| DATE |
TOPIC FOR CLASSROOM DISCUSSION |
READING AND VIEWING ASSIGNMENTS FOR NEXT CLASS |
| 8/29 |
Introduction; |
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (496-406)
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| 9/1 |
quiz on and discuss Oedipus Rex by Sophocles; |
Hippolytus by Euripides (480-406); The Theory of the Novel by Georg Lukacs;
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| 9/5 |
quiz on and discuss Hippolytus |
The Theory of the Novel by Georg Lukacs; Book of Change (I-Ching); Lessons for Women by Ban Zhao (45-120) |
| 9/7 |
quiz on and discuss Book of Change (I-Ching) and Lessons for Women; |
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1602); |
| 9/12 |
Discuss Hamlet; |
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1602); Harold Bloom, excerpts from Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human; pp.384-435 |
| 9/14 |
quiz on and discuss Hamlet |
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, 1615; |
| 9/19 |
Discuss Don Quixote; |
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes; The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault, pp.46-76 |
| 9/21 |
quiz on and discuss Don Quixote; |
Phedre by Racine (1677); Man and Ethics by Paul Benechou; pp.98-115, 138-167; |
| 9/27 |
quiz on and discuss Phedre by Racine |
Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1808) |
| 9/29 |
quiz on and discuss Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe; the first paper due |
Red and Black by Standhal (1830) |
| 10/4 |
Discuss Red and Black by Standhal (1830); |
The Novel and the Globalization of Culture by Michael Moses, pp.3-25; Deceit, Desire, and the Noel by Rene Girard, pp.113-138; |
| 10/6 |
quiz on and discuss Red and Black by Standhal |
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1866 |
| 10/11 |
discuss Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| 10/13 |
quiz on and discuss Crime and Punishment |
An Enemy of the People by Henri Ibsen (1882) |
| 10/20 |
quiz and discuss An Enemy of the People by Henri Ibsen; |
The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald (1925) |
| 10/25 |
discuss Discuss The Great Gatsby |
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| 10/27 |
quiz on and discuss The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald; second paper due |
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki (1914)
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| 11/1 |
quiz on and discuss Kokoro by Natsume Soseki |
Black Li and White Li by Lao She (1931) |
| 11/3 |
quiz on and discuss Black Li and White Li, (1931) by Lao She |
The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan (1945)
|
| 11/8 |
discuss The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan; |
Excerpt from India: A Wounded Civilization by V.S. Naipaul; pp.3-30, 145-165 |
| 11/10 |
quiz on and discuss The English Teacher |
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958) |
| 11/15 |
discuss Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe |
The Novel and the Globalization of Culture by Michael Moses, pp.107-147; Nation and Narration by Homi Bhabha; |
| 11/16 |
quiz on and discuss Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe |
View film Grant Canyon, dir. by Lawrene Kasdan (1991); |
| 11/22 |
quiz on Grant Canyon, dir. by Lawrene Kasdan; third paper due |
To Live by Yu Hua (1993) |
| 11/29 |
discuss To Live by Yu Hua; |
view To Live, dir. Zhang Yimou |
| 12/1 |
quiz on and discuss To Live, dir. Zhang Yimou |
Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian (2000) |
| 12/6 |
discuss Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian |
Towards A Sociology of the Novel by Lucien Goldmann, pp.1-15 |
| 12/8 |
Discuss Soul Mountain by Gao; last paper due |
