SYLLABUS FOR WORLD LITERATURE II

Course Number: ENG231X

Instructor: Dr. Valerie Pennanen

Office: Room #524

Office Phone: (219) 473-4285

E-mail: vpennanenccsj@hotmail.com

Office Hours: By Appt.

Course Time: Thursday, 7:00-10:00 p.m.

Course Description: This course continues the classical literature studies of English 230 with emphasis on romantic, realistic, and modern literature. It also presents the student with major works in translation from French, Spanish, Russian, and African classics.

Prerequisites: None

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Class Policy on Attendance: Regular attendance is crucial to your success in this class. More

than two (2) absences will be sure to harm your class participation grade ( and they are bound to

hurt your other grades, too). If you miss more than three (3) classes, you should consider withdrawing.

Class Policy For Assignments: You are required to do all assigned readings, participate in class discussions, take the midterm and final exams, and submit a final paper (approximately 8-12 pages).

This course is designed to acquaint with the great literary heritage of our world from the Enlightenment through the twentieth century.

Description: Through intensive reading, writing and discussion, members of the class will develop their appreciation for the literature of the past three (3) centuries and explore its relevance to contemporary life.

You will receive a letter grade for each of the following:

Class Participation

Midterm Exam

Final Exam

Final Paper

Week 1 (January 13^th) Welcome and introduction

Week 2 (January 20^th) Moliere, Tartuffe

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz,

"Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz"

Week 3 (January 27) Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part IV

Pope, "An Essay on Man," Epistle I

Voltaire, Candide.

Week 4 (February 3) Poems by Blake:

"Introduction" ( from Songs of Innocence)

"The Lamb"

"The Little Black Boy"

"Holy Thursday"

"The Chimney Sweeper" (from Songs of

Innocence)

"The Tyger"

"London"

"The Chimney Sweeper" (from Songs of

Experience)

"Ode on Intimations of Immorality"

Week 5 (February 10) Poem by Colderidge:

"Kubla Khan"

Poems by Shelley:

"Stanzas Written in Dejection – December

1818, near Naples"

Poems by Keats:

"On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer"

"Bright Star"

"La Belle Dame sans Merci"

"Ode on a Grecian Urn"

"Ode to a Nightingale"

Goethe, Faust

Week 6 (February 17) Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick

Douglass, An American Slave

Poems by Dickinson:

"A bird came down the Walk"

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes"

"Much Madness is divinest Sense"

"I died for Beauty—but was scarce"

"I heard a Fly buzz—when I died"

"I like to see it lap the Miles"

"Because I could not stop for Death"

"Pass to thy Rendezvous of Light"

Review For Midterm Exam

Week 7 (February 24^th) Midterm Exam

Week 8 (March 2) Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Poems by Baudelaire:

"To the Reader" (from The Flowers of

Evil)

"Her Hair"

"The Carcass"

"Invitation to the Voyage"

"Windows"

Week 9 (March 9) Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

Tolstoy, "The Death of Ivan Illvich"

Week 10 (March 16) Mann, Death in Venice

Joyce, "The Dead"

Poem by Eliot: "The Love Song of J.

Alfred Prufrock"

Week 11 (March 23) Kafka, The Metamorphosis

Poem by Yeats: "The Second

Coming"

Poem by Eliot: "The Waste Land"

Week 12 (March 30^th) Borowski, "Ladies and Gentlemen, to

the Gas Chamber"

Camus: "The Guest"

Beckett, Endgame

Week 13 (April 6) Wright, "The Man Who Was Almost

A Man"

Lessing, "The Old Chief Mshlanga"

Bachmann, "The Barking"

Garcia Marquez, "Death Constant

Beyond Love"

Week 14 (April 13) Final Exam