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in Literature
In this course all of us will become better readers of literature. Roughly the first one-third our time will be spent with multicultural myths and Grimm's fairy tales (not at all stories only for the young), one-third on poems illustrating the various themes and topics that comprise the course master syllabus, including Rossetti's "Goblin Market," and one-third on Homer's Odyssey, both a masterpiece in its own right and also the source of many allusions in subsequent literature.
This Web site provides for you the following information:
- Syllabus, all of the nuts-and-bolts information about assignments, required texts, course policies, etc.
- Topics, the outline of course content, copied directly from the master syllabus on file in the department.
- Bibliography, a working list divided into categories: a general bibliography of myth, fairy tale criticism, retellings and new tales, multicultural fairy tales, and retellings of Greek myth.
- Outline, notes that gloss the outline of course content (see Topics).
- Odyssey, various sorts of information and bibliographies collected in a separate Web site.
- Theory, short bibliographical citations of five common theories of mythic analysis.
- Poetry, an explanation of poetic conventions and examples of subsequent poetry inspired by the Odyssey.
