Honors World Literature II

Catalog description

This course provides students with the opportunity to read, analyze, evaluate, and discuss representative works by writers from across the globe. The course will cover works from antiquity through the Renaissance, with such Western and nonWestern authors as Homer, Sappho, Sophocles, Confucius, Li Po, Ferdowski, Shikibu, and Cervantes. The course will introduce students to literary devices typically used in tragedy, the epic, lyric and pastoral poetry, and drama.