[Course Objectives] [Books Required]

  The purposes of this course are:

• To study representative works by Nobel Prize Laureates, universally acknowledged literary masters, whose art epitomizes varying cultural, literary and social orientations.

 

• To understand the creative strategies employed by these internationally acclaimed writers.

 

• To recognize universal concerns of artists from different backgrounds and the diverse social and political leanings.

 

• To analyze the balance between the aesthetic and the philosophical, the thematic motifs and the symbolic forms which pervade major works in world literature composed by master craftsmen.

 

• Thomas Mann (Germany), Nobel Laureate, 1929: Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories.

 

• Luigi Pirandello (Italy), Nobel Laureate, 1934: Naked Masks.

 

• Albert Camus (France), Nobel Laureate, 1957: The Stranger.

 

• Yasunari Kawabata (Japan), Nobel Laureate, 1968: Sound of the Mountain and House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories.

 

• Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Russia), Nobel Laureate, 1970: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

 

• Pablo Neruda (Chile), Nobel Laureate, 1971: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.

 

• Saul Bellow (United States), Nobel Laureate, 1976: Herzog.

 

• Isaac Bashevis Singer (United States), Nobel Laureate, 1978: The Penitent.

 

• Gabriel García Márquez (Columbia), Nobel Laureate, 1982: One Hundred Years of Solitude.

 

• William Golding (Great Britain), Nobel Laureate, 1983: Lord of the Flies.

 

• Gibaldi, Joseph.  MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.  4th ed.  New York: MLA, 1995.  ISBN 0-87352-565-5  (Note:  This book is required for all HUX courses.)

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