ENG
251 Survey of World Literature I ENG
251 Survey of World Literature I
Schedule of Assignments
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Week |
Dates |
Activities/Assignments |
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1. |
08/23 08/25 |
Course Introduction Books, Script, Literacy |
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2. |
08/30 09/01 |
The Mythic Hero "The Invention of Writing and the Earliest Literatures" (3-9) Gilgamesh (Akkadian) (10-41) Jewish Scriptures, Book of Genesis (Hebrew) (52-77) |
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3. |
09/06 09/08 |
Epic Hero: Kudos and Officia (Glory and Duty) "Ancient Greece and the Formation of the Western Mind" (105-113) Homer's The Odyssey (Greek) (114-119, Books I, IX, X, XI, XIX, XXII, XXIII) Vergil's Aeneid (Latin) (1052-54, Books I, II, IV, VI) |
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4. |
09/13 09/15 |
Tragic Hero: Hubris and Catastrophe Sophocles Oedipus the King (Greek) (612-617, 617-658) Seminar: Alternatives to Epic Heroism (a. Petronius’ The Satyricon; b. The Book of Jonah; c. Aristophanes' Lysistrata; d. Sappho's poems) |
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5. |
09/20 09/22 |
The Heroic Soul: Hinduism "India's Heroic Age" (881-89) Indian Bhagavad-Gita (Sanskrit) (1010-28) Report Due |
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6. |
09/27 09/29 |
The Heroic Soul: Christianity I "From Roman Empire to Christian Europe" (1201-05) St. Augustine's Confessions (1221-49) |
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7. |
10/04 10/06 |
The Heroic Soul: Islam "The Rise of Islam and Islamic Literature" (1419-25) Ibn Ishaq's The Biography of the Prophet (Arabic) (1460-76) Seminar: Arabic and Islamic Voices (a. The Koran; b. Abolqasem Ferdowsi; c. The Epic of Son-Jara; d. The Thousand and One Nights) |
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8. |
10/11 10/13 |
The Courtly Hero "The Formation of a Western Literature" (1620-25) Marie de France's "Lanval" and “Laüstic” (Middle French) (1767-76) MIDTERM EXAM |
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9. |
10/18 10/20 |
The European Hero: Christianity and Islam in Conflict The Song of Roland (Old French) 1702-67 Last Day to Withdraw Without Penalty: 10/28 |
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10. |
10/25 10/27 |
The Heroic Soul: Christianity II Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy (1826-36, Inferno Canto I, II, III, IV, V, XXVI, XXVIII, XXXIV, Purgatorio Canto I, XXVII, XXX, Paradiso Canto XXXIII Report Due |
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11. |
11/01 11/03 |
Hero of Quest Romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English) (1991-2045) Seminar: Medieval Voices (a. Boccaccio; b. Beowulf; c. François Villon; d. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales) |
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12. |
11/08 11/10 |
Hero as Aristocrat "The Golden Age of Japanese Culture" (2142-47) Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji (Japanese) (2174-2270) Seminar: East Asian Voices (a. Sei Shonagon; b. The Tale of the Heike; c. Japanese Nō Drama; d. Confucius; e. Chuang Chou) |
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13. |
11/15 11/17 |
From Germanic Warrior-Hero to Tragic Hero Saxo Gramamticus’ Amleth Belleforest’s The Hystorie of Hamblet Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Seminar: Hamlet Backgrounds, Sources, and Criticism |
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14. |
11/22
11/24 |
From Germanic Warrior-Hero to Tragic Hero Shakespeare's Hamlet Seminar: Other Renaissance Voices (a. Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel; b. Machiavelli's The Prince; c. Marguerite de Navarre’sThe Heptameron; d. Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso) Thanksgiving |
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15. |
11/29 12/01 |
The Anti-Hero of the Novel Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote (2671-2783) Report Due |
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16. |
12/06 12/08 |
Hero as Trickster "Native America and Europe in the New World" (3062-69) Mexican Popul Vuh (Mayan) (3076-92) |
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Thursday, 12/13 |
Final Exam, 5:00-6:45 p.m. |