Dr. Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt & Toni Kelley Office: Knutti 223 Phone: 876-5207, 5220 (messages) Office Hours: MWF 7:00-11:00 a.m. & 1:003:00 p.m. Email: SShurbut@shepherd.edu or AKelle05@rams.shepherd.edu
Shepherd Sakai Link @ http://www.shepherd.edu/
ENGL 209-01
SURVEY OF WORLD LITERATURE II, Fall 2014, Knutti 203, 8:00-9:25
Evliya Celebi (1611-1684)
Voltaire
(1694-1778)
Chinua Achebe (1930-)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
PURPOSE OF THE COURSE: Survey of World Literature II is designed to familiarize students with
great works of world literature representing the Neoclassical, Romantic, Realistic, Modernist and
Post-Modernist periods and Eastern literary traditions of the same time-frame. Students will be
exposed to diverse literary traditions through discussion and through critical writing and reading.
Emphasis in this course will be placed on discovering how works of literature fit into a broader social,
philosophic, and aesthetic framework and how the writings of past and present reflect and shape our lives
today in a global environment. The course is likewise structured to enlighten students about the ethnic
and cultural diversity of the planet.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND OUTCOMES ACQUIRED THROUGH THE COURSE:
An ability to render close textual analysis;
An ability to synthesize information from multiple texts;
An ability to render clear, cogent ideas;
An ability to structure well-developed essays, with thesis, textual support and analysis;
An ability to correctly employ standard written English usage;
An understanding of ethnic/cultural diversity;
An aesthetic and critical judgment of literature;
A concept of chronology associated with literary periods;
An understanding of the inter-relationship of the arts, history, and philosophy through the study of literature.
LEAP Goals Acquired through the Course:
Goal 1: Improve the quality of learning across the curriculum.
Goal 2: Inspire student learning and development through the incorporation of technology in teaching.
Goal 5: Improve Shepherd’s diversity and commitment to social justice.
TEXTS AND REQUIREMENTS: The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Second Edition, Vols. D, E, &
F; Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart; Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther (Vintage Classic); WV Common Reading
Selection & AHWIR Homer Hickam’s Rocket Boys (Delta Paper); Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Frank X Walker
Volume VI; Frank X Walker’s Journey of York; Shepherd University Common Read Malalia Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (Little
Brown). Students are expected to have a Shepherd computer account and to participate in the Sakai component of the
course. Saturday Bus Trips are provided through the Gateway Program for students in order to fulfill the
requirement to see the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; for the bus schedule, see
http://www.shepherd.edu/gateway/bus.html.
COURSE CONTENT:
8/26 The Enlightenment
Page
D295 or 91
8/28, 9/2 Moliere, Comedien Extraordinaire (1622-1673) Tartuffe
D304 or 141
9/4,9 Voltaire, Philosophe et Satiriste
(1694-1778)
Candide
D517 or 35
9/11
Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz, Woman of Reason & 17thCentury FeministD403 or 246
"Reply to Sor Filotea de La Cruz" (1658-1695)
9/16
Celebi’s Muslim Wanderlust
Book of Travels
D280 or
9/18 Test 1 and Essay 1
*9/19-27
Appalachian Heritage Writer in Residence Events Required Event: “The Prodigious Tales of Homer
Hickam: West Virginia’s Master Storyteller” 9/25 8:00 p.m., EOB, Scarborough Lecture Keynote; and A Celebration of
Affrilachian Poets: Anthology of Appalachian Writers with Frank X Walker,” 9/23, 7:00 p.m., Byrd Legislative Center;
students select one additional events and complete one activity reflection (1 AR) for the series of three required events; See
http://www.shepherd.edu/ahwirweb/hickam/ .
