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English 109H: Syllabus & Texts Required texts for this course:
Bressler, Literary Criticism (Prentice Hall)
Sheridan, School for Scandal (Dover)
Shelley, Frankenstein (Dover)
Flaubert, Madame Bovary (Dover)
Gogol, The Inspector General (Dover)
Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata & Other Stories (Dover)
Ibsen, Hedda Gabler (Dover)
Pirandello, The Oil Jar and Other Stories (Dover)
Zamiatin, We (NAL/Dutton)
Beckett, Happy Days (Grove)
Achebe,
Things Fall Apart (Heinemann)
Note: Be sure to buy all your texts by May 1st; the bookstore starts to return leftovers to the distributors by then.
Syllabus, Spring 1999
March 29 Course introduction: the later Enlightenment & forward
March 31 Sheridan Acts 1-3
April 2 Sheridan, finish
April 5 Romantic poetry [handout]
7 Shelley, Chapters 1-9
*9 Shelley, Chapters 9-18
April 12 Shelley, finish
14 Flaubert, Part I
16 NO CLASS – read ahead & work on Web & class assignments
April 19 Flaubert, II 1-8
*21 Flaubert, II 9-15
23 Flaubert, III 1-6
April 26 Flaubert, finish
*28 Gogol Acts 1-3
30 Gogol, finish
*May 3 Tolstoy, "Death of Ivan Ilych"
*5 Glaspell, Trifles [in Bressler]
7 Bressler, Psych. & Fem. Crit
*May 10 Ibsen Acts 1-2
12 Ibsen Acts 3-4 *Tentative paper topics due
14 Pirandello, pp. 17-24, 72-78, 86-93
May 17 WWI poetry [handout]
*19 Zamiatin, pp. 1-74
21 Zamiatin, pp. 75-153 *Paper topics due
May 24 Zamiatin, finish
26 Beckett
*May 28 Achebe, skim intro & Ch. 1-10
May 31 Holiday; no class
June 2 Achebe, Ch. 11-19 ***PAPER DUE
June 4 Achebe, finish
Final: Monday, June 7th at 10 a.m.
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