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Division of Humanities Course Syllabus Course Code: HUMA 2200 Course Title: Masterpieces of World Literature Course Offered in: Fall 2016 Course Instructor: Dr. Heidi HUANG ([email protected] ) Teaching assistant: Mr. YUE Huanyu ([email protected] ) Time: Tuesday & Thursday 12:00 – 13:20 Venue: 1104 Course Description: This course will introduce the basic concepts and approaches in world literature studies and explore the production, translation, and circulation of representative pieces of world literature. It will focus on the dialogues across diverse linguistic, cultural and national contexts and encourage the students to develop emotional and activity-based relationship with the texts in their reading. Course Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs): Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to: 1 identify two or three fundamental concepts of world literature; 2 demonstrate working knowledge of two or three approaches of world literature studies; 3 apply these approaches of world literature studies to the appreciation of representative texts in a comparative context; 4 develop emotional and activity-based with texts as part of their reading; 5 argue, in a convincing and persuasive analysis, an original finding about an assigned research topic not less than five pages in length. Course outline (weekly meetings and readings) Week Dates and readings 1 Sept. 1 st - Introduction: What is world literature? Reading: Damrosch, What is World Literature? (excerpts)

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Division of Humanities Course Syllabus

Course Code: HUMA 2200 Course Title: Masterpieces of World Literature Course Offered in: Fall 2016 Course Instructor: Dr. Heidi HUANG ([email protected] ) Teaching assistant: Mr. YUE Huanyu ([email protected] ) Time: Tuesday & Thursday 12:00 – 13:20 Venue: 1104 Course Description: This course will introduce the basic concepts and approaches in world literature studies and explore the production, translation, and circulation of representative pieces of world literature. It will focus on the dialogues across diverse linguistic, cultural and national contexts and encourage the students to develop emotional and activity-based relationship with the texts in their reading. Course Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs): Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to:

1 identify two or three fundamental concepts of world literature;

2 demonstrate working knowledge of two or three approaches of world literature studies;

3 apply these approaches of world literature studies to the appreciation of representative texts in a comparative context;

4 develop emotional and activity-based with texts as part of their reading;

5 argue, in a convincing and persuasive analysis, an original finding about an assigned research topic not less than five pages in length.

Course outline (weekly meetings and readings)

Week Dates and readings

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Sept. 1st - Introduction: What is world literature? Reading: Damrosch, What is World Literature? (excerpts)

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Sept. 6th and 8th - Introduction (ctd.): various approaches in world literature studies Holquist, Michael. Dialogism: Bakhtin and His World. London and New York: Routledge, 1990. 13-37. Huang Yu, “Constellating World Literature”

Unit One: Transnational and translational exchanges

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Sept. 13th & 15th Lu Xun, “Diary of a Madman” (1918), trans. Julia Lovell Supplementary materials: two English translations of “Kuangrenriji” by Gladys Yang

and William A. Lyell respectively

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Sept. 20th & 22nd Nikolai Gogol, “Diary of a Madman” (1835), trans. Claud Field

5 Sept. 27th & 29th Edgar Allan Poe, “The Man of the Crowd” (1840)

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Oct. 4th & 6th Selected poems from Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil (1857), trans. & ed. Marthiel and Jackson Mathews. (“Benediction”, “To the Reader”, “Beauty”, & “A Carrion”, http://fleursdumal.org/poem/126 )

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Oct. 11th & 13th Li Bai, Selected poems & Ezra Pound, Cathay (1915)( “Yujieyuan/玉階怨” & “The Jewel Stair’s Grievance”; “Chang’ganxian/長干行” & “The River-Merchant's Wife: A

Letter”); Selected poems of Pound (“In a Station of Metro”, “A girl”)

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Oct. 18th (Tuesday) - Experiential learning activity Oct. 20th (Thursday) - Mid-term quiz

Unit Two: Cross-cultural and cross-media circulation

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Oct. 25th & Oct. 27th Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) (excerpts) Supplementary material: (Self)-portraits in Western painting (Rembrandt, Van Gogh, &Picasso)

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Nov. 1st & 3rd Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925)(excerpts) Supplementary material: The Hours (A film by Stephen Daldry, 2002)

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Notes: *This syllabus is subject to change based on the needs of the class. *Subject to copyright restrictions, the course reading materials will be uploaded to the online learning space and distributed to the students in class. Planned Assessment Tasks:

Type of

Assessment

Weighting

CILOS to be

addressed

Description of Assessment Tasks

Participation 10% 1,2,3,4,5 Based on the student’s participation in

in-class activities such as discussion.

Group

presentation

10% 1,2,3 Students will make a short presentation

on assigned literary texts, in which they

analyse the work in terms of its

structure, style, function and

significance.

Experiential 10% 3,4 Each group of students will conduct a

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Nov. 8th & 10th Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way (1913), trans. Lydia Davis. (excerpts) Supplementary material: Modern music of Debussy, “Prelude to the Afternoon of A Faun”

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Nov. 15th & 17th Liu Yichang, “Intersection” (short story), trans. Nancy Li Supplementary material: In the Mood for Love (A film by Wong Kar-wai, 2000)

13 Nov. 22nd & 24th Group presentation of ELA outcome: – “Local intersections”

14 Nov. 29th (Tuesday) Revision and conclusion: toward a world literary dialogism

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Learning

Activity

trip to selected sites of cultural interests

and produce a multi-media video clip

that features the cross-cultural dialogues

in the local cultural space.

Mid-term quiz 30% 1,2,3,4,5 Answer TEN (2 points for each

question) questions about the facts,

information issues about the selected

literary works, and answer ONE short

essay question (10 points) that aims to

encourage students’ imaginative and

critical reading.

Final examination

40% 1,2,3,4,5 Answer TWO essay questions (20 points

for each question) to test students’

knowledge of world literature studies,

and their ability to analyze the literary

texts.