This course presents a global approach to literature by introducing a variety of narrative, lyric, and dramatic forms representative of different cultures and historical periods, from the seventeenth century to the present. Some questions we will consider over the course of the semester include: What makes literature “great”? How do we read literature? What topics or themes have been most central to writing and writers over the past three centuries? How are human relationships understood or interpreted in relation to each other within works of literature? How do we understand nature? Family? Love? Power? Politics? History? Please come to class prepared to engage in lively discussions involving both close readings of the texts, as well as comparisons of the various values and ideas at stake within the texts. You should also be prepared to engage in a variety of communication-intensive activities, so please be prepared to write frequently, respond to work by your peers, share your own writing, and participate in oral presentations and small group work.
Great Works of Literature II
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I agree with you. A mademan, who is he and who is going to listen to him. I believe that nobody cares about what he was saying because they only follow their interests not the interest of the others. Althus we have freedom today, but unfortunately there still unfairness in our societies, in many area of social institutions.
Literature writers such as El Saadawi have said: “First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing, whether autobiographical or novel; there is a self and an other. Of course, I was inspired by my life. I was inspired by the lives of many women doctors around me. So it’s a mixture. I cannot write except when the self and the other become one.”
I chose this specific quote because I believe that regardless of the style of writing there is always a sense of self, identification or wanting. My favorites thus far this semester have been El Saadawi and Baldwin in what I call narration of a struggle with self, nature and nurture!
What do you think?!?