CLAS 200 In Other Wor(l)ds: Literature, Language, Culture Proseminar

A survey of some of the most important movements in modern literary and cultural theory one that emphasizes the ways in which literature and social systems interact within a given culture with special attention paid to the way in which the formal elements of language (its syntactic and semantic features its oral and/or written expression) helps constitute our experience of a literature a culture and ourselves. To enhance their understanding of the subtle ever-variable relations between language literature and culture students will be asked to think through examples from a wide variety of geographic regions and time periods.