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Fall semester:
Homer
Herodotus
Sophokles
Aristotle
Dante
Shakespeare
Voltaire
Goethe
Austen
Spring semester:
Tolstoy
Wilde
Joyce
Hesse
Begley
Eliot
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European Literature
Mr. Francis
SHS English Department
European Literature is a chronological survey of European
literature from the classical period to the twentieth century. Students will read, interpret, and
write about texts from a wide-range of genres, each widely considered representative of its era.
The core thematic goal of this course is to explore a portion of the wide-range of cultural
phenomena that have had significant intellectual impact in Europe during
the past three millennia. It seeks to determine how art reflects the culture producing it. Its main
secondary purpose is to challenge and develop student's analytical skills, both as
readers and as writers, in pursuit of a higher mastery of language arts skills.
Students will demonstrate proficiency in writing, especially the literary essay.
They will show an awareness of audience while each working to develop his or her own
unique voice . . .
[Complete syllabus]
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N.B. All readings, reading schedules, and assignments below are
tentative and subject to change.
Course Readings & Assignments:
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![[+=]](./images/Hellas.bmp) Homer's Odyssey (c. 700 B.C.E.)
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Week 1: Books 1-7.
Day 1 Book 1.
Day 2 Book 2.
Day 3 Book 3.
Day 4 Book 4.
Day 5 Book 5.
Day 6 Book 6 & 7.
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Week 2: Books 8-13.
Day 7 Book 8.
Day 8 Book 9.
Day 9 Book 10.
Day 10 Book 11.
Day 11 Book 12 & 13.
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Week 3: Books 14-19.
Day 12 Book 14.
Day 13 Book 15.
Day 14 Book 16.
Day 15 Book 17.
Day 16 Book 18 & 19.
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Week 4: Books 20-24.
Day 17 Book 20.
Day 18 Book 21.
Day 19 Book 22.
Day 20 Book 23.
Day 21 Book 24.
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from Herodotus' Histories (c. 440 B.C.E.):
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excerpt (trans. George Rawlinson)
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complete e-text (trans. George Rawlinson)
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Sophokles' Oedipus the King (c. 430 B.C.E.)
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Day 1 lines 1-526.†
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Day 2 lines 527-953.
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Day 3 lines 954-1310.
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Day 4 lines 1311-end.
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† Penguin Classics edition (trans. Robert Fagles)
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from the Library of pseudo-Apollodorus (trans. J. G. Frazer): selection
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Dante's Inferno
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Day 1 cantos 1-3.
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Day 2 cantos 4-6.
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Day 3 cantos 7-9.
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Day 4 cantos 10-12.
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Day 5 cantos 13-15.
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Day 6 cantos 16-18.
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Day 7 cantos 19-22.
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Day 8 cantos 23-25.
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Day 9 cantos 26-28.
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Day 10 cantos 29-31.
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Day 11 cantos 32-end.
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William Shakespeare's Macbeth (1606):
e-text
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Day 1 1.1-4.
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Day 2 1.5-7.
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Day 3 2.1-2.
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Day 4 2.3-4.
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Day 5 3.1-3.
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Day 6 3.4-6.
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Day 7 4.1-2.
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Day 8 4.3.
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Day 9 5.1-4.
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Day 10 5.5-end.
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![[II]](./images/France.bmp) Voltaire's Candide (1759)
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Day 1 chapters 1-8.
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Day 2 chapters 9-15.
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Day 3 chapters 16-19.
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Day 4 chapters 20-24.
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Day 5 chapters 25-end.
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Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774):
e-text
(trans. R. D. Boylan)
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Day 1 pages 3-15.†
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Day 2 pages 16-31.
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Day 3 pages 31-45.
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Day 4 pages 46-63.
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Day 5 pages 63-76.
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Day 6 pages 77-93.
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Day 7 pages 94-109.
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Day 8 pages 110-125.
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Day 9 pages 125-146.
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Day 10 pages 146-167.
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Handout on Romanticism
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† Vintage Classics edition (trans. Elizabeth Mayer and Louise Bogan)
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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813):
e-text
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Day 1 vol. 1, ch. 1-6.
