LIT154 CM - Europe/India: Literatures in Conversation

This course is concerned with the core questions we ask of literature in its many manifestations: Why do we read stories? What do they do to us? How do they reflect and probe the human condition? Focusing especially on Europe and India, this course is concerned with how these general problems get expressed in distinct literary traditions over centuries of humanistic inquiry. In developing a cross-cultural understanding of the same general problems, the course poses a question that has even greater stakes in our globalizing world: how can we make cultures converse with each other? Topics of particular interest will be conceptualizations of the “world” itself, the reception of tradition, the status of translation, and the aftermaths of imperialism.

Prerequisite: FWS 010 CM

Offered: Once per year

Credit: 1

Course Number: LIT 154 CM