A Great Novel Focuses on one major novel only, a long work that reveals an entire culture and explores a broad range of human potentialities. Classes meet once a week for discussion. Women and Literature Writing by women and images of women in literature. Specific subject varies from semester to semester, but readings include both contemporary and classic works. Attention paid in background lectures to recent feminist literary criticism and historical research.
Emphasis is on relativity of perspective.
May include works from Asia, Africa, Oceania, the Americas, and Europe, with emphasis on non Euro-American literature.