Literature and Popular Culture

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of literary study by making connections between literary forms and popular culture. These connections foster an understanding of the ways that contemporary cultural forms (television, film, comics, video games) are inspired by and related to more traditional literary texts. Popular culture and literature are always in conversation with each other, and this course may investigate this interchange between the popular and the traditional through specific themes, genres, or adaptations of historical texts.