Nobel Laureates of Literature

Homer Pettey
FRIDAYS 9:00 a.m. until noon
October 5, 12, 19, 26, November 2, 9, 16, 30, December 7, 14, 2012

Nobel Laureates of Literature

Fall 2012
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FRIDAYS
9:00 a.m. until noon
October 5, 12, 19, 26, November 2, 9, 16, 30, December 7, 14, 2012

Location: 

Main Campus

Clearly, Nobel laureates have made major creative contributions to world literature and to international reception of emerging nations’ literary arts.   This course will expose students to movements in 20th-century world literature by reading Nobel laureates. Global modernism, as shown by influences shared among these laureates, combines Western and non-Western styles, traditions, and modes of expression.  This class will emphasize the relationship of modern world literature to traditional arts, performance, and ritual.

Formal categories and genres will be approached in terms of their relationship to cultural issues and ethnic history.   Students will discover how poetry, fiction, and drama reflect prevailing social forces and national histories.  Showing the interdependence of cultural rituals, folklore traditions, mythic beliefs, and culturally based aesthetics will enable students to employ new formal categories and vocabularies.

The course concludes with a work by the latest laureate, who is announced in early October.  The students and the instructor will read that new work together and utilize critical techniques and apply cultural analyses developed during the semester.

Required Reading: 

Faulkner, William.  Selected Short Stories. Modern Library, 1993. ISBN: 978-0679424789 ..

   

Lagerkvist, Par. Barabbas. Trans. Alan Blair. Vintage, 1989. ISBN: 978-0679725442 .

         

Neruda, Pablo. Selected Poems. Trans. Ben Belitt. Grove, 1994. ISBN: 978-0802151025


Soyinka, Wole.  Collected Plays 2. Oxford, 1975. ISBN: 978-0192811646


Oe, Kenzaburo.  A Personal Matter. Trans. John Nathan. Grove, 1994. ISBN: 978-0802150615


Szymborska, Wislawa.  Poems New and Collected. Mariner Books, 2000. ISBN: 978-0156011464

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Associate Professor
Department of English

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Poetry Center
Dorothy Rubel Room
1508 E Helen
Tucson, AZ 85721
United States
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