Foundations Of Literature 1

Prerequisites

• - SOPHOMORES

Course Description

• This yearlong course invites students to read, discuss, and write about challenging and culturally formative texts of the last 3,000 years, from the Greek plays and Homer’s Odyssey to contemporary works of literature, such as Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire. Students will consider themes as central and far-reaching as the nature of truth, the role of power and ambition in society, the meaning of artistic freedom, the complications of race and gender, and the role of fate and free will in literature and culture.