ENG
2060
WORLD
LITERATURE AFTER
1660
syllabus
Dr.
Monika Brown
monika.brown@uncp.edu
UNC
Pembroke
Dial
Humanities 110
web
uncp.edu/home/monika
phone 910-521-6257
Humanity does not pass through phases as a
train through
stations: being alive, it [is] always moving yet
never leaving anything behind. Whatever we
have been,
in some sense we still are. –C.S. Lewis, Narnia
author
The world is big. . . .
Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet.
The
human world celebrates
itself
in the magnificence of its endless varieties. Civility is a
sensible
attribute in this kind of world we have;
narrowness
of heart and mind is not.–-Chinua Achebe,
Nigerian novelist, Bates College Address, 27 May 1996
Course Links
Course Schedule:
Readings and Assignments
Course
Schedule
(online
course): Readings and Assignments
Web Sites:
Literature, Arts,
Media
Literature
Guide: Interpreting Literature, Art, and Film
Cultural
Contexts
for World Literature and Humanities
Course
description, main goals,
and philosophy
ENG
2060 is "A survey of western and non-western literatures
from the 17th through the 20th century
considered
within the
cultural epochs of their creation, including the Enlightenment,
Romanticism,
Realism, Modernism, and the
contemporary world.” We study Western Great Books and modern
texts from
world cultures. Rooted in complex cultures,
these texts appeal to many cultures, and inspire new creative
works.
You are invited into a community that critically reads and interprets
literature. Each text is
transformed by its readers, taking on new meanings as we experience it,
talk
about it, or adapt it to
other media and situations. Many interpretations are valid, if
based on
evidence from the text.
Your own interpretations-- shaped by who you are, what you have
experienced,
and what you know–
will be enriched by awareness of contexts and literary terms.
As a Humanities class, ENG 2060 cultivates knowledge, skills, and
habits of
mind for meaningful living and
wise choices. Literature and arts, through artistic forms, insist
that
"attention must be paid," in playwright
Arthur Miller's words, to particular individuals and creative
works. Enduring works of art involve us in
experiences, express the complexity and diversity of our world, and
interpret
and question cultures and values.
They engage our emotions and our intellects, deepen our self-awareness,
connect
us with artists and creation,
stimulate our sense of beauty and wonder, and challenge us to think
critically,
to question, to respect others, to care, and to act.
texts
and supplies (buy
the edition
specified; use a ring binder to organize class materials)
The
Norton
Anthology of World Literature, 2nd Edition, Part
2,
vol. D, E. & F 0-393-92454-8
*NAWL
includes the 2 class novels: Gustave
Flaubert Madame
Bovary; Chinua
Achebe Things Fall Apart
assignments
and grading for on-Campus class
Unit 1 & 2
Tests on
readings & class topics: matching, short answer, short
essay
35%
Final Exam: Unit 3 test and comprehensive
section
25%
Critical Essay: 4-5 page essay using 3-5 sources (models & some
sources
provided)
25%
Class work (quizzes, attendance, participation,
group
work)
10%
Discussion Forum Posts (blended class allows shorter class
meetings)
10%
Connection Report (extra credit) Legacy, Context,
Web Site,
Play Performance, etc.
+ 1-3
100%
grade
values: A 95, A- 91, B+ 88, B 85 etc course average:
A+
97-99 A 92-96 A- 90-91 B+ 87-89
(etc)
course outline
see Course
Schedule and Blackboard
Course Materials for each unit and assignment
Unit
1 Baroque
& Enlightement in
Baroque/Neoclassical Drama: Comedy-Moliere,
Tartuffe; Tragedy-Racine, Phaedra
Enlightenment
Satire/Novel: Voltaire, Candide ;
World Context:
Unit
2 Romanticism and Realism (1770-1850):
Emotion, Imagination, Realism
Poetry,
Novel, Play
Romantic Poetry: Blake, Wordsworth; Poetic Drama:
Goethe,
Faust
Critical Essay Draft
Realist Novel: Flaubert Madame Bovary
&Tragedy: Hedda Gabler or Tolstoy story
Test 2
Unit 3
Modernism and the Modern World (1890-2000): Cultures &Conflicts (Poems,
Fiction, Film; tentative)
Europe/Americas: upheaval (Yeats,
Akhmatova), alienation (Kafka); magic
realism
Critical Essay
Exam
Expectations and Class Procedures
*Reading a literary text is
a form of life experience, with challenges and rewards, like
visiting a
monument.
