Introduction to World Literature 195:01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06



Introduction to World Literature 195:101:01 Index #43815 Spring 2013Professor Janet A. Walker jwalk@rci.rutgers.eduMonday 2nd period Scott 207Thursday 2nd period Education 025BInstructor’s Contact InformationProfessor Walker’s office hours (in Scott Hall 238) are Monday and Thursday after class: 11:15 A.M.-12:30 P.M. and by arrangement. Her mailbox is in Scott 330, CAC. She can be reached by phone at 732-932-7605 (Office of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures). About the Comparative Literature ProgramComparative Literature is an exciting interdisciplinary program that allows you to study literature as it shapes and is shaped by the world of science, religion, economics, politics, sexuality, and other cultural and historical forces. It is a discipline that should be attractive to students with a wide-ranging interest in literature, theory, and cultural studies. Students may choose from a minor that requires 18 credits and a major that offers several attractive options. See the Comparative Literature website, which includes descriptions of the major and minor, and faculty pages: . The current Undergraduate Director is Professor Jorge Marcone (jtmarcone@, jmarcone@rci.rutgers.edu).Learning goals satisfied by Introduction to World LiteratureThis course meets the following learning goal of the SAS Core Curriculum (for Classes beginning with the Class of 2015):Section C. Arts and the Humanities. p. An arts and humanities course “analyzes arts and/or literatures in themselves and in relation to specific histories, values, languages, cultures, and technologies.” For students from the Class of 2014 or earlier, this course fulfills a) the Humanities and 2) the Global Awareness requirements of the SAS Liberal Arts Distribution Requirements, Part II Section C. This course also fulfills the following Learning Goals of the Program in Comparative Literature:Students will 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.Students will demonstrate critical reasoning and research skills and will write a clear and well-developed paper or project about a topic related to more than one literary and cultural tradition. If they decide to major or minor in Comparative Literature, they will design and conduct research in an individual field of concentration (such as literary theory, women’s literature, postcolonial studies, literature and film, etc.). Introduction to World Literature (195:101:01): Course objectivesThe term “world literature” can be taken to mean “literature of the whole world,” and this course aims to introduce students to outstanding works of fiction, plays, and poems from both the Western (European, North and South American), and non-Western (Chinese, Japanese, and Indian) parts of the world. We will focus on questions of culture, class, and gender, and on the role of translation in the study of world literature. As we read and discuss the various texts, we will try to understand how literary works from different cultures ask the question “What does it mean to be human?” All texts will be read in translation. The course will work to develop students’ skills in critical thinking, close reading, and writing. Required readings: The following four books for the course are available for purchase at Barnes and Noble at Rutgers, 100 Somerset Street: 1) Euripides: Bacchae. Trans. Paul Woodruff. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 1998. ISBN#10-0872203921. [Hackett offers an e-book of Bacchae.] 2) Jean-Baptiste Molière: Tartuffe and Other Plays. Trans. Donald M. Frame (Signet Classics) New York: Penguin Group, 1981. ISBN#10-045130330. (We will read only the play Tartuffe.)3) Ousmane Sembene: Xala. Ttrans. Clive Wake. Chicago: Chicago Review Press--Lawrence Hill Books, 1976. ISBN#10-1446520700.4) Toni Morrison: Beloved. Vintage International. New York: Random House, 2004. ISBN#10-307-26488-2.If you decide to purchase these books online, I have given you the ISBN numbers so that you can buy these editions. I have chosen # 1 and 2 because of the outstanding quality of the translations; there is only one translation of #3. The rest of the readings are available on Alexander Online Reserve. Access the Rutgers library website, then log in, then click Reserve, then Walker, J., and finally Introduction to World Literature. Required readings available on online reserve for the course are the following: 1) Chinese philosophical texts: Confucius, Laozi, Zhuangzi; 2) Indian poetry; 3) Cervantes: background, Don Quixote (excerpts), and Amadís of Gaul (excerpts); 4) Molière: background; 5) Japanese Haiku; 6) Dostoevsky: background, Beatitudes, and The Meek One; 7) Xala (background); and 8) Chinweizu. reading. Bringing of required texts to lecture and discussion sectionsStudents should be sure to have ordered and received all the relevant texts by the day on which they are needed. And please bring all required books and materials from Alexander Online Reserve (in Xeroxed form) to class on the day they are needed. Students must have a print copy of each text in class, either a book or a Xeroxed documentUse of electronic devicesPlease note that computers, cell phones, and all other technological devices (beepers, iPods, MP3 players, etc.) must be turned off during class out of respect for the instructor and fellow students. SYLLABUS (#1)Please note: items in bold type refer to the number of the item on Alexander Online Reserve. Jan. 24 (Thursday) Introduction to content and format of the course; introduction to the concept of world literature; the importance of translation in literary study Jan. 28 (Monday) Euripides: Bacchae. Greek 5th century, B.C.E. [book]Jan. 31 (Thursday) BacchaeFeb. 