LITR203

Literature crosses borders. It doesn‘t need a passport. Literature? that human urge to endlessly invent and tell stories—emerged thousands ofyears ago and
continues its travels today across the globe: an international, intercultural, and interlinguistic exchange, posing questions about wisdom, humor, philosophy, and every other kind of human impulse. Methods ofLiterary Study invites students on the journey, exploring a broad selection ofliterary texts, produced across the world and across eras. Students come to understand something ofthe aesthetics, genres, and periods that define literature as they hone their writing and perform literary research. Discovering literary theory, they encounter new ideas about what literature is, what it does, and why it has endured for so long and in so many cultural guises.