FL/ENG 220 (Great Works of Western Lit)
M. Fosque

Course Schedule Summer




Week 1

May



Introduction, background. Read Introduction 3-9;
Read The Story of Gilgamesh

 

Gilgammesh
The Bible” Introduction 48-52; Genesis 52-60






Read Ancient Greece and Homer 87-100, The Odyssey
The Odyssey






The Odyssey
continued

 

The Odyssey finish





Week 2
May

 


Memorial Day Holiday


Read Sophocles Antigone

 



finish Antigone, Aristotle 520-524,review mythology, begin The Aeneid
Read The Roman Empire 627-631,and Virgil 636-639



QUIZ; The Aeneid II and IV


The Aeneid VI VIII

 




Week 3

June



finish The Aeneid
Ovid 683-684, The Metamorphosis


Read “The Bible” 708-709, The New Testament
Europe 951-953, Dante 1010-1017, The Inferno





The Inferno continued


The Inferno
finish; PAPER DUE Thursday 7th


Read The Renaissance in Europe 1475-1481, Shakespeare 1629-1633, Read Hamlet Acts 1 and 2

 

 



Week 4
June


Midterm Exam
Hamlet Act 3


Hamlet Acts 3 and 4




Hamlet
Acts 4 and 5





Hamlet finish
Read Revolution and Romanticism 2137-2147, Rousseau The Confessions
Blake 2264-2272

QUIZ; Read Dickinson 2313-2322, poems
Read Tolstoy 2432-2436, The Death of Ivan Ilyich





Week 5
June




Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Read Rilke 2714-2717, poems





Read Proust 2674-2679, Swann’s Way, Overture


Proust Swann’s Way, Overture





Read Kafka 2746-2749, The Metamorphosis


Kafka The Metamorphosis; PAPER DUE Friday 21st





Week 6




Exam: Monday 24 June 1:00 pm