ENGL A161: World Literature Since Renaissance
| Item | Value |
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| Curriculum Committee Approval Date | 03/26/2024 |
| Top Code | 150300 - Comparative Literature |
| Units | 3 Total Units |
| Hours | 54 Total Hours (Lecture Hours 54) |
| Total Outside of Class Hours | 0 |
| Course Credit Status | Credit: Degree Applicable (D) |
| Material Fee | No |
| Basic Skills | Not Basic Skills (N) |
| Repeatable | No |
| Grading Policy | Standard Letter (S),
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| Associate Arts Local General Education (GE) |
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| Associate Science Local General Education (GE) |
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| California General Education Transfer Curriculum (Cal-GETC) |
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| Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) |
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| California State University General Education Breadth (CSU GE-Breadth) |
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Course Description
Read, analyze, and write on important World literary works in translation from the 1650's to the present. Explore the historical, cultural, philosophical, and aesthetic implications of representative works from Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and the Middle East. Formulate and produce written analyses of assigned works. Enrollment Limitation: ENGL A161H; students who complete ENGL A161 may not enroll in or receive credit for ENGL A161H. PREREQUISITE: Enrollment requires appropriate placement or eligibility for Freshman Composition. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC. C-ID: ENGL 145.C-ID: ENGL 145.
Course Level Student Learning Outcome(s)
- Identify significant historical, philosophical, cultural, and aesthetic influences of World literature since the Renaissance.
Course Objectives
- 1. Demonstrate familiarity with important authors, works, genres, and themes for the time period from 1650 to present.
- 2. Identify and examine the philosophical, cultural, mythic, religious, and/or historical elements that are represented in world literature since the Renaissance or that provides a background context for world literature since the Renaissance.
- 3. Analyze and interpret themes found in the literature and intellectual movements of the time period.
- 4. Demonstrate understanding of academic discourse and the conventions of literary analysis.
- 5. Demonstrate comprehension of critical literary analysis, the intellectual movements, and important themes through class discussion, written exams, and essays using appropriate citation format.
- 6. Relate the literary works to their historical, philosophical, social, political, religious, regional, and/or aesthetic contexts.
- 7. Read and demonstrate an understanding of 3 to 4 long works of world literature, supplemented by either more long works or enough shorter works or excerpts of works to constitute an introductory survey course.
Lecture Content
1650-1800 Topics Politics of translation Enlightenment Emmanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason (Germany), Jean-Jacques Rousseau Confessions (France), Voltaire, Micromégas (France) Colonialism Early Colonial Thought and History: Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Spain); Michel de Montaigne, “Of Cannibals” (France); Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Royal Commentaries of the Incas (Peru/Portugal) Fiction: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (England) Slave narrative: Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Nigeria/England) Birth and rise of the novel Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (Spain) Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber (China) Drama Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Faust (Germany); Chikamatsu Monzaemon The Love Suicides at Amijima (Japan); Poetry Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz “Dont Go my Darling. I Dont Want this is End Yet” (Spain); Nguyen Du, The Tale of Kieu (Vietnam); Saib Tabrizi “A Thousand Splendid Suns” (Iran/Persia) Essay and philosophical writing: Volney, Les Ruines, or Meditations on Revolutions and Empires (France); Kâtip Çelebi selected writing on Islamic Law (Turkey) Romanticism European:Novalis, Heinrich von Ofterdingen (Germany); François-René de Chateaubriand, René (France); Friedrich Hölderlin (Germany) Latin American: José Esteban Antonio Echeverría, “ The Slaughter Yard” (Argentina); Antônio Gonçalves Dias, "Canção do exílio" (Brazil) 1800-1900 Topics Industrialization Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (France); Lui E, The Travels of Lao Can (China) Empire Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Facundo (Spain/Argentina); Ghalib “My Tongue Begs for the Power of Speech” (India/Persia); Machemba, “Letter to Major von Wissmann” (Tanzania) Orientalism Gérard de Nerval, Voyage to the Orient (France); Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, West-Eastern Diwan (Germany) Occidentalism Hattori Busho “The Western Peep Show” (Japan); Mustafa Sami Effendi “On the General Conditions of Europe” (Turkey); Najaf Kuli Mirza “Journal of Residence in England” (India) Gender and Women Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati, “Married Life” (India); Higuichi Ichiyo “Childs Play” (Japan); Li Ruzhen Flowers in the Mirror (China); Realism Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot (France); Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (France); Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest (Germany); Leo Tolstoy (Russia); Benito Pérez Galdós (Spain); Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro (Brazil); Mercedes Cabello Llosa de Carbonera, Blanca Sol (Peru);José López Portillo y Rojas (Mexico); Rabindranath Tagore “Punishment” (India) Drama Anton Chekhov (Russia); M.r.n al-Naqq.sh (Lebanon) 1900-today n> Topics Politics of translation Revolutions Resistance Vladimir Mayakovsky selected poems and essays (Russia) ; Cixin Liu The Three Body Problem (China); Mariano Azuela The Underdogs (Mexico) Post-Colonialism Poetry: Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal); Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Martinique); Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados) Novel: Kateb Yacine, Nedjma (Algeria); Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North (Sudan,); Tsitsi Dangerembga, Nervous Conditions (Zimbabwe); Maryse Conde, Désirada (Guadeloupe); Edwige Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory (Haiti); Patrick Chamoiseau, Texaco (Martinique); Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (India) Film: Ousmane Sembène, Black Girl or Xala (Senegal, 1966
