ENG 3540 Readings in Global Literature

This course introduces students to representative texts in literatures from across the world, focusing especially on literatures from the global south/ non-western world, which may range from the ancient to the modern and contemporary periods. The course emphasizes a broadly comparative perspective which situates literary texts, either Anglophone or in translation, from different regions, both in specific cultural and political contexts, as well as studies them in depth from a boadly literary perspective in conversation and canonical western literary texts and genres. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 and ENG 2000
Credits: 3.0