I love the concept formation instructional strategy! Such a great start to a unit or course that really gets people interested in the concepts and connects to their prior understandings. I taught various high school world lit courses over the years and I preferred the thematic rather than strictly geographical approach to organizing the course —much more to talk about. Thanks for sharing!
There are definitely travel narratives, yeah. And Rime of the Ancient Mariner? Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym? At the Mountains of Madness? The Thing? Mr. Popper's Penguins? Could be a fun course! (Though not *exactly* world literature as it's commonly defined.)
I love this. I have to say I am also fascinated by works of literature which move and land in different parts of the world and times to be taken up by artists to speak to something they feel the work of art addresses that is significant to their time and place in the world. For example: Sophocles' Antigone, Antigone in Munich, Anouilh's Antigone in France WWI, Brecht's Antigonemodell after WWII, Puerto Rican playwright Luis Rafael Sánchez's 1968 play La Pasión según Antígona Pérez, Iranian absurdist adaptation of Antigone in 2011, and soooo many more.
I love the concept formation instructional strategy! Such a great start to a unit or course that really gets people interested in the concepts and connects to their prior understandings. I taught various high school world lit courses over the years and I preferred the thematic rather than strictly geographical approach to organizing the course —much more to talk about. Thanks for sharing!
Really interesting - a lot to think about!
(I have to admit, I got to this line:
"box checking books from the seven continents"
and started trying to imagine a course in the literature of Antarctica.)
HA! Oops. Good catch. Journals from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration? Penguin fan fiction?
There are definitely travel narratives, yeah. And Rime of the Ancient Mariner? Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym? At the Mountains of Madness? The Thing? Mr. Popper's Penguins? Could be a fun course! (Though not *exactly* world literature as it's commonly defined.)
I didn't think of Moby Dick but this is an interesting essay: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/opinion/sunday/kamila-shamsie-reading-moby-dick-antarctica.html
I love this. I have to say I am also fascinated by works of literature which move and land in different parts of the world and times to be taken up by artists to speak to something they feel the work of art addresses that is significant to their time and place in the world. For example: Sophocles' Antigone, Antigone in Munich, Anouilh's Antigone in France WWI, Brecht's Antigonemodell after WWII, Puerto Rican playwright Luis Rafael Sánchez's 1968 play La Pasión según Antígona Pérez, Iranian absurdist adaptation of Antigone in 2011, and soooo many more.