E316N:

Instructor: Brian Doherty

bfd@austin.utexas.edu
10:30-12
Unique Range: 33005-33040/ 34525-34560

Office in Parlin 326.

Hours: M: 12:15-1:45/ T:
Phone: 471-8798

Texts: The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Puchner, Martin, ed. Third Edition,
Volumes D-E-F. (It is essential that students have the Third Edition.)
Requirements & Grading:
Attendance, participation in TA led discussions
10%
Test one: Enlightenment through Realism
20%
Test Two: Global Modernisms
20%
Essay on second set of readings (3-4 pages)
20%
Final exam covers all material since second test
30%
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Description:.
Global Modern Literature
The course will be run in four sections. The first will be reading in literary periods
from The Enlightenment through Romanticism and Realism. The second will continue
the historical sequence into Modernism, then do some reading in how modernism can
be thought of as a global phenomenon. A third section will explore issues in Africa
and the African diaspora. A fourth section will cover texts from South Asia.
The bulk of the reading will consist of substantial shorter works, from poems to short
stories, shorter novels and plays. From the canon of literature to which the students
will be exposed, perceptive readers will gain an appreciation of why literature is an
essential response to the modern world. It is hoped that the course will be an
incitement to a lifetime of sustained literary engagement on a high level.
Prerequisites: One of the following: E 603A, RHE 306, 306Q, or T C 603A.
Plus and minus grades will be used in the class. A = 93-100; A- = 90-92.9; B + =
88-89.9; B = 83=87.9; B- = 80-82.9; C+ = 78-79.9; C = 73-77.9; C- = 70-72.9; D =
65-69.9. Below 65 = F.
Please be aware of University policies and services for students with
disabilities: http://www.utexas.edu/diversity/ddce/ssd/
Please be aware of the University Standard for Academic Integrity:
http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sjs/acint_student.php

Schedule of Readings:
January 21: Introduction to course. Policies. Grading. Expectations. Goals.
23: The Enlightenment in Europe and the Americas and What is
Enlightenment. (D/ 91-104).
26: Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism, to the end of The Old Womans Story
(chapter 12) (D/ 352-373).
28: Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism, to end of chapter 25 (373-404).
30: Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism, to conclusion (404-413).
February 2: Before Candide was a gleam in its authors eye, there was another
traveller, who faced different obstacles. . . from Ihara Saikakus Life of a Sensuous
Woman.

4: Representative British Romanticism. William Wordsworth, Lines

Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey and The World is Too Much with Us (E/
351-54, 359). John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to a Nightingale (41013).
6: Precursor to French Symbolism: Charles Baudelaire. To the Reader
through The Carcass. Song of Autumn through Spleen LXXXI (E/ 466-72, 47476.)
9: A representative of Realism: Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyitch.
Chapters I-IV (735-60).
11: Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyitch. To conclusion (760-78).
13: Test Number One.
16: Modernity and Modernism, 1900-45 (F/ 3-13). Introduction to T.S.
Eliot (537-41).
18: T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, and The Waste Land, parts
I and II (541-50).
20: Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, chapters 1-2 (84-95).
23: Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, (95-122).
25: Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, chapter 5 (122-38).
27: Comparative Modernism. Tanizaki JunIchiro, The Tatooer (78-84).
Kawabata Yasunari, The Izu Dancer (322-335).
March 2: Lao She, My Innocent Uncle (417-30) and Zhang Ailing, Sealed Off
(497-506).
4: On the way to the Postmodern. Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search
of an Author. (260-80).
6: Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author. (280-303).
9: Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of the Forking Paths (487-97).
11: Test Number Two.
13: Africa and Africa DiasporaIntroduction. Africa, Savages, and The
Slave Trade in The Encyclopdie. (D/ 114, 124-25). Introduction to Olaudah Equiano
(E/ 73-76).
22: Sunday at the Movies. Twelve Years a Slave.
23: Discuss film and Equiano, Chapter II, and from Chapter III (86-98).
25: Orature and its Omportance. Three Anansi Stories to Malagasy Wisdom
Poetry (927-941). Birago Diop, The Humps (in pdf form on Canvas).
27: Ngugi w Thiongo, Wedding at the Cross. (1037-1049).
30: Chinua Achebe, Chikes Schooldays (825-830) and Girls at War
(http://www.uaf.edu/files/english/girls_at_war.pdf).
April
1: Wole Soyinka, Death and the Kings Horseman. Scenes One and Two
(1049-70).
3: Wole Soyinka, Death and the Kings Horseman. To conclusion (1070-98).
6: Ama Ata Aidoo, Two Sisters (993-1004) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
Birdsong (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/birdsong-2).
8: Selections from Aim Csaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land.
(Will be about 20 pages between 599-632selections provided in advance). Essay
prompts handed out in class for essay assignment.
9: Thursday at the Movies. Euzhan Palcys Sugar Cane Alley.
10: Discuss Euzhan Palcys Sugar Cane Alley.

13: Doris Lessing, The Old Chief Mshlanga (716-27).

15: Albert Camus, The Guest (751-63)
17: Hard copy of essays due at class time. South Asia and South Asia
diaspora. No reading for todayinstead, we will screen the Satyajit Rey film of The
Postmaster, from a story by Rabindranath Tagore. Notethe film is 56 minutes, so I
will have it cued up to past the credits, and we will try to make it within the 50
minutes (but the ending must be experienced. Try as best as you can to arrive early
for this screening.Discuss film, Rabindrinath Tagore, Punishment. (E/893-99).
20: Discuss film, Rabindrinath Tagore, Punishment. (E/893-99).
22: Selected Ghazals from Ghalib, writings of Pandita Ramabai (E/611-24)
24: Premchand, The Road to Salvation, (F/311-22). R.K. Narayan, A Horse
and Two Goats.
26: Sunday at the Movies: Deepa Mehtas Earth.
27: Discussion of film of Earth.
29: Saadat Hasan Manto, Toba Tek Singh (727-35) PDF copy of one other
Manto story.
May
1: Mahasweta Devi, Girabala (1147-65).
4: Salman Rushdie, The Perforated Sheet (1129-44).
6: V. S. Naipaul, One out of Many (1004-29).
8: Last day of class. Questions about final exam answered. Lifetime program
of reading discussed. Awards ceremony.
Final Exam scheduled for Thursday, May 14 from 9-Noon.