Fuck meme trilogies. Design a course syllabus and reading list of 5-6 texts...

Vaporwave: Development of an Internet Culture

La condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir (Jean-François Lyotard)
Simulacres et Simulation (Jean Baudrillard)
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past (Simon Reynolds)
Cyberculture (Pierre Lévy)
Archive.org pages of Veeky Forums.org/mu/
Transcript of a yet to be scheduled interview with avant-gard artist MACINTOSH PLUS

terrible, not cohesive at all
reading list is too long
meh
>interviewing a squizo queer

Science Fiction and Societal Fears:

The War of the Worlds by Welles
We by Zamyatin
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Miller
A Scanner Darkly by Dick
True Names by Vinge
Watchmen by Moore
Submission by Houellebecq

The Italian Joyce - 300
This course will examine Joyce's Italian influences on his work and life and will include a reading of Ulysses (Ulisse) in Italian. Two essays and final exam translating portions of Finnegans Wake into Italian. Students will gain a new appreciation of Joyce

Reading List
James Joyce - Ulisse
Umberto Eco - The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas
Ezra Pound - Letters to Joyce
Dante - Selections from 'Commedia'
English-Italian Dictionary
Verdi - Complete Discography

Improved:

The Little Prince
The Stranger
In the Penal Colony
Family Happiness
Selections from Borges' Labyrinths
Lolita
As I Lay Dying

> tfw graduated but never got to take Science Fiction and Societal Fears cause it was always beyond full

would not take
would take

Cold War Literature:

Early Cold War Paranoia:
Philip K. Dick - Time out of Joint
William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch
John Le Carre - The Spy who Came in from the Cold

Vietnam War:
Tim O' Brien - The Things They Carried
Stephen Wright - Meditations in Green
Michael Herr - Dispatches

Late Cold War/Post Cold War Musings:
Joan Didion - Democracy
William Gibson - Pattern Recognition

if there were room for an extra book, i would add something by pynchon

The American Cis-Gendered White Male:

The Old Man and the Sea
East of Eden
Moby Dick
Inifinte Jest

would take

German Science Fiction at the Start of the Modern Era
Description: It's German, it's Science Fiction, and it's the Start of the Modern Era. Go.

Reading List:

The Black Mirror and Other Stories: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Germany and Austria (Early Classics of Science Fiction)
-To The Absolute Zero of Existence. Kurd Lasswitz
-Malvu the Helmsman. Paul Scheerbart
-Welcome Home. Herbert Franke
-The Black Mirror. Erik Simon
-Hitler on the Campaign Trail in America. Oliver Henkel

The Carpet Makers. Andreas Eschbach

The Glass Bees. Ernst Juenger

Video: World on a Wire (Welt am Draht)

Prerequisites:
None, Knowledge of the German language will be useful.

The Vast Unwashed: The greatness of transmetafiction.

Reading list:

user's diary desu
user's diary desu
user's diary desu
user's diary desu
Hypersphere

Prerequisites: Shitposting 301, Corncobby Chronicles 101, fly fishing.

A+ would retake.

Beatnik Bullshit: Existentialism and Mid-Century America

Reading List:

America & "Freedom"
-selections from Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
-selections from Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
-The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
-selections from Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre

The Beats
-On the Road, Jack Kerouac
-"Howl," "America," "A Super Market in California," Allen Ginsberg
-Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs

The 60s
-"Entropy", Thomas Pynchon
-Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, Richard Fariña
-V., Thomas Pynchon

After the Gold Rush
-"Where the Kissing Never Stops," "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," "The White Album," "On the Morning After the Sixties," Joan Didion

would take this class.

hell i would do a whole class on burroughs alonw

>le condition faggot
shoo, vaporfiend

Tell me more about Black Mirror please. Just started watching the show and like it

The American Novel 1945-1963

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Cannibal by John Hawkes
V by Thomas Pynchon

would not take

would take

Would take, but this does not represent American literature post-ww2 sufficiently. You and I both wish postmodernism was that prominent, but it's not and it was not.

>this does not represent American literature post-ww2 sufficiently.
True. It's more a list of what's good than what is notable, though The Recognitions definitely deserves a spot on both our lists, not just mine.

I basically agree with you but I couldn't possibly lecture on The Recognitions for the amount of time it takes to read it. In a course on Gaddis alone, sure I could. But it doesn't deserve the number of weeks of lectures it demands in this context. Reading it would mean devoting too much attention to one particular thread within a very diverse set of topics.

I see your point, and a course solely about Gaddis would be killer.

