- Autumn 2017
Syllabus Description:
Comparative Literature 362A, with English 337B: World Modernism
MW 12:30-2:30, SAV 132 Professor Leroy Searle
office hours: M, T, W 3:00 PM (in the HUB, ground floor, mezzanine)
Email: lsearle@u.washington.edu
Phone: 206 409 8878
Course web site:
http://uwch-4.humanities.washington.edu/classes/362
This course is primarily a READING and discussion course, examining the development of varieties of 'modernism' from the late 1890s to the present. The scope will include work from Irish, English, German, Turkish, Syrian, Nigerian, and South African writers. There will be brief weekly assignments on assigned reading, including a quiz each week, two short written assignments, and a final examination with questions on assigned reading. The course is not listed as a ‘W’ course. Arrangements can be made individually if you need 'W' credit, by completing a longer term paper on a topic worked out with the instructor.
Joyce, James Dubliners ISBN:-13: 978-0486268
Dover Thrift, 1991
Joseph Conrad Heart Of Darkness ISBN: 13: 978-0486264646
Dover Thrift, 1990
Virginia Woolf To The Lighthouse ISBN: 13: 978-0156907
Harcourt,1989
Robert Musil, Man Without Qualities, Vol 1 ISBN: 13: 978-0679767
Vintage, 1996
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, The Time Regulation Institute ISBN: 13: 978-0143106
Vintage, 2014
Zakaria Tamer, Breaking Knees ISBN: 13: 978-1902932453
Periscope, 2017
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart ISBN: 13: 978-0385474
Anchor, 1994
J.M. Coetzee Disgrace ISBN: 13: 978-0143115
Penguin, 2008