Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: GLOBAL LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to global literary studies and critical writing in which students study a range of influential literatures. The subject is twentieth-century English-language modernism and its successors, postmodernism and postcolonialism. The course attends to the effects of each tradition on its sucessors, and, reciprocally, the effect of subsequent traditions on our understanding of the implications and deficiencies of previous movements.