READING SCHEDULE FOR CPLT 324 WORLD LITERATURE TO 1650
CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2008

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COURSE INFORMATION. Comp. Lit. 324, Course Code 11859. Section 80. Monday 4:00 – 6:45 p.m., Irvine Valley Campus (IRVC 1) 219. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: Monday 3:00 – 4:00 in IRVC 261. Email: cplt324_at_ajdrake.com. Catalog: “Prerequisites: junior or senior standing and completion of any literature course from General Education (GE) Category III.B.2, Asian and Western literature … to 1650. Units (3).”

REQUIRED TEXTS AT THE IRVINE CAMPUS BOOKSTORE

Lawall, Sarah, ed. The Norton Anthology of World Literature. 2nd. ed. New York: Norton, 2003. Package 1: Volumes A, B, C: Beginnings to 1650. ISBN 0-393-92453-X.

Buddha. The Three Cardinal Discourses. (Free Online Text)

Shakespeare, William. Titus Andronicus. Folger Shakespeare Library. Washington Square Press, 2005. ISBN-10: 0671722921. ISBN-13: 978-0671722920.

QUESTIONS FOR JOURNALS AND PRESENTATIONS

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SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED

WEEK 1

01/21. MLK Day, no class. Please read email with introduction to class and Wiki features.

WEEK 2

01/28. Epic of Gilgamesh (Vol. A, 10-41). Egyptian Poetry (Vol. A, 41-52).

WEEK 3

02/04. Genesis and Job from The Old Testament (Vol. A, 52-93).

WEEK 4

02/11. Aeschylus. The Oresteia. (Vol. A, 533-611).

WEEK 5

02/18. Presidents’ Day Holiday — No classes.

WEEK 6

02/25. Virgil. From The Aeneid. (Selections from Books 1-6, Vol. A, 1052-1125).

WEEK 7

03/03. Classic of Poetry, Confucius, Chuang Chou. From Classic of Poetry (Vol. A, 812-20). Confucius, The Analects (Vol. A, 820-31). Chuang Chou (Vol. A, 832-58).

WEEK 8

03/10. Buddha’s Three Cardinal Discourses. (Online Text). The Jataka (Vol. A, 1002-1010). The Bhagavad-Gita (Vol. A, 1010-28).

WEEK 9

03/17. The Koran (Vol. B, 1426-60) and Ibn Ishaq, The Biography of the Prophet (Vol. B, 1460-76).

WEEK 10

03/24. Faridoddin Attar, Jalâloddin Rumi. Attar, The Conference of the Birds (Vol. B, 1528-41). Rumi, Selections (Vol. B, 1544-49).

WEEK 11

03/31. Spring Recess — No classes all week.

WEEK 12

04/07. Sei Shonagon, Yoshida Kenko, Zeami Motokiyo. Shonagon, The Pillow Book (Vol. B, 2270-2300). Kenko, Essays in Idleness (Vol. B, 2326-2342). Motokiyo, Atsumori (Vol. B, 2350-55).

WEEK 13

04/14. Francis Petrarch, Niccolo Machiavelli, Baldesar Castiglione. Petrarch, “Letter” and Sonnets (Vol. C, 2476-90). Machiavelli, The Prince (Vol. C, 2517-34). Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (Vol. C, 2552-64).

WEEK 14

04/21. Michel de Montaigne. Essays (Vol. C, 2632-70).

WEEK 15

04/28. 04/21. 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 16

05/05. Shakespeare, William. Titus Andronicus. (Separate text, also part of Julie Taymor’s film version, Titus.)

FINALS WEEK

Final Exam Date: Monday, May 12, 5:00 – 6:50 p.m.