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The study of the creation and transformation of genres - of styles and forms through which humans and cultures represent the world - offers us detailed access to the way that cultures and individuals have responded to the forces and processes that have shaped human history and human experience. This course considers three moments, from Ancient Greece to c1700, in which relations between the world and the text changed significantly, and introduces the tools which we, as contemporary readers, can use within the methods of literary studies to interpret those moments. These case studies are taught by three professors with very different approaches to the study of literary texts. Alongside the three case studies, and as a frame within which to place them, students are offered a geographical and historical map of literary production, from the ancient world to c1700.
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