Course details
Name: ENGL - 207
Title: WORLD LIT: VOICES OF TRADITION AND CHALLENGE
Section: 03
Semester: Spring - 2017
Credits: 3
Description:
This world literature (literature in translation) course embraces the theme of "Voices of Tradition and Challenge" in three ways: by offering a comparison of Western/non-Western literature, by examining texts that feature challenges to social traditions, and by exploring how writers use literature as a vehicle for political and social change as well as to document the importance of individuals regardless of national origin. In the first unit, The Tempest, we will compare Shakespeare’s play with Aimé Césaire's (Martinique) postcolonial reading of Shakespeare’s drama, discussing interpretations of Caliban as a victim of oppression and agent of political rebellion. The second unit, Voices of Poetry, will explore sentiments of love and separation as penned by poets Pablo Neruda, from Chile, (“A Dog Has Died”), the Italian Alda Merini's "As a Catholic" and Yona Wallach’ s "When You Come To Sleep" born in Israel. This unit will emphasize the universal appeal expressed and found in poetry. The third unit, Families, will study the family unit as symbolic of a given society during transitional moments in that society or nation. We will read Mishima’s The Man Who Fell From Grace with the Sea (Japan), Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (Colombia), and Ghana Must Go by Taye Selasi from Ghana. A particular focus will be an explanation of magical realism as the natural expression of certain non-western traditions. We will also discuss the role of translators in evoking the purity of the original and capturing the musicality of language.
Last updated on 2016-10-20 By
Harrison Kim (harrisonk)
Schedule: Thursday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm
Graduation requirements:
- Any Literature (1e)
- Genre Study (Fiction)
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- Post-1900 (1d)
- International Issues (3a)
- Class Issues (3d)
- World Literature (TE 6a)
Teaching Faculty: Figueredo Danilo (figueredod)
Is course canceled: No