9/23 Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence, Homer Hickam’s Rocket Boys and
Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Frank X Walker Volume VI
Revolution and Romanticism
E651 or 322
William Blake, The Dionysian and Apollonian (1757-1827)
"The Lamb" and “The Tyger”
E651 or 330
9/30
Jean Jacque Rousseau, Confessions of a Romantic Rogue (1712-1778)
10/2
Goethe’s Sturm und Drang (1749-1832) The Sorrows of Young Werther
E678 or 52
10/7
Ghalib, Lyric Poet of India (1797-1869)
E1064 or 587
*10/9 The 'Nature' of Haiku: Japanese Romantic Poetry & Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694) D 616
10/14 Test 2 and Essay 2
9/25
10/21 Realism and Modernism
10/23,28Henrik Ibsen, Realism and Modern Drama (1828-1906)
Hedda Gabler
10/24 Handel’s Messiah (Frank Theater)
10/30 Nabuib Mahfouz, Egypt's Magic Realist (1911-2006)
"Zaabalawi"
11/4
Modernism in a Global Context:
Albert Camus: Being, Nothingness, and the Existential Angst
"The Guest"
(1913-1960)
11/6
Virginia Woolf: Stream of Consciousness, Feminism, and Moments of Being
"A Room of One's Own" "The Mark on the Wall" (1888-1941)
11/11
11/13
E1071 or 625
E1460 or 778
F2527 or 882
F1579 or 3
F2570 or 751
F1974 or F336
F1978 or
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/woolf/monday/monday-08.html
Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951) “Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber” F2773 or F693
William Butler Yeats: Modernism & the Last Romantic (1865-1939)
F1699 or 518
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "Sailing to Byzantium," "The Second Coming"
11/18,20 Chinua Achebe: Art, Morality, and Post-Colonialism Things Fall Apart
12/2
Personal Freedom and the Right to Be: I Am Malala
12/4
Postmodernism: Frank X Walker’s Journey of York and Anthology of Appalachian
Writers, Walker Volume VI
*Test 3 and Essay 3
EVALUATION:
All assignments should be downloaded from Sakai, and students should regularly check the
web discussion room (at least once a week). All reading assignments must be completed by the posted dates above, and a
number of reading analyses will be administered throughout the semester in order to ascertain the depth of student critical reading
skills. A minimum of three formal literary essays will also be written; essay grades will be factored into the test and exam
scores; essays must be revised as directed and a copy-ready draft turned in after teacher editing before the assignment is
complete. Class participation is considered an important part of the course, both in-class and on Sakai, and students are expected
to participate. The reading analysis/class and Sakai discussion/daily average, test 1, test 2, and test 3 grades will be
factored together according to the following scale: 1/4, 1/4, 1/4. 1/4. PLAGIARISM (using another's words or ideas without
proper crediting) will result in a zero on the assignment, potential failure of the course and expulsion from the University—see the
University
policy
on
plagiarism
(page
155
of
the
Student
Handbook,
accessible
at
http://www.shepherd.edu/students/studenthandbook.pdf). All incidences of plagiarism are required to be reported to
Dave Cole, the Dean of Students; cheating may result in suspension. Make-up work will be administered on a day set aside
at the end of the semester and allowed only if absences are excused; students should contact the professor in advance of an
absence at sshurbut@shepherd.edu (or notify the English Department secretary, X-5220) and present a doctor's note if
excuses are to be judged credible. Students must attend class to pass the course; student financial aid may be revoked, either
partially or in full, if class is not attended. Grades taken on a day when an unexcused absence has occurred will be
recorded as 0. Cell phones should be turned off; texting is not allowed in class.
Students requiring feedback and
assistance in writing essays should make an appointment in the Writing/Study Center or consult ShepOwl at
http://www.shepherd.edu/ascweb/shepowl.html/.
Assignments utilize Wikipedia for the visual and introductory
components of this online encyclopedia; Wikipedia should not be used as a bibliographic reference in essays since it is
nothing more than an encyclopedia and superficial in nature. Shepherd University provides disability services for all
students through the Office of Student Affairs; please see http://www.shepherd.edu/mcssweb/dss/default.html for more
information.