World Literature

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Course Description:

Several authors and masterpieces are the focus World Literature. The course includes an introduction to at least three literary genres such as poetry, the short story, drama, and novel or novella. Emphasis will be placed on mindful reading and on writing critical essays about the individual works. Additionally, students must actively participate in class discussion.

Tentative reading list includes the following Texts:

Antigone, Sophocles

"Resistance to Civil Government," Thoreau

Lysistrata, Aristophanes

Bible, (Any Version, English or Spanish)

Siddhartha, Hesse

Metamorphosis, Kafka

Selected Short Stories, Poetry, Drama and Essays,

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Octavio Paz

Guy de Maupassant

And others . . .

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