World Literature

1. COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course aims to develop the students’ communicative and literary competences by exposing them to the world’s renowned literary masterpieces. It will also allow students to connect with the past and to guide them in valuing the values of literature.

2. COURSE OBJECTIVES
This course will equip every student for a phenomenal literary appreciation through exposure to World literature, both classical and contemporary. The students will acquire a global philosophy characterized as pro-people, realistic, and moral.


At the end of this course, the students are expected to:
1. Increase understanding of oriental and classical literature as standards of excellence and a seat of man’s civilization.
2. Identify renowned literary masterpieces of the world
3. Distinguish the unique and outstanding features of the country’s forms and styles in the different literary genre
4. Critique the writer’s stylistics in writing literary pieces
5. Create a portfolio of the world’s most prominent literary works accompanied by the personal reaction of each student

3. METHODOLOGY

Small and big group discussions, lectures, researches, position or reaction papers, composition writing, film showing, fish bowl, concept map, semantic web, outlining, portfolio assessment, and oral reporting

4. MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION

English is the sole medium of instruction in this course.

5. COURSE OUTLINE TIME FRAME
5.1 Literary Genres Week 1
5.1.1 Poetry
5.1.2 Prose
5.2 Aids to the Study of Literature Week 2-3
5.2.1 The Study of Friction
5.2.2 Techniques for the Reading Poetry
5.2.3 Techniques for Reading Drama
5.2.4 Twenty Questions in the Study of Literature
5.2.5 Contemporary Approaches to the Reading of Literature
General Questions for Contemporary
5.2.6 Approaches to Reading Literature
5.2.7 Structuralism
5.2.8 Post-modernism
5.2.9 Feminism Approaches
5.3 Poetry of the World Week 4
5.3.1 Japan: The Haiku (Basho and Buson)
5.3.2 Other Haiku (Anonymous, Issa and Kaga no Chiyo)
5.3.3 China: To My Husband (Hsu Shu)
5.3.4 Riches and Honour (Cheng - Ao)
5.3.5 Question and Answer among the Mountain (Li Po)
5.3.6 A Moonlit Night (Tu Fu)
5.3.7 My Gazing from the Southern Pavilion
While on Sick Leave (Po Chu)
5.3.8 Mongolia: The Scent of Earth (L. Khuushan)
5.3.9 Pakistan: Ghazal No. 9 (M. Iqbal)
5.3.10 Africa: Three Friends (Yoruba)
5.3.11 Love Song (F. Ranaivo)
5.3.12 The Lonely Soul (Armattoe)
5.3.13 Africa (Diop)
5.3.14 Russia: My Country (Lermontov)
5.3.15 Canada: Habitation (Margaret Atwood)
5.3.16 New Zealand: Warning of Winter (M. Bethell)
5.3.17 Haiti: From “Fallen on the Feiald on Splendor”
(Rene Depestre)
5.3.18 India: Excerpt from Ramayana Week 5
5.3.19 Indonesia: Prayer of the Hunger (W. Rendra)
5.3.20 England: Sonnet 116 (Shakespeare)
5.3.21 U.S.A.: J 435 (Emily Dickinson)
5.3.22 From “Song of Myself” (Walt Whitman)
5.3.23 Chile: Poet’s Obligations (Pablo Neruda)
5.3.24 Iran: From Rubaiyat (Omar Khayyam)
5.3.25 Lebanon: The Prophet (Khalil Gibran)
5.3.26 France: Ballad of the Dead Ladies (Francois Villon)
5.3.27 Germany: You are just like a Flower
5.3.28 A Young Man Loves a Maiden (Heinrich Heine)
5.3.29 England: Soliloquy from Hamlet (Shakespeare)
5.3.30 Lord Randall (Traditional Ballad)
5.3.31 Ode to a Nightingale (John Keats)

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION Week 6

5.4 Fiction of the World Week 7
5.4.1 Greece: Orpheus and Eurydice (Myth)
5.4.2 Indonesia: A Folk Tale: Everybody Has His Burden
5.4.3 Vietnam: The Mandarin and the Flower
Festival (Pham Duy Khiem)
5.4.4 England: Orphan (Peter Straughan) Week 8
5.4.5 Israel: The Book of Ruth (The Old Testament)
5.4.6 China: The Incident (Lu Hsun)
5.4.7 Uruguay: The Horse Breaker (J. de Viana)
5.4.8 Mexico: A Letter to God (Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes) Week 9
5.4.9 Ireland (James Joyce)
5.4.10 Australia: A Dill pickle (K. Mansfield)
5.4.11 South Africa: Six Feet of the Country (Nadine Gordimer)
5.4.12 U.S.A. Hills like White Elephants
(Ernest Hemingway) Week 10
5.4.13 The Autopsy (G. Heym)
5.4.14 Hope for the Flowers (Trina Paulus)
5.5 Fiction of the World: Novels/Novelettes (Experts) Week 11
5.5.1 France: From The Little Princess (A. de St. Exupery)
5.5.2 Argentine: Expert from The House of
Spirits (I. Allende)
5.5.3 Japan: From The Temple of the
Golden Pavilion (Y. Mishima)

MIDTERM EXAMINATION Week 12

5.5.4 Spain: Expert from Don Quixote de la Mancha Week 13
5.6 Dramas of the World Week 14
5.6.1 Greece: Medea (Euripides) – A Tragedy
5.6.2 France: Tartuffe Acts 1,3, and 5 (Moliere) – Comedy
5.6.3 Expert from Cyrano de Bergerac
(Edmond Rostand)
5.6.4 India: Story of Shakuntala (Expert from
the play by Kalidasa) Week 15
5.6.5 Russia: A Marriage Proposal
(Anton Chekhov – a Farce)
5.7 The Essay Week 16
5.7.1 England: From Devotions by John Donne
5.7.2 A Literary Critism of Wuthering
Heights (Elizabeth Drew)
5.7.3 Attending a a Greek Play (Sheldon Cheney)
5.7.4 China: Art and Literature (Moa Tse-tung) Week 17
5.7.5 U.S.A. Expert from a Nobel Prize
Speech (Isaac B. Singer)
5.7.6 The Feathers (A narrative essay by Linda Hogan)

FINAL EXAMINATION Week 18


6. COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Attendance/Behavior 10%
Recitation/Seatwork
Assignment 20%
Quizzes/Position Papers
Researches 30%
Major Exams 40%
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Total 100%

For Final Grade:
Prelims 33.33%
Midterms 33.33%
Finals 33.33%

Total 100%