Tentative Reading List:

All Texts can be found in The Norton Anthology of World Literature Volumes D, E, and F unless otherwise noted. Please always read the introductions to each text they are extremely helpful in situating the text and your reading quiz will have one question about the introduction each time.

Week One:

1/30       Introduction to the course/Syllabus/ Writing diagnostic

*You will also be assigned a reading for your Oral Presentation on this day

2/1         What Is Enlightenment? Immanuel Kant (Volume D: p. 105)

The Discourse on Method René Descartes (Volume D: p. 110)

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft (Volume D:  p. 133)

Week Two:

2/6         Finish Enlightenment Texts from Above

Start: Tartuffe Moliere (Volume D: p. 141)

2/8         Finish: Tartuffe Moliere

Week Three:

NO CLASS 2/13

2/15       Blog Response #1 Due

                Bewitched Ueda Akinari (text on Blog)

Week Four:

2/20       NO CLASS

2/22       Life of a Sensuous Woman Ihara Saikaku (Volume D- 585)

Week Five:

2/27       The Sufferings of Young Werther Goethe (Selections on class blog)

Blog Response # 2 Due

3/1         Bartleby, the Scrivener Herman Melville

Week Six:

3/6         Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3/8         Blog Response #3 Due

Romantic Poetry:

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

Week Seven:

3/13       Symbolist Poets

Charles Baudelaire

Mallarmé

Rimbaud

                (Selections TBA)

3/15       Finish Unit on Poetry: Assign Poet to each student for the poetry reading: (19th/20th century poets)

*Receive requirements for Paper One

Week Eight:

3/20       Poetry Reading in class

3/22       Workshop for Paper One

Week Nine:

3/27       Draft one of paper one due

Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky

3/29       A Simple Heart Gustave Flaubert

Week Ten:

4/3         Edith Wharton (Roman Fever or Muse’s Tragedy; Selections TBA)

4/5         Wharton Cont.

Week Eleven:

Spring Break

4/10

4/12

 

Week Twelve:

4/19       Final Draft of Paper One due

Heart of Darkness (begin) Joseph Conrad

4/20       (Thursday but classes follow a MONDAY schedule)

Blog Response # 4 Due

Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola

Heart of Darkness (continued) Joseph Conrad

Week Thirteen:

4/24       The Tattooer Tanizaki Jun’Ichirō

In Praise of Shadows (excerpts on the class blog) Tanizaki Jun’Ichirō

Samurai Champloo– Netflix

* Assign contemporary novel selections here :

TENTATIVE LIST

Begin Reading from the following: * You will be assigned one text out of the following list. Whichever text you are assigned, you will need to purchase it as these texts are full novels and not in the anthology*

Norwegian Wood– Haruki Murakami

Troubling Love– Elena Ferrante

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting– Milan Kundera

4/26       Manifestos:

Blog Post #5 due

Dada Manifesto 1918 Tristan Tzara

Manifesto of Surrealism André Breton

The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism F.T. Marinetti

Week Fourteen: Contemporary Fiction

5/1         Discussion (contemporary fiction)

5/3         Final paper project discussion

Week Fifteen:

5/8 + 5/10 :

  • Individual Meetings
  • Continued Reading for final project
  • Work on final Presentation

Week Sixteen:

5/15+5/17

Oral Presentations / Final Project Workshopping

 

Week Sixteen:

Last Day of Scheduled Class TBA

Final Project due during Exam week TBA