SYLLABUS FOR WORLD LITERATURE II

Course Number: ENG 231A

Instructor: Dr. Geraldine Martin

Office: Room # 514

Office Phone: (219) 473-4290

E-mail: gmartin@ccsj.edu

Course Time: Wednesday 8:50 - 11:50 a.m.

Course Description: This course traces the development of English literature from the 1700's to the present. It explores the major writers and works of English literature, giving students an enjoyment and understanding of England's rich literary environment.

Prerequisites: ENG 103-104

Textbooks: The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, seventh edition, volume 2

The Grand Inquisitor by Dostoevsky (paperback)

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The reading must be done. Students will also be expected to give one oral report and to take, and pass, a mid-term and a final. Students who do very poorly on the mid-term are afforded an opportunity to retake that exam on that material. All students will do a written report, usually a coherent re-write to the questions on the mid-term exam. Grades will be figured on all of the above: in-class discussion, exams, and reports. If students do very poorly on just one of those, that will be counted less in their final grade.

Students in this course will:

Gain a working knowledge of the literature of the world from the 17^th century up to and including the contemporary times. Special attention is given to the English and American classics, but also the plays,fiction and poetry of both Europe, the East, Africa, and other native cultures.

A: A-: B+: B: B-: C+:

C: C-: D+: D: D-: F:

Week 1 Introduction to the age of the enlightenment

"Tartuffe" by Moliere (French)

Read: Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels, Part IV. A Voyage to the Land of the Houyhnhnms.

Week 2 Discussion on Swift

Reading of "The Rape of the Lock" by Pope

Read: Pope's "Essay on Man" and Voltaire's Candide

Week 3 Discussion on Candide

Introduction to the age of romanticism

Begin the reading of romantic poets: Blake

Week 4 Finish the poetry of Blake

The poems of Wordsworth and Coleridge

Read "Billy Budd" by Melville

Week 5 The poetry of Shelley and the Poems of Keats

Take some of the poems of the continental romantics

Read: Begin Madame Bovary by Flaubert

Week 6 The poems of Walt Whitman: Song of Myself and Out of the Cradle

Read: Madame Bovary

Week 7 The poems of Emily Dickinson

Read; Finish Madame Bovary

Notes from the Underground by Dostoevsky

Discuss "The Queen of Spades: and "Billy Budd."

Week 8 Mid-term exam

Week 9 Discussion of Madame Bovary

Poems of Baudelaire, Mallarme, Verlaine, Rimbaud

Read: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Week 10 Discuss The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Notes from the Underground

Read "The Grand Inquisitor" by Dostoevsky

"Hedda Gabler" by Ibsen

Week 11 Discuss Dostoevsky

Ibsen: "Hedda Gabler"

Zuni poetry

Poems of Yeats

Read; Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author

Joyce: "The Dead"

Kafka: "The Metamorphosis"

Week 12 Discuss Pirandello, Joyce, Kafka

Poems of Wallace Stevens

Poems of T.S. Eliot

Week 13 Discuss Faulkner, Camus, O'Connor

Read: Marquez: Death Constant Beyond Love, Achebe: Things Fall Apart,

Silko: Yellow Woman

Week 14 Discuss Marquez, Achebe, Silko

Week 15 Final