Lit 3 syllabus

1. LITERATURE 3
Literature, Society,
Globalization and the
Individual

2. “Life is an Imagination of
sorts, we think of what we
are, we dream of what we would
become, we are then painting
Illusion, the stuff of dreams…it
fades away, it is transitory, it
may be forgotten…but if it is
written, put into text…it
becomes very precious.”—
DAnacion, an Individual

3. Course Description: A
study of various literary
genre as the
imaginative expression
of the individual
writer’s experience
situated thru social
change and
globalization.

4. General Objectives:
To explore and analyze imaginative
Literature in its various forms and
discover the elements of artistry
that characterize each literary
genre.
To examine representative
worldviews in Literary texts and
encourage students to expand their
own perspectives in the light of
human realities and dynamic social
change.

5. Unit I: REVIEW OF LITERARY ELEMENTS
Definitions of Fiction (resurfacing new styles, post-
modern, avant-garde, etc),
Society, Culture, Humanities, Globalization
Elements of Literature in the Short
Story, Poetry, Drama and the Novel (Note: In the
course of the study, these literary modules will be
discussed according to the following thematic
presentations:
the individual and his perception of Self
the individual and Nature
the individual in the era of Globalization
the individual and the Cosmic Order

6. SUGGESTED READING LIST
Unit II: The SHORT STORY
The Summer Solstice – Nick Joaquin
May Day Eve – Nick Joaquin
Nanking Store – Macario D. Tiu
Karma – Khuswant Singh
Don’t Ask Jack – Neil Gaiman
A Father’s Gift – Paul Nahin

7. Unit III: POETRY
The Song of Solomon – The Bible (Chapter 4)
Drinking Alone in the Moonlight – Li Po
Excerpts from the Book of Tao – Lao Tze
Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Song – John Donne
Mi Ultimo Adios Jose Rizal
Slaying the Word – Joi Barrios
Eleanor Rigby – John Lennon
Telephone Conversation – Wole Soyinka
The United Fruit Company – Pablo Neruda
Young Man on a Jeepney – Merlie Alunan
A Way to Kill Schoolchildren – Victorio Sugbo
An Pulong ni “Kuan” – Eduardo Makabenta
A Mad Girl’s Love Song – Sylvia Plath

8. DRAMA:
Oedipus Rex – Sophocles
Portrait of the Artist as a Filipino – Nick Joaquin
Tatarin – Nick Joaquin
Fathers and Sons – Nick Joaquin
Op Limit pati an Gugma – Illuminado Lucente
(zarswela)
A Streetcar named Desire – Tennessee Williams
Maynila: Sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag – Edgardo M. Reyes
(screenplay)

9. NOVELS:
100 Years in Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
DogEaters – Jessica Hagedorn
The Da Vinci Code, et.al. – Dan Brown
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
The Law of Love – Laura Esquivel
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
JR Tolkien Tales
Paul Coelho Novellas
Any Neil Gaiman
Any Amy Tan
Any Salman Rushdie

10. Requirements:
Reaction Papers or Essays on Readings
Poetry Reading or Writing
Unit activities
Book Review
Staging a Play/Drama
Educational Tour to Literary Spaces in Culture
and History
Prepared an updated by:
Prof. DULCE C. ANACION (2010)