Great Works and Authors of World Literature

This free course will teach you the role that literature has in bridging the gap between protest and democracy.

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In this free course, you will learn how to:

Discuss what it means to embrace one's culture and heritage and the stereotypical representation of black women
Assess literature as a powerful medium to impact society about social issues
Analyze the work which laid the foundations of Russian realism
Discuss the notion of honour in the samurai codes in Akutagawa's work
Explain how The Metamorphosis aids Kafka’s place in world literary canon
Discuss Virginia Woolf's 'Solid Objects' of the modernist period which focuses on the materiality of the body
Describe the significance of The Inheritance of Loss to the canon of world literature

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