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Course Discription |
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This course is a survey of the representative works of a major literary figure in the field of Anglo-American, European, and World literature within relevant historical contexts and critical movements. Possible names include, but are not limited to, William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Hardy, E. M. Forster, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Ezra Pound, Mark Twain, Arthur Miller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Toni Morrison, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Hermann Hesse, Chinua Achebe, J. M. Coetzee, Naguib Mahfouz, Kazuo Ishiguro, ... etc. Since this course is an in-depth study of a specific author, students are expected to master the examined works of this figure and know the critical trends used to approach such works. Each student is expected to produce a specialized research paper on this major author and give a public lecture on the works of this major author. |