* Please note that you don’t need to have taken English 220 (the first half of the World Literature survey class) in order to take this class.<\/p>\n
English 221 is a survey or overview of some of the more significant texts produced in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia from about 1660 to the present day.\u00a0 During our semester together, we will read, analyze, and discuss a variety of texts (both canonical and non-canonical) in order to sketch out a basic understanding of some of the key authors, texts, trends, and historical and cultural contexts that have shaped world literature. The class will be organized around the various movements within literary history, so we can attempt to understand the historical shifts and cultural conditions that surround the works of literature that we will read.<\/p>\n
Some of the questions we will be asking include:<\/p>\n
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- What are some of the significant themes, genres, and archetypes in these texts?<\/li>\n
- Who were some of the major authors in each of these periods?<\/li>\n
- What historical, cultural, religious, and social conditions and concerns influenced writers in each period?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Our books will be the following:<\/p>\n
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- \u201cEnglish 221 Lecture Notes\u201d (available only at the Palomar Bookstore)<\/li>\n
- Norton Anthology of World Literature, Volume 2, Shorter 4th Edition<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nAudio Glossaries:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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- The Norton Anthology website has audio glossaries located here<\/a> so you can look up the correct pronunciation of words<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Unit I:\u00a0 Literatures of Early Modern East Asia:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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- Kintsugi
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<\/a><\/li>\n- Cherry blossom trees in Japan\n
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<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n- Portait of Basho:
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<\/a><\/li>\n- Poetry painting by Basho:
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<\/a>Scene from The Narrow Road to the Deep North<\/em>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/lmaunu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2019\/01\/Scene-from-the-Narrow-Road-to-the-Deep-North.jpg\")
<\/a>http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/53453<\/p><\/div>\n
Unit II:\u00a0 The Enlightenment in Europe and the Americas<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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- Painting entitled “Moli\u00e8re Reading Tartuffe<\/em> at Salon of Anne ‘Ninon’ de l’Enclos” by Nicolas Andre Monsiau<\/span>
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<\/a><\/li>\n- Moli\u00e8re’s petitions to King Louis XIV and his Preface to the play<\/a><\/li>\n
- Full versions of Moli\u00e8re’s Tartuffe:<\/em>\n
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- Performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1983\n
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- Act I (14:06)<\/a><\/li>\n
- Act II (22:13)<\/a><\/li>\n
- Act III, Scenes 1-4 (13:44)<\/a><\/li>\n
- Act III, Scenes 5-7 (12:06)<\/a><\/li>\n
- Act IV, Scenes 1-3 (7:22)<\/a><\/li>\n
- Act IV, Scenes 4-8 (17:01)<\/a><\/li>\n
- Act V, Scenes 1-5 (14:28)<\/a><\/li>\n
- Act V, to end (8:09)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Performed by the Commonwealth School (1 hour and 41 minutes)<\/a><\/li>\n
- Performed by SOTA Music<\/a> (1 hour and 37 minutes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Short film (16:44) on “Moli\u00e8re and the Com\u00e9die-Fran\u00e7aise”:\n
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- https:\/\/fod.infobase.com\/OnDemandEmbed.aspx?token=133055&wID=103982&plt=FOD&loid=0&w=640&h=480&fWidth=660&fHeight=530<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Reading (in English) of Voltaire’s “Poem on the Disaster of Lisbon”<\/a><\/li>\n
- Voltaire’s estate at Ferney:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nUnit III:\u00a0 An Age of Revolutions:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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- Study guide<\/a> for Goethe’s Faust<\/em><\/li>\n
- Renee Fleming sings Schubert’s “Gretchen am Spinnrade”<\/a> (based on “Gretchen’s Room”)<\/li>\n
- BBC article called “What the Myth of Faust Can Teach Us”<\/a><\/li>\n
- Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix\u2019s 1828 lithograph of Mephistopheles:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a>http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/336614<\/p><\/div>\n
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- Eugene Delacroix’s painting of Faust and Mephistopheles:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
- Baudelaire’s Paris<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a>Camille_Pissarro’s Avenue de l’Opera-Muse\u0301e des Beaux Arts<\/p><\/div>\n
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- The Cure’s “How Beautiful You Are”<\/a><\/li>\n
- Article from The New Republic <\/em>called “How Baudelaire Revolutionized Modern Literature”<\/a><\/li>\n
- Article from France’s CNRS news called “Why Baudelaire Continues to Fascinate Us”<\/a><\/li>\n
- Article from The Irish Times<\/em> called “How Charles Baudelaire Became France’s First Rock Star”<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n
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- The Emily Dickinson Museum website<\/a>\n
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- Information about Dickinson’s famous white dress<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Another short article about her white dress<\/a><\/li>\n
- Short bio video called “The Poetry of Emily Dickinson:\u00a0 Crash Course English Literature #108”<\/a><\/li>\n
- The Emily Dickinson Lexicon<\/a> — ” a comprehensive dictionary of over 9,275 words and variants found in the collected poems”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Unit IV: At the Crossroads of Empire<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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- Resources coming soon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Unit V: Realism across the Globe<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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- Realism in Paintings<\/span>:\n
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- Francisco Goya’s The Third of May, 1808 in Madrid<\/em>, painted 1814-1815:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
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- Degas’ Place de la Concorde<\/em>, painted in 1875:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nIbsen:<\/span><\/p>\n
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- Norweigian composer Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 <\/em>(1875)<\/a><\/li>\n
- Providence College’s 2011 production of Hedda Gabler <\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Tolstoy<\/span>:<\/p>\n
