E316K: Masterworks of Literature: World
Instructor: Brian Doherty Office: Parlin 326
Office Hours: M. 12-1, 3-4/F 1-2, or by appt.
Ph: 471-8798
bfdoherty@mail.utexas.edu

Textbook: The Longman Anthology of World Literature: 1650-The Present. (Vols. D-E-F).
Website for review and outlines, etc. at http://www.laits.utexas.edu/doherty/

Grading and Requirements:

Discussion Section. Attendance, participation, short assignments	15%
2-3-page review of live world culture event	10%
Test One. (European Literary periods). February 14.	20%
Essay Test, on second set of readings. (3-4 pages)	20%
Final Exam. Covers all material since first test	35%

Schedule of Readings:(note: letters on left refer to the volume of the anthology in which the reading appears)

January 19: Introduction. Syllabus. Grading Policy.

D 22: “The Age of the Enlightenment” (191-203). Immanuel Kant, “An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?” (670-75).
24: Voltaire, Candide. Intro, to chapter 17 (464-92).
26: Voltaire, Candide. Chapters 17-28 (492-521).

29: Voltaire, Candide to conclusion. Leibniz and Pope in “Resonances” (521-32).
E. 31: “Romanticism.” Vol E. Intro. through “A World Within the World.” (1-7); John Keats (107-111); Giacomo Leopardi, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau (114-31).
**February 2: William Wordsworth (67-84).

5: “Realism” (7-9); Leo Tolstoy, “After the Ball” (593-600). Intro. to Fyodor Dostoevsky (600-604).
7: Notes from Underground: Part One (604-24).
9: Notes from Underground: Part Two, Chapters I-VI (624-47).

12: Notes from Underground: Part Two, and “Resonances,” Friedrich Nietzsche (647-71).
14: Test on Part one of the course. Literary Periods, Terms, reading comprehension.
F 16: “Modernism.” Volume F., intro to page 9. Virginia Woolf (176-211).

**19: T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “The Waste Land” I and II (224-33).
21: Franz Kafka “The Metamorphosis,” Part One (257-68).
23: “The Metamorphosis,” Part Two; and “Parables” (269-90).

26: Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths” through “Borges and I” (529-543).
28: Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children to Scene 4 (354-80).
March 2: Mother Courage and Her Children to conclusion (380-05).

5: Anna Akhmatova (290-300); Marina Tsvetaeva and Osip Mandelstam (312-17).
7: Primo Levi (405-19); Paul Celan (445-47).
9: Assignment: From a list of films that center around the Holocaust in Europe, screen one film and post a 1-2 page discussion on your section blackboard site. Follow-up with discussion on teh discusion board.

**D. 19: The World the Mughals Made (13-46).
21: Ghalib (272-83).
E. 23: Rabindranath Tagore, “The Conclusion.” (949-60).

F. 26: Premchand, “My Big Brother” (122-27). V. S. Naipaul, from “Prologue to an Autobiography” (519-27).
28: Salman Rushdie, “Chekhov and Zulu” (1060-70)
30: In class workshop on writing literary analysis. Models for literary analysis paper, grading examples. Essay Prompts delivered.

April: 2: Mahasweta Devi, “Breast Giver” (750-69).
D. 4: Section on The Ottoman Empire (166-89).
6: Papers due by classtime.

D & E 9: Evliya Celebi, from The Book of Travels (400-10).
From “Occidentalism—Europe through Foreign Eyes” (514-29).
11: Reading on electronic reserves (with several paper copies at the reserves desk of the PCL). The Arabian Nights.
**F 13: Naguib Mahfouz, intro. and “The Arabian Nights and Days” (549-51, 576-91).

16: “1001 Nights in the Twentieth Century.” Selections by Guneli Gun and Assia Djebar (592-601, 632-38).
18: Naguib Mahfouz (552-64).
20: Abdelrahman Munif, from Cities of Salt (1099-1111).

23: Ibrahim al-Kunni, “The Golden Bird of Misfortune” (739-45); Fatima Mernissi, “The Harem Within” (777-81); Hanan al-Shaykh, “A Season of Madness” (792-97).
25: Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (868-902).
27: Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (902-35).

30: Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (935-52).
May 2: Chinua Achebe, “The African Writer and the English Language;” Ngugi wa Thiong’o, from The Language of African Literature; Mbwil a M. Ngal, from The Rape of African Discourse and Jeremy Cronin, “To Learn how to Speak.”
May 4: Course Evaluations, preview of final exam.