Course details
Name: ENGL - 116
Title: WORLD LITERATURE: COMING OF AGE THEME
Section: 03
Semester: Fall - 2022
Credits: 3
Description:
This course is designed to expand our experiences with literature as a mode of expression. The broader our exposure to stories, plays and poetry, the greater our awareness of how magnificent the literary world is. As such, this course experiments with international literature’s various modes of empowerment and the expansive nature of words.
We will read some fascinating works from the recent past (almost exclusively 20th & 21st century) and watch some international films. We will discover how writers and other cultural artists express their love of certain traditional values and beliefs, while often presenting new visions of resistance and change.
This section will focus on literature as an art form, and address the exciting question: what can art do?
Potential artists/works may include:
Films: Il Postino, Spirited Away, The Neverending Story; Godzilla
Novels: Vargas Llosa’s Storyteller, Omotoso’s The Woman Next Door, Martell’s Life of Pi, Exuperay’s The Little Prince, Hesse’s Siddhartha, Naipaul’s Miguel Street, Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Satrapi’s Persepolis, Mahfouz's Miramar.
Short stories by Calvino, Borges, Chekhov, Maupassant, Mishima and others.
Schedule: Tuesday,Friday From 8:15 am To 9:30 am
Graduation requirements:
- International Issues (3a)
- World Literature (TE 6a)
Teaching Faculty: Nicosia James (nicosiaj)
Is course canceled: No