ENGL 241
Introduction to Comparative Literature
Spring 2014
Division I
Cross-listed
COMP 110
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Class Details
Comparative literature involves reading and analyzing literature that represents different times, movements, cultures, and media. In this class, we will study English translations of texts from eras spanning the ancient to the contemporary; literary movements including Romanticism, Realism, and Modernism; national traditions arising in Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America; and media including prose fiction, the graphic novel, and film. Throughout the course, we will consider what it means to think about all these different works as literary texts. To help with this, we will also read selections of literary theory that defines literature and its goal in abstract or philosophical terms. Assignments will focus on close reading of relatively short texts by authors such as Homer, Sei Shônagon, Wu Cheng’en, Kleist, Tolstoy, Shklovsky, Maupassant, Zola, Wilde, Mamet, and Bechdel. All readings will be in English.
The Class:
Format: lecture with some discussion
Limit: 40
Expected: 35
Class#: 3625
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 40
Expected: 35
Class#: 3625
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
regular attendance, participation, four 1-page response papers and two 5- to 7-page papers
Prerequisites:
none
Enrollment Preferences:
students considering a major in Comparative Literature
Distributions:
Division I
Notes:
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ENGL 241 Division I COMP 110 Division I
ENGL 241 Division I COMP 110 Division I
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ENGL 241 - 01 (S) LEC Intro to Comparative Lit
ENGL 241 - 01 (S) LEC Intro to Comparative LitDivision IWF 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
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