Study guides (like sparknotes) are like
guidebooks or
postcards: they are valuable for guidance and review but it is
the experience itself that you learn from and remember.
In ENG 2060, students engage with great books and course activities,
applying
critical reading, argument writing,
and discussion strategies from freshman composition. You also
apply
knowledge about history, cultures, your academic discipline,
and literary criticism. You are expected to learn
actively both
in and out of class: to read, write, and research, to talk and
listen. to interpret and connect, to state and defend critical insights
and
value judgments, to examine your responses, to question and care.
The
course design, textbooks, Literature Guide, guided reading and writing
schedules and test study guides provide a
"road map" structure, directions, and models for success. Unit
Schedules include written “mini-lectures” and
demonstrations.
Video and audio clips, images, powerpoints, and web links, some
contributed by
students, are posted on Blackboard and used in class.
Our critical
reading strategies include: interpreting content and
insights
into experience (characters, actions, settings, themes);
analyzing genres and formal features; relating works to biographical,
historical,
and cultural contexts; examining effects, responses,
and adaptations; and evaluating quality. Historical/cultural
contexts,
literary terms, and critical approaches are integrated
with literary texts.
Assignments
Tests and Exams
(See Study Guides):
Matching/ID on content, context, and
literary terms;
short answers based on readings and class discussions; short essays.
Critical Essay:
5-6 page
guided argument, in process stages, about a novel, novella, or play
studied in
Unit 2;
the essay refers to 4-5 critical sources (some
provided,
others you include) and documents them as works cited.
Online
Discussion Posts Each week
designated
students contribute short posts &
all
students print them out:
answers to study questions, reflections on class, definitions of terms,
new
ideas not covered in class, connections.
Optional
Connection Report (1-2 pts extra
credit; NOT
in Gradebook):
submit
at any time, by e-mail (in Word)
a 2-page report (w/works cited) about something you find & study on
your
own and can connect to a text we study.
Report on extra readings in our book, a major web site, a film, a
campus/local
cultural event or performance,
or a concept in your discipline (social work, education, psychology,
business...). Selected reports will be posted.
course
objectives
Through
class assignments, students meet 2000-level
literature guidelines and objectives:
1.1 describe and interpret
multiple
works of literature that vary in genre and in historical and/or
cultural
context
1.2 recognize and refer to
features of
various literary genres and selected literary and cultural terms
2.1
describe, analyze, interpret, and
evaluate features of literary texts in several genres, applying
appropriate
literary and cultural terms
2.2 critically analyze and
interpret
relations of a literary text with other texts and with historical and
cultural
contexts
3.1 plan, write, and
revise short
critical essays about literature with good insights and suitable
argument,
organization, evidence, and analysis
3.2 write short critical
essays
about literature that integrate appropriate primary and secondary
sources,
correct documentation, and
standard written English
4.1 develop habits
of mind such as taking
responsibility for work, confidence, cooperation, and
reflection
4.2 experience literature as
an extension
of life experience and appreciate literary study as a means for
intellectual,
aesthetic,
and personal growth and for fostering creativity and social awareness
UNCP Teaching
Standard addressed by the
course:
Standard 1. The teacher candidate commands essential
knowledge and
understandings
of the academic discipline(s) from which school subject matter is
derived and
integrates that knowledge into personally meaningful frameworks.
Class Policies
for Literature Courses
-Submit
in your best work, on time.
If a paper or report must be turned in late, ask in advance. You
may
submit
a
paper/post up to a week late with ½ grade off; 1-2 weeks late loses a
letter
grade; after 2 weeks grade is O.
-Proofread
& let others check : errors or
unclear writing that interfere with
meaning may lower a grade to D.
-Get
help with an assignment-before
its due date-from instructor, class members, friends, the writing
center.
-You
may turn in revision
of a graded
paper/test section, original attached; new grade averages with
original.
-Observe
the Academic Honor Code,
whose principles are strongly endorsed by the ETL department
:
*All tests and papers are
integrated with course content, so you must do your own work to
receive
credit.
*As in ENG 106, give credit
for all notes correctly/MLA form & use “quotation marks” when
you copy.
*Any plagiarism that
is fraud, knowingly presenting another’s work as your own,
means F in
the course.
-
(Mary Helen Walker, 6270) and the
instructor.
All discussions are confidential.