English
201-50
Honors World
Literature
Spring 2007
11:00/11:50 MWF Grainger 218; Dr. Lund (Grainger 200; 395-2168; Office
Hours: MW 10:00-10:50; TTR 1:45-2:45; and by appointment). http://www.longwood.edu/staff/lundmc/mlund.html.
Text: Leo Tolstoy, War and
Peace "The Maude Translation" ed.
George Gibian
A Norton Critical Edition, Second Edition. New York: W. W.
Norton, 1996.
January
17:
Introduction:
"Thomas Paine's Pain"
19:
War and Peace Book One
Chapters 1-5 (39 pages)
22:
Homer, The Odyssey Book
I online at
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/h/homer/h8o/book1.html
24:
War and Peace Book One
Chapters 5-16 (52 pages)
26:
War and Peace Book Two Chapters 1-8 (43 pages)
29:
The Odyssey Book XVII
31:
War and Peace Book Two
Chapters 9-16 (35 pages)
February
2:
War and Peace Book Three
Chapters 1-8 (44 pages)
5:
Homer, The Iliad Book Six
online at
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/h/homer/h8i/book6.html
7:
Discussion of Essay # 1.
9:
War and Peace Book Three
Chapters 9-13; Book Four (82 pages)
12:
Kalidisha, The Recognition of Sakunta
Act I online at
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16659
14:
Conferences
16:
War and Peace Book Five (62
pages)
19: Arabian Nights The First Voyage of
Sinbad the Seaman online at
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/b/burton/richard/b97a/
21:
Reports
23:
War and Peace Book Six (57
pages)
26: War and Peace in our
time: military families
28:
Arabian Nights Ali Baba and
the Forty Thieves
March
2:
Essay # 1: Selling the
Long Novel (audio or print)
5:
Cervantes, Don Quixote
Chapters 1-3 online at
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/cervantes/c41d/
7:
Lessons in Literary Criticism
9:
War and Peace; Books Seven and
Eight (103 pages)
* * * Spring
Break * * *
19:
Review
21: Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Read Chamber Chapter 1
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/cao_xueqin/c2359h
23:
War and Peace Book Nine (71
pages)
26: Essay # 2:
The Context of
War and Peace (print); essay format
28:
Reading Day
30:
War and Peace Book
Ten (129 pages)
April
2:
Basho, "Narrow Road of the Interior" (verses 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 21, 23, 27,
43, 44) online at
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~kohl/basho/index.html
4:
Discussion of Essay #3
6:
War and Peace Book Eleven (95
pages)
9:
Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
Chapter 1 (first 14 paragraphs) online at
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/proust/marcel/p96w/chapter1.html
11:
War and Peace the movie
13:
War and Peace Books Twelve,
Thirteen (83 pages)
16:
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0385474547/ref=sib_dp_pt/105-6857517-4802817#reader-link
18: War and Peace the movie
20:
War and Peace Books Fourteen,
Fifteen (85 pages)
23:
Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Chapter One
online at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0307261581/ref=sib_dp_pt/105-6857517-4802817#reader-link
25: Essay # 3: What I'll Say
at Social Events (oral)
27:
War and Peace First,
Second Epilogues (77 pages)
May
4:
Final Exam 8:00-10:30
Course Requirements:
read--before the dates shown--the
material specifically assigned for
discussion (200 points); take short quizzes (average=200 points);
design
an audio production (100 points); complete a research project (200
points); make a presentation (100 points) write an essay final exam
(200 points).
Grading: You should save
all written work from the course for one semester. Grading
scale: 90%=A; 80%=B; 70%=C; 60%=D; less than 60%=F.
Attendance Policy: The
attendance policy for this course is the same as the college policy in
the College Catalog and the Student Handbook. Unexcused absences
for more than 10% of classes may lower a final grade one letter.
Absence, excused and/or unexcused, from more than 25% of classes may be
an automatic F in the course. If the college is open (even in
inclement weather), class will be held. If the college is closed
for any reason, keep reading according to the schedule outlined here.