Course Outline and Readings for Great Works of Literature: 2850
Tentative Reading List:
All Texts can be found in the 3rd edition of 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: The Baggage of Enlightenment Thought
8/27 Introduction to the course/Syllabus/ Writing diagnostic
*You will also be assigned a reading for your Oral Presentation this week
What is Literature? Jonathan Culler (excerpts)
8/29
What is Literature? Jonathan Culler (excerpts)
What Is Enlightenment? Immanuel Kant (Volume D: p. 105)
Week Two:
9/3
The Discourse on Method René Descartes (Volume D: p. 110)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft (Volume D: p. 133)
9/5 NO CLASS: Because of Labor Day this Thursday is a Monday
Begin reading: Tartuffe Moliere (Volume D: p. 141)
Week Three: East/West
(Theoretical frame: Edward Said- Orientalism)
9/10 Tartuffe Moliere (Volume D: p. 141) RESPONSE #1 DUE
9/12 Finish Tartuffe (Volume D)
*Requirements for Paper One*
Week Four: All sorts of Romanticism
9/17 Bewitched Ueda Akinari (text on Blog)
9/19 Life of a Sensuous Woman Ihara Saikaku (Volume D- 585) RESPONSE #2 DUE
Week Five:
9/24 Life of a Sensuous Woman Ihara Saikaku (Continued) (Volume D- 585)
9/26
Week Six: Poetic Movements of the 19th century
10/1: NO CLASSES SCHEDULED
10/3 Paper One Due In CLASS!
Romantic Poetry: (Volume E)
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:
10/8 NO CLASSES SCHEDULED
10/10 MIDTERM EXAM
FOR WEEK NINE: Assign Poet to each student for the poetry reading: (19th/20thcentury poets)
Week Eight: Romanticism in Prose and Symbolism
10/15 :
Romantic Poetry Continued: (Volume E)
Symbolist Poets (Volume E):
Charles Baudelaire
Rimbaud
10/17: The Sufferings of Young Werther Goethe (Selections on class blog)
Week Nine: RealismS
10/22 Poetry Readings in Class
Orature Readings (915 Volume E) If we have time !
10/24 RESPONSE #3 DUE
Week Ten:
10/29 A Simple Heart Gustave Flaubert
10/31 Response #4 Due
Bartleby, the Scrivener Herman Melville
Edith Wharton (Roman Fever or Muse’s Tragedy; Selections TBA)
Week Eleven:
11/5: The Tattooer Tanizaki Jun’Ichirō
11/7: In Praise of Shadows (excerpts on the class blog) Tanizaki Jun’Ichirō
Samurai Champloo– Netflix
Assign Final Project
Week Twelve: BEGIN VOLUME F
11/12: Manifestos!
Dada Manifesto 1918 Tristan Tzara
Manifesto of Surrealism André Breton
The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism F.T. Marinetti
SCUM Manifesto, Valerie Solanas
Cyborg Manifesto- Donna Haraway
11/14 : Response # 5 Due
Chike’s School Days, Chinua Achebe
The Daydreams of a Drunk Woman, Clarice Lispector
Week Thirteen:
11/19: Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin
(+Between the World and Me)
11/21:
Contemporary Fiction + “ World Literature” and ‘Cli-Fi/ Sci-fi’
(Folding Beijing; Calvino Petrol;Burning Chrome …Find on class blog)
Final project Workshopping
Assign Contemporary Fiction Assignment: Texts TBD
Week Fourteen:
*Work on proposals for your final project
11/26 NO CLASS
11/28 NO CLASS
Week Fifteen:
12/3: Individual Meetings
12/5:
- Individual Meetings
- Continued Reading for final project
- Work on final Presentation
Week Sixteen: Oral Presentations
12/10:
12/12: Last Day Of Class:
Final Paper due during Exam week: 12/20.
NO EXCEPTIONS!
