Great Ideas in World Literature

Catalog description

This course surveys common and intercultural themes and ideas in representative masterpieces of the world's literary traditions, from ancient times into the twentieth century. The selections in translation reflect the social, political, and cultural context of their creation as well as humanity's perennial search for meaning in attempting to define relationships to self, society, and the universe. This course is suitable for students without prior literature study experience. This course includes works important to the Western Canon.