This team-taught course opens up a historical panorama of European literature stretching from the 18th to the 21st century. It does not pretend to provide a survey of this period but rather showcases a selection of significant moments and locations when literary genres changed or new genres appeared. The idea is to open as many doors as possible onto the rich complexity of comparative literary history. In order to help students orient themselves within various histories of generic mutations and emergences, the professors have put together a vocabulary of key literary critical terms in the fields of narrative structure, style, and rhetoric.
Code
CL1050
Name
THE WORLD, THE TEXT, AND THE CRITIC II
Credits
4
Pre-requisites
None
Co-requisites
None
Can be taken twice for credit?
No
Discipline
CL (Comparative Literature)
Level
Undergraduate
Type
GE100
CAMS ID
2567
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To write detailed analysis of literary works through close reading and attention to the relation between original and translated works.
To construct relations between the details of literary works and their social and historical contexts
Understand the social, political, economic, and subjective stakes of the transformation of literary genres
To enrich one’s literary critical vocabulary, becoming familiar with a variety of stylistic figures, tropes, genres and narrative structures
To establish a set of historical and geographical landmarks that will allow a personal writing of comparative literary histories to begin
Term Code Name
Spring 2021 CL1050 THE WORLD, THE TEXT, AND THE CRITIC II