ENG/FL 219:
Traditional Non-Western Literature
Section 001: 1015 - 1105 MWF Dr. M. Fosque
Section 002: 1120 - 1210 MWF Dr. M. Fosque
Readings in traditional literature, in translation, from Africa, the Middle
East, South Asia, China, Japan, and the Americas. Students will be introduced
to the origins and flourishing of these oldest cultures through the oral
and written stories, poems, essays and plays that have become the defining
works of these societies. At the same time we will look at the geographical,
historical, and philosophical contexts from which these texts arise.
ENG/FL
220: Great Works of Western Literature
Section 001: 0300 - 0415 MW Dr. M. Welch
Section 002: 0300 - 0415 TH Dr. M. Grimwood
ENG/FL 220H-003: 0430
- 0545 TH Dr. M. Grimwood
Readings,
in English translation, of literary works representing major
periods and major literary languages of Europe. Works include Genesis,
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Ovid’s Metamorphoses (selections),
Dante’s Divine Comedy (selections), Shakespeare’s Hamlet,
Cervantes’s Don Quixote (selections), Voltaire’s Candide,
Goethe’s Faust, and—if time allows—Tolstoy’s “Death
of Ivan Ilyich.” Three papers; occasional quizzes; a midterm
and a final exam. Credit will not be given for both
ENG/FL 220 and either ENG/FL 221 or ENG/FL 222.
ENG 220Q:
Studies in Great Works of Western Literature
Section 004: 1225 - 0115 MWF Dr.
M. Fosque
Readings, in English
translation, of Western literary works from the beginnings of literacy
in the Middle East and Europe towards the present, including such authors
as Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Shakespeare, Rousseau, Wordsworth,
Rilke, Proust, Dickinson, Kafka, and Borges. Credit will
not be given for both ENG/FL 220 and either ENG/FL 221 or ENG/FL 222.
ENG/FL 221: Literature of the Western World from Antiquity
to the Renaissance
Section 001: 0910 - 1000 MWF Dr. A. Kerr
Section 002: 1015
- 1105 MWF Dr. A. Kerr
Readings from English translations of Biblical, Classical,
Medieval, and Early Renaissance literature, including works by such authors
as Homer, Plato, Virgil, Ovid, St. Paul, St. Augustine, Marie de France,
and Dante.
ENG 222 Literature of the Western World II
Section 001: 1120 - 1210 MWF Dr. T.
Lisk
Section 002: 1145 - 0100 TH Dr. E. Orr
Readings from English
translations of Renaissance, Neo-Classical, Romantic, and Early Modern
literature, emphasizing the cultures of continental Europe from the Renaissance
to 1900, and including such authors as Petrarch, Erasmus, Rabelais, Machiavelli,
Shakespeare, Moliere, Voltaire, Rousseau, Goethe, Flaubert, and Tolstoy
ENG 223 Contemporary
World Literature I
Section 001: 1225 - 0115 MWF Dr. A. Kerr
Section 002: 0130 - 0220 MWF Dr. A. Kerr
Section 003: 1015 - 1130 TH Dr. L. Phillips
Section 004: 0130 - 0245TH Dr. L. Phillips
Twentieth-century literature of some of the following cultures: Russian,
Eastern European, Western European, Latin American, Canadian, Australian.
ENG/FL 224 Contemporary World Literature II
Section 001: 1225 - 0115 MWF Dr. M. Rouphail
Section 002Q: 0130 - 0220 MWf Dr. M. Rouphail
Students will read representative works from
Latin America, Asia, and Africa, and the Middle East, including
Adonis, Aidoo, Borges, Carpentier, Roberto Bolano,
Kiran Desai, Yasunari
Kawabata, Kincaid, Lispector, Mishima, Neruda, Rulfo, Tagore, Senghor,
and Soyinka.
