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Comparative Literary Studies
Course code: CLITG003.
Credits: 30.
This course introduces students to key concerns in Comparative Literary Studies. We start with an overview of the discipline’s historical development, from the origins of world literature to recent debates about literature and globalisation. The main part of the course consists of two small-group, intensive seminars, which each take place over four week periods. Students are encouraged to pursue their own research interests and to choose from a range of options, including seminars on cultural and gender identities; world literature; literary forms and genres in changing historical contexts; themes, myths, and archetypes; literature and other arts; cultural memory; and reception studies.
Assessment: two 3,500 word essays.
Tutor: Dr Florian Mussgnug.
Timetable, preparatory reading and set texts:
Week One:
Introduction to Comparative Literature
Dr Florian Mussgnug
Weeks Two to Five:
(1) On Antigone
Dr Jane Gilbert
(2) The City in Medieval Literature
Dr Catherine Keen
(3) Encounters with Others: Strangers, Monsters, Beasts
Dr Florian Mussgnug
Weeks Six to Nine:
(4) Poetry and the City
Prof Tim Mathews and Dr Adrian Stevens
(5) Early Modern Travel Narratives: Exoticism, Colonialism, Religion
Dr Isabelle Moreau
(6) Representations of
Trauma - Writing the Holocaust
Dr Tsila Ratner
(7) Modern Myths: Characters, Themes, and Genres
Dr Florian Mussgnug [reserve option]
