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This is a self-paced free online course. This short literature course examines how writers break the barrier of national and linguistic boundaries and how their modern fictions rise to the status of masterpieces.
You will be taught how to weave small frictions in to a large one either is that of mediaeval tales or of futuristic science fictions. This is a course for all the creative minded people who are interested international conflicts or cultural change.
Assessment
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer need to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
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Course Credit: Harvard University
Course Curriculum
1.1 Introduction Fictions of the Modern World | 00:15:00 | ||
1.2 World Literature and Writing Technologies | 00:14:00 | ||
2.1 Goethe in Weimar | 00:01:00 | ||
2.2 Goethe’s Garden House | 00:02:00 | ||
2.3 Introducing Johann Peter Eckermann | 00:02:00 | ||
2.4 Eckermann Travels to Weimar | 00:03:00 | ||
2.5 Conversations with Goethe | 00:01:00 | ||
2.6 The Birth of World Literature | 00:03:00 | ||
2.7 Eckermann’s Role in World Literature | 00:04:00 | ||
2.8 Goethe’s Corpus | 00:04:00 | ||
2.9 Goethe’s Poetry | 00:04:00 | ||
3.1 The 1001 Nights in Relation to the Epic | 00:08:00 | ||
3.2 The Origin of the Tales | 00:07:00 | ||
3.3 Orientalism, Translation, and Colonialism | 00:07:00 | ||
3.4 A Comparison of Translations | 00:04:00 | ||
3.5 Scheherazade, Dunyazade, and Harun al-Rashid | 00:05:00 | ||
3.6 Reading in Historical Context | 00:03:00 | ||
3.7 Modern Adaptations | 00:09:00 | ||
3.8 The 1001 Nights as World Literature | 00:02:00 | ||
3.9 Goethe’s Arabian Nights | 00:04:00 | ||
3.10 Authorship, Transcription, Curation | 00:06:00 | ||
3.11 Influence in the East and West | 00:05:00 | ||
3.12 Influence on Contemporary Authors | 00:06:00 | ||
3.13 Frame Stories | 00:06:00 | ||
3.14 The Worldliness of the 1001 Nights | 00:06:00 | ||
4.1 Biography of Voltaire | 00:04:00 | ||
4.2 The Literary Marketplace | 00:06:00 | ||
4.3 Candide, Satire, and Leibniz | 00:11:00 | ||
4.4 The Best of All Possible Worlds El Dorado and Utopia | 00:05:00 | ||
4.5 Comedy and Philosophy | 00:06:00 | ||
4.6 Cultivating the Garden | 00:07:00 | ||
5.1 Lu Xun in Context | 00:08:00 | ||
5.2 China and Modernism | 00:06:00 | ||
5.3 The Diary of a Madman | 00:07:00 | ||
5.4 Imperial Bureaucracy and the Story of Ah Q | 00:11:00 | ||
5.5 What is to Be Done | 00:05:00 | ||
5.6 Lu Xun’s Place in Literary History | 00:03:00 | ||
5.7 Interview with Yanping Zhang Lu Xun | 00:07:00 | ||
5.8 Eileen Chang in Context | 00:04:00 | ||
5.9 Irony and Modernity | 00:07:00 | ||
5.10 Interview with Yanping Zhang The Style of Eileen Chang | 00:13:00 | ||
6.1 Origins of Borgesian Modernism | 00:02:00 | ||
6.2 The Library of Babel | 00:04:00 | ||
6.3 Universalism and Genre | 00:06:00 | ||
6.4 Metafiction and Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote | 00:09:00 | ||
6.5 The Garden of Forking Paths and the Politics of Literature | 00:05:00 | ||
6.6 Fiction and Futurity | 00:07:00 | ||
6.7 On First Reading Borges | 00:05:00 | ||
6.8 Populism and Politics | 00:12:00 | ||
6.9 Conceptual Fiction and the Nation | 00:08:00 | ||
6.10 Borges and Form | 00:06:00 | ||
7.1 Postcolonial India and Britain | 00:05:00 | ||
7.2 VideoRushdie’s Chekhov and Zulu | 00:06:00 | ||
7.3 The Satanic Verses Controversy | 00:03:00 | ||
7.4 Rushdie’s East, West | 00:08:00 | ||
7.5 Main Themes of Chekhov and Zulu | 00:11:00 | ||
7.6 Jhumpa Lahiri in Context | 00:06:00 | ||
7.7 Theatricality and the Short Story | 00:07:00 | ||
7.8 The Future(s) of Literary Form | 00:03:00 | ||
7.9 Local or Cosmopolitan | 00:05:00 | ||
7.10 Bombay and the Return to Paradise | 00:05:00 | ||
7.11 Rushdie as Postcolonial Author | 00:05:00 | ||
7.12 Public Reaction to the Satanic Verses | 00:08:00 | ||
7.13 Film and Rushdie’s Fiction | 00:09:00 | ||
7.14 Translatability and Untranslatibility | 00:04:00 | ||
7.15 Jhumpa Lahiri and Colonial Heritage | 00:08:00 | ||
7.16 The Jaipur Literary Festival Part 1 | 00:09:00 | ||
7.17 The Jaipur Literary Festival Part 2 | 00:06:00 | ||
8.1 Orhan Pamuk and the History of Turkey | 00:06:00 | ||
8.2 My Name Is Red | 00:05:00 | ||
8.3 Perspective, Form, and the Novel | 00:06:00 | ||
8.4 Of Miniatures, Frames, and the Author | 00:06:00 | ||
8.5 Themes of The Museum of Innocence | 00:04:00 | ||
8.6 Interview with Orhan Pamuk Part 1 | 00:06:00 | ||
8.7 Interview with Orhan Pamuk Part 2 | 00:07:00 | ||
8.8 Interview with Orhan Pamuk Part 3 | 00:09:00 | ||
8.9 Interview with Orhan Pamuk Part 4 | 00:05:00 | ||
8.10 Interview with Orhan Pamuk Part 5 from | 00:03:00 | ||
8.11 City Tour With Murat Belge | 00:10:00 | ||
8.12 Tour of the Museum of Innocence | 00:10:00 | ||
Assessment | |||
Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
Certification | 00:00:00 |
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