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World Lit 2
“No one shall know our joys, save us alone, / And there’s no evil till the act is known; /
It’s scandal, Madam, which makes it an offense, / And it’s no sin to sin in confidence.”
Materials
Modern Text
Literature
Lawall, Sarah, et al. The Norton Anthology of Western
Literature, Volume 2. New York: W.W. Norton, 2005.
Computer
This section of World Literature, ENGL 2112, explores Since this is an online course, you must have access
the genesis and maturity of modern thought and literary to a newer computer with a reliable Internet access.
expression from the latter-seventeenth century until the As a part of this requirement, your computer should
present have a current web browser, like Safari or Firefox,
and Adobe Acrobat installed.
World Literature 2 examines national literatures
other than those of Britain and America from the “The Wanderer above a Sea of Fog” by There are computers available for open-use on
Renaissance to the present. Particular emphasis is Caspar David Friedrich (1818) campus, but you should not rely on these. The work
placed on western literature, especially continental, for this course is too much for you to accomplish in
Russian, and Latin American fiction of the 19th and the ARC.
20th centuries.
Since we have only a limited time in this survey, we LitMUSE
World Literature 2 explores texts — poems, novels, will concentrate on both diversity of texts explored
novellas, plays, and short stories — in their and the detail of that exploration. Authors include You are required to have an account on LitMUSE,
historical and cultural contexts (particularly the Voltaire, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, the server that will support all of your work in this
scientific and intellectual movements of Rimbaud, Ibsen, Mann, Borges, Kundera, and class. You should login to the server at least once a
Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Modernism) as Calvino, among others. day to receive any announcements or changes that
well as consider how those texts still inform our are made to the class.
views of ourselves today.
Policies consider:
Course Schedule
This schedule represents the ideal outline for our semester, but it is tentative and
subject to change. It reflects only an overview of readings and assignments, but does
not always indicate other specific class session assignments or activities.
Week 1 (8/18) Week 8 (10/6) Week 13 (11/10) Week 16 (12/1) NOTE
Course Introduction Goethe Faust continued Kafka The Metamorphosis Kundera “The Hitchhiking Some of these texts are not in
LitMUSE Account Creation Game” your Norton anthology. Those
Week 9 (10/13) Week 14 (11/17) TBA that are not may be
Week 2 (8/25) Pushkin “Queen of Spades” Borges “The Garden of the downloaded as PDFs off of
Molière Tartuffe Dostoyevsky “The Grand Forking Paths” & “The Exam Week (12/8) the LitMUSE web site. If the
Inquisitor” Aleph” W 12/10 6-8:50pm story is not in your book,
Week 3 (9/1) Burowski “Ladies and check the web site.
Molière Tartuffe continued Week 10 (10/20) Gentlemen, to the Gas
Gogol “The Overcoat” Chamber”
Week 4 (9/8) Turgenev “First Love” Cortázar “A Letter to a Young
Pope Essay on Man Chekhov “The Lady with the Lady in Paris”
Voltaire Candide Pet Dog” Calvino “The Distance of the
Moon
Week 5 (9/15) Week 11 (10/27)
Voltaire Candide continued Selections from the Symbolist Week 15 (11/24)
poets: Baudelaire, Mishima “Partriotism”
Week 6 (9/22) Mallarmé, Verlaine, and Rulfo “Talpa”
Rousseau from Confessions Rimbaud Fuentes “The Doll Queen”
Email: worldlit@grlucas.net This sever contains all the information presented in this
Office: Macon Campus, H/SS-117 document. It also houses resources that go far beyond this
syllabus. I would recommend that you spend some time
Office Hours familiarizing yourself with these. They are designed to help
you help yourself to produce stellar work both in this class and
Macon Campus: MW 11a-12p; T 4-5:15p
those you will subsequently attempt.
WRC: W 4-5:15p
Humanities Department
Main Phone: (478) 471-5792
The information presented on this syllabus is
Please email me rather than trying to call. I will answer email
current as of August 9, 2008, 3:30p. For the much more quickly than I will return a call.