ENGL 3413

World Literature

 

Syllabus  

 

Assignments

      

Unit 1: The Ancient World

 

       Unit 2: The Middle Ages through the Eighteenth Century

 

       Unit 3: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

 

Outside Reading

 

       Outside Reading from Textbook

 

       Outside Reading NOT in Textbook      

 

Extra-Credit Performances

 

Study Guides 

      

1: Homer, Sophocles, Aristotle

 

2: Aristophanes, Plato

 

3: Virgil, Ovid

 

4: Confucius, Chuang Chou, Bhagavad Gītā

 

5: Sappho, Catullus

 

6: Koran, Dante

Chart of Dante’s Divine Comedy [PDF file]

 

7: The Thousand and One Nights, Boccaccio

 

8: Machiavelli, Montaigne  

 

9: Cervantes, Molière  

 

10: Voltaire

 

11: Goethe, Tolstoy 

 

12: Ibsen, Chekhov 

 

13: Night Chant, Proust, Kafka  

 

14: Akhmatova, Mahfouz, Kojima