European Masterpieces
Requirement: UCLR 100 for students admitted to Loyola University for Fall 2012 or later. No requirement for students admitted to Loyola prior to Fall 2012 or those with a declared major or minor in the Department of English, Department of Classical Studies, or Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
Major European literary texts will be examined in a historical and cultural context and in their transhistorical, universal aspects that make them masterpieces. Students will understand how literary masterpieces help us develop critical consciousness of our experience.
Polish Literature of Cold War
Requirement: UCLR 100 for students admitted to Loyola University for Fall 2012 or later. No requirement for students admitted to Loyola prior to Fall 2012 or those with a declared major or minor in the Department of English, Department of Classical Studies, or Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
Major European literary texts will be examined in a historical and cultural context and in their transhistorical, universal aspects that make them masterpieces. Students will understand how literary masterpieces help us develop critical consciousness of our experience.
Tier 2 Literary Knowledge
European Studies
Global Studies
Cold War literature was a global current that not only shared particular concerns, but also developed through transnational patterns of contact, exchange, influence, and allegiance that broke down national categories of literature. This course will cover the Polish experience during several decades of communist control and trace the Polish literary response to the experience of the Cold War, including the dark reality of Stalinism and the hope sparked by the Solidarity movement. Themes of truth, decency, responsibility, morality, and politics in Eastern Europe behind the Iron Curtin will be discussed in the context of coercion and manipulation in the fields of language and literature, dissident culture centered on underground publications, the role of the censorship, and the efforts of promoting political change by authors forced into exile.
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Polish Literature of Cold War
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