For Rouphail's syllabi, see http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/rouphail
ENG/FL
392 Major World Author: Rushdie
Section 001 0430 - 0545 TH Dr. L. Mykyta (Dept. of Foreign Languages
and Literatures)
This course is equivalent to ENG 392 and satisfies all of the requirements
that an equivalent ENG 392 would satisfy: World Literature; Twentieth-Century;
Asian/African, Author/Genre.
Intensive study of the fictional works of Salmon Rushdie, an important twentieth-century
author whose works both discuss and embody issues of migration, translation,
cultural hybridity, and globalization, all of which are central to the study
of contemporary "postcolonial" world literature. The works will be
studied within the frame of Rushdie's personal cross-cultural and historical
context as well as from a stylistic perspective.
ENG 394M
APARTHEID
STATES: THE LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF OTHERNESS
Section 001 0300 - 0415 TH Dr. S. Smith-McKoy
This course focuses on the literature of apartheid states -- defined
in this course as countries in which issues relating to race, ethnicity,
religion and/or difference have created an “other” class.
Students will explore the literatures arising from a variety of
apartheid states including literature associated with African American,
South African, Black British, Native American, and Palestinian cultures.
ENG/ FL394A EARLY MODERN JAPANESE LITERATURE
Section
001 0300 - 0415 TH Dr. John Mertz
This course is equivalent to ENG 394 and satisfies all of the requirements
that an equivalent ENG 394 would satisfy: World Literature; Asian/African;
and (only within the LIT curriculum).Nineteenth-Century.
This class will explore relations between prose fiction and social change
relating to Japan and the rest of the world from 1600 to 1850. Readings
(all in English
translation) will mainly be drawn from a groundbreaking anthology recently
published by Columbia University Press. Issues will include attitudes towards
politics and the legal system; sexuality, gender, age and power; cultural contacts
between Japan and the ‘outside’ world; economics and social class;
city-country relations and the dynamics of regionalism; parody; and the supernatural.
We will examine how fiction can give structure to the way people understand
these issues, and how it can resist and undermine what we call ‘culture.’ Three
mid-length papers (including a final); short presentations.
ENG/FL 497B SENIOR SEMINAR IN WORLD LITERATURE: POSTCOLONIAL REWRITES
Section 001 1145 - 0100 TH Dr. Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi
This seminar will examine questions of subjectivity and otherness by reading
side-by-side western and postcolonial writings. Primary texts will include
Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God, Charlotte Bront‘'s Jane Eyre, Joyce Cary's
Mister Johnson, Maryse CondŽ's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, Jamaica
Kincaid's A Small Place, Arthur Miller, The Crucible, and Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso
Sea.
FL539A SEMINAR IN WORLD LITERATURE: FRANZ KAFKA AND THOMAS MANN
Section
001 1015 - 1130 TH Dr. Ruth Gross
This course is equivalent to ENG 539 and satisfies all of the requirements
that an equivalent ENG 539 would satisfy: World Literature; Twentieth-Century;
Author/Genre.
Perhaps no other author has captured the modern imagination as totally
as Franz Kafka (1883-1924). This Jewish German-speaking writer, who felt
both in and out of place in his native Prague, saw himself as the most
special of special cases, and this sense of himself has made him into
a standard of comparison to other writers. Kafka’s idiosyncracies
are so powerfully expressed in his style that critics have recognized
him in a whole variety of texts from diverse literatures and periods.
As the Argentine Borges has said, Kafka creates his own precursors. In
this course we will study not only the important works of Kafka, concentrating
on general issues of narrative style, perspective, and structure and
examining the way in which the various forms of ambiguity in Kafka’s
works appear to elicit a wide range of interpretative approaches, but
also look at the author in the context of world literature, comparing
his ideas about literature and the artist to those of Thomas Mann (1875-1955),
perhaps the greatest novelist and novella-writer of the 20th century
and a modernist of a completely different stripe from Kafka. Taking these
two great writers together, we will study their works in depth and examine
the extremes of modernism in the early 20th century.
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