READING SCHEDULE FOR CPLT 325 WORLD LITERATURE FROM 1650
CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2015

*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 21001, Section 2. MW 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., McCarthy Hall (MH) 49. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: MW 12:00 p.m. – 12:55 p.m. in University Hall (UH) 329. 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 THE 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

Tu. 01/20. Course Introduction.

Tu. 01/22. Matsuo Basho. The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vol. D, 616-28). Read also Vol. D, 613-15 introduction, “The World of Haiku.”

WEEK 2

Tu. 01/27. Ihara Saikaku. The Life of a Sensuous Woman (Vol. D, 591-611). Read also “Early Modern Japanese Popular Literature” (Vol. D, 585-90).

Th. 01/29. Section “What is Enlightenment?”: Samuel Johnson through Denis Diderot/Jean D’Alembert (Vol. D, 101-27). Read also the introduction: “The Enlightenment in Europe and the Americas” (Vol. D, 91-99).

WEEK 3

Tu. 02/03. Section “What is Enlightenment?” Benjamin Franklin through the Marquis de Sade (Vol. D, 127-40 — i.e. read all the selections in this section on the Enlightenment). Read also the introduction: “The Enlightenment in Europe and the Americas” (Vol. D, 91-99).

Th. 02/05. Voltaire. Candide, Chapters 1-18 (Vol. D, 355-85).

WEEK 4

Tu. 02/10. Voltaire. Candide, Chapters 19-30 (Vol. D, 385-413).

Th. 02/12. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Faust (Vol. E, 102-32). Read also Section Intro: “An Age of Revolutions in Europe and the Americas” (Vol. E, 3-21).

WEEK 5

Tu. 02/17. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Faust (Vol. E, 132-76).

Th. 02/19. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Faust (Vol. E, 176-208).

JOURNAL SET 1 DUE BY EMAIL TUESDAY 02/24. (Reminder: this set includes Basho through and including Goethe. Please expect an email from me verifying receipt of this and subsequent journal sets.)

WEEK 6

Tu. 02/24. Romanticism: William Blake’s “The Tyger” ( Vol. E, 339) and “London” (Vol. E, 340); Friedrich Hölderlin’s “The Half of Life” (343), “Hyperion’s Song of Fate” (343-44), “Brevity” (344), “To the Fates” (344); William Wordsworth’s “…Tintern Abbey” (351-54); Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” (379). Read also “Romantic Poets and Their Successors” (322-25).

Th. 02/26. Romanticism, continued: Heinrich Heine’s selections (415-17) and Giacomo Leopardi’s selections (418-20). Charles Baudelaire’s selections from The Flowers of Evil (466-80).

WEEK 7

Tu. 03/03. Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes from Underground, Part I entire and Part II, Chapters 1-3 (Vol. E, 635-708). Read also introduction, “Realism Across the Globe” (Vol. E, 625-74).

Th. 03/05. Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes from Underground, Part II, Chapters. 4-10 (Vol. E, 635-708).

WEEK 8

Tu. 03/10. Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Chapters I-VI (Vol. E, 740-64).

Th. 03/12. Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Chapters VII-XII (Vol. E, 764-78).

WEEK 9

Tu. 03/17. Anton Chekhov. The Cherry Orchard, Acts 1-2 (Vol. E, 850-72).

Th. 03/19. Anton Chekhov. The Cherry Orchard, Acts 3-4 (Vol. E, 872-89).

WEEK 10

Tu. 03/24. Rabindranath Tagore. “Punishment” (Vol. E, 893-99) and “Kabuliwala” (Vol. E, 899-904).

Th. 03/26. Higuchi Ichiyo. “Separate Ways” (Vol. E, 907-13).

WEEK 11

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

Th. 04/02. Spring Recess. No classes all week.

WEEK 12

Tu. 04/07. Franz Kafka. The Metamorphosis, Chapters 1-2 (Vol. F, 210-31). Read also the introduction, “Modernity and Modernism, 1900-1945 (Vol. F, 3-13).

Th. 04/09. Franz Kafka. The Metamorphosis, Chapter 3 (Vol. F, 231-41).

WEEK 13

Tu. 04/14. Bertolt Brecht. The Good Woman of Setzuan, Prologue and Scenes 1-6a (Vol. F, 434-69).

Th. 04/16. Bertolt Brecht. The Good Woman of Setzuan, Scenes 7-10, Epilogue (Vol. F, 469-87).

JOURNAL SET 3 DUE BY EMAIL TUESDAY 04/21. (Set includes Tagore through Brecht.)

PARAGRAPH ON PAPER TOPIC AND ARGUMENT DUE BY EMAIL THURS. 04/23.

WEEK 14

Tu. 04/21. Jorge Luis Borges. “The Garden of Forking Paths” (Vol. F, 489-98).

Th. 04/23. Federico Garcia Lorca. “Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias” (Vol. F, 577-83). Pablo Neruda. Read all selections (Vol. F, 585-99). Octavio Paz. “I Speak of the City” (Vol. F, 634-37).

WEEK 15

Tu. 04/28. Nawal el Saadawi. “In Camera” (Vol. F, 1106-15). Nguyen Huy Thiep. “The General Retires” (Vol. F, 1210-23). Read also introduction “Contemporary World Literature” (Vol. F, 925-32).

Th. 04/30. Ngugi Wa Thiong’O. “Wedding at the Cross” (Vol. F, 1038-49).

WEEK 16

Tu. 05/05. Wole Soyinka. Death and the King’s Horseman, Scenes 1-3 (Vol. F, 1051-78).

Th. 05/07. Wole Soyinka. Death and the King’s Horseman Scenes 4-5 (Vol. F, 1078-98).

JOURNAL SET 4 DUE BY EMAIL EXAM DAY. (Set includes Borges through Soyinka.)

FINALS WEEK

Final Exam Date Thursday, May 14 from 12:00 – 1:50 p.m. Due by email by Monday, May 18: Term Paper. (I must turn in grades by Friday, May 22.) For your other courses, check CSUF’s Final Exam Schedule.