ENGL 313A -- Spring Quarter 2012

MOD EUROPE LIT TRNS (Modern Eurpoean Literature in Translation) Popov MW 1:30-3:20 13470

This course will introduce you to celebrated novelists, poets, and playwrights whose works probed the modern condition and defined modern esthetic values in Europe from the mid-nineteenth century through the aftermath of World War II. Reading List: Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil & Paris Spleen. (Dover Thrift) Flaubert, Sentimental Education. (Penguin Classics) Ibsen, Ghosts. (Dover Thrift) Kafka, The Trial. Tr. by Breon Mitchell. (Schoecken) Beckett, Endgame. (Grove) Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. (NAL Trade) Requirements and Grading: final = 2 grade units; mid-term = 1 grade unit; quizzes, attendance, and participation = 1 grade unit. All students must read Sentimental Education before the first meeting.

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