| This course will investigate the relationship between the local and the global through literature from Antiquity (2nd millennium BCC) to the European Renaissance (15th century CE). Organized around major literary forms, the course will familiarize students with different cultural, socio-political, religious, and economic movements across the globe. How do we read and understand other cultures while situated in our own, and how does our reading of other cultures inform our understanding of our own culture? How does the attempt to respond to the unique cultural and political movements of the period manifest itself in literature from the period? Through religious texts, origin myths, epics, lyrics, plays, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction, the course will consider the question of how a specific localized form adapts when it crosses geographical boundaries. Fulfills requirement: Critical Thinking through Writing,Humanistic Perspectives. 3 credits. |