English 210 – Intro to European Lit

Fall Quarter 2006

Instructor: Pauline Christiansen

Office: R230 H

Office Phone: 2104

 

 

 

DESCRIPTION OF COURSE

 

 

 

An informally presented reading-discussion on modern European writers showing the philosophies behind the works and impact on the modern world

 

EVALUATION TECHNIQUES

 

1.

Series of announced quizzes (plot level and identification of characters) on works read.

 

2.

Equally weighed mid-term (identification and discussion of ideas and style in selected reading excerpts) and optional final.

 

3.

Outside papers (5-7 pages) on modern European writer of your choice.

Sample list of BOOKS USED:

 

 

Selected Short Stories covering a variety of major European writers from Russia, Italy, France, and other countries.

 

 

Kafka, METAORPHOSIS AND OTHER STORIES

 

 

Turgenev, FATHERS AND SONS

 

 

Dostoyevsky, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, W.W. Norton

 

 

Dinesen, SEVEN GOTHIC TALES, (author of Out of Africa)

 

 

Jean-Paul Sarte, NO EXIT AND THREE OTHER PLAYS, Vintage (Random House)

 

 

Ionesco, FOUR PLAYS, THE BALD SOPRANO, THE LESSON, JACK OF THE SUBMISSION, THE CHAIRS, Grove Press (Random House)