernist
movement through its culmination in the later decades of the twentieth
century. Definitions of postmodernity, as embodied in a variety of genres.
Placement of Postmodernist texts within a variety of cultures that have
produced them.
ENG or
FL 497: Senior Seminar in World Literature.
Rotating topics in world literature, including treatment of materials
from more than
one culture including consideration of subject's theoretical or methodological
framework. Readings in English (original language encouraged but not required).
Junior or Senior standing.
ENG or
FL 539: Seminar in World Literature.
Rotating topics in world literature, including treatment of the subject's
theoretical or methodological framework. Possible subjects: colonialism
and literature; orality and literature; the Renaissance; the Enlightenment;
translation; comparison of North and South American literatures; African
literary traditions; postmodernism and gender.