COML 005 - India's Literature:Love,War,Wisdom,Humor

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University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

Patel. This course introduces studnets to the extraordinary quality of literary production during the past four millenia of South Asian civilization. Selecting for discussion only a few representative works in translation from pre-modern India [(rangingfrom the earlist Sanskrit and Tamil texts, through to the mediaval literatures of South Asia's regional Languages -(Kannada, Gujarati, Bengali, MArathi, Telegu, Panjabi,Malayalam, Oriya etc)] and up to the Hindavi romance traditions of the 16th century),the course will also broadly investigate the processes of masterpiece - making in South Asia, both through the lens of indegenous aesthetic formulations as well as from diverse contemporary perspectives of literary analysis. In doing so, the goal will be to come to some understanding of the immensely rich and complicated networks of language, literary form and the cultural life that have historically informed and continues to inform the production of literature of South Asia. Our semester covers seminal genres that also serve as the organizing principles for the course: the hymn, the lyric, the epic, the gnomic, the dramatic, the political, the prosaic, the tragic and the comedic. No background in South Asia studies or South Asian languages is requiredl.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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