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Comparative and World Literature Unit Name:   Comparative and World Literature Director of Program:   Nancy Blake Program Office:   3080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 South Mathews, Urbana, 333-4987 If you have questions about these classes or their descriptions, please contact the department or unit listed above. See the Courses Catalog Index for more information on the Catalog. C LIT 111.   The Bible as Literature C LIT 115.   Russian Masterpieces in Translation, I C LIT 116.   Russian Masterpieces in Translation, II C LIT 117.   Russian and East European Science Fiction C LIT 118.   Ukrainian Literature in Translation C LIT 119.   The Literature of Fantasy C LIT 120.   Origins of Western Literature C LIT 121.   Jewish Storytelling: From the Russian Shtetl to New York C LIT 141.   Masterpieces of Western Culture, I C LIT 142.   Masterpieces of Western Culture, II C LIT 151.   Cross-Cultural Thematics C LIT 155.   French Masterpieces in Translation C LIT 175.   Masterpieces of East Asian Literature C LIT 189.   Classic Masterpieces of Non-Western Cultures C LIT 190.   Modern Masterpieces of Non-Western Cultures C LIT 191.   Freshman Honors Tutorial C LIT 199.   Undergraduate Open Seminar C LIT 201.   Comparative Literary Studies, I C LIT 202.   Literature and Ideas C LIT 203.   Introduction to Persian Culture and Literature, I C LIT 204.   Introduction to Persian Culture and Literature, II C LIT 205.   Islam and the West Through Literature C LIT 207.   Classical Chinese Literature C LIT 208.   Chinese Popular Literature C LIT 210.   Introduction to Modern African Literature C LIT 211.   Japanese Literature in Translation, I C LIT 212.   Japanese Literature in Translation, II C LIT 213.   African Oral Literature C LIT 215.   The Scandinavian Novel: Masterpieces in English Translation C LIT 218.   Japanese Hero Types C LIT 219.   Women in Japanese Literature C LIT 220.   Constructions of African and Caribbean Identity C LIT 221.   Jewish Literary Responses to the Holocaust C LIT 222.   Introduction to Francophone Literature C LIT 223.   The Qur'an (Koran) and Its Interpreters C LIT 224.   German Literature in Translation C LIT 226.   Humanistic Perspectives of the Afro-American Experience C LIT 228.   Special Topics in German Literature C LIT 240.   Italian Civilization of the Middle Ages and Renaissance C LIT 244.   Hispanic Literature and Culture C LIT 248.   Dostoevsky and Tolstoy C LIT 249.   Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian Literature C LIT 250.   Grimms' Fairy Tales in Their European Context C LIT 251.   Viking Mythology C LIT 252.   Viking Sagas in Translation C LIT 253.   Medieval Literature and Culture C LIT 254.   The Legend of King Arthur C LIT 255.   Renaissance Literature and Culture C LIT 257.   Literature and Culture of the Enlightenment C LIT 259.   Afro-American Literature, I C LIT 260.   Afro-American Literature, II C LIT 262.   Sex and Gender in Classical Antiquity C LIT 263.   The Heroic Tradition C LIT 264.   The Tragic Spirit C LIT 265.   Development of the Modern Drama C LIT 266.   Development of the Modern Drama C LIT 267.   The Short Story C LIT 268.   The Short Story C LIT 269.   Modern British and American Fiction in Relation to Continental Fiction C LIT 270.   Spirituality and Experience in the Arts of the Middle Ages C LIT 271.   The Holocaust in Context C LIT 272.   Korean Literature in English C LIT 283.   Jewish Sacred Literature C LIT 284.   Modern Jewish Literature C LIT 293.   Senior Thesis and Honors C LIT 295.   Special Topics: Colloquium on Interdisciplinary Subjects C LIT 300.   Literature of the African Diaspora in the Americas C LIT 305.   Literary Criticism from 1800 to the Present C LIT 307.   Topics in Classical Literature C LIT 310.   Modern African Fiction C LIT 311.   The Chinese Novel C LIT 312.   Modern Chinese Literature in Translation C LIT 313.   Dante C LIT 314.   Petrarch and Boccaccio: Literature of the Italian Middle Ages C LIT 315.   Modern Japanese Fiction in Translation C LIT 316.   Premodern Chinese Drama C LIT 320.   Masterpieces of Italian Renaissance Literature C LIT 321.   Jewish Life-Writing: From Enlightenment to Post-Holocaust C LIT 322.   Classical Japanese Poetry C LIT 325.   Medieval Manuscripts and Early Printed Books C LIT 328.   Japan at War and Peace C LIT 334.   Studies in Francophonie C LIT 335.   Polish Literature in Translation, I C LIT 336.   Polish Literature in Translation, II C LIT 337.   Nineteenth-Century Literature in Translation C LIT 338.   Twentieth-Century Literature in Translation C LIT 340.   Studies in Russian Literature and Society C LIT 341.   Themes and Types in Western and Non-Western Narratives C LIT 344.   Pushkin and Russian Romanticism C LIT 345.   Nineteenth Century Russian Realism C LIT 353.   Topics in Russian Literature and Slavic Literature C LIT 354.   Russian Short Fiction C LIT 355.   Russian Long Fiction C LIT 357.   Russian Modernism C LIT 361.   International Literary Genres and Forms C LIT 362.   Modern Japanese Drama C LIT 363.   Ibsen in Translation C LIT 364.   Strindberg in Translation C LIT 365.   Comedy C LIT 370.   Drama in Premodern Japan C LIT 371.   International Literary Relations C LIT 375.   Women and Society in Scandinavian Literature C LIT 376.   Russian Literary Criticism and Theory C LIT 377.   East European Literatures C LIT 378.   Classical Chinese Thought C LIT 388.   French and Comparative Cinema, I C LIT 389.   French and Comparative Cinema, II C LIT 396.   Special Topics in Comparative Literature C LIT 401.   Theory of Literature C LIT 402.   Cross-cultural Comparison C LIT 411.   Studies in Critical Theory C LIT 451.   Seminar in Literary Movements and Periods C LIT 461.   Seminar in Literary Genres and Forms C LIT 462.   Seminar in Spanish–American Novel C LIT 471.   Seminar in Literary Relations C LIT 472.   Studies in French and Comparative Cinema C LIT 478.   Seminar in Twentieth-Century French Literature C LIT 480.   Teaching Comparative Literature C LIT 481.   Seminar in Literary Themes and Types C LIT 490.   Seminar in Contemporary Criticism, Methods and Theory C LIT 493.   Special Studies C LIT 499.   Thesis Research