World Literature

The prominent authors, poets and playwrights from various countries and different eras will be studied with a special attention to what makes them valuable and how they contributed to the intellectual life of the world. Class discussions will focus on a study of both the form and the content of the works.

Works to be studied are as follows:

Dostoyevsy           The Underground Man

Gogol                     “The Cloak”

Chekhov                The Cherry Orchard

Camus                  “The Guest” and “The Adulterous Woman”

Goethe                  Faust I 

Kafka                     The Metamorphosis

Walt Whitman        Leaves of Grass

Kazuo Ishiguro       “A Family Supper”

Ibsen                       Lady from the Sea

William Sansom     “Difficulty with a Bouquet”

Mevlana                  From Divan-ı Kebir

Borges                    “Circular Ruins”

Christina Peri Rossi “The Treshhold”