{"ModuleCode":"YHU2233","ModuleTitle":"World Literature and its Discontents","Department":"Yale-NUS College","ModuleDescription":"Responding to the growing international circulation of literature in the early decades of the nineteenth century, Goethe declared, “The epoch of world literature is at hand, and everyone must strive to hasten its approach.” The term “world literature,” however, remains elusive and critics continue to grapple with David Damrosch’s question of, “which literature, whose world?” This course will address the Arabic/Islamic tradition and some of the difficult questions it poses to global literary studies, challenges that are both unique in their particularities and exemplary of the tensions characteristic of incorporating ‘minor literatures’ into broader comparative paradigms of inquiry.","ModuleCredit":"5","Workload":"0-3-0-3-6.5","Prerequisite":"YCC1111 Literature and Humanities 1 and YCC1112 Literature and Humanities 2","AcadYear":"2015/2016","History":[{"Semester":1,"Timetable":[{"ClassNo":"1","LessonType":"Seminar-Style Module Class","WeekText":"Every Week","DayText":"Tuesday","StartTime":"1300","EndTime":"1430","Venue":"Y-EC-GLRm1"},{"ClassNo":"1","LessonType":"Seminar-Style Module Class","WeekText":"Every Week","DayText":"Friday","StartTime":"1300","EndTime":"1430","Venue":"Y-EC-GLRm1"}],"LecturePeriods":["Friday Afternoon","Tuesday Afternoon"]}]}