English 345: Syllabus & Texts

Required Texts:

Mitchell & Schulte, eds. Continental Short Stories
Zamyatin, We
Brecht, Galileo
Camus, The Plague
Robbe-Grillet, The Erasers
Eliade, The Old Man and the Bureaucrats
Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
Böll, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Schedule of Assignments: Fall 2000

    Note: Finish the reading listed by each date BEFORE class that day.

Sept 26 Course introduction
28 SS: Pirandello, Benn, Moravia

Oct 3 SS: Kafka
5 Zamyatin, Records 1-20

10 Zamyatin, finish
12 Brecht

17 SS: Babel, Lagerkvist, Sartre
19 Camus, Part I

24 Camus, Parts II and III ** Short story paper due
26 Camus, finish

31 Robbe-Grillet, through Chap. 2
Nov 2 Robbe-Grillet, Chap. 3&4

7 Robbe-Grillet, finish
9 NO CLASS - work on drama papers & read Eliade

14 Eliade **Prospectus or early draft of drama paper due
16 Solzhenitsyn, first half

21 Solzhenitsyn, finish
23 No school

28 Böll (to section 30)
30    Böll, finish        ** Final draft, drama paper due

Finals week
    Exam, Tuesday Dec. 5^th, 10 am to noon