World Literature II: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
[http://earthshine.org/node/399 ENGL 2112, World Literature II], examines national literatures other than those of Britain and America from the Renaissance to the present. Particular emphasis is placed on western literature, especially continental, Russian, and Latin American fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries. World Lit II will explore texts — poems, novels, novellas, plays, and short stories — in their historical and cultural contexts as well as consider how those texts still inform our views of ourselves today. Since we have only a limited time in this survey, we will concentrate on both diversity of texts explored and the detail of that exploration. Texts include those by Voltaire, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Ibsen, Mann, and Borges, among others. | |||
== Texts == | == Texts == | ||
Presented in chronological order. Please add most entries off of the [[World Literature]] page. | Presented in chronological order. Please add most entries off of the [[World Literature]] page. | ||
Revision as of 14:49, 8 February 2006
ENGL 2112, World Literature II, examines national literatures other than those of Britain and America from the Renaissance to the present. Particular emphasis is placed on western literature, especially continental, Russian, and Latin American fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries. World Lit II will explore texts — poems, novels, novellas, plays, and short stories — in their historical and cultural contexts as well as consider how those texts still inform our views of ourselves today. Since we have only a limited time in this survey, we will concentrate on both diversity of texts explored and the detail of that exploration. Texts include those by Voltaire, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Ibsen, Mann, and Borges, among others.
Texts
Presented in chronological order. Please add most entries off of the World Literature page.
- Molière: Tartuffe
- Voltaire: Candide
- Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust
- Alexander Pushkin: “The Queen of Spades”
- Nikolai Gogol: "The Overcoat"
- Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess”
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground
- . . .
Historical Periods
Users that are familar with Wiki Markup
External Links
Class Pages > World Literature II