A&H 135 Great Literary Works
Content
This course presents a discussion of some important works of human thought and imagination that have inspired the Western world for millennia and are thus fundamental to liberal arts education. Literature in this course will be demonstrated as an important autonomous artistic field, and its reading as an analytical endeavour with its own conceptual language. Texts from our reading list are mainly taken from the Western literary canon, and have been selected as basic for developing critical skills. During the course we discuss selected works by Homer, Sophocles, St. Augustine, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Rousseau, Proust, Chekhov and Kafka. Reading these texts, we will remain sensitive to the breadth of vision of as well as internal contradictions in the Western humanistic tradition, and to the fact that Western classics hardly make up a unified doctrine. Participation in this course thus should enable students to acquire an opinion about cultural and intellectual continuity and change in the Western tradition and in this way enable them to confront it with other traditions in the globalizing world.
Instructor
Dr. Ewa Tak-Ignaczak
Track
Literary Studies
Period
Fall / 2008
Required for
This course is an alternative requirement for the following courses:
- A&H 236 The Rise of the Novel
- A&H 237 Life and Travel Writing
- A&H 238 The Politics of Poetry
- A&H 336 Critical Perspectives on Literary Meaning
- A&H 337 Film and Text
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