readings, discussions, lectures

Very important note: all assigned readings are required! Do not just do one or two items when several are listed; your discussions should demonstrate you've done all of the reading. If not, you will not earn full points.

Readings are to be done ASAP during the weeks in which they are listed below.
Click on the discussion, and lecture links each week to go to that week's discussions and lecture.

Some lectures are more than one page long; if there is a link at the bottom of a lecture page that says "click here," click on that link to get to part II or part III of a lecture; don't forget to read those additional pages.

Look at information on paper topics well in advance of paper due dates.

WEEK 1 (2/6-2/10) Reading:

IMPORTANT!before the first day of the semester e-mail me at: jrcorbally@gmail.com.

  • Candide
WEEK 2 (2/13-2/17) Reading:
  • Candide (continued)
WEEK 3 (2/20-2/24) Reading:
  • The Sorrows of Young Werther
Note: also read discussion of Kant's "Antinomies of Reason" in the Online Readings
WEEK 4 (2/27-3/2) Paper 1 (due 3/2, Friday) Reading:
  • The poetry of Heine and Hugo (read the varioius poems in the text)
Note: also read in the Online Readings
WEEK 5 (3/5-3/9) Reading:
  • "The Queen of Spades"
WEEK 6 (3/12-3/16) Reading:
  • "A Simple Heart"
WEEK 7 (3/19-3/23) Reading:
  • Woyzeck
WEEK 8 (3/26-3/30) paper Paper 2 (due 3/29)
This is a Thursday; Friday is a holiday 		Reading:
  • The poetry of Baudelaire (read the varioius poems in the text)
Note: also read in the Online Readings
WEEK 9 (4/2-4/6)
  • SPRING BREAK
NO CLASSES (we come back on 4/10)
WEEK 10 (4/9-4/13) Reading:
  • Six Characters in Search of an Author
WEEK 11 (4/16-4/20) Reading:
  • Metamorphosis
Note: I recommend you watch the movie Kafka;
however, it is hard to find (it's on VHS)
WEEK 12 (4/23-4/27) paper Paper 3 due (4/27, Friday) Reading:
  • The poetry of Rilke, Akmahtova, Lorca (read the poems in your text)
WEEK 13 (4/30-5/4) Reading:
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour
Note: I recommend you rent and watch the movie
WEEK 14 (5/7-5/11)
 Reading:
  • "The Garden of Forking Paths"
  • "Death Constant Beyond Love"
Note: also read analysis of "Death Constant Beyond Love" in the Online Readings

Note: I recommend you rent and watch the movie Run Lola Run
WEEK 15 (5/14-5/18) Reading:
  • Eye in the Sky
WEEK 16 (5/21-5/25)
  • no lecture
  • no discussion
paper Paper 4 (due 5/25, Friday) 		Reading:
  • Use this time to finish Essay 4
WEEK 17 (5/28-5/29) Reading:
  • Final Week
No late essays or revisions accepted after Tuesday 5/29