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European Literature Syllabus

This document outlines a European Literature course that aims to study how literary texts interpret human conflict through their formal elements and historical contexts. Students will examine how masterpieces explore human experience shaped by culture and society, and develop an understanding of literature's role in self-understanding. The course introduces concepts of literary criticism to analyze the aesthetic and cognitive properties of cultural masterpieces. Students will read 10 works, including Tristan and Isolde, The Decameron, Candide, Madame Bovary, and The Brothers Karamazov, and be evaluated through discussions, writing, quizzes, and exams.

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European Literature Syllabus

This document outlines a European Literature course that aims to study how literary texts interpret human conflict through their formal elements and historical contexts. Students will examine how masterpieces explore human experience shaped by culture and society, and develop an understanding of literature's role in self-understanding. The course introduces concepts of literary criticism to analyze the aesthetic and cognitive properties of cultural masterpieces. Students will read 10 works, including Tristan and Isolde, The Decameron, Candide, Madame Bovary, and The Brothers Karamazov, and be evaluated through discussions, writing, quizzes, and exams.

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European Literature Our overall aim is to study how literary texts interpret human conflict, with necessary attention

to the formal modalities, stylistic and rhetorical, which nourish this interpretation. These texts are couched in a historical and cultural context which we can study through painting and music (if available) as well, with the idea nonetheless of understanding what makes them masterpieces. "Literature is a criticism of life" (H.R. Leavis, after Matthew Arnold), which is another way of saying that literary masterpieces help us develop a critical consciousness of our experience--personal, social, cultural, historical, as well as aesthetic. Learning Objectives: Students will study literary masterpieces as a means of exploring human experience as shaped by cultural and social factors; develop an understanding of literary creativity and imagination as a discovery procedure that contributes to human self-understanding. Students will examine the interpretive and explanatory power of literary texts themselves as they reveal patterns of behavior that are constant over different historical periods. Students will be introduced to the basic concepts of literary criticism necessary to the analysis and appreciation of the formal, esthetic and cognitive properties of cultural masterpieces. Students will develop, through oral and written communication, reading and analytical skills appropriate to the study of literature. Students will be encouraged to discover the pleasure of reading and the rewards of effective self-expression. Array of Texts: 1. Tristan and Isolde 2. The Decameron 3. Candide 4. Madame Bovary 5. Don Quixote 6. The Brothers Karamazov 7. The Communist Manifesto

8. The Ages of Man 9. Le Miserables (film) 10. The Black Swan

Evaluation Methods: discussion in-class writing objective quizzes exams

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