Topics in Modern Global Literature.

Catalog description

This survey course takes as its purview literatures from around the world since 1700. The class offers students an opportunity to develop literary, historical, and intercultural fluency through the analysis of elements intrinsic to literary works as well as the social, intellectual, and political contexts of those works. Because this is a world literature class, the course takes a special interest in topics such as literary circulation, reception, and translation; transnational relationships; the English language debate; and colonization/decolonization.