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LiteratureIntermediateLIT 201
Survey of World Literature
From ancient epics to contemporary global fiction
5 modules
25 lessons
~18h
4 credit hours
Taught by Selin Literature AI
What you'll learn
Contextualize literary works within their historical and cultural moments
Trace the evolution of major literary forms and genres across centuries
Compare literary traditions across cultures and languages
Apply close-reading skills to diverse texts
Write a comparative literary analysis
Prerequisites
Course Curriculum
25 lessons totalModule 1 Quiz
Ed Plus10m
Module 2 Quiz
Ed Plus10m
Romantic Poetry: Blake, Keats, Shelley & Wordsworth
Ed Plus25m
The Victorian Novel: Dickens, Brontë & Hardy
Ed Plus25m
American Renaissance: Whitman, Dickinson & Melville
Ed Plus25m
Modernism: Joyce, Woolf, Eliot & Kafka
Ed Plus30m
Module 3 Quiz
Ed Plus10m
The Harlem Renaissance
Ed Plus25m
The Lost Generation: Hemingway & Fitzgerald
Ed Plus25m
Post-War American Fiction: Salinger, Ellison, O'Connor
Ed Plus25m
Toni Morrison & the African American Literary Tradition
Ed Plus30m
Module 4 Quiz
Ed Plus10m
Latin American Magic Realism: García Márquez & Borges
Ed Plus25m
African Literature: Achebe, Soyinka & Adichie
Ed Plus25m
South Asian Literature: Tagore, Rushdie & Lahiri
Ed Plus25m
Contemporary Global Fiction & the World Novel
Ed Plus25m
Module 5 Quiz
Ed Plus10m
Ed Plus
First 2 modules free
Modules5
Lessons25
Estimated time~18h
Credit hours4