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WORLD LITERATURE
Note: See beginning of Section F for abbreviations, course numbers and coding.
For upper-level courses, the prerequisite is: WLIT 2503 or permission of the instructor.
WLIT 2503 can be used as lower level elective for English programmes
WLIT 2503
Introduction to Comparative Literature
3 ch
This course is an introduction to the discipline of Comparative Literature. Students will read
representative works in a variety of genres from different cultures and historical periods.
WLIT 3314
European Romanticism
3 ch (3C)
A study of the literature, art, and music of the period 1770-1850 in Europe. Major themes
may include individualism, Romantic heroism, revolution, folklore, childhood and nature.
WLIT 3315
Nineteenth-Century Literature
3 ch (3C)
The development of Western literature, philosophy, and aesthetics during the second half of
the nineteenth century, in the context of literary, philosophical, aesthetic, and social
movements. Authors studied may include: Baudelaire, Sand, Mallarmé, Rachilde, Marx,
Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Ibsen, Dostoevsky, Strindberg, Freud.
WLIT 3725
Literature and/as Philosophy
3 ch (3C)
Through the study of specific authors, this course will be an examination of the manner in
which these two humanities disciplines interact, enhance and mutually inform dialectical,
analytic, and imaginative forms of thought. Authors and their texts may include de
Beauvoir, Camus, Dostoevsky, Kundera, de Sade, Sartre, Tolstoy, Wollstonecraft.
WLIT 3901
Studies in Comparative Literature
An upper-level seminar on a specified topic. Please consult the discipline.
3 ch (3S)