ENG-2320H - World Literature I - Honors (3)

Prerequisite: ENG 1020 ; consult with Languages and Literature Chair

Major works of world literature from antiquity to approximately 1700 C.E. are studied in terms of the cultures that produced them. Emphasis is on global and comparative perspectives, interrelations, and context. Many texts studied originate in the oral tradition, and many are read in translation. Included, in their entirety when possible, may be The Epic of Gilgamesh, ancient Egyptian poetry, Hebrew Scripture, The Illiad or The Odyssey, The Analects of Confucius, The Mahabharata, The Qur’an, Dante’s Inferno, early Japanese works, and a work from the European Renaissance.

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