J. Roth

Spring 2008

World Masterpieces 272 Assignments

â = Topics and readings we will cover in class. These are subject to exams, pop quizzes, etc.

Other authors and works listed are open to further research on your part or as assigned.

The Enlightenment, pp. 1-9

â Jean-Baptiste Moliere and Tartuffe (1664), pp. 10-67

â Jean Racine and Phaedra (1677), pp. 159-200

Jonathan Swift and Gulliver’s Travels (1726), pp. 289-340

Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal (1726), pp. 341-347

Alexander Pope and The Rape of the Lock (1717), pp. 347-368

â Francios-Marie Voltaire and Candide (1759), pp. 375-438

The Nineteenth Century: Romanticism, pp. 485-495

â Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Confessions (1781-1788), pp. 496-519

Goethe and Faust (1808), pp. 519-625

â William Blake (1794), pp. 682-693

â William Wordsworth (1798), pp. 693-704 (with additional selections)

â Dorothy Wordsworth and The Grasmere Journals, pp. 705-735

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1816), pp. 736-743

â Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818-1820), pp. 748-754 (with additional selections)

â John Keats (1818-1820), pp. 755-764 (with additional selections)

â Selected Continental Romantic Lyrics (Mid-1800’s), pp. 764-799

â Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1842), pp. 820-843 (with additional selections)

â Robert Browning (1842-1855), pp. 843-856 (with additional selections)

â Frederick Douglass (1845), pp. 856-915

â Walt Whitman (1855), pp. 916-928 (with additional selections)

â Herman Melville and Billy Bud, Sailor (1891), pp. 928-985

â Emily Dickinson (Mid to Late 1800’s), pp. 986-995

The Nineteenth Century: Realism, and Symbolism, pp. 997-1007

Gustave Flaubert and Madame Bovary (1856), pp. 1033-1249

Fyodor Dostoevsky and Notes from Underground (1864), pp. 1250-1327

â Leo Tolstoy and The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886), pp. 1327-1368

Charles Darwin and The Origin of the Species, pp. 1370-1376

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, pp. 1381-1390

Henrik Ibsen and Hedda Gabler (1890), pp. 1407-1466

âAnton Checkhov and The Lady with the Dog (1899), pp. 1486-1502

The Twentieth Century: Modernism and Modernity, pp. 1621-1631

â Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness (1902), pp. 1632-1692

â Sigmund Freud (1905), pp. 1693-1699

â William Butler Yeats (Late 1800’s—Early 1900’s), pp. 1723-1736

Luigi Pirandello and Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), pp. 1736-1780

Marcel Proust and Swann’s Way (1913), pp. 1781-1815

Thomas Mann and Death in Venice (1912), pp. 1816-1869

â Wallace Stevens (Early to Mid 1900’s), pp. 1877-11888

â James Joyce and The Dead (1914), pp. 1888-1921

Virginia Woolf and A Room of One’s Own, pp. 1922-1963

â Franz Kafka and The Metamorphosis (1916), pp. 1964-1999

â T.S. Eliot (Early to Mid 1900’s), pp. 1999-2027

â Anna Akhmatova and Requiem (Mid 1900’s), pp. 2028-2038

â Katherine Anne Porter and Flowering Judas, pp. 2038-2048

William Faulkner (Mid 1900’s), pp. 2067-2095

â Jean-Paul Sartre (Mid-1900’s), pp. 2102-2107

â Jorge Luis Borges and The Garden of Forking Paths (1944), pp. 2179-2188

â Albert Camus and The Guest (1942), pp. 2250-2262

â Doris Lessing and Old Chief Mshlanga (1950-1958), pp. 2292-2304

â Gabriel Gracia Marquez and Death Constant Beyond Love (1970), pp. 2348-2357

â Alice Munro and Walker Brothers Cowboy (1968), pp. 2508-2520

Other Selections as Assigned