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Survey of World Literature, Part II: Early Modern to the Present

Introduction to a selection of some of the most impactful pieces of modern literature written between 1650 and the present, considering the historical circumstances that these texts grew out of and often respond to, and the historical context, through periods of Enlightenment, Neoclassicism, colonization, slavery, war, resistance, emancipation, Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism.

Video Games and Literature

Examine the relationship between video games and selected literary texts based on shared themes, social issues, historical periods, and ethnic/cultural experience. Compare literary genres, tropes, context, and styles, and explore the way video games engage, complicate, and repurpose these literary elements.