Week 1 Jan. 18-21

Wed. discussion of syllabus, weekly assignments

Fri. Introduction to materials on my web site

Discussion Group: XZ20Z67W46

Week 2: Jan. 24-28

Mon. Introduction to the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment: revolution, cosmos, art, and music.

Wed. Read Alexander Pope (1688-1744), "Essay on Man" p. 308; discussion of the eighteenth century world view

Response paper #1 due: Explicate "Essay on Man."

 Fri. Francois-Marie Arouet deVoltaire (1694-1778), Candide (the first 10 chapters, vol. D., pp. 517-34) 

Week 3: Jan. 31-Feb. 4

Mon. Japan

Read Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693) "The Barrelmaker Brimful of Love," pp. 588-603

Essay #1 due: Explain the difference in Pope's and Voltaire's world view: how do they view social attitudes, the Christian church, and European governments. Also, include a paragraph in this essay in which you comment on the differences you find between European literature (Pope and Voltaire) and Japanese literature (Saikaku).

Wed. Introduction to Modernism/Romanticism

Fri. Poetry of William Wordsworth (1770-1850): "Ode on Intimations of Immortality" vol. e, p. 795. Response paper #2 due: Explain Wordsworth's theory on childhood.

Week 4 Feb. 7-11

Mon. Poetry of William Blake (1757-1827), Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience p. 780-88.

If possible, please read these poems online. Blake engraved illustrations for his work which you may view online.

Response paper #3 due: Compare "The Lamb" and "The Tyger." Why is the first included in Songs of Innocence and the second in Songs of Experience?

Wed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), "Kubla Khan" p. 813

Fri. John Keats (1795-1821), "Ode to a Nightingale," p. 831; "Ode to a Grecian Urn" p. 829

Week 5 Feb. 14-18

Mon. Introduction to Victorian Culture

Wed. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), "Ulysses" p. 885; from "In Memoriam A. H. H." p. 888

Fri. Robert Browning (1812-1889), "My Last Duchess" p. 910; "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church" p. 911. Response paper # 4 due: Write a character analysis of the Bishop.

Week 6 Feb. 21-25

Mon. Discussion of Nineteenth Century Art and Music

Wed. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Last words: "Lord help my poor soul."

"The Fall of the House of Usher"

Fri. Edgar Allan Poe:

"Ligeia" local link (easy)

"Ligeia" link to Project Gutenburg

Week 7 Feb. 28-Mar. 4

Mon. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881, "Notes from Underground": Part 1 pp. 1307-1329

Wed. "Notes from Underground": pp. 1329-1354

Fri. pp. 1354-1379

Response paper # 5 due: Describe how the characters in Part II of Notes from Underground personify or symbolize the ideas he articulates in Part I.

Week 8 Mar. 7-11

Mon.  Emily Dickinson (1830-1886): Poems on Emily Dickinson on the World Literature II web site: Literature:  death, nature, childhood: nos. 613, 486, 67, 214, 252, 789, 249, 201, 691.

Wed.  Read poetry of Emily Dickinson, ambiguity and breakdown: nos. 937, 280, 579, 609.

Fri. The poems in the textbook, pp.1049-58.

Week 9 Mar. 14-18 Spring Break

Week 10 Mar. 21-25

Mon.. Mid-Term Exam. In the Testing Center any day this week. Please bring a student I.D. and blue book. No class Mon. or Wed.

Wed. No class

Fri. Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Hedda Gabler

Week 11 Mar. 28-Apr. 1

Mon. Hedda Gabler

Wed. Discussion

Fri. Introduction to World War I and II, the twentieth century

Week 12 Apr. 4-8

Mon. T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), The Waste Land, pp. 2079-2091

Wed. The Waste Land

Fri. The Waste Land

Week 13 Apr. 11-15

Mon. The Waste Land

Wed. Kafka (1883-1924), "The Metamorphosis, p. 1999

Fri. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1989), "The Garden of Forking Paths," p. 2414

Week 14 Apr. 18-22

Mon.  Albert Camus (1913-1960), "The Guest," p. 2574. Essay 2 or Response paper topic: What is the choice the protagonist (main character) makes, why does he make the choice he makes, and what is the possible outcome?

Wed. Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951), "Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber," p. 2773

Fri. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (born 1928), Hand-outs on Marguez

Week 15 Apr. 25-29

Mon. Sylvia Plath. See the website in Literature

Wed.  Music: Jazz

Fri. Music: Derek Walcott (born 1930), "As John to Patmos," p. 2953; "The Sea is History," p. 2961

Week 16 May 2-6

Mon. Anita Desai (born 1937), "The Rooftop Dwellers," p. 3102. Response paper topic: what are the problems a woman in India experiences.

Wed.  Quotation test in Testing Center, no class

Fri.  Record-keeping day: conferences

Week 17 May 9-13

 Final exam: Wed., May 11, 11:00 a.m.

Final exam topic: Writers in the twentieth century solicit many questions from their audience, but they all go about it in different ways. Choose three authors we have read since the mid-term exam and detail the ways in which they pose the questions they ask. (The focus of the essay is on both the style and the questions.) You must have a good thesis.

Videos you might find interesting; not required:

Grand Illusion

Roshomon

Galileo (30) V0 203.10

Eighteenth Century Art and Music (1 hr.)

A Doll's House

Classicism and Romanticism (1 hr.)

Romanticism: Revolt of the Spirit (25)

French Revolution: Birth of a New France (21) V0277

Fresh View: Impressionism (55) V0452.07

Twentieth Century Artistic Revolutions (31) V0189

Into the 20th Century (58) V0452.08

Short Cuts, a film based on the stories of Raymond Carver