Authors may include Moliere, Blake, Goethe, Ibsen, Kafka, Woolf, Eliot, and Pirandello. Emphasis on the relationships between literature, history, politics, the visual arts, and music. Contemporary World Literature I . A survey of contemporary imaginative ltierature by Asian, Arab, African, and Native American writers. Discussion of major themes, stylistic developments, and connections between literature and recent history.
Subjects vary according to availability of faculty.
International modernist movement in literature, from its nineteenth-century origins to its culmination in the early twentieth century. Definitions of modernity, as embodied in a variety of genres. Placement of Modernist texts within a variety of cultures that produced them. Literary expressions of Postmodernism, from its origins in the Modernist movement through its culmination in the later decades of the twentieth century. Definitions of postmodernity, as embodied in a variety of genres.