Courses in Comparative Literature
(Division 354)
240. Introduction to Comparative Literature. (3). (HU).
Section 001 - Reading to Live. Why read? Why live? Do the two questions
have the same answers? What does reading have to do with living? In this
course, we will take these questions as a framework through which to approach
comparative literature as something people study and as a way they study
it. But wait, there's more! The books you read, the thoughts you think,
and the words you hear, speak, and write will slip under your skin with
excruciating sweetness. They might make you feel itchy and uncomfortable.
It may be difficult to walk and talk normally. You may begin to hear voices
and to tell stories. I promise... But only if you do the reading (which
will include work by authors such as McCullers, Kafka, Puig, Achebe, Shelley,
Cortazar, Freud, Nietzsche, Marx, and Deleuze), writing (weekly short papers,
one or two longer essays), talking, and thinking (constantly). (Colas)
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