Senior Colloquium in Literary Studies
Study, discussion, and analysis of selected great works of world literature from the perspective of their achievements in thought and literary art, and considered as part of a vital literary tradition in which the works enter into dialogue with one another. The works to be considered this semester are Homer, The Odyssey (Lattimore trans.); Tolstoy, War and Peace (Maude trans.); Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (Pevear & Volokhonsky trans.); Mann, The Magic Mountain (Woods trans.); Proust, Swann's Way (Scott-Montcrieff & Kilmartin trans. revised by Enright, Modern Library); Joyce, Ulysses (ed. Gabler). Open to nonmajors with approval of the instructor.