RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

Campus at Camden

Spring, 1999 Dr. M.A.R. Habib,

English: 50:350:239:01 Armitage 425,

MW 1:20-2:40 Tel: 609 225 6310.

Office: MW 11:00-12:00

A. Required Text:

Maynard Mack et al, ed.The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces Vol. 2, 7^th ed.

(Norton, 1999).
 
 

B. Course Requirements:

(1) Two papers [500-800 words each; one unit each]; topic and deadline to be announced in class.

(2) A journal [3 units] in which students will be asked to write entries on every text that is studied. It must be submitted in the penultimate week of the course. Each entry must be written neatly and dated. The journal will be graded on: (a) thoroughness: each entry must show that you have read the text in question and thought carefully about it; (b) neatness of presentation; (c) promptness: you may be asked to read aloud from your journal in any given class. An incomplete journal will result in failure of the entire course.

(3) A final examination [3 units]: Tuesday, May 11, 9:00-12:00.

(4) Class participation counts for 2 units. If you do not contribute to class discussion your grade will not be higher than a C. If you disrupt the class by talking or arriving late, you risk failing the entire course.

(5) Attendance: any unexcused absence will lower the student's grade by one point, e.g. from D to D-.
 

C: Weekly Class Assignments:
 

ENLIGHTENMENT:
 

Wed Jan 20: Introduction, pp. 1-7.

Mon Jan 25: Moliere, Tartuffe.

Wed Jan 27: Moliere (contd.); Pope, An Essay on Man: Epistle I.

Mon Feb 1: Racine, Phaedra.

Wed Feb 3: Voltaire, Candide, Or Optimism.

Mon Feb 8: Voltaire (contd.)
 
 

ROMANTICISM:
 

Wed Feb 10: Introduction, pp. 417-424; Rousseau, Confessions, Part I.

Mon Feb 15: Blake, Songs of Innocence; Songs of Experience.

Wed Feb 17: Heine, Holderlin, Hugo, poems, pp. 619-629.

Mon Feb 22: Wordsworth, Shelley, poems.

Wed Feb 24: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

Mon Mar 1: Emily Dickinson, poems 216, 258, 303, 435, 657, 1129.
 

REALISM,NATURALISM, SYMBOLISM:
 

Wed Mar 3: Introduction, pp. 835-844; Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

Mon Mar 8: Tolstoy (contd.)

Wed Mar 10: Baudelaire, Mallarme, Rimbaud, poems.

Mar 15-20: Spring Break

Mon Mar 22: Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard.

Wed Mar 24: Chekhov (contd.)
 

MODERNISM:
 

Mon Mar 29: Introduction, pp. 1337-1346; Yeats, poems.

Wed Mar 31: Freud, "Dora."

Mon Apr 5: Proust, Remembrance of Things Past.

Wed Apr 7: Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Chs. 2-3.

Mon Apr 12: Brecht, The Good Woman of Setzuan.

Wed Apr 14: Kafka, The Metamorphosis; Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
 

CONTEMPORARY:
 

Mon Apr 19: Introduction, pp. 1899-1902; Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths."

Wed Apr 21: Mahfouz, "Zaabalawi."

Mon Apr 26: Wright, "The Man...Almost a Man"; Robbe-Grillet, "The Secret Room."

Wed Apr 28: Garcia Marquez, "Death Constant Beyond Love."

Tues May 11: Final Examination, 9:00-12:00.