{"id":13301,"date":"2019-07-22T12:49:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T16:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/?page_id=13301"},"modified":"2021-09-03T08:48:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T12:48:56","slug":"xl-100","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/xl-100\/","title":{"rendered":"CAS XL 100: Explorations in World Literature: Leaving Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>fall 2020 poster to come<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Growing up<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Wisdom quest<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Migration<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sightseeing<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Escape<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The theme of leaving home shapes many of the most memorable characters and narratives in world literature, from Sindbad to the Shining Prince Genji, from Snow White to Monkey\u2019s <em>Journey to the West<\/em>, all the way to modern narratives of urbanization, mass migration, and rapid social change.<\/p>\n<p>This course explores how the world\u2019s great literatures have represented and shaped the experience of leaving home. Which elements of this human experience cut across cultures and time periods, and which are specific to particular societies and ways of reading? We will discuss fairy tales, epic, saga, poetry, novels, short stories, and films from four continents, examining characters and writers who left home (and some, like Emily Dickinson, who stayed). We will also look at how literary works themselves \u201cleave home\u201d through translation and adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>XL 100 serves as an integrating introduction to world literature and to all of WLL\u2019s major and minor concentrations. All readings are in English, but if you know other languages, you will get a chance to use them. This course is required for all WLL majors: Chinese, Japanese, German, Russian, and Comparative Literature, and can count for all WLL minors.<\/p>\n<p>Co-taught by<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/profile\/roberta-micallef\/\">Roberta Micallef<\/a><br \/>\nMiddle Eastern Literatures<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With regular guest lectures by WLL faculty<\/p>\n<table width=\"566\" height=\"55\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Section<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Instructor<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Day<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Start<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Stop<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A1<\/td>\n<td>Micallef<\/td>\n<td>TR<\/td>\n<td>11:00 am<\/td>\n<td>12:15 pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/cas\/courses\/cas-xl-100\/\">See XL 100 on the CAS Bulletin.<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>fall 2020 poster to come Growing up Wisdom quest Migration Sightseeing Escape The theme of leaving home shapes many of the most memorable characters and narratives in world literature, from Sindbad to the Shining Prince Genji, from Snow White to Monkey\u2019s Journey to the West, all the way to modern narratives of urbanization, mass migration, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9557,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":86,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13301"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15765,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13301\/revisions\/15765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}