ENG 684 - World Literature

Credits: 3

Investigates several of great works of world literature from Middle Ages to Renaissance which have influenced Western literature and culture for centuries. Students explore defining characteristics of wide range of genres (epic, poetry, drama, romance, novel and others) and develop proficiency about such topics as influence of classical culture, conceptions of the individual, definitions of love, Humanism, intertextuality, literary structure, and class and gender formation.