Akhmedov, Rafael. World Literature. Gulistan: Gulistan State University, 2020

Course of Lectures. — Gulistan: Gulistan State University Press, 2020. — 62 p.“The World Literature” explores cross-cultural themes, techniques, and modes of representation over nearly 5,000 years of history. The focus of the individual lectures is on themes as they are repeated, echoed, and modified through time, but the unifying thread for the course as a whole is the evolution of storytelling, beginning with the relatively straight-forward relationship of teller to tale in the earliest works in the course and ending with the much more complicated relationships in the works of contemporary writers. Along the way we also notice the many different functions narratives have fulfilled vis-à-vis the cultures and times in which they were produced.Lecture 1. Introduction to the Subject
Lecture 2. Mythology and Literature of Antiquity
Lecture 3. Literature of Middle Ages
Lecture 4. Literary Renaissance: Italy, Spain, France, England
Lecture 5. European Literature of the 17th-18th Centuries
Lecture 6. Literary Enlightenment. Sentimentalism
Lecture 7. Romanticism of the 19th Century
Lecture 8. Realism and Naturalism
Lecture 9. Modernism
Lecture 10. Literature of India, China, Japan, and Latin America