An introduction to world literature and its relationship to the traditions and societies from which it springs. Study of major works from antiquity to the seventeenth century.
For students in the City College Honors Program and the Macaulay Honors College. Defines what literature is and determines its relationship to human existence. The various types of literature and the role of form and structure in the meaning of the whole. Literature as a mirror of the variety and continuity of human experience. Extensive reading and individualized writing assignments.
3 hr./wk.
An introduction to world literature and its relationship to the traditions and societies which it springs. Study of major works from the eighteenth century to the contemporary period.
3hr./wk.
For students in the City College Honors Program and the Macaulay Honors College.
3 hr./wk.
An enhanced version of WHUM 10312 for students in the Honors Program. A study of modern world literature through the works of contemporary Anglophone writers from Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and Australia. Topics include the condition of post-colonialism as well as the more recent globalization of English and thus the globalization of literature in English.