What does the world look like when it takes a literary form? We will read and write about one or more literary genres or forms from various times and places, and reflect on the shape of literature, its place in the world, and the place of the world in it. The course functions as an introduction to the study of literature, equipping students with conceptual, analytical and writing tools that will help them become informed readers of the many modes and manners of imaginative expression. Considerable emphasis will be placed on the development of critical skills in reading and writing.
Learning Goals
1. Think critically about a range of imaginative voices from around the world;
2. Engage closely with a couple of literary genres or forms, including poetry and fiction;
3. Trace the development of a specific literary form namely, the highly regarded epic poem across time and space to examine common ideas and ideals (from the ancient Egyptian Epic of Gilgamesh to selections from the seventeenth-century English epic Paradise Lost);
4. Explore the various modes and manners of imaginative expression, and how literature takesshape in past, present, and future;
5. Discover the worlds characterization by the written world (religiously, culturally, sociopolitically);
6. Appreciate the place of the world in literature (literature from the near East, Europe, Canada,and Japan will be studied);
7. Develop academic skills in written work using the most current MLA conventions (8th edition)
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