Here you will find a list of the texts, dates, and your oral presentation. Please remember to check the requirements and to run your presentation by me at least two days before you present!
9/7 Tartuffe Moliere: Kyle
9/12 Bewitched Ueda Akinari- Sabrina
9/14 Candide – Voltaire: Andrew
9/19 Life of a Sensuous Woman Ihara Saikaku: Samira
9/21 The Sufferings of Young Werther Goethe (Selections on class blog): Kevin
9/26 Bartleby, the Scrivener Herman Melville : Dini
9/28 Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Gisselle
10/5
Romantic Poetry: Elizabeth and Christopher
Ode on Intimations of Immortality William Wordsworth
Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Conversation Between Me and the Women Anna Bunina
A Defense of Poetry Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode on a Grecian Urn John Keats
10/17 Symbolist Poets: Jana and Joel
Charles Baudelaire
Mallarmé
Rimbaud
(Selections TBA)
10/24 Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky : Ryan
10/26 A Simple Heart Gustave Flaubert : Ricardo
10/31 Edith Wharton (Roman Fever or Muse’s Tragedy; Selections TBA) : Rabia
11/7 Heart of Darkness (begin) Joseph Conrad: Kevin Wong and Dioni
11/14 The Tattooer Tanizaki Jun’Ichirō : Rob
11/16 Manifestos: Hyenseung
Dada Manifesto 1918 Tristan Tzara
Manifesto of Surrealism André Breton
The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism F.T. Marinetti