SPRING 2003–DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH–UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
DR. IRVING N. ROTHMAN, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH
ENGLISH 3324 DEVELOPMENT OF THE NOVEL
Sections: Tape-04697, Cable-12017, CYFRTV-12018
OFFICE: 232B ROY CULLEN BUILDING, MW 1-3 p.m.& by appt. 743-2962
Mail papers to: Dr. Irving N. Rothman, Department of English, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-3013; include return envelopes and postage to have graded papes returned to you by mail.
READING LIST
The novel as an experiment-allegory to satire–the 18th century
John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress (Part I 1678; Part 2, 1684)–Viking
Penguin
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, (1722)–Norton Critical Edn.
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1759-1767)–Norton Critical Edn.
History and self-awareness–the 19th century
Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (1820)–ANSCO Press
Stendahl (Marie Henri Bayle), The Red and the Black (1831)–Norton
Critical
Herman Melville, Redburn (1849)–Doubleday Anchor A118
The voices of civilization–the 20th century
Franz Kafka, The Castle (1926)–Shocken
Gertrude Stein, Ida (1941)–Vintage
Larry McMurtry, Leaving Cheyenne (1963)–Viking/Penguin
John Wideman, Hiding Place (1981)–Vintage
READING SCHEDULE:
WEEK OF:
| JAN | ||
| M 13 | Introduction, Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress | |
| M 20 | Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress | |
| M 27 | Defoe, Moll Flanders | |
| FEB | ||
| M 3 | Defoe, Moll Flanders | |
| M 10 | Sterne, Tristram Shandy | |
| M 17 | Sterne, Tristram Shandy | |
| M 24 | Scott, Ivanhoe | Critical essay, 3-5 pp due. |
| MARCH | ||
| M 3 | Spring Vacation | |
| M 10 | Stendahl, The Red and the Black | |
| T 17 | Stendahl, The Red and the Black | |
| Mid-Term Examination | On WebCt March, TH/F 20-21 | |
| T 24 | Melville, Redburn | |
| W 31 | Kafka, The Castle | 5-point sentence outline.due |
| APRIL | ||
| M 7 | Kafka, The Castle | |
| M 14 | Stein, Ida | |
| M 21 | McMurty, Leaving Cheyenne | Research paper (10-12pp.) due |
| M 28 | Wideman, Hiding Place | |
| W 7 | Final Examination, 7-10 p.m. (last 5 books only) | 105 Roy Cullen & remote sites, as needed |
On each of the examinations, students may choose to exempt one novel from the examination–their choice. The mid-term and final exams will be proctored off campus for those who take the exam at distant sites.