COML 2020 - Great Books

(LA-AS)

Spring. 4 credits.

T. McEnaney.

This course traces storytelling as it has developed through interaction with a variety of technology, from the Renaissance printing press to today’s social media. Through readings of Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, Flaubert, M. Shelley, Faulkner, Morrison, Cortázar, Pynchon, Piglia and others we will examine how literature has helped forge our understanding and construction of the tools we use to organize, structure and otherwise change the world.