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LITC0027: Canons and Creativity: Period, Context, Text (21/22)
Considerations and disputes about the role of literary canons are essential
to Comparative Literature. This module invites students to reflect on the
history and changing cultural and political significance of
literary canons in a wide variety of context. Our three case studies -
the Book of Revelation; Frankenstein; the myths of Antigone - are
foundational texts, whose cultural influence is widely felt, across
national literatures and different languages. We will consider how these
texts came to occupy their central roles in world literature, and how they
have been (re-)read and (re)written in different periods, including the
present.
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