CMLT-C 205 Comparative Literary Analysis:
Topic:  Recycled Stories, Texts in Conversation

#28073: MW 11:15-12:30 ~ Professor Segal

Above section COLL Intensive Writing Section and meets A& H
requirement.

This course provides an introduction to methods of literary analysis
and interpretation from a comparative perspective. It is required of
Comparative Literature majors and recommended for other students
interested in the study of world literature. The course fulfills the
Intensive Writing requirement of the College of Arts and Sciences.

The focus of the course will be on relationships between literary
texts: How do particular stories change when retold and rewritten in
different literary contexts?  how do stories, poems, plays, novels
use a reader’s familiarity with earlier works to create meaning and
complexity?  What does the fact of this “conversation” add to our
understanding of literature and inform our attempts to write about
literature comparatively?

We will read several different genres (novel, play, short story,
poetry, essay, diary, case history) and attend two performances (a
movie, an opera) in an attempt to answer these questions.  Longer
works read in this course will include biblical excerpts,
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Maugham’s The Moon and
Sixpence, Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway.

Requirements for the course include short response papers, four
essays.