Dear Students,
Welcome to our journey into Comparative Literature, a module where texts from different corners of the world meet like travelers around a fire, each carrying stories shaped by their cultures, histories, and human longings. This course invites you to wander beyond the borders of a single tradition, to listen to how voices from distant places echo, contradict, or illuminate one another.
Throughout the semester, we shall examine literary works across nations, genres, and eras—tracing themes that recur like constellations, studying styles that clash or harmonize, and reflecting on the cultural currents that shape creative expression. Think of it as learning to read not only the text, but the world that breathes behind it.
Our discussions will explore how literature speaks across boundaries: how an epic may converse with a novel, how a poem whispers to another written centuries later, how one culture mirrors or challenges another. You will be invited to compare, to question, and to cultivate a critical eye capable of detecting both difference and unity.
By the end of this module, you should feel equipped to interpret literature with a broader lens—attentive to context, sensitive to nuance, and daring enough to draw connections that enrich understanding.
May this course be a bridge, a lantern, and perhaps a gentle provocation to see literature—and life—with renewed depth.
Welcome aboard.
Mr. KARUMUGABO Mathieu
Welcome to our journey into Comparative Literature, a module where texts from different corners of the world meet like travelers around a fire, each carrying stories shaped by their cultures, histories, and human longings. This course invites you to wander beyond the borders of a single tradition, to listen to how voices from distant places echo, contradict, or illuminate one another.
Throughout the semester, we shall examine literary works across nations, genres, and eras—tracing themes that recur like constellations, studying styles that clash or harmonize, and reflecting on the cultural currents that shape creative expression. Think of it as learning to read not only the text, but the world that breathes behind it.
Our discussions will explore how literature speaks across boundaries: how an epic may converse with a novel, how a poem whispers to another written centuries later, how one culture mirrors or challenges another. You will be invited to compare, to question, and to cultivate a critical eye capable of detecting both difference and unity.
By the end of this module, you should feel equipped to interpret literature with a broader lens—attentive to context, sensitive to nuance, and daring enough to draw connections that enrich understanding.
May this course be a bridge, a lantern, and perhaps a gentle provocation to see literature—and life—with renewed depth.
Welcome aboard.
Mr. KARUMUGABO Mathieu
- Teacher: Mathieu KARUMUGABO