LIT 142 - Later World Literature

This course introduces students to the classics of world literature while drawing from a variety of genres and traditions. The course may be subdivided into geographical regions while also attending to major events in the development of literary cultures. This course will generally span from the Enlightenment to the modern period and include texts from east Asian dramatic literature, Enlightenment Europe, early modern east Asia, European and American revolutions, realism movements across the world, oratory movements across the world, modernity and modernism across the world, postwar/postcolonial literature, and contemporary world literature.

Credits: 3

Class Level First Year Undergraduate
Program Undergraduate