History of World Literature II
English 3362
Fall 2007

Thomas A. Ryan                                                Tuesday/Thursday, 2:00-3:20 p.m.

202 Carlisle Hall                                                          302 Preston Hall

Phone 272-2692 or 272-2758            Web http://www.uta.edu/english/TAR/tar.html

Email ryan@uta.edu Course Web Site http://www.uta.edu/english/TAR/worldlit2.html

Office Hours:  TR 1:00–1:50 p.m.,

Course Prerequisites Six hours of sophomore literature

Text: The Bedford Anthology of World Literature, Pack B.

Course Description: The primary focus of this course will be the literature of the Western World in the from the Seventeenth Century through the Twentieth Century. Students will be encouraged to explore the literary, artistic, musical, cultural, and historical milieus of the works we shall read and to share their discoveries with the other students in the class through email and class participation.

Course Learning Goals/Objectives: The goals of this course are to broaden and deepen the student's knowledge of the World literature and literary traditions and to improve the student's writing skills. In order to accomplish these goals, the students will be asked to read the assigned texts and the introductions in the Bedford Anthology and occasional assigned readings on the Internet, to participate in class discussions--both oral and electronic--, and to write essa ys on assigned topics. You may join the class list by sending an email to listserv@listserv.uta.edu with the request “sub engl3362 Your Name” in the body of the email.

Attendance and Drop Policy Attendance in class and class participation are important. It is also extremely important that you read the assigned material before coming to class. I will give reading quizzes, if necessary, as an incentive. Please note that 10% of your final grade is based on attendance and participation. If for some reason you cannot continue in the class, remember to officially drop the course. It is now against University policy for faculty members to drop students.

Course Requirements In addition to a Midsemester and a Final Examination, three (3) essays (each four to six pages in length) will be required on assigned topics. These essays may be submitted electronically. Be sure to acknowledge and correctly document the primary and any secondary sources you use.

Tentative due dates for the essays are

September 25, October 25, November 29.

Course Evaluation and Final Grade The two examinations--which will be part machine-graded multiple choice and part essay--will count fifty percent, the three essays will count forty percent, and attendance and class participation will count 10 percent.

Student Evaluation of Teaching Toward the end of the semester, I shall ask your opinion on the success of the course by having you complete the Student Evaluation of Teaching Survey.

Americans with Disabilities Act The University of Texas at Arlington is on record as being committed to both the spirit and the letter of federal equal opportunity legislation; reference Public Law 93112 The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended. With the passage of new federal legislation entitled Americans with Disabilities Act [ADA], pursuant to section 504 of The Rehabilitation Act, there is renewed focus on providing this population with the same opportunities enjoyed by all citizens. As a faculty member, I am required by law to provide "reasonable accommodation" to students with disabilities, so as not to discriminate on the basis of that disability. Student responsibility primarily rests with informing faculty at the beginning of the semester and in providing authorized documentation through designated administrative channels.

Academic Dishonesty It is the philosophy of the University of Texas at Arlington that academic dishonesty is a completely unacceptable mode of conduct and will not be tolerated in any form. All persons involved in academic dishonesty will be disciplined in accordance with University regulations and procedures. Discipline may include suspension or expulsion from the University. "Scholastic dishonesty includes but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, collusion, the submission for credit of any work or materials that are attributable in whole or in part to another person, taking an examination for another person, any act designed to give unfair advantage to a student or the attempt to commit such acts." (Regents' Rules and Regulations, Part One, Chapter VI, Section 3, Subsection 3.2, Subdivision 3.22)

Tentative Assignment Schedule

Tu	Aug 28	Introduction
Th	Aug 30	Molière, Tartuffe
Tu	Sep 4	Texts in The Spirit of Inquiry section, 339-367
Th	Sep 6	Pope, Essay on Man; Swift, from Gulliver’s Travels, III
Tu	Sep 11	Voltaire, Candide
Th	Sep 13	Rousseau, Confessions; The Social Contract; Olympe de Gouges
Tu	Sep 18	Goethe, Faust
Th	Sep 20	Byron, from Childe Harold, Manfred, and Don Juan (On Internet)
Tu	Sep 25	Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell [First Essay Due]
Th	Sep 27	Hoffmann, “The Mines of Falun,”; Heine, poems
Tu	Oct 2	Pushkin, The Bronze Horseman
Th	Oct 4	Baudelaire, Poems
Tu	Oct 9	Flaubert, “A Simple Heart”
Th	Oct 11	Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground; From The Brothers Karamozov: The Grand Inquisitor
Tu	Oct 16	Ibsen, Hedda Gabler
Th	Oct 18	Midsemester Test
Tu	Oct 23	Conrad, “Heart of Darkness”; Texts in Colonialism: Chinua Achebe, “An Image of Africa,” 107
Th	Oct 25	Kafka, The Metamorphosis; Rilke, poems [Second Essay Due]
Tu	Oct 30	Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author; Lorca, poems
Th	Nov 1	Mann, Death in Venice; Brecht, Sachs, Celan, poems;
Tu	Nov 6	T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land; Anna Akhmatova, poems;
Th	Nov 8	Sartre, The Flies
Tu	Nov 13	Camus, “The Guest,” “The Myth of Sisyphus”
Th	Nov 15	Beckett; TBA
Tu	Nov 20	Tawfiq al-Hakim, The Fate of a Cockroach; Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths”
Th	Nov 22	Thanksgiving
Tu	Nov 27	Narayan, “A Horse and Two Goats”; Garcia Marquez, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”
Th	Nov 29	Carlos Fuentes, “The Prisoner of Las Lomas”; Neruda, poems [Third Essay Due]
Tu	Dec 4	Kundera, “The Hitchhiking Game”; Hiroko, “The Rite”
Th	Dec 6	Soyinka, The Lion and the Jewel
Tu	Dec 11	Final Examination 2:00-4:30 p.m.