Comparative Literature

• GRS XL 741: 1001 Nights in the World Literary Imagination
  What is The Thousand and One Nights? How has this ever-expanding collection appealed to its diverse audiences? Focus on Nights structure and themes, notable translations and offshoots in western literature and art, and later appropriations by Arab and Muslim writers.
• GRS XL 742: Travel Writing and the Muslim World
  How have Muslim travelers past and present written about places and people they saw abroad, and how have Western travelers in the Muslim lands described their travels in "the East"? Readings include Nasir Khusraw, Ibn Battuta, Eliza Fay, and Robert Byron.
• GRS XL 951: Directed Study in Comparative Literature
  A directed study in the field of comparative literature. May be repeated for credit.
• GRS XL 952: Directed Study in Comparative Literature
  A directed study in the field of comparative literature. May be repeated for credit.

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