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| Campus | Haverford |
| Semester | Fall 2024 |
| Registration ID | COMLH200A001 |
| Course Title | Introduction to Comparative Literature |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Comparative Literature |
| Instructor | McInerney,Maud |
| Times and Days | TTh 10:00am-11:25am
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| Room Location | GST102 |
| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1584 This course introduces the study of literature across geographical, linguistic, cultural, disciplinary, and chronological barriers. In order to do so, it explores an idea that transcends such barriers: the idea that literature may and perhaps even ought to blow one's mind. This idea, often called "the sublime" or "sublimity," raises a series of questions: ; Why should a person have, or avoid, mind-blowing experiences?; How does literature compare to other cognitive challenges?; What is "literature" in the first place?; How is it possible to "compare" things, especially very different things, without doing injustice to one, the other, or all of them?; The course materials consist mainly of texts and films by Jane Austen, Italo Calvino, Miguel de Cervantes, Aimé Césaire, Daniel Kwan/Daniel Scheinert, Michel de Montaigne, Raoul Peck, William Shakespeare, and Lina Wertmuller, among others. Humanities, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (Hav: HU, A) |
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