ENG 6880 Studies in Global Literature

This course adopts a comparative, texts-in-context approach to studying selections of literature from across the world, either Anglophone or in translation, from pre-modern epic, poetry, and drama to modern and contemporary literature. The course guides students to analyze the popularity of such courses in the metropolitan academy within a broad framework of “world/global literatures” and understand key theoretical approaches to the study of world literatures. Individual courses may be organized either by genre, historical or literary period, topics or theme. Literary texts will be studied within the contexts of contemporary literary criticism and literary theory.

Credits: 3.0