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    INTRODUCTION TO WORLD LITERATURE

    Spring 2013 -- 195:101:02


    Monday-Wednesday 2:15 PM - 3:35 PM
    HCK 113-HCK213; Douglass/Cook
    Instructor: F. Betul Cihan-Artun
    E-mail: betul.cihan@rutgers.edu
    Office Hours: MW 4:00-5:00 @ Au Bon Pain on College Avenue (or by appointment)
    Mailbox: 195 College Avenue, Comparative Literature
    Learning Objectives and Fulfillments:
    This course aims to introduce students to a selection of classical and modern literary
    works from various parts of the world. One of the goals of the class is to analyze and
    discuss the works in their respective socio-historical contexts, with a special focus on the
    theme of encounter, be it textual or cultural. The impact of various factors (class, race,
    gender, generation, religion, and so forth) will be taken into consideration in our
    discussions. The students critical engagement with the assigned works of literature will
    be further enhanced by the historical and literary background provided by lectures and
    secondary sources.
    No prior knowledge of or familiarity with the pertinent languages is required. All reading
    materials will be provided in English translation.
    We will take both a transcultural and a transdisciplinary approach to the subject matter, so
    as to (among these approaches other benefits) meet the departmental learning goals,
    which are:
    - to demonstrate familiarity with a variety of world literatures as well as methods of
    studying literature and culture across national and linguistic boundaries and evaluate the
    nature, function and value of literature from a global perspective.
    - to demonstrate critical reasoning and research skills; to design and to conduct research
    in an individual field of concentration;
    - to analyze a specific body of research and to write a clear and well developed paper or
    project about a topic related to more than one literary and cultural tradition.
    This course fulfills Core Learning Goal AHp (analyzing arts and/or literatures in
    themselves and in relation to specific histories, values, languages, cultures, and
    technologies).
    Class Policy:
    Class participation will constitute a significant portion of your grade. This means that you
    are expected to attend lectures, keep up with the readings, and participate actively in class
    discussions (asking relevant questions also counts as participation!).
    You will have several reading quizzes and there will be no make-ups for them. In addition
    to the quizzes, you are expected to submit one short paper (4-6 pages) for the midterm
    and a longer one (6-10 pages) for the final exam on one of the given topics. For the
    papers, I will definitely be looking for originality, good writing, solid arguments, and
    analytical reasoning.

    Academic honesty is expected, that is, plagiarism will not be tolerated; if caught there is
    an automatic F on the assigned paper. For the university's policy on Academic Integrity,
    visit:
    http://academicintegrity.rutgers.edu/files/documents/AI_Policy_9_01_2011.pdf
    As for the absence policy, after two missed classes, additional absences without any
    legitimate excuse, such as illness or religious observance, will negatively impact your
    class participation grade. You will receive a straight F if you miss more than 25% of
    classes.
    Cell phones must be turned off for the duration of class.
    You are expected to bring to class whichever reading we are discussing on that day.
    Grading System (value):
    Attendance & Participation
    Quizzes
    Midterm Exam
    Final Paper

    % 15
    % 20
    % 25
    % 40

    Books to Purchase (available at Barnes & Noble):


    1. Kalidasa: The Recognition of Sakuntala. trans. by W. J. Johnson. Oxford
    University Press: 2008. ISBN-10: 0199540608 (pp. 1-107)
    2. Aim Csaire: A Tempest (trans. by Richard Miller) TGC Translations, 2002.
    ISBN-10: 1559362103
    3. David Henry Hwang: M. Butterfly. Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1998. ISBN-10:
    0822207125.
    Readings available on SAKAI:
    1. Borges: Averroes Search in Collected Fictions, pp. 235-241.
    The Translators of The Thousand and One Nights in The Arabian
    Nights. A Norton Critical Edition, 2010. pp. 409-426.
    2. Euripides: Medea (in Medea and Other Plays) trans. by James Morwood. Oxford
    UP, 2009. pp. 1-39.
    3. The Arabian Nights, trans. by Husain Haddavy. Norton Critical Edition. pp. 5-56
    4. Edgar Allan Poe: The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade in The
    Arabian Nights. A Norton Critical Edition, 2010. pp. 356-372.
    5. Dante: Divine Comedy (excerpts)
    6. Al-Maariri: Epistle of Forgiveness (excerpt)
    7. Selected Poetry by Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi, Hafiz, et. al.
    8. Cervantes: Don Quixote, trans. by John Rutherford. pp. 11-77
    9. Cao Xueqin: The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1:
    The Golden Days. trans. by David Hawkes. pp. 1-100.
    10. Selected Haiku by Yosa Buson, Matsuo Basho and Kobayashi Issa

