Masterpieces of World Literature

开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: 12 weeks

所在平台: EdxArchive 课程类别: 其他类别 大学或机构: HarvardX 授课老师： David Damrosch Martin Puchner

课程主页: https://www.edx.org/archive/masterpieces-world-literature-harvardx-hum12x

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This literature course explores how great writers refract their world and how their works are transformed when they intervene in our global cultural landscape today.

No national literature has ever grown up in isolation from the cultures around it; from the earliest periods, great works of literature have probed the tensions, conflicts, and connections among neighboring cultures and often more distant regions as well.

Focusing particularly on works of literature that take the experience of the wider world as their theme, this course will explore the varied artistic modes in which great writers have situated themselves in the world, helping us to understand the deep roots of today's intertwined global cultures.

Texts/authors considered in the course:

• Goethe
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Homer, The Odyssey
• The 1001 Nights
• Voltaire, Candide
• Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red
• Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman
• Lu Xun, Diary of a Madman
• Eileen Chang
• Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji Jorge
• Luis Borges, Ficciones
• Salman Rushdie and Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Lusiads

课程大纲

• The history of World Literature
• How literary works and books are transformed by cultural transmission
• How to critically analyze literary works
• The significance of major technological advances in writing

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