COML 2030

Introduction to Comparative Literature

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2016-2017 Catalog.

Spring: Take your love for literature into uncharted waters. "Introduction to Comparative Literature" journeys beyond national and disciplinary borders to explore the far-reaching implications of our increasingly globalized world. In this survey of the field, you'll be exposed to the cutting-edge of current themes and debates in comparative literature. Exploring a range of texts from across the globe, we'll read authors including Ovid, Aimé Césaire, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Gloria Anzaldua, J.M. Coetzee, Yoko Tawada and Kazuo Ishiguro. Punctuated by special guest lectures by innovative scholars in the field, this course will expose you to a wide array of topics such as: postcolonial literature, translation, animal studies, digital humanities, public humanities, ecocriticism, and media studies.  Students will emerge from this course with new awareness of global cultural expression and with practice in critical reading and writing.

Distribution Category (LA-AS)

When Offered Fall, spring.

Comments Fall 2016 only: students must apply in writing to chair, Department of Comparative Literature, complit@cornell.edu.

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