THE WORLD, THE TEXT, AND THE CRITIC II (CL1050)

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This team-taught course opens up a historical panorama of European literature stretching from the 18th to the 21st century. It does not pretend to provide a survey of this period but rather showcases a selection of significant moments and locations when literary genres changed or new genres appeared. The idea is to open as many doors as possible onto the rich complexity of comparative literary history. In order to help students orient themselves within various histories of generic mutations and emergences, the professors have put together a vocabulary of key literary critical terms in the fields of narrative structure, style, and rhetoric.

Code: 
CL1050
Name: 
THE WORLD, THE TEXT, AND THE CRITIC II
Discipline: 
CL (Comparative Literature)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Learning Outcomes

  1. To write detailed analysis of literary works through close reading and attention to the relation between original and translated works
  2. To construct relations between the details of literary works and their social and historical contexts
  3. Understand the social, political, economic, and subjective stakes of the transformation of literary genres
  4. To enrich one’s literary critical vocabulary, becoming familiar with a variety of stylistic figures, tropes, genres and narrative structures
  5. To establish a set of historical and geographical landmarks that will allow a personal writing of comparative literary histories to begin

Offering(s)

Term Code Name
Spring 2025 CL1050 THE WORLD, THE TEXT, AND THE CRITIC II

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