بسم اللة الرحمن الرحيم Elham Al_Bassam SYLLABUS 193/51 N Introduction to
Comparative Literature Office Hours: 12:30-13:30 Monday and Wednesday at the Lounge ( Room
107) (telephone
484110 ext.2411)or at my Office, Telephone 4982945 or Kaifan Campus : ext 2945 Website : elmbsm193.yolasite.com and
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This course aims to introduce students to Comparative Literature through the discussion of a range of different authors, literary genres and themes, through a selection of cultural texts and criticism. Special attention will be given to the wide range of topics possible for comparative study
including languages, cultures, geographies, genres, disciplines, media, histories, etc. Readings may
include Goethe, Wellek and Warren, Said, and Bernheimer, Bhabha, Fanon, among others.
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Course Description and Course Objectives |
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This course aims to introduce students to Comparative Literature through the discussion of a range of different authors, literary genres and themes, through a selection of cultural texts and criticism. Special attention will be given to the wide range of topics possible for comparative study including languages, cultures, geographies, genres, disciplines, media, histories, etc. Readings may include Goethe, Wellek and Warren, Said, and Bernheimer, Bhabha, Fanon, among others.
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1. Learn to understand perspectives & values of this subject 2. Learn techniques & methods used to gain new knowledge in this subject 3. Develop an informed appreciation of other cultures 4. Develop an openness to new ideas 5. Improve writing skills |
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Conduct and Behavior |
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1. Students in classrooms must silence their Mobile Phones. 2. A student absent for any reason is responsible for all work missed . 3. Regular and punctual attendance is required according to the policy of the University of Kuwait. Absences of each student is recorded without exception from the first day of classes, Sunday October 5 , 2008 till the last day of classes ,Thursday January 15 , 2009 .. The student gets the first warning after three hours of absence , the second warning after six hours of absence ,and a failure grade for not sitting for the Final Exam. 4. No make up for student with low grade , including : “F” grade . 5. Grade “I” will not be given when a student has not completed half of the course work . 6. Plagiarism , borrowing someone’s ideas or words, is a serious academic problem. A student is required to cite all outside information; if a student fails to cite, he/she has a low grade in the course , including an “F”. |
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Exams:
Quiz Wednesday March. 30, 2011 7%
Midterm 1 Wednesday April 20, 2011 20%
Mid-term Exam Wednesday May. 25, 2011 20%
Student Presentations Thesis Statement ,topic sentences ,conclusion and references) 6%
Open book Quiz ( Group Exam) 7%
Final Exam As Scheduled by the University (Thursday, June 9, 2011, 03:30 - 05:30 ) 40%
Syllabus : classes start on Monday , February 20 , 2011 and end on Wednesday, June 1, 2011.
1 Definitions of Comparative literature Today and a brief overview of
the discipline’s historical development will take us from Goethe’s idea of Weltliteratur to some recent debates about literature and globalization.
2.Comparative Schools in the 1990s and Comparative Literature and Cultural, translation and Regional Studies .
3.Comparative Literature through the Imperial perspective and the
Post- Colonial Approaches :Edward Fitzgerald’s ‘low opinion’ of Oriental Literature- translator of
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ,a classic poem, Cultural Colonialism as Shakespeare was imported
to the Arab World or India, among Others and Chinua Achebe’s view of Comparative Literature
in the Post- Colonial Era as a ‘ synonym for the narrow, self-serving parochialism of Europe’
4. Edward Said’s Chapter on’ Narrative and Social Space’
5. Jane’s Austen’s Mansfield’s Park and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
as representative of overseas possessions and a West Indian Character
6, Edward Said’s ‘Camus and the French Imperial Experience’
7. Nationalism in Ireland and Egypt and Palestine: James Joyce’s
A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Yeats ’s Poetry on Ireland : Edward Said’s ‘ Yeats and
Decolonization’ Mahfouz’s The Cairo Trilogy and Darwish’s poetry on Palestine: S. Bassnett’s ‘ Gender and Themantics’
8. Antony and Cleopatra : S. Bassnett’s ‘Constructing Cultures : The
Politics of Travelers’ Tales’
9. Othello : S. Bassnett’s ‘Constructing Cultures: the Politics of
Traveller’s Tales’
10. Oral Presentations
11. Comparative Literature and Translation Studies 12. Revision and Student Presentations
Final Exam As Scheduled by the University(Thursday, June 9, 2011, 03:30 - 05:30 ) 40%
Textbooks :
Bassnett, Susan. Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
Said,
Edward W. Culture and Imperialism.
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