READING SCHEDULE FOR CPLT 325 WORLD LITERATURE FROM 1650
CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2012

*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 20682, Section 80. Wednesdays 1:00 – 3:45 p.m., Irvine Campus (IRVC) 109. (The new Irvine Campus is located at 3 Banting, Irvine, CA. 92618.) Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: Wednesday 12:00 – 12:55 p.m. in IRVC 236, x2745. 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

01/25. Wed. Course Introduction.

WEEK 2

02/01. 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 3

02/08. Wed. Jean Racine. Phaedra (Vol. D, 362-402). Read also Section Intro: “The Enlightenment in Europe” (Vol. D, 295-303).

WEEK 4

02/15. Wed. Voltaire. Candide (Vol. D, 517-80).

WEEK 5

02/22. 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

02/29. 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 7

03/07. Wed. Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary (part 3, Vol. E, 1227-1301).

WEEK 8

03/14. Wed. Charles Baudelaire. From Flowers of Evil (Vol. E, 1380-98). Stéphane Mallarmé. Read all poems (Vol. E, 1398-1405). Paul Verlaine. Read all selections (Vol. E, 1405-10). Arthur Rimbaud. Read all selections (Vol. E, 1411-18).

WEEK 9

03/21. Wed. Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes from Underground (Vol. E, 1301-79).

WEEK 10

03/28. Wed. Spring Recess. No classes all week.

WEEK 11

04/04. Wed. Luigi Pirandello. Six Characters in Search of an Author (Vol. F, 1721-66).

WEEK 12

04/11. Wed. Thomas Mann. Death in Venice (Vol. F, 1836-90).

WEEK 13

04/18. Wed. Yasunari Kawabata. Snow Country (2337-2411).

WEEK 14

04/25. Wed. Federico Garcia Lorca. “Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias” (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

05/02. 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

05/09. 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.