Spring 2018 - WL 103W D200
Early World Literatures (3)
Class Number: 13166
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 3 – Apr 10, 2018: Mon, 10:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
Burnaby -
Exam Times + Location:
Apr 13, 2018
Fri, 3:30–6:30 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani
aya23@sfu.ca
1 778 782-8761
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Introduces ways of comparing early world literatures across time and space. May explore fundamental themes such as love, heroism, or the underworld. Writing/Breadth-Humanities.
COURSE DETAILS:
What does the wealth of world literature teach us about love? From Plato’s Diotima, who argues that love of the particular can transform into a philosophy of seeing beauty in the world, to Dante’s Beatrice, whose image becomes a heavenly signpost, to Rumi and Hafez’s poetics of love as a religion, we will look into the ways in which love encapsulates the sublime. Exploring the tie between lover and beloved, we will see what happens when love faces 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 Leyla and Majnun, along with poetry by Rumi and Hafez.
COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Critical thinking and analytical writing skills
- Learning how to close-read
- Writing a thesis paper
- Working on presentation and public speaking skills
Grading
- Midterm Exam 30%
- Presentation 10%
- Participation 15%
- Art Project 5%
- Final Paper (1st draft) 10%
- Final Paper (final draft) 30%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
(1) The Longman Anthology of World Literature: The Medieval Era (Volume B). Edited by David Damrosch. New York: Longman, 2004. ISBN 0321169786.
(2) Persian Poets. Edited by Peter Washington. Everyman’s Library, 2000. ISBN 0375411267.
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