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ENGL 2111: World Literature I

Summer, 2003
Tues and Thurs 5:30-7:50 pm
MSC Main Campus, Room M-120

Prerequisite: ENGL 1102

This section of World Literature I will explore various forms of “literary” discourse since the first epic, through the mid-seventeenth century. We will focus on textual studies of the major genres of this period, epic and tragedy, and how those genres influenced later literary works and how they portray “humanist” issues throughout the history of several national literary traditions. World Literature I will show the continued relevance of just why ancient works are still paramount to knowing ourselves as “humans.” Major works covered will include Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, and works by Sophocles, Ovid, and Dante, among others. Since any survey course has much more literature than one semester-long class can cover (especially a summer course), we will attempt to cover only a couple works in detail, rather than many works only cursorily.

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