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Survey of
World Literature II, ENGL 209 (Departmental Syllabus)
Course purpose and
objectives:
Survey of World Literature II is designed to
familiarize students with great works of world literature (exclusive
of American literature, with the
exception of the Writer-in-Residence, or equivalent time period in
Eastern literature) representing the Neoclassical, Romantic,
Realistic, and Modernist periods. Students will be exposed to
diverse literary traditions through discussion and through critical
thinking and writing about significant literary works. In addition
to tests and quizzes, students will be required to write and
revise at least two formal, critical essays or equivalent writing
(1,000-word computer drafted minimum); however, instructors are
encouraged to assign significant amounts of writing beyond the
required minimum in order to facilitate students' continued
acquisition of critical thinking, reading, and writing skills.
Essential skills
and/or outcomes to be acquired through the course include:
1) an ability to
render close textual analysis;
2)
an ability to
synthesize information from multiple texts;
3)
an ability to
render clear, cogent ideas;
4) an ability to
structure well-developed essays, with thesis, textual support and
analysis;
5)
an ability to
correctly employ standard written English usage;
6)
an understanding
of and respect for ethnic/cultural diversity;
7)
an aesthetic and
critical judgment of literature;
8)
a concept of
chronology associated with literary periods;
9)
an understanding
of the inter-relationship of the arts, history, and philosophy
through the study of literature.
Required text and
materials:
A Writer's
Reference, Diana Hacker, St Martins Press;
The Norton
Anthology: World Masterpieces,
Expanded Edition, Vol. II (or department approved text). Paperback
supplements are encouraged where appropriate.
The University
Writing Center:
To
receive individual instruction and feedback on writing in progress,
students should be encouraged to visit
The
Academic Support
Center in Knutti 106.
Visits are by appointment or through ShepOwl at
http://www.shepherd.edu/scwcweb/tutorform.htm.
Appalachian
Heritage Writer-in-Residence Project:
Instructors are encouraged to utilize works by the
Writer-in-Residence in their course and incorporate at least one of
the residency events each fall into their curriculum, as this
program presents an extraordinary opportunity for General Studies
students at Shepherd to come in contact with a regional writer of
note. For information and lesson plans, see residency webpage at
http://www.shepherd.edu/ahwirweb/.
Course content:
While instructors will supplement the list below with representative
writers and works, the following will serve as a core of study. When
possible, complete works will be used rather than fragments.
Supplemental works will include as many non-western selections and
works by women as possible.
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Western Literature
Menu: Choose at least two from each group
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Non-Western
Literature: Choose a total of six
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I.
Neoclassicism:
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Moliere
Swift or Pope |
Voltaire or Johnson
Austen |
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Ch'En-En,
Shang- Jen,
Xueqin or other
Celebi or other
Saikaku,
Basho, Akinari or other |
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II.
Romanticism:
Goethe
a
Continental Romantic
a
British Romantic
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Ghalib or other
Uo or other |
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III. Realism:
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Flaubert
Eliot
Dostoevsky
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Tolstoy
Ibsen or Chekhov |
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Tagore or other
Jun'ichiro or other
Mahfouz or other |
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IV. Modernism and Post-Modernism:
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Baudelaire or other French Symbolist
Modernist Poet
Woolf or Joyce |
Camus, Sartre, or Kafka
Atwood, Lessing, or
Gordimer
Garcia-Marquez, Fuentes, Allende or Walcott
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Inuit
Songs or Zuni Ritual Poetry
Al-Hakim
Senghor or other
Amichai or other
Devi or other
Achebe
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Revision
Approved 04-02-08
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