Spring 2021 - WL 103W D100
Early World Literatures (3)
Class Number: 6367
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 11 – Apr 16, 2021: Mon, 11:00 a.m.–12:20 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:
PREMODERN WORLD LITERATURE: ON LOVE
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How does love transform us? What can the wealth of literature teach us about the power of love? From Plato’s Diotima, who argues that love of the particular transforms into love of wisdom, to Dante’s Beatrice, whose love becomes a form of salvation, to Rumi’s philosophy of love as a religion, we will look into the ways in which love brings out the best and sometimes the worst in us. Exploring the bond between the 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”, Dante’s La Vita Nuova, Nezami’s Leyla and Majnun, along with poetry by Rumi. |
COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- recognize ambiguity as an invitation to engage in interpretation
- develop an eye for detail in order to unpace close-readings
- explore the implications of your analysis
- write a thesis paper
Grading
- Attendance / Active Participation 10%
- Presentation 10%
- Midterm Paper (working 10% + final 20%) 30%
- Final Paper (working 10% + final 30%) 40%
- Art Project 5%
- Assignments 5%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Texts will be made available online.
Registrar Notes:
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TEACHING AT SFU IN SPRING 2021
Teaching at SFU in spring 2021 will be conducted primarily through remote methods. There will be in-person course components in a few exceptional cases where this is fundamental to the educational goals of the course. Such course components will be clearly identified at registration, as will course components that will be “live” (synchronous) vs. at your own pace (asynchronous). Enrollment acknowledges that remote study may entail different modes of learning, interaction with your instructor, and ways of getting feedback on your work than may be the case for in-person classes. To ensure you can access all course materials, we recommend you have access to a computer with a microphone and camera, and the internet. In some cases your instructor may use Zoom or other means requiring a camera and microphone to invigilate exams. If proctoring software will be used, this will be confirmed in the first week of class.
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