Concentration in Comparative Literary Traditions
DIRECTOR
Associate Professor J. Eidt
About the Concentration in Comparative Literary Traditions
The program in Comparative Literary Traditions proposes studying the European cultural legacy as forming a complex but coherent whole. It conceives of Europe rather as one might a closely-knit family whose members, with all their differences, possess a common heritage and individually have influence and continue to influence each other in myriad ways. In considering these intertwining traditions, the program studies chiefly their higher cultural manifestations: not only literary works in the narrow sense, but any products of human art which can be said to bear a meaning and are in some way expressive of a culture. What we wish to investigate is how Europe has imagined itself and how its self-imagination has developed over time.
The concentration requires 15 credit hours. Five three-credit courses in all: three MCT courses at the 3000-level; two more courses, any combination of MCT courses at any level (3000, 4000 o 5000) or the survey courses MCTF 3305 or MCTG 3305.
Choose 3 courses:
| MCT 3309 | Introduction to Comparative Traditions | 3 |
| MCT 3310 | Special Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies | 3 |
| MCT 3311 | King Arthur in Europe I: The Search for the Holy Grail | 3 |
| MCT 3312 | King Arthur in Europe II: Lancelot | 3 |
| MCT 3321 | Tolkien: Heroic Fantasy and the Literary Tradition | 3 |
| MCT 3330 | Historical Linguistics | 3 |
| MCT 3351 | Epoch II: Early Modern | 3 |
| MCT 3362 | European Romanticisms in Literature and the Arts | 3 |
| MCT 3370 | Epoch III: Modern | 3 |
| MCT 3371 | Monuments of Early Modernism: Picasso, Stravinski, Eliot | 3 |
| MCT 3372 | European Modernisms and the Avant-gardes in Literature, Film and the Visual Arts. | 3 |
| MCT 3381 | Contemporary Europe | 3 |
| MCT 3V50 | Special Topics | 1-6 |
| MCTF 3305 | Introduction to French Literature | 3 |
| MCTG 3305 | Introduction to German Literature | 3 |
Choose from the 4000 - 5000 level courses listed above or any from the list below.