ENG 251 Survey of World Literature I Fall 2000

Schedule

ENG 251-40 MW 5:30-6:45 p.m.

Dr. Thomas L. Long, Professor of English

757.825.3663 (voice), 757.825.3842 (fax), longt@tncc.cc.va.us

Office hours: M 4:00-5:30, T 5:00-7:00, W 4:00-5:30

Schedule of Assignments

[Course Information] [Schedule of Seminars]

Week Dates Activities/Assignments
1. 08/21

08/23

 Course Introduction

Books, Script, Literacy
2. 08/28

08/30

 "The Invention of Writing and the Earliest Literatures" (3-9)

Gilgamesh (Akkadian) (10-42)
3. 09/04

09/06

 Jewish Scriptures Book of Genesis (Hebrew) (59-83)

Seminar: Flood Accounts in Ancient Literature
4. 09/11

09/13

 "Ancient Greece and the Formation of the Western Mind" (107-114)

Homer's Odyssey (Greek) (116-121, Bk I, II, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XVI, XIX, XXI, XXII, XXIII)

Seminar: Sappho’s Counter-Epic Resistance
5. 09/18

09/20 (Point and click here for on-line forum)

 "India's Heroic Age" (837-45)

Indian Bhagavad-Gita (Sanskrit) (957-75)

Seminar: Hinduism & Buddhism
6. 09/25

09/27

 "From Roman Empire to Christian Europe" (1113-16)

St. Augustine's Confessions (1132-47)

Report Due
7. 10/02

10/04 (click here for on-line forum)

 "The Rise of Islam and Islamic Literature" (1351-56)

Ibn Ishaq's The Biography of the Prophet (Arabic) (1393-1411)

Seminar: Contributions of Medieval Islamic Culture
8. 10/09

10/11

 "The Formation of a Western Literature" (1541-44)

Marie de France's "Eliduc" (Middle French) (1679-92)

MIDTERM EXAM
9. 10/16

10/18

 Beowulf (Anglo-Saxon/Old English) (1546-1613)

10/20 Last Day to Withdraw Without Penalty

Seminar: Medieval Monsters
10. 10/23

10/25

 Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy (1692-1703, Inferno Canto I, II, IV, V, XXVI, XXVII, XXXII, XXXIII, XXXIV, Purgatorio Canto XXX, Paradiso Canto I, III, XXXI-XXXIII

Report Due
11. 10/30

11/01

 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English) (1960-2017)

Seminar: 14th-century Alliterative Revival
12. 11/06

11/08 (Point and click here for on-line forum.)

 "The Golden Age of Japanese Culture" (2057-60)

Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji (Japanese) (2087-2188)

Seminar: Art, Literature, Aristocracy and the Good Life
13. 11/13

11/15

 "The Renaissance in Europe" (2391-98)

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote (Spanish) (2538-69)

Seminar: Satire, Social Criticism and the Rise of the Novel
14. 11/20

11/22

 Mali Epic of Son-Jara (Sundiata) (2335-88)

Seminar: Afro-Islamic Culture
15. 11/27

11/29

 "Native America and Europe in the New World" (2923-28)

Mexican Popul Vuh (Mayan) (2936-53)

Report Due
16. 12/04

12/06 (Point and click here for on-line forum.)

 Course Review
  12/11 Final Exam, 5:00-6:45 (Note: exam meets one-half hour earlier than class.