ENGL 2112 Syllabus

ENGL 2112 World Literature Fall 2008

Dr. Kathryn Pratt Russell A&S Room G213

MWF 1-1:50 p.m.

Course Description: A sophomore-level survey course in world literature written after 1650.

Student Responsibilities: The university policies on student responsibilities must be followed. The link to the policies is: http://a-s.clayton.edu/BasicUndergraduateStudentResponsibilities.htm

Disruption of the Learning Environment

Behavior which disrupts the teaching–learning process during class activities will not tolerated. While a variety of behaviors can be disruptive in a classroom setting, more serious examples include belligerent, abusive, profane, and/or threatening behavior. A student who fails to respond to reasonable faculty direction regarding classroom behavior and/or behavior while participating in classroom activities may be dismissed from class. A student who is dismissed is entitled to due process and will be afforded such rights as soon as possible following dismissal. If found in violation, a student may be administratively withdrawn and may receive a grade of WF.

Learning Outcomes: 1) Students will develop critical thinking skills and enhance their capacity for discussion of and writing about world literature. 2) Students will develop a general understanding of textual, critical and historical approaches to world literature.

Absence Policy: Students with more than 9 unexcused absences (20% of coursework) will fail the course. Students with more than 5 unexcused absences will earn an “F’ for the class participation grade (20%). I rarely ever have to use this policy, because I am very helpful and will email you if you get close to the five unexcused absence limit. NOTE: FOR THE COURSE THAT MEETS ONCE A WEEK, MORE THAN FOUR UNEXCUSED ABSENCES WILL EARN THE STUDENT AN F IN THE COURSE. MORE THAN TWO UNEXCUSED ABSENCES WILL EARN THE STUDENT A "0" FOR THE COURSE PARTICIPATION GRADE.

Accommodations:

Students with disabilities who need to request accommodations should contact the Disability Services Coordinator, STC 255, 678-466-5445, disabilityservices@mail.clayton.edu

Computer Requirement:

Each CSU student is required to have ready access throughout the semester to a notebook computer that meets faculty approved hardware and software requirements for the student’s academic program. Students will sign a statement attesting to such access. For further information on CSU’s Official Notebook Computer Policy, please go to http://itpchoice.clayton.edu/policy.htm.

Computer Use In This Course:

Student notebook computers will not be used in the classroom in this course. Computers will be required to access course materials and to communicate with your instructor.

Plagiarism:

Plagiarism involves copying another person’s words or ideas without citing the source with appropriate documentation. A plagiarized paper is considered an incomplete assignment. Any student who plagiarizes will earn an F for the course.

Instructor Information:

Dr. Kathryn Pratt Russell email: KathrynPratt@clayton.edu

phone: 678-416-8271 (cell) office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room G210-E

office hours: MWF 10-11, 12-1 p.m.

Class Meetings:

ENGL 2112-02 MWF 1 p.m.; Arts and Sciences OR

ENGL 2112-03 FAYETTE CAMPUS: PEACHTREE CITY WED 6 p.m.-8:20 p.m.

Grade Distribution:

Paper Draft (4-6 pp): 20% Final Paper (6-8 pp): 30%

Class Participation (incl. Quizzes): 20% Midterm Exam: 10%

Final Exam: 20%

CLASS SCHEDULE (SEE BOTTOM OF PAGE FOR ENGL-2112-03, PEACHTREE CITY WEDNESDAY NIGHT SCHEDULE)

M Aug 18 Introduction

W Aug 20 Evliya Celebi (1611-84), The Book of Travels (Turkey)

F Aug 22 K’ung Shang-Jen (1648-1718), The Peach Blossom Fan (China)

M Aug 25 The Peach Blossom Fan

W Aug 27 The Peach Blossom Fan

F Aug 29 Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-95), Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz (Mexico/Spain)

M Sept 1 LABOR DAY NO CLASSES

W Sept 3 Saikaku (1642-93), “The Barrelmaker Brimful of Love” (Japan)

F Sept 5 Basho (1644-94), “The Narrow Road of the Interior” (Japan)

M Sept 8 Akinari (1734-1809), “Bewitched” (Japan)

W Sept 10 William Blake (1757-1827), Songs of Innocence and Experience (England)

F Sept 12 William Wordsworth (1770-1850), “Lines Composed . . . Tintern Abbey” (England)

M Sept 15 S.T. Coleridge (1772-1834), “Kubla Khan” (England)

W Sept 17 Percy Shelley (1792-1822), “Ode to the West Wind” AND Keats (1795-1821), “Ode to a

Grecian Urn,” “Ode to a Nightingale” (England)

F Sept 19 Gustavo Becquer (1836-1870), all poems AND Rosalia de Castro (1837-1885), all poems (Spain)

M Sept 22 Frederick Douglass (1818?-1895), Narrative of the Life of F.D. (U.S.)

W Sept 24 Narrative of the Life

F Sept 26 Emily Dickinson (1830-86), Poems 303, 465, 712, 754 (U.S.)

