World Literature In MusicJuly 14, 2019 – 05:50 am
Photo by Somak Sarkar. West Bengali singer-songwriter-politician Kabir Suman. Go look up “Bangladesh” in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Hmm. There is an entry for “Bengali music, ” but not one specifically for Bangladesh. Try the Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World . There at least you will find an entry titled “Bangladesh and West Bengal (India).” Despite something of a classificatory discrepancy here—what other…
World Literature authors listJanuary 22, 2019 – 08:41 am
Kenzaburo Oe Oe received the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature (see WLT, Winter 2002, 4–51). His most recent work in English is The Changeling (2010). Haruki Murakami After Oe, Murakami is Japan’s most famous living author and a two-time nominee for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. His most recent work in English is IQ84 (2011). Hisashi Inoue Inoue (1934-2010) was a leading Japanese playwright and writer of comic fiction. He served as…
World Literature projectsNovember 8, 2018 – 12:11 pm
Why World Literature? We live in an increasingly global world. We’re connected by phone, Internet, snail mail, newspapers, magazines, television. Technology has enabled me to ‘meet’ many fellow book enthusiasts from all parts of the world, sharing our love of literature through blogs, Library Thing and GoodReads. I’ve read hundreds of books in my lifetime and yet I feel my reading has been somewhat limited. I know little about the literature of South…
World Literature Syllabus CollegeOctober 19, 2018 – 12:10 pm
UPDATE: Professor Goldfarb has since gotten in touch with us to let us know that Auden s course was indeed taught over the course of a single semeste r. Hey, kids, think you ve got it tough? Poet W. H. Auden was a professor at the University of Michigan during the 1941-42 academic year, teaching Fate and the Individual in European Literature. His syllabus required over 6, pages of reading including Dante s The Divine Comedy,Dostoevsky s The Brother…
World Literature for DummiesJuly 31, 2018 – 12:05 pm
World Literature: Part I Russian Literature Disclaimer: If you are not that into books you might want to leave by clicking here (why, isn’t that all you do in your free time?) As you’ve noticed, I’m quite protective about the importance of books. Crude as this might sound, especially from a literature enthusiast like me, I can’t help but resist doing a little T-style break down of Russian Literature. Why, you ask? Well, everything doesn’t have a why…
World Literature for College BoundJune 1, 2018 – 12:00 pm
INTRODUCTION: The books on this list illuminate and explore the worlds and lives around us and those far away, where we have come from and where we may be going. Use these books to broaden your horizons and deepen your understandings, whether you are preparing for college or looking to expand your learning in other ways. Choose a list that covers an area you know little about, or choose a title from your favorite subject—either way you will find something…
