| This course will investigate the relationship
between the local and the global through
literature from Antiquity (2nd millennium BCC) to
the European Renaissance (15th century CE).
Organized around major literary forms, the course
will familiarize students with different cultural,
socio-political, religious, and economic movements
across the globe. How do we read and understand
other cultures while situated in our own, and how
does our reading of other cultures inform our
understanding of our own culture? How does the
attempt to respond to the unique cultural and
political movements of the period manifest itself
in literature from the period? Through religious
texts, origin myths, epics, lyrics, plays, short
stories, poetry, and non-fiction, the course will
consider the question of how a specific localized
form adapts when it crosses geographical
boundaries. Fulfills requirement: Critical Thinking through Writing,Humanistic Perspectives. 3 credits. |