Course: Contemporary Literature

Instructor: Seyyed Shahabeddin Sadati

 

 

1st Week          Introduction: Significance of the Course

2nd Week        Drama: Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett (movie)

3rd Week         Drama: Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett (text & analysis)

4th Week         Drama: Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett (text & analysis)

5th Week         Poetry: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (Vol. II: pp. 925 – 929)

6th Week         Novel: The Natural by Bernard Malamud (movie)

7th Week         Novel: The Natural by Bernard Malamud (text)

8th Week         Novel: The Natural by Bernard Malamud (analysis)

9th Week         Short Story: “The Kugelmass Episode” (Vol. I: pp. 348 – 358)

10th Week       Short Story: The Purple Rose of Cairo (movie) & “The Kugelmass Episode”

11th Week       Poetry: “Facing It” (Vol. II: pp. 681 – 682)

                        Poetry: “Musée des Beaux Arts” (Vol. II: pp. 944 – 945)

12th Week       Drama: Fences by August Wilson (Vol. III: pp. 1601 – 1658, text & analysis)

13th Week       Drama: Fences by August Wilson (Vol. III: pp. 1601 – 1658, text & analysis)

14th Week       Drama: Fences by August Wilson (Vol. III: pp. 1601 – 1658, text & analysis)

15th Week       Drama: Fences by August Wilson (Vol. III: pp. 1601 – 1658, text & analysis)

16th Week       Review 

 

 

Sources

Arp, Thomas R. and Greg Johnson. Perrine's Literature Structure, Sound, and Sense: Fiction (1). Ninth Edition. Boston: Thomson, 2006.

 

Arp, Thomas R. and Greg Johnson. Perrine's Literature Structure, Sound, and Sense: Poetry (2). Ninth Edition. Boston: Thomson, 2006.

 

Arp, Thomas R. and Greg Johnson. Perrine's Literature Structure, Sound, and Sense: Drama (3). Ninth Edition. Boston: Thomson, 2006.

 

Beckett, Samuel. Waiting For Godot. 1953.

            http://samuel-beckett.net/Waiting_for_Godot_Part1.html

            http://samuel-beckett.net/Waiting_for_Godot_Part2.html

 

Malamud, Bernard. The Natural. 1952.

 

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