Topics/Readings

Course Introduction

Enlightenment Empiricism and Rationalism

Introduction, 295-302; Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, "Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz" 403-429

Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism  517-581

Seminar: The Age of Reason (Molière, Swift, Pope, Thomas Jefferson)

Romanticisms

Transcendental Romanticism

Introduction 650-660; Rousseau, from Confessions 662-689

Wordsworth, "Lines Composed" 789-795; Whitman, "Song of Myself" 980-987

Gothic/Demonic Romanticism

Goethe, Faust 678-779; Hugo, "Et nox facta est" 850-855

Baudelaire, "To the Reader," "A Carcass," prose poems from Paris Spleen, 1380-1385, 1386-1388, 1395-1398; Rimbaud, "Night of Hell" 1411-1413, 1416-1417; Mallarmé "The Afternoon of a Faun," "The Tomb of Edgar Poe" 1398-1404

Seminar: Shades of Romanticism (Blake, Keats, Pushkin Dostoevsky)

Realism

Introduction 1070-1083; Flaubert, Madame Bovary 1084-1300

Spring Break

Madame Bovary (continued)

Modernism

Introduction 1572-1600; Freud, from "Dora" 1611-1670

Mann, Death in Venice 1836-1889

Seminar: Modernism (Proust, Joyce, Kafka, Woolf)

Colonialism and Post-Colonialism Mahasweta Devi, "Breast Giver" 2824-2844; Mahfouz, "Zaabalawi" 2527-2538.

Achebe, Things Fall Apart 2855-2947

Seminar: Colonialism and Post-Colonialism (Senghor, Césaire, Braithwaite, Soyinka)

Modern Epics

Eliot, The Waste Land 2071-2075, 2079-2091; Derek Walcott, Omeros 2948-2953, 2968-2984

Seminar: Modern Poetry (Ezra Pound's Cantos, Dadaism-Surrealism, Akhmatova, Garcia Lorca)

Realism/Drama

Ibsen, Hedda Gabler 1460-1518

Course Review