English 3362 History of World Lit II Spring 2017 Syllabus

ENGL 3362 History of World Lit II Spring 2017

Tim Morris

1400-1450 MWF, 200 Preston Hall

Tim Morris office hours: 1300-1400 MWRF, 420 Carlisle Hall

tmorris@uta.edu

office mailbox 203 Carlisle Hall

mailing address Box 19035, UTA 76019

Required texts:

Molière, The Miser and Other Plays; Penguin, 978-0140447286
Ludvig Holberg, Jeppe of the Hill
J. W. von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther; Dover, 978-0486424552
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, The Jews' Beech-Tree
Henrik Ibsen (translated by Arthur Miller), An Enemy of the People; Penguin, ISBN 978-0140481402
Rainer Maria Rilke, "Evening," "The Panther," "Portrait of My Father as a Young Man," "Archaic Torso of Apollo," "The Flamingos"
Jorge Luis Borges, "Borges and I," "The Library of Babel," "Three Versions of Judas"
Friederich Dürrenmatt, The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion; University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0226174440
Samuel Beckett, Endgame and Act Without Words; Grove Press, ISBN 978-0802144393
Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold; Vintage, ISBN 978-1400034710
Amara Lakhous, Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio; Europa, ISBN 978-1933372617

note: OPEN days have no initial scheduled class meeting but may become class days if we have intervening ice days

Wed 18 Jan: Introductions

Fri 20 Jan: work with blank maps & timelines

Mon 23 Jan: NO CLASS MEETING; Hermanns Lectures

Wed 25 Jan: lecture: nations

Fri 27 Jan: lecture: languages

Mon 30 Jan: lecture: late 17th century

Wed 1 Feb: crowdsource: early drama

Fri 3 Feb: *Molière, The Miser

Mon 6 Feb: lecture: early 18th century

Wed 8 Feb: crowdsource: early 18th century

Fri 10 Feb: *Holberg, Jeppe of the Hill

Mon 13 Feb: lecture: late 18th century

Wed 15 Feb: crowdsource: late 18th century

Fri 17 Feb: FIRST MIDTERM EXAM

Mon 20 Feb: crowdsource: Romantics

Wed 22 Feb: *Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

Fri 24 Feb: OPEN

Mon 27 Feb: lecture: early 19th century

Wed 1 March: crowdsource: the big novel

Fri 3 March: *Droste-Hülshoff, The Jews' Beech-Tree

Mon 6 March: lecture: late 19th century

Wed 8 March: *Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

NO CLASS MEETINGS 9-19 MARCH

Mon 20 March: crowdsource: lyric poetry

Wed 22 March: *Rilke, "Evening," "The Panther," "Portrait of My Father as a Young Man," "Archaic Torso of Apollo," "The Flamingos"

Fri 24 March: SECOND MIDTERM EXAM

Mon 27 March: lecture: prewar & WWI

Wed 29 March: lecture: colonial & postcolonial; Latin America

Fri 31 March: *Borges, "Borges and I," "The Library of Babel," "Three Versions of Judas"

Mon 3 April: lecture: interwar & WWII

Wed 5 April: *Dürrenmatt, The Judge and His Hangman

Fri 7 April: NO CLASS MEETING; EGSA Conference

Mon 10 April: lecture: postwar

Wed 12 April: crowdsource: Europe 1900-89

Fri 14 April: OPEN

Mon 17 April: lecture: Ireland

Wed 19 April: crowdsource: postcolonial

Fri 21 April: *García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Mon 24 April: lecture: post-'89

Wed 26 April: crowdsource: "minor" nations

Fri 28 April: *Beckett, Endgame

Mon 1 May: crowdsource: contemporary Europe

Wed 3 May: *Lakhous, Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio

Fri 5 May: OPEN

Mon 8 May (1400-1630): FINAL EXAM

syllabus: The effective version of the syllabus is always at http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/courses/3362sp17/3362mainsp17.html. If you are looking at a print or .pdf version, please make sure to consult the online version for updates.

grading:

44%, eleven closed-book card-and-question exercises at the start of every starred* class meeting. Please do the day's reading before you come to class. I'll pass out 5x8 cards. On the front, summarize the reading briefly; on the back, ask a pressing critical question that occurred to you while you were reading.
30%, research for and participation in ten "crowdsource" sessions
10% (5% apiece), midterm exams, 17 February and 24 March
12%, final exam, 10 May
1% for every three lectures attended (there are 13 lecture meetings, all noted in the calendar above) to a maximum of 4%
1% extra credit for attending any one session of the Hermanns Lectures on Monday 23 January, and 1% for attending any one session of the EGSA Graduate Student Conference on Friday 7 April

Exams will be graded on the standard 100-point scale. Other assignments will typically be all-or-nothing exercises, though I reserve the right to assign partial credit for partial performance. Final grades will be on the standard scale (below 60, F; 60-69, D; 70-79, C; 80-89, B; 90-100, A). Note that including extra credit there's actually 102% possible credit.

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