ENGL 2003: Intro to World LiteratureDr. Scott O'Neil
Fall 2021 Online, Asynchronous Format Lectures uploaded twice weekly |
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Week One
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Welcome chat
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8/18 Lecture: Literature in Translation. World Lit by way of Star Trek.
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Week Two
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8/23 Lecture: Japanese Haiku and Zen Buddhism
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8/25 Lecture: How to complete the first assignment (on Haiku)
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Week Three
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8/30 Lecture: Russian Short Fiction--Anton Chekhov
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9/1 Lecture: Russian Short Fiction--Leo Tolstoy
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Week Four
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No Lecture on 9/6 (Labor Day).
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9/8 Lecture: Russian Short Fiction--Gogol's "The Overcoat."
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Week Five
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9/13 Lecture: Dostoevsky's "A Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree"
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9/15 Lecture: How to complete the second assignment (on Russian short fiction)
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Week Seven
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9/28 Lecture: The African Continent--Things Fall Apart part 1
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9/30 Lecture: The African Continent--Things Fall Apart part 2
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Week Eight
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10/4 Lecture: The African Continent--Yiimimangaliso (see below for videos to watch before watching this lecture)
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10/6 Lecture: France--Guibor part 1
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Yiimimangaliso--The South African Mysteries (in four parts)
Week Nine
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10/11 Lecture: France--Guibor part 2
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10/13 Lecture: How to complete the third assignment (on questions of Faith and gender in world literature)
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Week Ten
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10/18 Lecture: The Middle East--from The Thousand and One Nights, "The Story of the Merchant and the Jinni."
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10/20 Lecture: The Middle East--from The Thousand and One Nights, "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp."
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Week Eleven
10/25-27 Lecture: China--The Monkey King Ch. 1-19
Week Twelve
11/1-11/3 Lecture: China--The Monkey King Ch. 20-36
Week Thirteen
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11/8 Lecture: Latin America--Origins, Magical Realism, Colonialism. Alejo Carpentier's "Journey Back to the Source."
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11/10 Lecture: Latin America--Luisa Valenzuela and Isabel Allende
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Week Fourteen
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11/15 Lecture: International Adaptation--Hamlet and Haider (India--See below for a standard production of Hamlet. Haider is streaming on Netflix)
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11/17 Lecture: International Adaptation--Hamlet and Kozintsev's Hamlet (Russia--see below for Kozintsev's film)
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Below is the Laurence Olivier production of Hamlet. This is a standard, very "English" take on the material. This is our "control group" version of the story, by which we will contrast the Indian, Russian, and Chinese versions, respectively. In 6 parts:
Below is Grigori Kozintsev's version of Hamlet. Kozintsev was a theater and film director in Soviet Russia. He directed several Shakespeare productions, including King Lear and this production of Hamlet, which is largely considered to be among the very best versions of the play ever produced. In 5 parts.
Instructions for the "Final Project" (ie: the 4th major assignment)
Week Fifteen
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11/22 Lecture: International Adaptation--Hamlet and The Banquet (China--see below for film)
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No second lecture this week. 11/24-11/28 is Thanksgiving Break.
Disclaimer: Do not attempt to put a turkey on your head during break. |
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The Banquet, also called Legend of the Black Scorpion, is a 2006 film that loosely interprets elements of Hamlet, but sets the action in 10th century China near the end of the Tang Dynasty. In 5 parts:
Week Sixteen
No new lectures after Thanksgiving break. This time is better spent working on your final projects and checking in with me if you have questions on those projects.