Sem Engl0807 World Literature

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Course Code:ENGL0807

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COURSE OUTLINECredit Unit(s): 3 Lecture Unit(s): 3

Course Title: WORLD LITERATURE Lab Unit(s): 0

Effectivity:SY 2007-2008

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COURSE DESCRIPTION

The course explores and analyzes the literatures of Asia, Africa, America, and Europe in thecultural, psychological, historical, political, and cultural contexts of the different genres to bestudied. Critical issues such as origin and family, gender and identity, war and violence,racial differences, ecological concerns, individual and community are the core points ofdiscussion.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

At the end of the semester, the student should be able to: differentiate literary genres, and to describe and analyze literary works through class

discussion and writing;

analyze, explain, and interpret different uses of literary language, and to present thoseanalyses, explanations, and interpretations in a systematic, concise, logical, andpersuasive way;

recognize ethical and moral issues that may arise in literary works from different timesand cultures;

improve knowledge of the development of human attitudes towards religion, socialrelationships, political attitudes, and the like in other cultures;

examine the attitudes and behaviors of your own culture through the perspectives of

people from other cultures;

improve knowledge about how people's value systems develop, grow, and influence theirattitudes, behaviors, and communications;

write and speak in a more interesting, illuminating, and persuasive way;

differentiate the communication processes;

COURSE CONTENT

I. ORIENTATION1.1 Setting of house rules.

1.2 Discussion of the College Mission, Vision and Objectives.1.3 Course Requirements1.4 Grading System

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COURSE CONTENT

II. Introduction2.1 Review of the Elements of Literature

III. Approaches in Interpreting Literature3.1 Formalism3.2 Psychological3.3 Moral3.4 Socio-historical3.5 Structural

3.6 Post-structural3.7 Post-colonial

IV. Awakening4.1 Araby(fiction) by James Joyce4.2 Circumcision(fiction) by Pramoedya Ananta Toer4.3 The Psalm of Lifeby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

V. Across The Asian Shores5.1 Sent To Li Po As A Gift(poem) by Du Fu5.2 Addressed Humorously to Du Fu(poem) by Li Po5.3 The Priest of Hardwork Mountainsby Pu Sung-ling5.4 Selections from Ramayana

5.5 Selections from Mahabarata5.6 The Dahamapada5.7 Haikus(poems) by Matsuo Basho5.8 Psalm 23- The Lord Is My Shepherd5.9 The Prophetby Kahlil Gibran5.10 Rubaiyat(poem) by Omat Khayyam5.11 In A Grove(fiction) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

VI. Perspectives in Love6.1 Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day by William Shakespeare6.2 Sonnet116: Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds Admit Impedimentsby

William Shakespeare6.3 Roman Fever by Edith Wharton

6.4 The Flea(poem) by John Donne6.5 A Dill Pickle by Katherine Mansfield6.6 Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway6.7 Come Live with Me and be My Loveby Andrew Marvel


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COURSE CONTENT

VII. Coping with Loneliness7.1 The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock(poem) by T.S. Eliot7.2 In Exile by Anton Chekhov7.3 Rose For Emilyby William Faulkner7.4 The New Dress by Virginia Woolf7.5 The Sound of Silence(song) by Paul Simon7.6 Because I Could Not Stop for Deathby Emily Dickinson

VIII Crossing the Colors

8.1 Piano and Drums by Gabriel Okara8.2 Six Feet of The Countryby Nadine Gordimer8.3 Telephone Conversationby Wole Soyinka8.4 Things Fall Apart(novel) by Chinua Achebe

IX. Universal Women9.1 Tell Me, Mother(poem) by Gabriel Mistral9.2 Day of Wrath: Schoolboy's Tale(fiction) by Christina Stead9.3 To the Uncultured Lesbian Womanby Sappho9.4 The Vagina Monologuesby Eve Ensler9.5 Kay Meorou Abendanon Mandiri(poem) by Raden Adjeng Kartini (translated by

Ruth Elynia Mabanglo)

X. Coping with Poverty10.1 Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon(fiction) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez10.2 I Have A Terrible Fear(poem) by Cesar Vallejo10.3 The Taximan's Story(fiction) by Catherine Lim10.4 Of Mice and Menby John Steinbeck

XI. Death, Where Is Thy Sting11.1 Because I Could Not Stop For Death(poem) by Emily Dickinson11.2 A Man Falls to His Deathby Cirilo Bautista11.3 Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night(poem) by Dylan Thomas11.4 Death of a Salesmanby Arthur Miller

XII. Greek Literature

12.1 Oedipus Rex (drama) by Sophocles12.2 Lysistrata(drama) by Aristophanes

XIII Novel13.1 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manby James Joyce


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RECOMMENDED REFERENCES

1. Rosenberg, Donna. World Literature, Latest Edition. Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, Inc.

2. Gochberg, Donald, et.al. World Literature and Thought, Latest Edition. WadsworthPublishing.

3. Alcazar, Tita M. et al. Effective Speech and Oral Communication. Manila : CEU, LatestEdition.

4. Pizer, John David. The Idea of World Literature: History and Pedagogical Practice.Louisiana State University Press (March 30, 2006).

GRADING SYSTEM

Prelims Midterms Pre-Finals FinalsQuizzes 40% 40% 40% 40%Class Standing 10% 10% 10% 10%Major Exam 50% 50% 50% 50%TOTAL 100% 100% 100% 100%

Final Grade = 20% Prelims + 20% Midterms + 20% Pre-Finals + 40% Finals

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