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Dear Learners,

Welcome to Modern Masterpieces of World Literature. You're joining an international group of literature enthusiasts from over 150 countries—a fitting cohort given the global history of literature you'll discover. Over the course of the semester, we'll introduce you to the great texts that have shaped our world, but also the people behind those texts and the places from which they emerged.

We believe that literature is the best way to learn about the world because the foundational texts of literature we'll be discussing are the DNA of entire cultures, stories that were told and retold countless times and that have laid down the ways in which we perceive the world.

We encourage you to read the texts in whatever language you are most comfortable with. Depending on where you live and which languages you read, some texts will be available online, often in older public domain translations. There are also several world literature anthologies that will contain a number of the texts we're reading, and much more, including the Longman Anthology of World Literature and the Norton Anthology of World Literature.

For background reading and as a companion to the course, you might also want to check out: The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization and What Is World Literature?.

And please join our Facebook group for updates and discussions about world literature.

Martin Puchner
David Damrosch
Fangdai Chen

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INTRODUCTION

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What is World Literature?

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