ENG 226 - World Literatures: Topics

This course examines topics in literature from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Australia and Oceania, Europe, and the Americas. The topic for each session may vary. Instructors select authors from different periods to demonstrate how various ideologies, genres, genders, classes, and times have dealt with questions posed by the relationship between literature and the topic. Analysis stresses both works’ intrinsic values and their contributions to world cultures. Lectures and presentations are given on historical, cultural, and intellectual background. May be repeated under different topics.

Credit(s): 3
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Arts & Humanities Perspectives course for the Dialogues.
The Post-Colonial Literature section of ENG 226 fulfills the Intercultural Interconnecting Perspectives of the Dialogues.