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Syllabus, Spring 2004

Texts:

The Sorrows of Young Werther. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Dover, ISBN: 0-486-42455-3.
Nathan the Wise. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Bedford/Saint Martin's. ISBN: 0-312-40152-3.
Madame Bovary. Gustave Flaubert. Dover, ISBN: 0-486-29257-6.
Ghosts. Henrik Ibsen. Dover, ISBN: 0-486-29852-3.
An Enemy of the People. Henrik Ibsen. Dover, ISBN: 0-486-40657-1.
The Father. August Strindberg. Dover. ISBN: 0-486-43217-3.
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories. Leo Tolstoy. Dover, ISBN: 0-486-27805-0.
The Sea Gull. Anton Chekhov. Dover, ISBN: 0-486-40656-3.
The Threepenny Opera. Bertolt Brecht, Grove/Atlantic, ISBN: 0-8021-5039-X.
The Nonexistent Knight and the Cloven Viscount. Italo Calvino, Harcourt. ISBN: 0-15-665975-1.
Waiting for Godot. Samuel Beckett. Grove/Atlantic, ISBN: 0-8021-3034-8.

[+ a few selected short stories and poems provided by instructor or on reserve]

Schedule of Assignments:

Mar 29 Course Introduction, poetry (handout)
April 1 Goethe, Werther, Book I (to p. 40)
Apr 6 Werther, finish
Apr 8 Lessing, Nathan the Wise, Part I + Part II to Act 4 (p. 78)
Apr 13 *Lessing, finish Part II, Part III
Apr 15 Flaubert, Madame Bovary, to Part 2,VI (p. 77)
Apr 20 Flaubert, to end Part 2
Apr 22 Flaubert, Part 3; poetry (handout)
Apr 27 Ibsen, Ghosts [Lessing papers due]
Apr 29 Ibsen, An Enemy of the People
May 4 *Ibsen
May 6 Strindberg, The Father
May 11 Tolstoy, "The Death of Ivan Ilych" & "The Kreutzer Sonata"
May 13 Chekhov, The Seagull
May 18 *WWI poets (handout) [Ibsen papers due]
May 20 Brecht, The Threepenny Opera
May 25 Calvino, The Nonexistent Knight, to Chapter 7 (p. 70)
May 27 *Calvino, finish (to p. 141)
June 1 Beckett, Waiting for Godot [WWI papers due]
June 3 Sartre, "The Wall" & Borowski, "This Way…"(handout)
FINALS WEEK
June 8 8-10 Final Exam
June 10 - Calvino papers due by 2 p.m.

*We will be doing extensive group work these days, which will lead into student papers; see description elsewhere on syllabus.

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