[Soasiastudents] New Autumn Course

[Keith Snodgrass]

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*COMPARATIVE LITERATURE*

C Lit 323 5 cr

MW 930-1120  DUBROW
A Thousand and One Narrators: Masterpieces of Story Literature from
the Middle East and India

In this course, we study classic works of story literature from the
Middle East and India, with focus on A Thousand and One Nights (aka
Arabian Nights); The Mahabharata; and the Indo-Persian romance,
Dastan-e Amir Hamza. These masterpieces have continued to entertain
and inspire for centuries. In this course we explore how the texts
work, both as narrative innovations and explorations of eternal human
themes. We will consider, for example, the roles of frame stories in
Arabian Nights, multiple narrators in The Mahabharata, and
supernatural adventure in Dastan-e Amir Hamza. Finally, we close the
course by reading Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie,
perhaps a modern parable on storytelling’s power. Course goals
include: to appreciate and analyze the texts as classics of story
literature; uncover what they have to say about human society; and
discover their continuing influence on art and culture. Some film
versions will be shown, and class sessions will focus on group
discussion and analysis.


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Keith Snodgrass
Associate Director and Outreach Coordinator
South Asia Center, Box 353650
Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3650
w: http://jsis.washington.edu/soasia/
p:206.543.4800
f: 206.685.0668
e: snodgras at uw.edu
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