M Sept 29 Ghalib (1797-1869), Ghazals V, X, XIV, XIX (India)

W Oct 1 MIDTERM EXAM

F Oct 3 Fyodor Dostoeksky (1821-81), Notes from Underground (Russia)

M Oct 6 Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), Poems from Paris Spleen: “One O’Clock in the Morning,”

“Crowds,” “Windows, “Anywhere Out of the World”

W Oct 8 Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), “The Lady with the Dog” (Russia)

F Oct 10 Chekhov, “The Cherry Orchard”

M Oct 13 Vol F: “The Modern World,” pp. 1579-99

W Oct 15 Sigmund Freud (1859-1939), “Dora” (Vienna, Austria)

F Oct 17 “Dora”

M Oct 20 W.B Yeats (1865-1939), “Easter 1916,” “Leda and the Swan” (Ireland)

W Oct 22 Ruben Dario (1867-1916) “Sonatina,” “To Roosevelt,” “Leda” (Nicaragua)

F Oct 24 James Joyce (1882-1941), “The Dead” (Ireland)

M Oct 27 Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), from A Room of One’s Own (England)

W Oct 29 Tanizaki (1886-1965), “In Praise of Shadows” (Japan)

F Oct 31 Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938), “You Want Me White,” “The World of Seven Wells,”

“Portrait of Garcia Lorca” (Argentina)

M Nov 3 Birago Diop (1906-92), “The Bone” (Senegal)

W Nov 5 Naguib Mahfouz (1911-) “Zaabalawi” (Egypt)

F Nov 7 Kojima Nobuo (1915-), “The American School” (Japan)

M Nov 10 Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) “If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem,” “God Has Pity on Kindergarten

Children,” “An Arab Shepherd” (Israel)

W Nov 12 Mahasweta Devi (1926-), “Breast-Giver” (India)

F Nov 14 Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-) “Death Constant Beyond Love” (Colombia)

M Nov 17 Derek Walcott, (1930-), “The Almond Trees,” “Verandah,” “The Sea is History” (St.Lucia)

W Nov 19 Wole Soyinka (1934-), Death and the King’s Horseman (Nigeria)

F Nov 21 Death and the King’s Horseman

M Nov 24 Anita Desai (1937-), “The Rooftop Dwellers” (India)

W Nov 26-30 THANKSGIVING NO CLASSES

M Dec 1 Lorna Goodison (1947-), “To Us All Flowers Are Roses,” “Guinea Woman” (Jamaica)

W Dec 3 Leslie Marmon Silko (1948-), “Yellow Woman” (U.S.)

F Dec 5 LAST DAY OF CLASS: PAPERS DUE

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ENGL 2112-03 FAYETTE CAMPUS (PEACHTREE CITY)

CLASS SCHEDULE

W Aug 20 Introduction; Evliya Celebi (1611-84), The Book of Travels (Turkey); K’ung Shang-Jen (1648-1718), The Peach Blossom Fan (China)

W Aug 27 The Peach Blossom Fan; Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-95), Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz (Mexico/Spain)

W Sept 3 Saikaku (1642-93), “The Barrelmaker Brimful of Love” (Japan); Basho (1644-94), “The Narrow Road of the Interior” (Japan)

W Sept 10 Akinari (1734-1809), “Bewitched” (Japan); William Blake (1757-1827), Songs of Innocence and Experience (England); William Wordsworth (1770-1850), “Lines Composed . . . Tintern Abbey” (England)

W Sept 17 S.T. Coleridge (1772-1834), “Kubla Khan” (England); Percy Shelley (1792-1822), “Ode to the West Wind” AND Keats (1795-1821), “Ode to a Grecian Urn,” “Ode to a Nightingale” (England); Gustavo Becquer (1836-1870), all poems AND Rosalia de Castro (1837-1885), all poems (Spain)

W Sept 24 Frederick Douglass (1818?-1895), Narrative of the Life of F.D. (U.S.); Emily Dickinson (1830-86), Poems 303, 465, 712, 754 (U.S.)

W Oct 1 MIDTERM EXAM; Ghalib (1797-1869), Ghazals V, X, XIV, XIX (India); Fyodor Dostoeksky (1821-81), Notes from Underground (Russia)

W Oct 8 Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), Poems from Paris Spleen: “One O’Clock in the Morning,” “Crowds,” “Windows, “Anywhere Out of the World”; Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), “The Lady with the Dog” (Russia); Chekhov, “The Cherry Orchard”

W Oct 15 Vol F: “The Modern World,” pp. 1579-99; Sigmund Freud (1859-1939), “Dora” (Vienna, Austria)

W Oct 22 W.B Yeats (1865-1939), “Easter 1916,” “Leda and the Swan” (Ireland); Ruben Dario (1867-1916) “Sonatina,” “To Roosevelt,” “Leda” (Nicaragua); James Joyce (1882-1941), “The Dead” (Ireland)

W Oct 29 Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), from A Room of One’s Own (England); Tanizaki (1886-1965), “In Praise of Shadows” (Japan); Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938), “You Want Me White,” “The World of Seven Wells,” “Portrait of Garcia Lorca” (Argentina)

W Nov 5 Birago Diop (1906-92), “The Bone” (Senegal); Naguib Mahfouz (1911-) “Zaabalawi” (Egypt); Kojima Nobuo (1915-), “The American School” (Japan)

W Nov 12 Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) “If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem,” “God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children,” “An Arab Shepherd” (Israel); Mahasweta Devi (1926-), “Breast-Giver” (India); Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-) “Death Constant Beyond Love” (Colombia)

W Nov 19 Derek Walcott, (1930-), “The Almond Trees,” “Verandah,” “The Sea is History” (St.Lucia); Wole Soyinka (1934-), "Death and the King’s Horseman" (Nigeria); Anita Desai (1937-), “The Rooftop Dwellers” (India)

W Nov 26-30 THANKSGIVING NO CLASSES

W Dec 3 Lorna Goodison (1947-), “To Us All Flowers Are Roses,” “Guinea Woman” (Jamaica)Leslie Marmon Silko (1948-), “Yellow Woman” (U.S.); LAST DAY OF CLASS: PAPERS DUE