12 (Monday)

Introduction to the course - Writing Sample

Syllabus also available as Word document:

World Literature Maymester 2008





 

13 (Tuesday)

Volume D: 1650 to 1800

The Enlightenment in Europe, 295-300, Timeline, 302-3

JEAN-BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIÈRE (1622-1673), 304-6
Preface, 306-310; First-Third Petitions, 310-313

Tartuffe, 312-361

assignments / websites:

Response Paper

Tout Moliere  (French site)

Tartuffe  (excerpt in French)



 

14 (Wednesday)

SOR JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ (1648-1695), 403-4
Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz, 405-430

assignments / websites:

Response Paper

Fama y obras postumas

Poetry

Project



 

15 (Thursday)

The Rise of Popular Arts in Premodern Japan, 583-5, Timeline, 586-7

MATSUO BASHO (1644-1694), 603-6
The Narrow Road of the Interior,  607-629

assignments / websites:

Response Paper

Basho's World

Poems on Tanzaku Paper

Basho Links



 

16 (Friday)

Reminder:  Essay One  topics - due Monday, May 19


Choose one Response Paper from the following authors:

William Blake

William Wordsworth

Percy Bysshe Shelley


 

WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827), 780-2
from Songs of Innocence:
"The Chimney Sweeper," 785,

from Songs of Experience:
"London," 787-8,
"The Chimney Sweeper," 788,
"And Did Those Feet," 789;

assignments / websites:

Response Paper

Songs of Innocence

Songs of Experience

_______

Eighteenth-century Resources


 

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1827), 789-792
"Ode on Intimations of Immortality," 795-780
"Composed on Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802," 800
"The World Is Too Much With Us," 800-1

site / venue:

Response Paper

Complete Poetical Works

Hypertextual Bibliography

Wordsworth Trust

_______

Eighteenth-century Resources



 

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822), 819-820
"A Defence of Poetry," 823-5

assignments / websites:

Response Paper

Complete poetical works

_______

Eighteenth-century Resources


 

19 (Monday)

Essay One  Due.


Choose one Response Paper from the following authors:

Frederick Douglass

Walt Whitman

Charles Baudelaire

Rabindranath Tagore

 

FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1818-1892), 694-6,
selections from
A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, An American Slave
Chapters: I-III, 923-931, VI-VII, 937-942,
"A Parody," 978-9;

assignments / websites:

Response Paper

Biography

Photo

 

WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892), 980-2,
"Song of Myself," 982-7

assignments / websites:

Response Paper

Leaves of Grass





 

Realism, Naturalism, and Symbolism in Europe, 1071-1080
Timeline, 1082-3

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (1821-1867), 1380-3
The Flowers of Evil,  Paris Spleen (selections), 1384-1398 "To the Reader." 1384-5,
"Correspondences," 1385,
Paris Spleen (all selections);

assignments / websites:

Response Paper

Les Fleurs du Mal


 

RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1861-1941), 1671-4,
from Janman-dine, "On My Birthday-20," 1691-3

assignments / websites:

Response Paper

Calcuttaweb - Tagore

Nobel Site

 

20 (Tuesday)

Last Day to Withdraw from Classes.

Choose one Response Paper from the following authors:

Rubén Darío

Wallace Stevens

Lu Xun

T. S. Eliot

 

RUBÉN DARÍO (1867-1916), 1712-1714,
"I Seek a Form...," 1718

assignments / websites:

Response Paper

Tribute

 

WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955), 1570-1573
"Anecdote of the Jar," 1904,
"The Emperor of Ice-Cream," 1905,
"The Idea of Order at Key West, 1905-6

assignments / websites:

Response Paper

Article

Estate of Mind

Homepage

jar

 

LU XUN (1881-1936), 1917-1920,
from Wild Grass, "Epigraph," 1938-9

assignments / websites:

Response Paper

Links

Homepage

 

T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965), 2071-5
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," 2075-9

assignments / websites:

Response Paper

Essays

Prufrock

Tradition and Individual Talent

Wasteland





 

21 (Wednesday)

Reminder:  Essay Two  topics - due Thursday, May 22

VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941), 1974-7,
"A Room of One's Own," Chapter 2 and 3, 1978-1996.

assignments / websites:

Response Paper

International Society

Yahoo Sites







 

22 (Thursday)

Essay Two  due.


Choose one Response Paper from the following authors:

Naguib Mahfouz

Albert Camus

 

NAGUIB MAHFOUZ (1911-2006), 2527-2531
"Zaabalawi," 2531-8

assignments / websites:

Response Paper

Nobel Site

 

ALBERT CAMUS (1913-1960), 2570-3
"The Guest," 2574-2582

assignments / websites:

Response Paper

Nobel Site

Interpretation



 

23 (Friday)

Preparation for the Final Essay, due Tuesday, May 27.

Choose one Response Paper from the following authors:

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Gabriel García Márquez

 

ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN (b. 1918), 2692-6
"Matryona's Home," 2696-2722

assignments / websites:

Response Paper

Nobel Site

 

GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ (b. 1928), 2845-9
"Death Constant Beyond Love," 2849-2855

assignments / websites:

Response Paper

Macondo

Nobel Site



 

27 (Tuesday)

Final Essay  due (in-class).