Apocalypse and Revelation in Post-War American Literature
Description: A survey course of the apocalyptic narrative in contemporary American literature
Prerequisites: none required

Reading List:

A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M Miller, Jr. (1960)
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut (1963)
The Stand - Stephen King (1978)
Scorch Atlas - Blake Butler (2009)
Lesser Apocalypses - Bayard Godsave (2012)
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel (2014)

This actually is interesting. I would take this class

Book Life

Description: A self-reflecting look at the depiction of writing, reading, and, in particular, academia within novels from the past 120 yrs.

Prerequisites: none, but it's aimed at lit students who want to reflect about their own social roles, or are conflicted about modern academia

Reading List:

New Grub Street - George Gissing
Stoner - John Williams
Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
The Groves of Academe - Mary McCarthy
The Human Stain - Philip Roth

Orwell as a Critic

Description: Pretty self-explanatory, a glance at George Orwell's work as a literary critic, with discussion of his ideological background and bias

Prerequisites: it would probably help if you've already read 2 or 3 of his major works. At least 1984.

Reading List:

"Charles Dickens" - Orwell
>read along with Tale of Two Cities or Pickwick Papers
"Rudyard Kipling" - Orwell
>read along with Kim
"PG Wodehouse" - Orwell
>read along with Thank You Jeeves
"Inside the Whale" - Orwell
>read along with Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer
"Politics vs. Literature" - Orwell
>read along with Swift's Gulliver's Travels

Each time the seminar is given, only 3 or 4 of those combinations will be taught. The final paper will be written independently on one of the combinations that wasn't.

why would anyone take a class concerning orwell as a critic lol

Hispanoamerican literature in the 15th Century. Mostly texts about the conquest of the Americas. The course will examine in a critic light the conquest of what was initially called Indias and later the New World through the text production of major figures involved and their points of view on the conquest enterprise.

Pre-reqs not needed but having studied ancient and medieval/Renaissance lit is desired.

1. Intercaetera by Pope Alexander VI
2. Columbus' journal
3. Relaciones of Hernan Cortes about the conquest of the Mexican empire
4. Relaciones of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca about the disillusion of the conquest efforts
5. Letters of Lope de Aguirre to the King of Spain about rebellion
6. Letters of Pedro de Valvidia about the conquest of Nueva Extremadura and the long lasting war against the natives

i'm signing up for this one.

Orwell is based as fuck.

you really can't have a course like this without slave/post-slave writing. Fredrick Douglas and Phylis Wheatley at a very minimum. The last three on your list are exactly the novels I'd choose.

Fantasy and Literature

Long-maligned and too often incorrectly pigeonholed as "Magical Realism" (which is a distinct literary movement, and not an umbrella term), tales of alternate realities and magic have a rich and thriving history in literature. This course will examine a sample of contemporary iterations, all written by some of the most successful and lauded authors of our time. This is an introductory course, with no prior coursework necessary for enrollment.

The Dwarf, Knausgaard
Waiting for the Barbarians, Coetzee
The Hundred Brothers, Antrim
The Plot Against America, Roth
The Antelope Wife, Erdrich
Grendel, Gardner

If I knew Italian, sure.

> doesn't include Disgrace
yeah i'd take it anyway

I'd take the shit out of it.

A Study of Books I Read a Million Times in College and Have Ceased to Care About

Canterbury Tales
Macbeth
Heart of Darkness
The Inferno
Faustus

Though I will say, I do really enjoy the last three, its just that I've examined them so many times I've ceased caring

you're tripfag nobody cares

>no Ralph Ellison

Australian Poetry, 1968-present

John Forbes - collected poems
Chris Wallace-Crabbe - my feet are hungry
John Kinsella - peripheral light
Australian Poetry Now Anthology (ed. Thomas Shapcott)
The Best 100 poems of Les Murray
Kevin Brophy - walking

Any good books on black authors but written by white authors?

Extraterrestrial Life in Fiction

Stories by Bradbury, Calvino, Butler, Merril, and probably some others
The Blazing World, Margaret Cavendish
The War of the Worlds, by HG Wells
The Man Who Fell to Earth, by Walter Tevis
The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula Le Guin
The Three Body Problem, by Cixin Liu

>On The Road by Jack Kerouac

Such a bore when you could subscribe to better beats than that.

I agree but I think On the Road is the correct choice for that user's hypothetical syllabus.

Eastern versus Western culture in the Japanese novel

Ogai Mori - The Wild Geese
Natsume Soseki - Kokoro
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki - Naomi
Yasunari Kawabata - Snow Country
Yukio Mishima - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Extra (non-fiction):
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki - In Praise of Shadows

you probably thought this was funny

not bad but you're missing some essential texts

noice

At my university we had to read books this long/ difficult in a few weeks in just one course, and if you fell behind you had to already be reading the next book on top of it, fuck whatever else was going on in your classes.

