READING SCHEDULE FOR CPLT 324 WORLD LITERATURE TO 1650
CSU FULLERTON, FALL 2005 (WED.)
*2023 Note. Most links and procedural information have been removed from this archival copy, leaving mainly the assigned editions and the reading schedule.
COURSE INFORMATION. Comp. Lit. 324, Course Code 11625. Wednesday 7:00 – 9:45 a.m. Location: Irvine Campus (IRVC) 202. Office hours: 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. in IRVC 259. Email: cplt324-s_at_ajdrake.com. Catalog: “Prerequisites: junior or senior standing and completion of any literature course from General Education Category III.B.2. Asian and Western literature from the beginning to 1650.Units: (3).”
REQUIRED TEXTS AT TITAN BOOKSTORE
Lawall, Sarah, ed. The Norton Anthology of World Literature. 2nd ed. Volume 1ABC. New York: WW Norton, 2002. ISBN A = 0393977552, B = 0393977560, C = 0393977579.
QUESTIONS FOR JOURNALS AND PRESENTATIONS
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Gilgamesh | Homer | Sophocles | Classic | Confucius | Chou | New Testament | Augustine | Mahabharata | Bhagavad | 1001 Nights | Dante | Shonagon | Kenko | Motokiyo & Nobumitsu | Petrarch | Erasmus | Machiavelli | Rabelais | Montaigne | Vega | Shakespeare | Codex | Cantares | Popol Vuh
SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED
WEEK 0
08/20. Introduction to class. *Please note that Saturday classes begin on the 20th, not the 27th. Since most courses don’t begin so early, I have labeled this first meeting “WEEK 0.”
WEEK 1
08/27. Epic of Gilgamesh (Vol. A, 10-41).
WEEK 2
09/03. Homer. The Odyssey, Books 1-4, 9-12 (Vol. A, 225-78; 319-76).
WEEK 3
09/10. Sophocles. Antigone (Vol. A, 658-93).
WEEK 4
09/17. Classic of Poetry, Confucius, Chuang Chou. Confucius, The Analects (Vol. A, 820-31). Classic of Poetry (Vol. A, 812-20). Chuang Chou (Vol. A, 832-58).
WEEK 5
09/24. The New Testament, Saint Augustine. New Testament selections from Luke and Matthew (Vol. A, 1206-21). Augustine’s Confessions (Vol. A, 1121-49).
WEEK 6
10/01. The Mahabharata (Vol. A, 953-1001) and The Bhagavad Gita (Vol. A, 1002-1031).
WEEK 7
10/08. The Thousand and One Nights (1566-1618).
WEEK 8
10/15. Dante Alighieri. “The Inferno” from The Divine Comedy (Vol. B, 1815-1942). I will be at a conference on this date, so there’s no class. This gives you two weeks — we will discuss Dante next week.
WEEK 9
10/22. Dante Alighieri. “The Inferno” from The Divine Comedy (Vol. B, 1815-1942).
WEEK 10
10/29. Sei Shonagon, Yoshida Kenko, Zeami Motokiyo, K.K. Nobumitsu. Shonagon, The Pillow Book (Vol. B, 2270-2300). Kenko, Essays in Idleness (Vol. B, 2326-2342). Motokiyo, Atsumori (Vol. B, 2350-55) and Haku Rakuten (Vol. B, 2356-61), Nobumitsu, Dojoji (Vol. B, 2361-70).
WEEK 11
11/05. Francis Petrarch, Desiderius Erasmus, Niccolo Machiavelli. Petrarch, “Letter” and Sonnets (Vol. C, 2476-90). Erasmus, In Praise of Folly (Vol. C, 2490-2517). Machiavelli, The Prince (Vol. C, 2517-34).
WEEK 12
11/12. François Rabelais, Michel de Montaigne. Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel (Vol. C, 2591-2631). Montaigne, Essays (Vol. C, 2632-70).
WEEK 13
11/19. Lope de Vega. Fuente Ovejuna (Vol. C, 2783-2821). Florentine Codex (Vol. C, 3070-73), Cantares Mexicanos (Vol. C, 3073-76), Popol Vuh (Vol. C, 3076-92).
WEEK 14
11/26. Holiday Recess. No classes.
WEEK 15
12/03. William Shakespeare. Hamlet (Vol. C, 2821-2918).
FINALS WEEK
12/10. Saturday, regular class time.