CPLT 324 World Literature to 1650 Schedule, Fall 2005 (Sat.)

READING SCHEDULE FOR CPLT 324 WORLD LITERATURE TO 1650
CSU FULLERTON, FALL 2005 (SAT.)

*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 11622. Saturday 9:00 – 11:45 a.m. Location: University Hall (UH) 208. Office hours: 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. in University Hall (UH) 329. 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

*2023 Note. Visitors may download the following questions in PDF format: WORLD LITERATURE TO 1650.

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 (Vol. B, 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.

READING SCHEDULE FOR CPLT 324 WORLD LITERATURE TO 1650CSU FULLERTON, FALL 2005 (SAT.)