World Literature

:Course Objectives
:This course aims at enhancing students ability to
.enjoy the experience of reading world literature understand and respond to literary texts in different forms .and from different countries and cultures
communicate an informed personal response .appropriately and effectively
appreciate different ways in which writers achieve their .effects
experience literatures contribution to aesthetic, .imaginative and intellectual growth
-explore the contribution of literature to an understanding
of areas of human concern.
-recognize local prejudices and enlarge sympathies with
different peoples.
-recognize the rules and techniques of adaptation from
literature to film.
:Suggested Readings
Abulhawa, Susan. Mornings in Jenin. (Arab American)
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass, an American Slave. Written By Himself. (African
American)
Glaspel, Susan. Trifles. (American)
http://www.wolaver.org/literature/trifles.pdf
Gordimer, Nadine. "Once Upon a Time." (South African)
Hugo, Victor. Fight with a Canon. (French)
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Hsun, Lu. "The True Story of Ah Q." (Chinese)
Kafka, Franz. "A Report to an Academy." (German)
Lessing, Doris. "A Sunrise on the Veld", "No Witchcraft for
Sale." (British)
Orwell, George. 1984. 1948.
<https://archive.org/details/ost-english-1984-georgeorwell-1937-dystopia> (British)
Munro, Alice. Boys and Girls. (Canadian)
http://www.giuliotortello.it/shortstories/boys_and_girls.pdf
Woolf, Virginia "The Legacy." (British)

Poetry:
Browning , Elizabeth. "How Do I Love Thee." (British)
Harsent, David. "Icefield " http://vimeo.com/102453849
(British)
Keats, John. "Ode to a Nightingale" (British)
Poe, Edgar Allen. "Annabel Lee." (American)
Shakespeare, William. Sonnet 18.
Tennyson, Alfred. "On Memoriam." (British)
Wordsworth, William. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", "It is
a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free". (British)
Texts For Role Playing: (Optional)
Chekov, Anton. The Boor. (Russian)
Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll's House. (Danish)
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Adaptation from literature to Film: (Optional)

.Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. 1813
.Wright, Joe. Dir. Pride and Prejudice. 2005
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. 1847.
.Zeffirelli, Franco. Jane Eyre.1996
Cunningham, Michael. The Hours. 1998.
Daldry, Stephen. Dir. The Hours. 2002.
Orwell, George. 1984.1948.
Radford, Michael. Dir. 1984. 1984.

Week By Week Plan:

Week 1:
-Why do we Study Literature?
-Elements of Literature.
Week 2:
Figures of Speech
Application: "A Sunrise on the Veld" Doris Lessing, Virginia
Woolf "The Legacy."
Week 3: Application cont. Irony
Hsun, Lu. "The True Story of Ah Q".
Victor Hugo. A Fight with a Canon.
Week 4: Poetry & Film

Love Poetry:
William Shakespeare Sonnet 18.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. "How Do I Love Thee."
Edgar Allen Poe. "Annabel Lee."
The Hours From Page to celluloid

Week5: Identity formation, hybridity and

assimilation
Franz Kafka: "A Report to an Academy ",
".Doris Lessing. "No Witchcraft for Sale
".Nadine Gordimer. "Once Upon a Time

Week 6, 7, 8: Dystopian Literature: 1984 (Novel

&Movie)
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79n/conte
nts.html
Week 6: Part One.
Week 7: Part Two. (Midterm 1)
Week 8: Part 3.
Week 9: Poetry on Nature
William Wordsworth. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", "It is
a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free".
John Keats. "Ode to a Nightingale"
Alfred Tennyson. "On Memoriam."
David Harsent. "Icefield " http://vimeo.com/102453849
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:Weeks 10, 11
(Midterm 2)

.Susan Abulahawa, Mornings In Jenin

:Weeks 12, 13
Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of an American
.Slave Written by himself (parts of the novella)
Week 14: Gender Issues
Glaspel, Susan. Trifles.
Munro, Alice. Boys and Girls.

Course requirements

Componen
t
reading
log

Assessment
Type
Accumulati
ve work,
due every
week
throughout

Duratio
n
-

Description
Week by
week
recording
of
impression
s, ideas,
puzzlement
s etc of
the
assigned
reading +
answering
the reading
questions
provided by
TA. It can
include
some of
the
structural,
grammatic
al or
dramatic
niceties of
specific
works
and/or a
commentar
y on

Weightin
g
%20

mid- 2
terms

Written

One
Hour
Each
7th
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relationship
s between
and among
different
readings.
You can
devote a
section to
record and
define
unfamiliar
terms,
words or
idioms.
Youll
submit it at
the
beginning
of each
week and
before we
read the
text in
class. If you
submit it
by the end
of the
week,
youll lose
40% of the
.mark
Text
20%
analysis
(unseen)

Participati
on and
Class
activities

In-class
activities

week
and 10th
week
(well
take the
average
of the
two
marks)
1)Participat %15
ion in class
discussion.
2)At Least
One of the
following:
-Role
playing
Presentatio
n of
extracurric
ular texts
to
classmates.
-Creative
writing
-Movie Club
(discussion
of movies
adapted
from
canonical
literary
works)
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Group
Presentati
on

-Poetry:
Recital and
Analysis.
**Students
have to
submit a
two-page
(500-word)
report on
their
activity in
the same
week in
which it is
held.
Oral
20
The group
%15
Presentatio minutes will consist
n+ handout
:of
-Director:
will
develop a
list of
questions
that the
group and
the class
may want
to discuss
about the
current
reading. Try
to focus on
large ideas,
themes
and
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patterns.
Come up
with five
questions
at least
that
address the
thematic
and
technical
concerns of
the text.
2- Author
Seeker:
Youll
provide a
brief
biography
of the
author, a
list of his
major
works and
a quick
appreciatio
n of his
importance
as a writer.
3Summarize
r: a one- to
twominute
overview of
the text
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that
conveys
key
points.
4-Character
Catcher:
responsible
for showing
the class
how
character
is
portrayed.
Make a list
of the main
characters
and which
one(s)
change and
how.
5- Theme
Thinker:
Youll
highlight
the main
themes
and how
they are
developed.
Is there a
cultural,
philosophic
al or
ideological
dimension
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to the
work?
6-Time and
Place
tracer: How
the time
structure
complicate
s or adds to
the telling
of the story
and the
sense of
developme
nt of plot
and
character.
How the
setting
(place),
point of
view and
diction help
in
determinin
g the tone
and the
atmospher
e of the
text and/or
reflecting
the
characters.
**Students
have to
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Final Exam Written

(unseen
Exam
text)

hours 2

13

submit the
PPT in the
same week
of the
presentatio
n.
Will have
%30
some
identificatio
ns,
questions
requiring
relatively
short
answers,
and
question(s)
requiring a
.brief essay

:NOTE ON PLAGIARISM
Using anothers work, whether by quoting, paraphrasing or
summarizing without giving full credit to the source, is
considered plagiarism. You cannot use any reference,
article, book, or internet source UNLESS the material is
placed in quotation marks and accompanied by a citation
(Remember that if you can find it on Google, so can we).
This, in addition to any other form of cheating, be it on an
exam or on any submitted material is considered a serious
violation of University codes and ethics. This can result in
serious disciplinary sanctions that begin with losing the
mark of the assignment or exam in question and end with
failing the course in case of persistence.
Attendance:
It's highly important to attend regularly. If you are absent
more than five times, youll have to drop the course.

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