Yeah, there'd be some supplemental readings to go along with the six books: excerpts from Frank Kermode's Sense of an Ending, a couple chapters from Zbegniew Lewicki, the second half of the Book of Revelations, and so on. I'm structuring the course to study apocalyptic narrative during the Atomic Age and the post-9/11 era in equal measure, which is why there's a thirty year gap in between books. That and I'm not too big on American post-apoc fiction from the 80s, which is to say not too well-read in that era.

If I could add a seventh book I'd probably stick Cormac McCarthy's The Road right before Scorch Atlas.

We'd also watch excerpts from The Road, Knowing, The Day After, and Independence Day. But I've been percolating with additional texts since I posted that syllabus last night.

Why would you include Snow Country and not Master of Go?

I'd add No Longer Human to that list. East vs. West culture is a pretty strong theme in that novel.

Haven't read Master of Go yet, Snow Country had the theme, both in its plot and in the writing style (combining haiku-like imagery with western literary techniques). Maybe Master of Go has that as well, maybe it even does a better job at it, but I couldn't say yet.

Really? that didn't leave a big impression on me then. It did play a pretty large role in Setting Sun from what I remember.

Why no Bellow?

French literature of thr 19th and 20h Century

Description: We will study the thematic and stylistic changes of French literature through these two centuries as well as their impact on the western world.

"Le Rouge et le Noir" - Stendhal
"Le Horla" - Guy de Maupassant
"Les Fleurs du Mal" - Charles Baudelaire
"Les Illuminations" - Arthur Rimbaud
Excerpts of "À la recherche du temps perdu" - Marcel Proust
"Le désespéré" - Léon Bloy
"Voyage au bout de la Nuit" - Louis Ferdinand Céline
"Extension du domaine de la lutte" - Michel Houellebecque

Good other than the fact that you forgot about Flaubert.

jumping from Céline straight to Houellebecq seems a bit hasty, like you're just going to skip the entire middle of the 20th century?

this... seems like a good place for some beckett

Modernism.
A course that will get students acquainted with the major works of modernism.
Pre-requisite: intelligence

Reading List
Tender is the Night—F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart of Darkness—Joseph Conrad
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man—James Joyce
Poems of T.S. Eliot including Prufrock, The Waste Land and Four Quartets
The Apes of God—Wyndham Lewis
To The Lighthouse—Virginia Woolf
The Cantos—Ezra Pound
Ulysses—James Joyce

(Optional)
Under the Volcano
Finnegan's Wake—James Joyce
Criticism of the Waste Land—F.R. Leavis
The Sound and the Fury—William Faulkner
Selected Poems—Ezra Pound
Selected Poems—Basil Bunting
The Vortex—Ezra Pound
Tradition and the Individual Talent—T.S. Eliot
Ulysses, Order and Myth—T.S. Eliot

And Waiting for Godot—Samuel Beckett

Yeah the main character in No Longer Human drops western cultural references all throughout the novel. He even quotes the Rubiyat at some point. Talks about Hollywood movie stars near the beginning, there are a few other instances I could mention if I can find my notes.

not of historical importance
beats who wrote a prose fiction novel between 1945 and 1963? please do tell

I'm a bit biased, I admit it. I think nobody was as relevant as Céline during and after this period. Maybe I could add Camus or as the other user said, Samuel Beckett.
I knew I forgot someone! Yeah, "L’éducation Sentimentale" would be great.

Yes, let me bring my copy around and post a paragraph at random, as there isn't an e-book of it available yet.

>Fionas my little easterisland girl arent you darling his sunstricken blue eyes themselves wobbling on billowing white kegs of creamy beer, the Lithuanian Christian Golem bearing towerhigh vats of beer in either hand to the thirsty populace By God how can anybody not love the Good Gray Walt, this wobbling granitic slop whose skull rolls down the mountainside guzzling at his own sheep leaping from Cornelius crags, his lean railway track hands slopping over with steel, the vaulting torso reeling from hip to hip, the lowered drawbridge chin hunching down to admit the filthcaked princess Fiona a tenth his size rocked in Walt Whitman Nuri's skyscraping cradle, her crotch diapered by his blanched tongue as he croons with his prick to her, her bland blue eyes blinking itchdiapered babytalk at him ooh give me that itsybitsy hunk of Rexy Rection oooh it fills my whole wittle cwadle up ooooh now you can go to the pwiano and mwake your great bwig pwowuhful mwoosic while I paint my wittle cewamics her hips widening to the length of a musical comedy stage flaring to Miss Jubilee Jordans urging Cornelius you gweat big circus dwayhorse on top of the Atlantic City Steel Pier pwatform you can dwive into my itsybitsy pool PWUNGEPWUNGEPWUNGE but you just make sure you get up in the morning and make our wittle mwuney for the day wont you Cornelius the pwoor gweat bwig things gotta bwe a mwoosical cwopyist he cwopies ten million mwoosical notes a day to mwake us a living dont you Cawnelius

(392-393)

Philip Roth

Description: A two-semester exploration of Philip Roth's major works, with emphasis on his gradual development of themes like masculinity, race, the American Dream and narration itself

Reading List:

-1st Part - The Jester
Goodbye Columbus
Portnoy's Complaint
The Breast
The Profession of Desire
The Ghost Writer

-2nd Part - The Bard
The Counterlife
Operation Shylock
American Pastoral
The Human Stain
Exit Ghost

Where would you recommend a complete newbie start with Roth?

