READING SCHEDULE FOR CPLT 325 WORLD LIT. FROM 1650
CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2011

*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. 325, Course Code 19503, Section 80. Wednesdays 7:00 – 9:45 p.m., Irvine Campus (IRVC) 131. (The new Irvine Campus is located at 3 Banting, Irvine, CA. 92618.) Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: Wed. 6:00 – 6:55 p.m. in IRVC 236, x2735. Email: 325_at_ajdrake.com. Catalog: “Prerequisites: junior or senior standing and completion of any literature course from G. E. Category III.B.2. Asian and Western literature from 1650 to the present. Units: (3).“

REQUIRED TEXTS AT IRVINE CAMPUS BOOKSTORE

Lawall, Sarah et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Package 2 (Volumes D, E, F): 1650 to the Present [Paperback, 2003]. ISBN-13: 978-0393924541.

QUESTIONS FOR JOURNALS AND PRESENTATIONS

*2023 Note. Visitors may download the following questions in PDF format: ANCIENT WORLD LITERATURE | MODERN WORLD LITERATURE.

SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED

WEEK 1

01/26. Wed. Course Introduction.

WEEK 2

02/02. Wed. Wu Ch’eng-En. Monkey (Vol. D, 8-71). Read also Section Intro: “Vernacular Literature in China” (Vol. D, 3-7).

WEEK 3

02/09. Wed. Ihara Saikaku. The Barrelmaker Brimful of Love (Vol. D, 588-603). Matsuo Basho. The Narrow Road of the Interior (Vol. D, 604-29). Read also Section Intro: “The Rise of Popular Arts in Premodern Japan.” (Vol. D, 583-87)

WEEK 4

02/16. Wed. François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire. Candide (Vol. D, 517-80). Read also Section Intro: “The Enlightenment in Europe” (Vol. D, 295-303).

WEEK 5

02/23. Wed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Faust (Vol. E, 678-780). Read also Section Intro: “Revolution and Romanticism in Europe and America” (Vol. E, 651-61).

WEEK 6

03/02. Wed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Faust (Vol. E, 678-780). Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. “The Queen of Spades” (Vol. E, 863-83).

WEEK 7

03/09. Wed. Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary (Author bio. 1084-88, novel parts 1-2: 1088-1227). Read also Section Intro: “Realism, Naturalism and Symbolism in Europe” (Vol. E, 1071-83)

WEEK 8

03/16. Wed. Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary (1227-1301).

WEEK 9

03/23. Wed. Charles Baudelaire. From Flowers of Evil (Vol. E, 1380-98). Stéphane Mallarmé. Read all poems (1398-1405). Arthur Rimbaud. Read all selections (1411-18).

WEEK 10

03/30. Wed. Spring Recess. No classes all week.

WEEK 11

04/06. Wed. Anton Chekhov. The Cherry Orchard (Vol. E, 1519-23 author intro; play 1536-71).

WEEK 12

04/13. Wed. Rabindranath Tagore. Read all selections (Vol. F, 1671-99). Naguib Mahfouz. “Zaabalawi” (Vol. F, 2527-38). Read also Volume intro “The Modern World: Self and Other in Global Context” (Vol. F, 1579-1606).

WEEK 13

04/20. Wed. Luigi Pirandello. Six Characters in Search of an Author (Vol. F, 1721-66). Lu Xun. “Diary of a Madman” (Vol. F, 1917-29).

WEEK 14

04/27. Wed. Federico García Lorca. “Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías” (Vol. F, 2267-77). Jorge Luis Borges. “The Garden of Forking Paths” (Vol. F, 2411-21). Pablo Neruda. Read all selections (Vol. F, 2438-55).

WEEK 15

05/04. Wed. Dada-Surrealist Poetry: A Selection (Vol. F, 2109-21). Franz Kafka. The Metamorphosis (Vol. F, 1996-2030). Tadeusz Borowski. “Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber” (Vol. F, 2770-86).

WEEK 16

05/11. Wed. Wole Soyinka. Death and the King’s Horseman (Vol. F, 2021-71).

FINALS WEEK

Final Exam Date Wed. May 18, 7:30 – 9:20 p.m.