4 (Monday) Chinese philosophical and religious texts: Confucius. 6th century, B.C.E.#2—Readings #2 for Feb. 4: 1) “Confucius” (background): “Confucius (Kongfuzi) 551-479 B.C.E. The Bedford Anthology of World Literature: The Ancient World, Beginnings-100 C.E. Ed. Paul Davis et al. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2004. 2) Confucius: The Analects. 6th century B.C.E. Trans. Arthur Waley. New York: Random House, 1938. [both on Alexander Online Reserve]Feb. 7 (Thursday) and Feb. 11 (Monday) Chinese philosophical and religious texts: Daoism, including Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi . 6th century-4th century, B.C.E. #3—Readings #3 for Feb. 7 and Feb. 11Lao Zi (background) and Lao Zi—Dao De Jing. 6th century or later. The Bedford Anthology of World Literature: The Ancient World, Beginnings-100 C.E. Ed. Paul Davis et al. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2004.2) Zhuang Zi (background) and Zhuang Zi—The Zhuang Zi. 4th century or later. The Bedford Anthology of World Literature: The Ancient World, Beginnings-100 C.E. Ed. Paul Davis et al. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2004. [both on Alexander Online Reserve] Feb. 14 (Thursday) Classical Indian poetry. Sanskrit. Ca. 700-1050 #4--Readings #4 for Feb. 14:Sanskrit Poetry from Vidy?kara’s “Treasury.” Trans. and ed. Daniel H. H. Ingalls. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1965. Sanskrit 700-1050 C. E. The rasa theory, suggestion, and impersonality in Sanskrit poetry. Sanskrit Poetry. Trans. and ed. Daniel H. H. Ingalls. [pp. 11-25—read these pages but there is no need to print them out and bring them to class] Feb. 18 (Monday) and Feb. 21 (Thursday) Classical Indian poetry. Urdu. 1800-1850. #5--Readings #5 for Feb. 18 and 21:Mirza Ghalib (background): “India: Jewel in the Colonial Crown” and “Ghalib”—poems. The Bedford Anthology of World Literature: The Nineteenth Century, 1800-1900. Ed. Paul Davis et al. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2004. [on Alexander Online Reserve]Feb. 25: First short paper dueFeb. 25 (Monday), Feb. 28 (Thursday), and Mar. 4 (Monday) Miguel Cervantes: Don Quixote (Part I). Spanish. 1604.#6—Readings #6 for Feb. 25, Feb. 28, and Mar. 4: 1) Don Quixote background. The Bedford Anthology of World Literature: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650. Ed. Paul Davis et al. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2004. 2) Don Quixote. Trans. Edith Grossman. New York: Ecco (Harper Collins), 2003. Prologue, pp. 3-9; Chapters 1-13, 25. Rodriguez de Montalvo: Amadís of Gaul. Spanish. 1300s. Amadís of Gaul, Books I and II. A Novel of Chivalry of the 14th Century Presumably First Written in Spanish. Trans. Edwin B. Place and Herbert C. Behm. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1974. [all on Alexander Online Reserve]Mar. 7 (Thursday), Mar. 11 (Monday) Jean-Baptiste (Poquelin) Molière: Tartuffe (trans. Donald M. Frame). French.1669#7—Reading #7 for Mar. 7 and 11: Molière background. The Bedford Anthology of World Literature: The Eighteenth Century, 1650-1800. Ed. Paul Davis et al. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2004. [Alexander Online Reserve]Tartuffe. In Tartuffe and Other Plays. [book]Mar. 14 (Thursday) Translation and Comparative LiteratureReadings will be handed out in class.Spring Break (Mar. 16-Mar. 24)Mar. 25 (Monday), Mar. 28 (Thursday), and April 1 (Monday) Haiku. Japanese. From late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries #8—Readings # 8 for Mar. 25 and 28, and April 1: 1) Matsuo Bash? (background): “Japan: The Tokugawa Era,” “Matsuo Bash?,” and The Narrow Road Through the Back Country (trans. Richard Bodner, excerpts), The Bedford Anthology of World Literature: The Eighteenth Century, 1650-1800. Ed. Paul Davis et al. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2004.2) Matsuo Bash?. “A Visit to Sarashina Village.” The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches. Trans. Nobuyuki Yuasa. Baltimore: Penguin, 1966. Haiku of Yosa Buson and Kobayashi Issa. Late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. Robert Hass, ed. and the one responsible for verse translations of the haiku. The Essential Haiku. New York: Ecco. An Imprint of HarperCollins, 1994. [all on Alexander Online Reserve]April 4 (Thursday) and April 8 (Monday) Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Meek One. Russian. 1876 #9—Readings #9 for April 4 and 8:Dostoevsky background. The Bedford Anthology of World Literature: The Nineteenth Century, 1800-1900. Ed. Paul Davis et al. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2004.Dostoevsky: The Meek One. In The Eternal Husband and Other Stories. Trans. and annot. