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Section 23 references:

Module 10:	Labor, Free and Unfree, in the 18th and 19th Centuries Part 1: Overview Part 2: Explorations and Exercises Part 3: Texts and Contexts Part 4: Web Resources
Module 12:	Insiders' Views of the Colonial Experience Part 1: Overview Part 2: Explorations and Exercises Part 3: Texts and Contexts Part 4: Web Resources
Module 18:	The Persistence of Memory in Twentieth-Century Literature Part 1: Overview Part 2: Explorations and Exercises Part 3: Texts and Contexts Part 4: Web Resources

These modules are designed to help students look deeply into the analytical perspectives proposed in the introductory essays that provide an overview of the contents of each volume of The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Second Edition. Each module begins by highlighting a few important lines in one or more of these introductory essays to establish the subjects for study.

Focusing either on a single resonant text or a central unifying theme and supplementing it with materials culled from the Internet, the module invites students to take a closer look both at the text or theme in question and at the world out of which the focal subject developed.  

Study exercises assist students to articulate and document the new insights toward which the supplementary materials should lead: by working not only with the anthology texts, but with images, maps, and supporting articles available online, students have the opportunity to proceed at their own pace, discovering in their own words and by their own investigations the critical conclusions presented by the editors in their rich and closely argued introductions. 

Suggested comparisons with selections found in other volumes of The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Second Edition reinforce students' comprehension of the thematic continuities that relate readings to each other and to the major intellectual movements and concerns introduced in the discovery modules.