Oral Presentations

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