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- An article on the use of patronymics in Russia<\/a><\/li>\n
- Tolstoy as an officer in the Crimean War:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
- Tolstoy and his wife Sofya, taken about six weeks before his death in 1910:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
- 2019 article about Tolstoy’s death called “Tolstoy Ghosted His Wife Then Up and Died”<\/a><\/li>\n
- Russian Realist artist Ilya Repin’s painting depicting Russian serfs called Barge Haulers on the Volga <\/i>(1870\u20131873):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
- Painting by Franz Roubaud of the Siege of Sevastopol (1901) in the Crimean War:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
- Georges de la Tour’s The Penitent Magdalen<\/em>, ca. 1640:
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<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nUnit VI:\u00a0 Resources on Modernity and Modernism, 1900\u20131945:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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- German Expressionism in Otto Lange’s Crucifixtion II<\/em> (1918):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
- Salvador Dali’s 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory<\/em>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
- Photo of Prague:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
- Free audio book of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis<\/em><\/a> on Spotify<\/li>\n
- Funny “news” story from The Onion<\/em> called “Prague’s Franz Kafka International Named World’s Most Alienating Airport”<\/a><\/li>\n
- Link to The Kafka Museum<\/a> in Prague<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
- “What Makes Something ‘Kafkaesque?'”<\/a> TED Ed Talk by Noah Tavlin<\/li>\n
- The Goethe Institute in Prague’s adaptation of\u00a0 The Metamorphosis<\/em> into a VR game, <\/a>in which the player \u201cstep[s] into the shoes of the protagonist.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n
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- Video \u201cModernism and Woolf\u2019s Mrs. Dalloway\u201d <\/em>(5:18 minutes)<\/li>\n
- Virginia Woolf’s “The Mark on the Wall”<\/a><\/li>\n
- BBC article and recording of \u201cThe Only Surviving Recording of Virginia Woolf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n
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- Reading of Yeats\u2019 \u201cThe Second Coming\u201d<\/a> poem<\/li>\n
- Yeats reading his own poem \u201cThe Second Coming\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Unit VII:\u00a0 Post-War and Post-Colonial Literature, 1945\u20131968:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
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- The Existentialism Primer<\/a> website<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Unit VIII: Resources on Contemporary World Literature:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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- Leslie Marmon Silko’s 1993 essay in the LA Times<\/em> “Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit”<\/a><\/li>\n
- Leslie Marmon Silko’s essay \u201cInterior and Exterior Landscapes:\u00a0 The Pueblo Migration Stories\u201d<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n
- Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko on “How to Connect to Nature, Even in the City”<\/a> (5:08 minutes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n
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- Jamaica Kincaid’s reading of “Girl”<\/a> (4:01)<\/li>\n
- Bret Anthony Johnston’s story “Boy,”<\/a> which is a response to “Girl”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n
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- Chimananda Ngozi Adichie on the influence of Chinua Achebe on her work (a news interview from 2013 on the occasion of Achebe’s death) (4:42)<\/a><\/li>\n
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2009 TED Talk
- Bret Anthony Johnston’s story “Boy,”<\/a> which is a response to “Girl”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Leslie Marmon Silko’s essay \u201cInterior and Exterior Landscapes:\u00a0 The Pueblo Migration Stories\u201d<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n
- Leslie Marmon Silko’s 1993 essay in the LA Times<\/em> “Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit”<\/a><\/li>\n
- Yeats reading his own poem \u201cThe Second Coming\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Virginia Woolf’s “The Mark on the Wall”<\/a><\/li>\n
- The Goethe Institute in Prague’s adaptation of\u00a0 The Metamorphosis<\/em> into a VR game, <\/a>in which the player \u201cstep[s] into the shoes of the protagonist.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Funny “news” story from The Onion<\/em> called “Prague’s Franz Kafka International Named World’s Most Alienating Airport”<\/a><\/li>\n
- Free audio book of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis<\/em><\/a> on Spotify<\/li>\n
- Photo of Prague:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Salvador Dali’s 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory<\/em>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- German Expressionism in Otto Lange’s Crucifixtion II<\/em> (1918):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Georges de la Tour’s The Penitent Magdalen<\/em>, ca. 1640:
- Russian Realist artist Ilya Repin’s painting depicting Russian serfs called Barge Haulers on the Volga <\/i>(1870\u20131873):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- 2019 article about Tolstoy’s death called “Tolstoy Ghosted His Wife Then Up and Died”<\/a><\/li>\n
- Tolstoy as an officer in the Crimean War:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Providence College’s 2011 production of Hedda Gabler <\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Norweigian composer Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 <\/em>(1875)<\/a><\/li>\n
- Degas’ Place de la Concorde<\/em>, painted in 1875:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Francisco Goya’s The Third of May, 1808 in Madrid<\/em>, painted 1814-1815:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Realism in Paintings<\/span>:\n
- Another short article about her white dress<\/a><\/li>\n
- Information about Dickinson’s famous white dress<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Article from The New Republic <\/em>called “How Baudelaire Revolutionized Modern Literature”<\/a><\/li>\n
- The Cure’s “How Beautiful You Are”<\/a><\/li>\n
- Baudelaire’s Paris<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Renee Fleming sings Schubert’s “Gretchen am Spinnrade”<\/a> (based on “Gretchen’s Room”)<\/li>\n
- Voltaire’s estate at Ferney:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Reading (in English) of Voltaire’s “Poem on the Disaster of Lisbon”<\/a><\/li>\n
- Act II (22:13)<\/a><\/li>\n
- Act I (14:06)<\/a><\/li>\n
- Moli\u00e8re’s petitions to King Louis XIV and his Preface to the play<\/a><\/li>\n
- Portait of Basho:
- Cherry blossom trees in Japan\n
- Kintsugi
- The Norton Anthology website has audio glossaries located here<\/a> so you can look up the correct pronunciation of words<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n