    11. Sir William Joness Preface to his translation of Sakuntala:


    http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00litlinks/shakuntala_jones/00_preface
    .htm
    12. Rene Wellek: The Concept of Romanticism in Literary History II: The Unity
    of European Romanticism in Comparative Literature Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring, 1949),
    pp. 147-172.
    13. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan
    14. Novalis: Hymns to the Night
    15. The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
    16. Rynosuke Akutagawa: In a Grove
    17. Jean-Paul Sartre: The Wall
    18. James Baldwin: Sonnys Blues
    19. Okot pBitek: Song of Lawino.
    20. Amos Tutuola: The Palm-wine Drinkard. Grove Press, 1994. pp. 191-307.
    21. Supplementary recommended readings
    Schedule of lectures:
    Week 1: Jan. 23: Introduction to the course
    Week 2: Jan. 28: Borges Averroes search
    Introduction to Greek Tragedy
    Recommended reading: Aristotles Poetics
    Jan. 30: Medea
    Quiz 1 (on Medea)
    Week 3: Feb. 4: Indian Drama: Sakuntala
    Sir William Jones Preface to Sakuntala
    Feb. 6: Sakuntala continue
    Quiz 2 (on Sakuntala)
    Week 4: Feb. 11: Storytelling Revolutionized: Arabian Nights (excerpts)
    J. L. Borges The Translators of The Thousand and One Nights
    Feb. 13: Arabian Nights continue
    Edgar Allan Poe The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade
    Recommended Reading: Josef Horovitz The Origins of The Arabian
    Nights; Francesco Gabrieli The Thousand and One Nights in European
    Culture.
    Week 5: Feb. 18: Journeys to the Beyond: Divine Comedy: Inferno (excerpts)
    Al-Maariris Epistle of Forgiveness (excerpt)
    Feb. 20: Divine Comedy: Purgatorio (excerpts)
    Week 6: Feb. 25: Bible as Literature: Revelations
    Feb. 27: Mystical Poetry in Islam: Selected Poetry by Mawlana Jalal al-Din
    Rumi, Hafiz, et. al.

    Week 7: March 4: The first modern European novel: Don Quixote (excerpts)
    March 6: Don Quixote continue
    Quiz 3 (on Don Quixote)
    Week 8: March 11: Selected Haiku by Yosa Buson, Matsuo Basho and Kobayashi Issa
    March 13: Haiku continue
    Midterm Papers due!
    Week 9: March 25: The Last of the Four Great Classical Novels in Chinese Literature:
    The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber (excerpts)
    March 27: The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber continue
    Quiz 4 (on The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber)
    Week 10: April 1: Romanticism: The Concept of Romanticism in Literary History
    II: The Unity of European Romanticism by Rene Wellek pp. 147-172.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan
    Novalis Hymns to the Night
    Recommended Reading: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
    April 3: The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
    Week 11: April 8: Short Story as a Modern Genre: R. Akutagawas In a Grove
    Jean-Paul Sartre The Wall
    April 10: James Baldwin Sonnys Blues
    Week 12: April 15: The Responses of the Colonized: A Tempest
    Quiz 5 (on A Tempest)
    Recommended Reading: Discourse on Colonialism by Aim Csaire
    April 17: A Tempest continue
    Week 13: April 22: Song of Lawino by Okot pBitek
    Recommended Reading: Black Skin, White Masks
    April 24: M. Butterfly
    Quiz 6 on M. Butterfly
    Week 14: April 29: Appropriation of a genre: The Palm-Wine Drinkard
    Quiz 7 on The Palm-Wine Drinkard
    May 1: The Palm-Wine Drinkard continue
    Week 15: May 6: Final remarks
    Final papers are due May 12!!!

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