ENGL 2111

Welcome to the wiki page for ENGL 2111: World Literature I.

These fall 2020 sections of ENGL 2111 (CRNs 83647 and 83648) will consider the earliest expressions of western literature. We will closely read a small sampling of foundational texts from the two major genres of the time, epic and tragedy, and examine their continued relevance to our contemporary world.

Course Information

• Syllabus

Course Members

• Dr. Lucas
• . . .

Study Guides

Resources for the works we have studied this semester.

• Epic Poetry; Greek Tragedy
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Homer — the Iliad; the Odyssey
• Sophocles — Oedipus Rex
• Euripides — Medea
• Ovid — The Metamorphoses

Literary

• Literary Terms