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Day 2 vol. 1, ch. 7-11.
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Day 3 vol. 1, ch. 12-17.
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Day 4 vol. 1, ch. 18-23.
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Day 5 vol. 2, ch. 1-5 (24-28).
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Day 6 vol. 2, ch. 6-10 (29-33).
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Day 7 vol. 2, ch. 11-14 (34-37).
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Day 8 vol. 2, ch. 15-19 (38-42).
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Day 9 vol. 3, ch. 1-5 (43-47).
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Day 10 vol. 3, ch. 6-10 (48-52).
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Day 11 vol. 3, ch. 11-13 (53-55).
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Day 12 vol. 3, ch. 14-16 (56-58).
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Day 13 vol. 3, ch. 17-19 (59-61).
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Handout on Realism
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Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1877):
e-text (trans. Constance Garnett)
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Day 1 1.1-1.9.
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Day 2 1.10-1.18.
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Day 3 1.19-1.28.
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Day 4 1.29-2.11.
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Day 5 2.12-2.21.
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Day 6 2.22-2.31.
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Day 7 2.32-3.4.
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Day 8 3.5-3.14.
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Day 9 3.15-3.27.
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Day 10 3.28-4.5.
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Day 11 4.6-4.15.
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Day 12 4.16-4.23.
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Day 13 5.1-5.8.
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Day 14 5.9-5.17.
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Day 15 5.18-5.25.
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Day 16 5.26-5.33.
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Day 17 6.1-6.14.
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Day 18 6.15-6.22.
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Day 19 6.23-6.32.
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Day 20 7.1-7.11.
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Day 21 7.12-7.22.
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Day 22 7.23-8.9.
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Day 23 8.10-end.
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Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1895):
e-text
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Day 1 Act 1.
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Day 2 Act 2.
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Day 3 Act 3.
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from The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891): The Preface
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James Joyce's Dubliners (1914):
e-text
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Day 1 "The Sisters"
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Day 2 "An Encounter"
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Day 3 "Araby"
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Day 4 "Eveline"
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Day 5 "After the Race"
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Day 6 "Two Gallants"
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Day 7 "The Boarding House"
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Day 8 "A Little Cloud"
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Day 9 "Counterparts"
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Day 10 "Clay"
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Day 11 "A Painful Case"
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Day 12 "Ivy Day In the Committee Room"
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Day 13 "A Mother"
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Day 14 "Grace"
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Day 15 "The Dead" (pp.183-212)
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Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf (1927):
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Day 1 | pp. 1-22.† | pp. 3-25.‡
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Day 2 | pp. 25-40. | pp. 29-46.
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Day 3 | pp. 40-56. | pp. 46-64.
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Day 4 | pp. 56-66. | pp. 64-75.
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Day 5 | pp. 66-83. | pp. 75-95.
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Day 6 | pp. 83-101. | pp. 95-116.
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Day 7 | pp. 102-18. | pp. 116-35.
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Day 8 | pp. 118-34. | pp. 135-53.
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Day 9 | pp. 134-47. | pp. 153-68.
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Day 10 | pp. 147-64. | pp. 168-88.
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Day 11 | pp. 164-79. | pp. 188-204.
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Day 12 | pp. 179-203. | pp. 204-24.
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Day 13 | pp. 204-end. | pp. 224-end.
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† Picador edition (trans. Basil Creighton)
‡ Bantam edition (trans. Basil Creighton)
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John Donne's Meditation 17 (1624): complete text
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Louis Begley's Wartime Lies (1991):
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Day 1 pp. 3-17.†
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Day 2 pp. 17-29.
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Day 3 pp. 30-45.
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Day 4 pp. 45-59.
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Day 5 pp. 60-75.
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Day 6 pp. 75-88.
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Day 7 pp. 89-104.
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Day 8 pp. 104-122.
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Day 9 pp. 123-138.
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Day 10 pp. 138-150.
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Day 11 pp. 151-171.
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Day 12 pp. 171-186.
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Day 13 pp. 187-204.
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† Ballantine Books edition
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T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922):
e-text
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Day 1 Part I.
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Day 2 Part II.
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Day 3 Part III.
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Day 4 Parts IV & V.
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