Imagine that a week or two after finishing this course, you’re at a holiday party and someone asks you what you’ve been studying during the fall semester. Among your other courses, you mention that you have taken world literature. The person responds, “what is the point in taking a class like that anyway? Are any of the texts worth reading?” what is your response? Keep in mind either arguing for or against the value of the course or any texts within it you still need to incorporate at least three examples from or discussions of the texts in the groups below (one text per group) to support your answer. Make sure you use at least three citations for three examples, the minimum words of this essay is 750.
Group 1:
Voltaire, Candide
Jonathan swift, a modest proposal
Basho, from the narrow road to the deep north
William Blake, Introduction, the lamb, the tiger, and london
Group 2:
Lao She, an old and established name
James Joyce, the dead
Franz Kafka, the metamorphosis
Group 3:
Mo Yan, the old gun
Nawal El Saadawi, in camera
Orhan Pamuk, to look out the window