Fall 2014 - WL 103W D900
Pre-Modern World Literature (3)
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Sep 2 – Dec 1, 2014: Mon, 2:30–4:20 p.m.
Surrey
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Instructor:
Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani
aya23@sfu.ca
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Surveys pre-modern texts of world literature. Writing/Breadth-Humanities.
COURSE DETAILS:
If you have ever been, or hope to fall, in love, you should take this course and learn from the wealth of literature dedicated to this most splendid of human experiences. From Plato’s Diotima, who argues that love of the particular transforms into a philosophy of being, to Dante’s Beatrice, whose love not only inspires poetry but also guides Dante through Hell and Purgatory towards the Heavens, to Rumi and Hafez’s religion of love, we will look into the ways in which the experience of love encapsulates the sublime to the downright tragic. Exploring the connection between lover and beloved, we will study love in connection to social conflict, death and madness, beauty and metamorphosis, the ineffable and the inception of the poetic.
Readings will include Plato’s Symposium, Ovid’s “Echo and Narcissus” from the Metamorphosis, Dante’s La Vita Nuova and the Divine Comedy, Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun’s Romance of the Rose, Nezami’s Khosrow and Shirin and Leyla and Majnun, along with poetry by Rumi and Hafez.
COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:
- Critical thinking and analytical writing skills
- How to engage in an insightful close-reading of a passage
- How to write an effective thesis paper
Grading
- Midterm paper 25%
- Final paper 40%
- Journal 15%
- Presentation 5%
- Participation 10%
- Art project 5%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Rosenwasser, David and Jill Stephen. Writing Analytically. 5th Edition. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2008. ISBN: 1413033105 (or whatever edition you have from a previous class).
THIS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SFU BOOKSTORE. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO ORDER THIS BOOK ONLINE BEFORE THE SEMESTER STARTS!
Custom coursewar.
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