CMLT-C 205 COMPARATIVE LITERARY ANALYSIS (3 CR.)
Introduction to basic concepts of literary criticism through comparative close readings of texts from a variety of literary genres - fiction, poetry, drama, essay - from diverse traditions.
1 classes found
Fall 2024
| Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEC | 3 | 30974 | Open | 11:30 a.m.–12:45 p.m. | MW | LI 026 | Potapowicz I |
Regular Academic Session / In Person
LEC 30974: Total Seats: 20 / Available: 1 / Waitlisted: 0
Lecture (LEC)
- IUB GenEd A&H credit
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
- Above class COLL Intensive Writing section
Topic: One novel, several approaches
A victorious hero, cast adrift on uncharted seas on his return from a cataclysmic war, struggles through unimaginable dangers and powerful temptations to return to the wife and home he left twenty years ago. The Odyssey¿one of the oldest surviving works of European literature¿continues to inspire films, plays, novels, poems, graphic novels, and artworks: war stories and love stories, postcolonial and feminist revisions, parodies and tragedies. Explore these adaptations and learn why Homer¿s tales of Troy, with their questioning of ideals of honor and glory, their awareness of the human cost of warfare, and their struggle to find heroism in human experience, remain necessary today. Discover how contemporary authors and directors from Derek Walcott to Madeline Miller to the Coen brothers reinvent myths for new audiences and examine the nature of adaptation itself.
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