Schedule

World Literature
Professor Ryan Flanagan
Fall 2008
Schedule: Sept. 8 - Dec. 22

Course Outline:

Note: Be sure to read the assignments before coming to class. For example, by 9/22 you should have finished reading Plato.
Another note: This schedule is subject to change.

Week One – 9/8

Introduction to each other, to the course, syllabus review.
Presentation schedule.
Discussion about why we read literature. Different functions of literature.
Handout: The Gyges Ring (Plato).
Stephen Dunn's Poem: Story
Michelangelo's Poem
Literature is essentially interpretive
Intro to Gilgamesh, background, etc.

Week Two - 9/15

Presentation
Gilgamesh

Week Three – 9/22

Presentation
Plato - Apology

Week Four – 9/29

Presentation
Aristotle - Poetics (and external selections)
Chekhov - Misery.

Week Five - 10/6

Presentation - Lysistrata, intro and background.
Test on Gilgamesh, Apology, and Poetics.

Week Six – 10/13

Presentation
Aristophanes - Lysistrata
Intro to Dante. Historical background. (if time)

Week Seven - 10/20

Presentation
Dante - Inferno, cantos 1-15

Week Eight - 10/27

Presentation
Dante - Inferno, cantos 16 - Conclusion

Week Nine - 11/3

Finish Inferno
Intro to Prince with Presentation(s)

Week Ten – 11/10

Finish Prince
Test on Lysistrata and Inferno

Week Eleven - 11/17

Presentation
Sophocles - Oedipus the King (Rex)


Week Twelve – 11/24

Presentation
Petronius - The Satyricon
Montaigne - Essays


Week Thirteen - 12/1

Presentation
Test on Oedipus Rex, Montaigne, Prince, and The Satyricon

Week Fourteen - 12/8

Presentations
Everyman
Test on Everyman

Week Fifteen - 12/15

Final papers due
Make-up tests and presentations