M-F 3:00-5:15 Humanities 227
Instructor: Dr. Micheal Crafton
Office: TLC 2-225 (770-836-6512)
Office hours: M-F – 2-3 TLC 225
And by appointment.
Phone:
TLC 770-836-6512
Current
Schedule
Email: mcrafton@westga.edu
Home page: http://www.westga.edu/~mcrafton/
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students
will develop the ability to recognize and identify significant achievements in
world literature.
Students
will understand the relevant social, historical, and aesthetic contexts of
these literary works.
Students will appreciate the implications of theoretical and critical
approaches to such literature.
Students will develop enhanced cultural awareness and analytical skills.
Students will demonstrate their command of academic English and of the tenets
of sound composition by means of thesis-driven analytical prose.
The purpose of this course is to survey
literary and cultural documents from around the world, starting with the
earliest extant materials and working our way by leaps and bounds up to the
modern period. Although we shall try our best to view these documents in a
historical and political context, we will be hard pressed to be very detailed
due to the astonishing breadth of this survey. Given the fact that we will be
moving quickly through a lot of cultures, we shall hold to two constants: one,
mythology as a grammar for comparative analysis; two, literacy as the
fundamental skill of skills that we shall practice.
EVALUATION AND GRADING PROCEDURES
The processes for assessing student
performance in this class are four-fold: exams, papers, student presentations,
and participation.
The in-class exams will consist of a
mixture of quotations from the literature studied and some analytical questions
relevant to class discussion. For more information on taking these exams, how
to prepare for them, and how to write them, go
to this web page.
Each out of class essay will consist
of a two- to three-page typed essay (one-inch margins, 12 pt font) that allows
the student to respond to a selection or selections of literature in a personal
and analytical fashion.For topics and advice on writing this essay, including a
sample essay, go t.o this web page.
Participation in class is more that just passive attendance,
especially in an honors seminar; participation should be understood as an
active or productive process. Students should come to class not only
awake, dressed, and having read the material, but also they should during the
course of the class reveal their live enactment of the material and the
discussion through questions, answers, or at the very least non-verbal cues.
ASSIGNMENTS AND THEIR GRADE WEIGHTS
1.
Two
essays
40%
2. Two Exams 40%
3. Daily Quizzes
10%
4.
Student Participation
10%
Texts:
Mack, Maynard, et al eds. The
Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces.
Daily Assignments for English 2110 Honors, Summer 2005
--------- week 1 ----------
M 6 First
day of class: Introductions, overview, defining literature, myth, culture,
history: Descent of Inanna, Gilgamesh begin; Egyptian
Poetry; Old Testament
T 7 Babylonian
Epic: Gilgamesh finish. (All of Gilgamesh;
Selections from Genesis and Psalm 137; Egyptian Poetry)
W 8 Ancient
Greek Epic: Homer’s Odyssey, pp. 101-152.
R 9 Ancient
Greek Epic: Homer’s Odyssey, pp. 151-192.
10 Ancient
link to handout
on Greek drama.
http://www.perspicacity.com/elactheatre/library/greektheatre/index.html
--------- week 2----------
M 13 Ancient
T 14 New
Religions: Plato, pp 500-520; Confucius, p.548-555; Chuang
Chou, Taoism, pp. 557-566; New Testament, pp. 708-721; and Review for mid-term
W 15 Test 1; Augustine and the Creation of Christian Orthodoxy,
pp. 723-734
R 16 Islam
and European Middle Ages: Koran, suras 1, 4, 19, 71;
1001 Nights, 923-947; Roland, p. 956-978; Eliduc, pp 998-1010
F 17 High Middle Ages: Dante, The
Divine Comedy, cantos I-VIII, XVIII, XXXII-XXXIV
-------- week 3----------
M 20 Essay 1
due; Early Modernity—Renaissance: Hamlet
T 21 Romanticism:
Rousseau, Blake, Wordsworth, Basho
W 22 Naturalism
and Realism: Tolstoy, Baudelaire
R 23 Modernism:
Kafka, T.S. Eliot, Mahfouz
F 24 Postcolonial
Film: Whale
Rider
--------- week 4----------
M 27 Mythology
and Class Synthesis: Campbell, Power of
Myth, on-line discussion
T 28 Mythology
and Class Synthesis;: Cmpbell,
Power of Myth, on-line discussion
W 29 Reading
Day
R 30 Exam
(3:00-5:00) Grades due July 5th