I'm not an English major but I have to ask with ppl choosing larger books like the strand and such, do most English lit classes actually assign so much reading? Like 5 distinct class a semester all requiring hours and hours of reading

If you want a degree in English ya gotta want to read, user.

Anyway, The Stand is a bit of a doorstopper but it's fast and breezy writing. You could easily do 50 pages a night and have it read in two weeks.

Love that part. Were you at all taken aback by the very beginning? I was shocked by how hard it was from the very onset.

What about Zola?

>I'm not an English major but I have to ask with ppl choosing larger books like the strand and such, do most English lit classes actually assign so much reading? Like 5 distinct class a semester all requiring hours and hours of reading

Who is this course aimed at?

- Why read inter caetera? You will need a lot of cointext to get anything out of it.

- Nothing from the Valladolid debate? reading de las Casas and Sepulveda both would make a great introduction to a course on the period.

But That's Forbidden Love!

Wuthering Height by brontë
Funeral Rites by Genet
Mme Bovary
Story of the Eye
Excerpts from Ulysses
Confessions of a Mask

ENG469 - "Infinite Jest" w/prof. Graniel Macintosh-Truong
A course dedicated to the study of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Syllabus:
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

whew lad

wait what?

Where is Balzac, you troglodyte?

No Lucky Jim? For shame. Disgrace is relevant, but not nearly as good.

I'll be quite frank and say it took me a solid three days of rereading the first twenty pages until I could digest it. The geography still alludes me. But gosh, butterflies! I love his vividness!

>a small moth, making a mild twang against the summerscreen, becomes a slate folded wingclip against the metal mesh [...] sussurating into blue, scutiform, yellowtipped the Philadelphia

It really bought me, he has a distinct SoC style - even if it is patently derivative of Joyce and Beckett. I wonder what Ice Never F reads like.

Possession too.

Perspectivism, literature, and film

Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
"13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens
"Variation" by Robert Creeley
Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa
Immortal Beloved by Bernard Rose

Nabokov
A course focusing on the works of Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov

Invitation to a Beheading
The Gift
Lolita
Pale Fire
Ada, or Ardour
Poems

Introduction to Africa
>Heart of Darkness-Conrad
>African Trilogy-Achebe
>Half of a Yellow Sun-Adichie
>Cry the Beloved Country-Paton

Behead All Satans
The Tainted Turd
Tinker Pan

Meiji period Literature and its Influences

Description: This course will focus Japan's shift from an isolated, eastern society to a globalized, westernized society and the effects of this on Japanese literature. The works will focus on themes of change, loss, loneliness, and beauty. The use of satire will also be highlighted, to show how these individual feelings reflect on the society at large. The class will end with two works that reflect these concepts in later Japanese literature.

Prerequisites: At least one World Literature course, World History II (a basic survey understanding of the time period involved in this course).

Reading List:

Part I: Meiji Literature

-Drifting Cloud, Futabatei Shimei

-The Wild Geese, Mori Ogai
-"The Dancing Woman", Mori Ogai
(This portion of the course will conclude with a trip to see Madama Butterfly, for students to compare with Ogai's "The Dancing Woman").

-I am a Cat, Natsume Soseki
-Kokoro, Natsume Soseki

Part II: Influenced Works

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
-Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

Well, me and ended up writing generally the same type of course. It's a shame this one isn't really popular at all in universities.

Principles of Individualism

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche
The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
The Ego and His Own by Stirrer
Civilization and Its Discontents by Freud

The goal of the course is to try and undo the altruistic brainwashing of modern society, or at least chip away at it.

>No Ralph Elison
>No There Eyes Were On God
>No Cane

Otherwise, good list.

Sure, but you described it better. I'd take the fuck out of your course.
"East v West" is a cliche. "Meiji Period Literature" tells me what I need to know. I just so happened to have Asia as my History HL option in high school, so this syllabus looks dank as fuck.
>tfw you will never be a depressed Sat-Cho desk jockey muttering "we wuz warriors n sheit" while stamping paperwork and daydrinking

I'm actually going through the measures to become a college professor, so I've become pretty good at writing up basic syllabi. I'm in American Studies though with a concentration in Political Science, so I want to teach Political Science courses through the angle of a time period's corresponding literature as a complement.

Thank you for the compliments though homie.