Description: Teaches concepts of cross-cultural literacy. Explores how writers in different cultures use literature to define the human, process the foreign, and perceive the world. Discusses what world literature has been and what it could be. Considers reading as a tool for approaching cultural difference. Emphasizes non-English language traditions.
Referenced in
- Comparative and World Literature — Languages and Literatures/ Comparative Literature
- Languages and Literatures/Chinese — Major
- Languages and Literatures/Classical Studies — Major
- Languages and Literatures/Comparative Ancient Civilizations — Major
- Languages and Literatures/French — Major
- Languages and Literatures/Germanic Studies — Major
- Languages and Literatures/Japanese — Major
- Languages and Literatures/Languages — Major
- Languages and Literatures/Russian — Major