Oh, hey! Turns out my last-minute "Masterpieces of World Literature" class can hug the 20th century like a life-preserver out at sea...
@zunguzungu I always considered (and got considered for) World Literature to be two entirely different subjects, pre-20 and post.
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@emptywheel The farther back you go, the more "the world" is just Men from Europe, but you can also read Chinese novels and so forth. -
@zunguzungu I taught both Great Books (those white men) and your World Lit. Totally different conceptions. -
@emptywheel Yeah. I'm feeling tremendous relief that I can skip out on the Defoe, et al, part of it. Might sneak Woolf in there, tho -
@zunguzungu THo in a media history class I taught, I used UM's superb Crusoe collection to show how long we've had global pop culture.
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@emptywheel In the 20th, you can tie lots of things messily together; by the time you get to the 18th, it's all just floating islands. :) -
@zunguzungu My diss started in 1800 and managed to tie Latin America and Eastern Europe, tho I admittedly used the Habsburgs as a crutch. -
@emptywheel "used the Habsburgs as a crutch" is a great phrase. Was that a comp lit dissertation? -
@zunguzungu Yup. Iago Colas was my Chair, also w/Frieda Ekotto.
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