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English
267: World Literature 1700 to Now
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Fall 2003; MWF 11:30-12:20; HEAV 129
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Professor
Charles Ross
= Office: 304A Heavilon
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= Office hours: W 11:00-1:00
Course description
This course serves as half of the introduction to the Comparative Literature major. It is designed for sophomores and juniors (although I notice that some you are seniors), and may also be taken by first-year students, English majors, and non-majors. Materials consist of plays, stories, letters, and poems from English, French, German, Russian, a= nd Spanish authors, beginning with the seventeenth-century.
Course objectives
In this class you will learn to read literature carefully= and analytically; respond to literature both orally and in writing; and underst= and the value of comparing different literatures. You will become familiar with certain intellectual and artistic concepts: the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, Symbolism, and Modernism. There is also a secret purpose that will= be announced in class, something only a literature class can give you.
Required Text
q = The Norton Anthology of World Masterpi= eces, vol. 2, 7th edition, available at Von’s Bookstore.
Reading: 916= pages; approximately 30 pages per class. Please allow at least six hours per week = of homework time for class reading, plus extra time for writing papers and studying for exams.
Exams: There= are three exams worth 10% each and a final worth 20%, as shown on the syllabus.= The final exam will be on Madame Bovary= . You may bring your books and any notes to the exams.
Papers: Ther= e are two take-home papers, one topics to be assigned, and one final paper, a comparison of two poems by any two authors. Each paper is worth 15%. These papers are assigned to make you comfortable writing and thinking; therefore they may be rewritten for a new grade, in which case the first grade will b= e 5% and the second grade 10%.
Attendance and participation: You are expected to attend every class. Missin=
g more
than three classes means you have dropped the course. Absences may be excus=
ed
by a note from the appropriate Purdue dean or organization or from home. Pl=
ease
be on time. 5% of your grade will be based on active participation, any
in-class presentations, and overall attendance.
English 267 Cl= ass Schedule
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January 13 |
Introduction; “The = Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” pp. 1676-1679 |
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January 15 |
Moliere, Tartuffe, pp. 1-68 |
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January 20 |
Tartuffe |
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January 22 |
Marie de La Fayette, The Princess of Clèves, p= p. 60-162 |
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January 27 |
The Princess of Clèves |
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January 29 |
Jean Racine, Phaedra, pp. 160-201 |
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February 3 |
Take-home paper due; exam |
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February 5 |
Sor Juana Inés de = la Cruz, pp. 202-229 |
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February 10 |
Swift, “A Modest Proposal,” pp. 282-288. |
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February 12 |
Voltaire, Candide, pp. 316-379 |
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February 17 |
Candide |
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February 19 |
Rousseau, Confessions, pp. 417-437 |
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February 24 |
Take-home paper due; exam |
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February 26 |
Goethe, Faust, pp. 438-540 |
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March 2 |
Faust |
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March 5 |
Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, pp. 1180-1222 |
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March 9 |
James Joyce, “The Dead,” pp. 1582-1615 |
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March 11 |
Naguid Mahfouz, “Zaabalaw,” pp. 1958-1979 |
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March 16-18 |
Spring Break |
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March 23 |
Alexander Zolzhenitsyn&ce= dil; “Matryona’s Home,” pp. 1970-2000. |
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March 25 |
exam |
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March 30 |
Baudelaire and Mallarm&ea= cute;, pp. 1141-1166 |
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April 1 |
Verlaine and Rimbaud, pp. 1167-1180 |
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April 6 |
Yeats and Rilke, pp. 1414= -1426 and 1564-1570 |
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April 8 |
Wordsworth, pp. 549-560 a= nd Bécquer, pp. 610-611. |
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April 13 |
Coleridge, pp. 586-592 an= d Heine, pp. 619-620 |
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April 15 |
Shelley, pp. 593-599 and Leopardi, pp. 632-634 |
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April 20 |
Freud, “Dora,”= ; pp. 1354-1414 |
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April 22 |
Flaubert, Madame Bovary, pp. 846-1062 |
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April 27 |
Flaubert, Madame Bovary |
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April 29 |
Flaubert, Madame Bovary. |
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Scheduled Final |
exam; final paper due |