Title: LITERARY CLASSICSCourse Description: Selected works, from ancient to modern, such as Plato's Symposium, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Montaigne's's Essays, Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, and Camus's The Plague, read in translation and with attention to theme, technique, genre, and context.
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| Detailed Course Description: This course is intended to introduce students to, or enrich their familiarity with, a variety of “bigshot” texts—texts, that is, with major reputations that have become a significant part of our cultural heritage, which are frequently studied and referenced, and that literature students may be expected to have a handle on. This particular section of 310 will focus on post-Enlightenment Western literature (roughly 1700-present). Together we will explore these texts both in terms of their internal themes and as cultural products of their respective times and places. Students will learn to read closely, think critically, and share their ideas, both in formal writing and in informal discussion. |
