BA Literary Studies

The primary aims of the major in literary studies are to extend to highly motivated students the opportunity to deepen their mastery of two languages, to provide them with double evidence that literature, as the highest form of language art, is based on the skillful use of adequately developed languages in the creation of an aesthetic world of the human spirit, to enable them to experience firsthand that much is lost in the translation of a great literary work, to help them appreciate more deeply that literature transcends national and cultural boundaries.