COML 2271

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COML 2271
Reading for the End of Time

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

This course will explore how in the body of world literature humans have construed, narrated, imagined the end of time and of the world and sometimes its new beginning.  Spanning from ancient epic and origin myths through nineteenth century novels and colonial narratives to contemporary science fiction, we will inquire, through our reading: what is a world?  How does the labor of the imagination construct a world or the world and deconstruct or undo worlds?  Readings will range widely across time and world space (with authors such as Hesiod, Balzac, Marquez, Murakami, Alexievich, Bacigalupi) and will include attention to contemporary theories of world literature.


Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024SP, 2021FA, 2021SP

Distribution Category (GLC-AS) (CA-AG)

When Offered Spring.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2971

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9768 COML 2271   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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