Lab Content
1975) Drama: Wole Soyinka (Nigeria); Aimé Césaire, A Tempest (Martinique) Essays/Theory: Ng.g. wa Thiongo, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Kenya); Édouard Glissant (Martinique); Frantz Fanon (Martinique); Edward Said, Orientalism Globalization Novels: Yoko Tawada, The Naked Eye (Japan/Germany); Olga Tokarczuk, Flights (Poland); Samantha Schweblin, Little Eyes (Argentina) Modernity and Modernism Modern Poetry: César Vallejo (Peru); Lu Xun (China), Rubén Dário (Nicaragua); Oswald de Andrade (Brazil); Guillaume Apollinaire (France); Anna Akhmatova (Russia); Constantine Cavafy (Greece); Nazim Hikmet (Turkey); Adonis (Syria/Lebanon); Pablo Neruda (Chile); Octavio Paz (Mexico); Mahmoud Darwish (Palestine) Post WWII Writing Poetry: Paul Celan (German); Ingeborg Bachmann (Austria); Bertolt Brecht (German) Novels: The Stones Cry Out, Hikaru Okuizumi (Japan) Latin American boom Julio Cortázar (Argentina); Carlos Fuente (Mexico); Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru); Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) Development of Magical Realism Influences: Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina); Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo (Mexico) Novels: Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of This World (Cuba); Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (Colombia); Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (India) Fascism Victor Erice The Spirit of the Beehive (Film--Spain); Elfriede Jelinek Lust; Diasporas Elias Khoury, Gate of the Sun (Lebanon/Palestine); Emine Sevgi Üzdamar, The Bridge of the Golden Horn (Turkey/Germany) Fatih Akin Head-on (Film) (Turkey/Germany) Gender and sexualities Marcel Proust Sodom and Gomorrah (France); Keum Suk Gendrey-Kim Grass (Korea)
Method(s) of Instruction
- Lecture (02)
- DE Live Online Lecture (02S)
- DE Online Lecture (02X)
Reading Assignments
Lecture and application of ideas, discussion, instructor feedback on written papers and discussion, peer feedback.
Writing Assignments
The writing and reading assignments cover, but are not limited to, the out oc class work.
Out-of-class Assignments
Students are expected to spend a minimum of 2-6 hours of independent work outside of class, per week, reading the required texts (novels, short stories, non-fiction) and reviewing some secondary sources which comment on the primary sources where appropriate.
Required Writing, Problem Solving, Skills Demonstration
Examination; written analysis of literary works; in class discussion of assigned readings.
Eligible Disciplines
English: Masters degree in English, literature, comparative literature, or composition OR bachelors degree in any of the above AND masters degree in linguistics, TESL, speech, education with a specialization in reading, creative writing, or journalism OR the equivalent. Masters degree required.
Manuals Resources
1. Required De Beauvoir, Simone. The Women Destroyed, latest ed. New York: Pantheon (Random), 1987 Rationale: This is the most current edition of this text, but it is readily available and important option for this class. 2. Required Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary, ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008 Rationale: This is the most current edition of this text, but it is readily available and important option for this class. 3. Required Hamsun, Knut. Hunger, latest ed. Mineola: Dover Publications, 2003 Rationale: - This is the most current edition of this text, but it is readily available and important option for this class. 4. Required Kudera, Milan . The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, latest ed. New York: Harper/Collins, 1999 Rationale: - This is the most current edition of this text, but it is readily available and important option for this class. 5. Required Puchner, Martin editor et. al. Norton Anthology of World Literature Volume D, E, F, Fourth Edition ed. New York: Norton, 2018 6. Required Oe, Kensaburo. A Personal Matter , ed. New York: Grove Press, 1994 Rationale: This is the most current edition of this text, but it is readily available and important option for this class. Internationally acclaimed writer, who won the 1994 Nobl Prize for Literature for this novel. "The Swedish academy lauded Oe for his poetic force". 7. Required Mahfouz, Naguib. The Cairo Trilogy:, ed. New York: Everymans Library, 2001 Rationale: This is the most current edition of this text, but it is readily available and important option for this class. Mahfouz is probably the most famous writer--born in Cairo. 8. Required Darwish, Mahmoud. In the Presences of Absence, 3rd Edition ed. New York: Archipelago: , 2011 Rationale: This is the most current edition of this text, but it is readily available and important option for this class. 9. Required Pamuk, Orhan . A Strangeness in My Mind: A Novel, Reissue Ed. ed. New York: Vintage, 2016 Rationale: This is the most current edition of this text, but it is readily available and important option for this class. 10. Required Neruda, Pablo. he Essential Neruda:Selected Poems Bilingual Edition, ed. San Francisco: City Lights Publisher, 2004 Rationale: This is the most current edition of this text, but it is readily available and important option for this class. 11. Required Farrokhzad,Forugh . Poet of Modern Iran: Iconic Woman, ed. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2010 Rationale: This is the most current edition of this text, but it is readily available and important option for this class. 12. Required Lu Xun. The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun, 1 ed. Penguin Classics, 2010 Rationale: This is the most current edition of this text, but it is readily available and important option for this class.