EUST 2112 - Great Literary Texts of Western Civilization

This course explores a sample of the Great Literary Texts of Western Civilization. All the genres will be represented, so that students may appreciate the intricacies of prose, theatre and poetic language. The texts and themes will be varied and will include works by authors chosen from the following list: Sophocles, Homer, Dante, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Goethe, Stendhal, Dostoyevsky and Proust. The survey of Great Texts will cover the themes and the place in literary history of these writers, but also their innovations in terms of technique (form, texture of the language).