FLAN-37500 Readings in World Literature and Culture

This course is primarily intended for students pursuing foreign language minors in Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Polish and Russian. The purpose of this course is to promote intellectual growth and analytic thinking via the close reading of great works of World Literature within a global context. Focusing on works that facilitate a vision of the" wider world", and of interconnectedness, the student will learn how literary texts have shaped the groundwork for our contemporary global culture. The readings are designed to awaken the students' understanding of the discursive nature of literature, and of knowledge in general, and to lead them to understand that culture does not exist in isolation. No national literature has ever been produced in isolation; cultural production as always been a result of connections and interactions among neighboring cultures, and in our modern-day world culture, it is the sense of interconnectedness that defines the contemporary approach to reading world literature.

Credits

3