World Literature II

Welcome to World Literature II!

We've reached the end of the course!

I'll have your term papers back to you as soon as possible, and I will grade the last two quizzes at the beginning of next week. Final grades will be available on Banner by 16 May 2008. Please know that I will be available until 13 May 2008. If you have questions at any time during the summer, please leave a message for me with Lee Anne Gills, department secretary, at 406.268.3705, and I will get back to you in August.

I hope that you have learned more about literary traditions around the world - I know that I have by teaching about them! The more than 300 years of literary tradition around the globe that we have covered in this class have taken us to some interesting places in history, and I find the perspective that this kind of study provides invaluable - I hope you have found something good in it, too.

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Unit 1: The Eighteenth Century

Week 1: 16 through 20 January: Drama – Europe
Reading: Moliére, Tartuffe
Quizzes: Moliére, Tartuffe

Week 2: 22 through 27 January: Satire, Poetry, and Philosophy – Europe (campus closed for Martin Luther King holiday 21 January; last day to add/drop classes 23 January)
Reading: Voltaire, Candide; Pope, The Rape of the Lock; In the World: The Spirit of Inquiry
Quizzes: Voltaire, Candide

Week 3: 28 January through 03 February: Slave Narrative & Autobiography – Europe
Reading: Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Oladuah Equiano. . .
Quizzes: Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Chapters 1-5; Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Chapters 6-12 (both quizzes ask the same questions - I've eliminated one for that reason, and you'll receive these points just for being a fantastic human being )
Deadlines: Send your Unit One Essay assignment topic to me for approval by 31 January 2008

Week 4: 04 through 10 February: Autobiography – America
Reading: Franklin, Autobiography; Rowlandson, Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Quizzes: Franklin, Autobiography; Rowlandson, Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Deadlines: Send a message notifying me of your choice of books for the Term Paper by 07 February 2008

Week 5: 11 through 17 February: Drama and Poetic Autobiography – Japan and China
Reading: Chikamatsu, The Love Suicides at Amijima; Basho, Narrow Road through the Backcountry
Quizzes: Basho, The Narrow Road through the Backcountry

Week 6: 19 through 24 February: Poetic Autobiography/Travel Narrative – Japan and China (no classes on President's Day holiday 18 February)
Reading: Saikaku, “What the Seasons Brought the Almanac Maker”; Pu Song-ling, “The Wise Neighbor”
Quizzes: Saikaku, "What the Seasons Brought the Almanac Maker"; Pu Song-ling, “The Wise Neighbor”
Deadlines: Have a draft of your Unit One Essay reviewed by a Learning Center or peer by 22 February 2008

Unit Two: The Nineteenth Century

Week 7: 25 Feb through 02 March: Poetic Drama – Europe
Reading: Goethe, Faust; In the World: Heroes and Heroines
Quizzes: Goethe, Faust, Part 1; Goethe, Faust, Part 2 (you'll receive these points just for being a fantastic human being )
Deadlines: The final draft of the Unit One Essay is due by 29 February 2008 @ 11:55PM MST to WebCT’s Dropbox

Week 8: 03 through 07 March: Poetry – Europe
Reading: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Heinrich Heine, poems
Quizzes: Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Heine’s poetry

Spring Break - you have no responsibilities to this class between 08 and17 March, and I'll be out of touch during this week. Have a nice vacation!

Week 9: 17 through 23 March: Poetry and Fiction – Europe
Reading: Alexander Pushkin, The Bronze Horseman; Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground; In the World: Society and its Discontents
Quizzes: Pushkin, The Bronze Horseman; Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
Deadlines: Send your Unit Two Essay assignment topic AND Term Paper topic to me for approval by 23 March 2008; Call to schedule a time for your face-to-face or telephone Term Paper conference

Week 10: 24 through 30 March: Slave Narrative – The Americas
Reading: Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; In the World: Emancipation
Quizzes: Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Deadlines: Have a 30 minute face-to-face or telephone conference with me about your Term Paper between 24 and 28 March

Week 11: 31 March through 06 April: Poetry and Fiction – India
Reading: Ghalib, poems; Tagore, Broken Ties; In the World: East and West
Quizzes: Ghalib’s poetry; Tagore, Broken Ties (I'm eliminating this quiz because the questions don't coincide with your reading assignment. You'll receive these points just for being a fantastic human being )
Deadlines: Have a draft of your Unit Two Essay reviewed by a Learning Center or peer by 31 March 2008

Week 12: 07 through 13 April: Fiction – Japan
Reading: Ichiyo, “The Thirteenth Night”; Bakin, “Hakkenden”
Quizzes: Ichiyo, “The Thirteenth Night”; Bakin, “Hakkenden”
Deadlines:

Unit Three: The Twentieth Century

Week 13: 14 through 20 April: Poetry
Reading: Eliot, The Waste Land; Akhmatova, Requiem; Espada, “Revolutionary Spanish Lesson”; Cisneros, “Never Marry a Mexican”; Shihab Nye, “My Father and the Figtree”
Quizzes: Eliot, The Waste Land
Deadlines: The final draft of the Unit Two Essay is due by 15 April 2008 @ 11:55PM MST to WebCT’s Dropbox
Have a draft of your Term Paper reviewed by a Learning Center tutor or peer by 15 April 2008

Week 14: 21 through 27 April: Fiction
Reading: Joyce, “The Dead”; Kawabata, “The Moon on the Water”; García Márquez, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”
Quizzes: Joyce, “The Dead”; Márquez, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”

Week 15: 28 April through 02 May: Fiction
Reading: Desai, “The Farewell Party”; Rushdie, “The Courter”; In the World: Crossing Cultures—the Example of India
Quizzes: Desai, “The Farewell Party”; Rushdie, “The Courter”
Deadlines: The final draft of the Term Paper is due by 30 April 2008 @ 11:55PM MST to WebCT’s Dropbox