English 2760 explores representative works of world literature from 1650 to the present, within a framework that compares cultures and historical periods and invites consideration of both what is shared among cultures and what is unique about the culture from which each text emerged.  Fulfilling a core requirement for the literary mode of inquiry, this course will examine several major genres of literature and will study themes, forms, and styles in the literary texts. 

Texts that students have explored in past incarnations of this course include: 

Swift's Gulliver's Travels

Voltaire's Candide

Tagore's Broken Ties

Conrad's Heart of Darkness

Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author

Joyce's "The Dead"

Mahfouz's "Zaabalawi"

Achebe's Things Fall Apart