Syllabus: Masterworks of Literature-World

Instructor: Brian Doherty Parlin 326. Phone 471-8798
Office Hours: Tuesday, 10:45-1:45; W: 2:30-3:30 (or by appointment)
bfdoherty@mail.utexas.edu
Course Teaching Assistants are Catherine Bacon and Laura Smith. They will hold office/discussion hours from 2:30-4 at Prufrock’s at the entrance of the PCL. They will be there as long as students are waiting to see them, or if students have made an appointment.

Required Texts:
The Bedford Anthology of World Literature: The Modern World, 1650-The Present, Vol. 2.

Grading and Assignments:
Exam One. (June 15). Terms, Periods, Texts. 25%
Exam Two. (June 29) As above, with short essay. 25%
Final Exam. (All texts from June 30-July 8). 3 hour exam. 35%
Quizzes on Reading. Best 5 of 8 taken for grade. No make-up
Quizzes for absent days, no forecast of quizzes. 10%
Two page essay on related film (from list). 5%
Extra Credit: Up to three points added to cumulative grade for informed, substantial, useful contribution to class discussions/ Blackboard discussions. No other extra credit will be available.
Attendance Policy: Attendance is required, though we give a little leeway. For each absence beyond 4, 8 points will be deducted from your cumulative grade.

Schedule of Classes
June 4: First day of class.
5: Introduction (1-20). “Enlightenment and the Spirit of Inquiry” (366-74). Immanuel Kant, “What is Enlightenment” (390-395).

8: Voltaire and Candide. Introduction to Chapter 18 (296-332). (A comix version of a coverof Candide by Chris Ware. Double-click on the cover to read.)
9: Voltaire and Candide. To conclusion (332-365).
10: The Eighteenth Century—other perspectives. Olaudah Equiano, Introduction and from chapters 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 12 (between 448-494).
11: Romanticism in England and Europe. William Wordsworth, intro. (736-41), "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” (743-47), “The World is too Much with Us” through Ode: Intimations of Immortality.” William Blake, Introduction, “The Lamb,”, “The Tyger,” and “London” (between 762-69).
12: Friedrich Holderlin through Alphonse de Lamartine (770-78). Giacomo Leopardi and Rosalía de Castro (790-99).

15: Test #1. Literary Periods, Terms, Author Biographies and some questions about the texts.
16: Literary Realism. Le Mot Juste and Gustave Flaubert. “A Simple Heart” (938-63)
17: The Moral Vision of Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilych. Intro. through chapter IV (983-1010).
18: Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilych to conclusion, plus Darwin (1010-31). Biography and introduction of Tagore.
19: A View from India. Rabindranath Tagore, Broken Ties, chapters I-III (1293-1327).

22: Rabindranath Tagore, Broken Ties, chapters III-conclusion (1327-1340). Tagore on Screen. Satyajit Ray’s adaptation of Tagore’s “The Postmaster” or “The Conclusion.”
23: Essay: “In the World, The Emancipation of Women” with Bazán and Ichiyo (1117-37). Into to Ibsen.
24: Screening of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.
25: Realism, Naturalism, and European Theater. Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. (1058-1117).
26: Modern writing/thinking. “In the World: Modernism” (1424-29). Virginia Woolf (1365-85).

29: Test # 2. Brief objective exam on terms, author biographies, and some questions about the texts. Brief in-class essay.
30: More Modernism. Franz Kafka, “The Metamorphosis” (1386-1424).
July 1: Magical Realism/ Speculative Fiction. Gabriel García Marquez, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” (1444-50). Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of the Forking Paths” (1533-43).
2: “War, Conflict, and Resistance” (All pages 1473-97. Akiko through Akmatova).
3: “War, Conflict, and Resistance” (from Sachs through O’Brien (1497-1509) plus Dao (1516-18)).

6: Middle East and North Africa in Conflict. Fadwa Tuqan through Mahmoud Darwish (1509-16). Albert Camus, “The Guest” (1580-94).
7: Search for Self in Modern Egypt. Naguib Mahfouz, “Zaabalawi” (1567-80). Alifa Rifaat, “My World of the Unknown” (1746-59).
8: Voices from the Caribbean. Derek Walcott, Introduction (1733-35) and “The Light of the World” 2740-44). Edwidge Danticat, “Children of the Sea” (1779-92).
9: Last day of class. Wrap up of the last 7 days of class. Some notes towards the final exam.