English 2130: World Literature III, Developments in Modern Thought
Section F & K, Fall 2008

PDF Syllabus: Sections F and K
MS Word Syllabus
Syllabus Update: November 7, 2008

• Section K Comprehensive Final Exam: Thursday, December 11^th at 10:15 to 12:15.
  

• Section F Comprehensive Final Exam: Thursday, December 11^th at 2:45-4:45.

1. How to read literature critically (and do better on quizzes and exams).

2. How to take an essay exam.

3. How to respond to short answer questions on an exam.

Class Lecture handouts.

1660-1779:
Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, "Reply to Sor Filotea"
Matsuo Basho, "The Narrow Road of the Interior"
Ueda Akinari, "Bewitched"

1750-1899:
Jean Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
J. W. Goethe, Faust (680-726)
J. W. Goethe, Faust (726-80)
William Blake, Selected Poems (780-89)
Walt Whitman, Selections from Leaves of Grass (980-91)
Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (920-80)
Realism / Naturalism Notes

• Helpful Link to Dr. Paul Brians's Study Guide on Realism / Naturalism and Flaubert.

Gustave Flaubert, Mme. Bovary, Study Guide
Gustave Flaubert, Mme. Bovary, Study Questions
Gustave Flaubert, Mme. Bovary, Final Study Questions
Fyoder Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (1301-79)
Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal (1380-1391)

How to Study for the Second Exam

Twentieth-Century

All Quiet on the Western Front, study guide
All Quiet on the Western Front, film reviews
Lecture: War, Disease, and the Changing Nature of Global Interaction
Thomas Mann, A Death in Venice (1836-1866)
Thomas Mann, A Death in Venice (1866-1890)
Wallace Stevens, (1899-1907)
Richard Wright, "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" (2518-2527)