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. New York: Bantam Books, 1997.The Beatitudes: The Bible: The Book of Matthew: The Sermon on the Mount. The New English Bible with the Apocrypha. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. [all on Alexander Online Reserve]April 11: Second short paper dueApril 11 (Thursday), April 15 (Monday), and April 18 (Thursday) Toni Morrison: Beloved. American. 1987. Reading for April 11, 15, and 18: Beloved pp. 1-156 [book]; Excerpts from the film Beloved, directed by Jonathan Demme (1998) April 22 (Monday) and April 25 (Thursday) Beloved (continued) Reading for April 22 and 25: Beloved pp. 157-324 Excerpts from the film Beloved April 29 (Monday) Ousmane Sembène: Xala. French. Sénégal. 1973.#10—Reading #10 for April 29: Xala (background). “Colonialism: Europe and Africa.” The Bedford Anthology of World Literature: The Twentieth Century, 1900-The Present. Ed. Paul Davis et al. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2004 [Alexander Online Reserve] Xala pp. 1-53 [book]Excerpts from the film Xala, directed by Ousmane Sembene (1980)May 2 (Thursday) Xala (continued) #11—Reading #11 for May 2:“Chinweizu” and his ‘Decolonizing the African Mind.’” The Bedford Anthology of World Literature: The Twentieth Century, 1900-The Present. Ed. Paul Davis et al. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2004. [Alexander Online Reserve]Xala pp. 53-103 [book]May 6 (Monday) Summing up: comparison and contrast of the texts readMay 15 (Wednesday): Final paper due at 12 NoonRequirementsAttendance. Students are expected to attend all classes and attendance will be taken. Each student is allowed two unexcused absences for the semester; exceeding that number will result in a lowering of the “Participation, quizzes, and short writing assignments” grade by one point for each absence. Religiously observant students should indicate in advance that they wish to be excused on religious holidays, and these absences will be considered excused absences, following university regulations. Athletes needing to attend practice or to take part in sport events at certain times should officially inform me in advance; absences for these reasons will also be considered excused absences. Students should also let their section leader know if they have transportation emergencies or scheduled job interviews, as these are also excused absences. For short-term health or emergency absences, students should use the Rutgers Self-Reporting Absence Website: . For long-term absences (longer than 1-2 weeks), students should see the Dean of Students so that that office can notify all of the student’s professors of the student’s situation. Participation, quizzes, and short writing assignments. This is an interactive class. Students are therefore expected to be ready to discuss the reading for each class. Pop quizzes will be given during the semester to encourage students to complete the longer readings. There will be four short writing assignments—length: one single-spaced page. Two 3-4-page papers. Each of these requires a close reading of one literary text. Due dates are Feb. 25 (First short paper) and April 11 (Second short paper).A 5-7-page comparative paper that requires a close reading and comparison of two literary texts in their historical and cultural contexts. The due date is Wednesday May 15 at Noon. *Please note: students will be assessed on this paper according to the Core Requirement goals for the Arts and Humanities requirement: “C. Arts and the Humanities. p. Analyze arts and/or literatures in themselves and in relation to specific histories, values, languages, cultures, and technologies.” Grading PolicyParticipation and short writing assignments: 20%Quizzes: 10%Two 3-4-page papers: 20% each=40%5-7-page comparative paper: 30%-------------------------------------------Total 100%Grading RubricA 90-100B+ 87-89B 80-86C+ 77-79C 70-76D 60-69F 59 and belowPolicy on PlagiarismPlagiarism involves using information from published materials (including the internet) without acknowledging the source, teaming up with a classmate to write papers, and having someone else write some or all of the paper for you. In this course, I am interested in your ideas, in your work. If I should discover evidence of plagiarism, I will pursue it following the university’s Policy on Academic Integrity, which is available at . Here is a plagiarism tutorial:“Consult Don’t Plagiarize: Document Your Research!” This informs you how to take notes so that you don’t plagiarize by accident. on DisabilityRutgers, the State University of New Jersey abides by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments (ADAA) of 2008, and Sections 504 and 508 which mandate that reasonable accommodations be provided for qualified students with disabilities. Students with disabilities should contact their instructors early in the semester so that they can be provided with accommodations they may need. They should also register with the Office of Disability Services, which is located in the Kreeger Learning Center, 151 College Avenue, Suite 123, phone number 732-932-2848. Full disability policies and procedures are to be found at ................
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