13 TIME LINE - Contemporary World Literature Contemporary World Literature Authors and their Work Historical Events Showing the Context of the Writing 1893 Sample Entry: *Rabindranath Tagore, Punishment Offered a new voice to Indian expression. He was a short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of modern India. I enjoy the natural quality and the personal tone of his verse: "The carriage stands at the door. It is midday./ The autumn sun is gradually gathering strength." Etc. 1895 Higuchi Ichiyo, Child's Play Notes: ca. 1897–1902 Washington Matthews conducts studies of the Navajo "The Night Chant." 1899–1902 Boer War in South Africa. 1900 Boxer uprisings in China protest European presence. Max Planck proposes quantum theory, the first step in the discovery of the atom. 1902 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness 1903 Henry James, The Ambassadors 1903 Wright brothers invent the powered airplane. 1905 Sigmund Freud, Dora (Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria) Rubén Darío, Songs of Life and Hope F. T. Marinetti, Futurist Manifesto 1905 Modern labor movement begins with foundation of International Workers of the World (IWW). Partition of Bengal based on Hindu and Muslim populations. 1907 August Strindberg, The Ghost Sonata 1907 Japanese immigration to the United States prohibited. 1908 Gertrude Stein, Three Lives Rainer Maria Rilke, New Poems 1909 Commercial manufacture of plastic begins. 1910 China abolishes slavery. Mexican Revolution (1910–11). NAACP founded in United States. Post-Impressionist Exhibition in London.  1911 Constantine Cavafy, Ithaka 1911 Revolution establishes Chinese Republic after 267 years of Manchu rule. 1912 Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali Thomas Mann, Death in Venice 1912–1913 Balkan wars. 1913 Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, first volume of Remembrance of Things Past (1913–27) Insert your annotation here: D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers 1914 James Joyce, Dubliners, which includes The Dead 1914–1918 World War I involves Europe, Turkey, and the United States. 1915 Albert Einstein formulates general theory of relativity. First transcontinental phone call, in America 1916 Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis, The Castle (1926) James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1917 T. S. Eliot, Prufrock and Other Observations 1917 Russian Revolution overthrows Romanov Dynasty. 1918 Lu Xun, Diary of a Madman, the first story in modern Chinese vernacular Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto 1918 Women over 30 given vote in Great Britain. 1918–1920 Global influenza epidemic kills millions. 1919 League of Nations formed (U.S. Senate rejects membership, 1920). 1920 Edith W ...

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TIME LINE - Contemporary World Literature
Contemporary World Literature Authors and their Work
Historical Events Showing the Context of the Writing
1893
Sample Entry:
*Rabindranath Tagore, Punishment
Offered a new voice to Indian expression. He was a short-story
writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter who
was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Tagore
introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial
language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from
traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He is generally
regarded as the outstanding creative artist of modern India. I
enjoy the natural quality and the personal tone of his verse:
"The carriage stands at the door. It is midday./ The autumn sun
is gradually gathering strength." Etc.
1895 Higuchi Ichiyo, Child's Play
Notes:
ca. 1897–1902 Washington Matthews conducts studies of the
Navajo "The Night Chant."
1899–1902 Boer War in South Africa.
1900
Boxer uprisings in China protest European presence.

2. Max Planck proposes quantum theory, the first step in the
discovery of the atom.
1902 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
1903 Henry James, The Ambassadors
1903 Wright brothers invent the powered airplane.
1905
Sigmund Freud, Dora (Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of
Hysteria)
Rubén Darío, Songs of Life and Hope
F. T. Marinetti, Futurist Manifesto
1905
Modern labor movement begins with foundation of International
Workers of the World (IWW).
Partition of Bengal based on Hindu and Muslim populations.
1907 August Strindberg, The Ghost Sonata
1907 Japanese immigration to the United States prohibited.
1908
Gertrude Stein, Three Lives
Rainer Maria Rilke, New Poems
1909 Commercial manufacture of plastic begins.
1910
China abolishes slavery.
Mexican Revolution (1910–11).
NAACP founded in United States.
Post-Impressionist Exhibition in London.
1911 Constantine Cavafy, Ithaka
1911 Revolution establishes Chinese Republic after 267 years of

3. Manchu rule.
1912
Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
1912–1913 Balkan wars.
1913
Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, first volume of Remembrance of
Things Past (1913–27) Insert your annotation here:
D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
1914 James Joyce, Dubliners, which includes The Dead
1914–1918 World War I involves Europe, Turkey, and the
United States.
1915
Albert Einstein formulates general theory of relativity.
First transcontinental phone call, in America
1916
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis, The Castle (1926)
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1917 T. S. Eliot, Prufrock and Other Observations
1917 Russian Revolution overthrows Romanov Dynasty.
1918
Lu Xun, Diary of a Madman, the first story in modern Chinese
vernacular
Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto
1918 Women over 30 given vote in Great Britain.
1918–1920 Global influenza epidemic kills millions.
1919 League of Nations formed (U.S. Senate rejects
membership, 1920).

4. 1920 Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
1920 Mahatma Gandhi leads India's struggle for independence
from Britain.
1921 Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
1921–1929 Harlem Renaissance, black literary and artistic
movement.
1921–1924 Knud Rasmussen documents Inuit culture and
collects Inuit Songs during the Fifth Thule Expedition
1922
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Paris publication of James Joyce, Ulysses (imported copies
burned in U.S. Post Office)
Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus
1922
Turkey becomes a republic.
Irish Free State established.
USSR formed.
Discovery of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb.
1923 Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
1923 Earthquakes destroy centers of Tokyo and Yokohama.
1924-1926
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
André Breton, First Surrealist Manifesto, "Free Union"
Kurt Schwitters, "Anna Blume"
Paul Éluard, Capitol of Pain, "Woman in Love"
Aimé Césaire, "Do Not Have Pity," p. 2119
Joyce Monsour, "I Saw You Through My Closed Eye"
Premchand, The Road to Salvation
1924 Insecticides first used.
1925 Geriguigatugo and other tales narrated by Uke Iwagu Uo

5. published in Italian and Bororo
1927 Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
1928 William Butler Yeats, The Tower
1928
Sixty-five states sign Kellogg-Briand antiwar pact in Paris.
First Five Year Plan in USSR.
Penicillin discovered.
First scheduled television broadcasts.
1929 William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
1929 Stock market crash heralds beginning of world economic
crisis; Great Depression lasts until 1937
1932 Zuni Ritual Poetry published by anthropologist Ruth L.
Bunzel
1933 Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding
1933 Adolf Hitler given dictatorial powers in Germany. Nazis
build first concentration camps
1933–1937 Pablo Neruda, Residence on Earth
1934 Stalin begins purges of Communist Party.
1935–1947 Kawabata Yasunari, Snow Country
1936
Premchand, The Cow
Leo Frobenius, History of African Civilizations
1937ff Wallace Stevens, The Man with the Blue Guitar,
Anecdote of the Jar
1938 Alfonsina Storni, Ocher

6. 1938–1941 Bertolt Brecht, The Good Woman of Setzuan
1939 Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
1939 Germany invades Poland and all Europe is drawn into
World War II.
1940 Richard Wright, Native Son
1941 United States and Japan enter World War II.
1940s
Zhang Ailing (Eileen Chang), Love in a Fallen City
1942 Albert Camus, The Stranger
1943 T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
1944 Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths
1945 Léopold Sédar Senghor, Chants d'ombre
1945
World War II ends with dropping of atomic bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
United Nations, Arab League founded.
1946
Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech marks beginning of Cold War
Pan-African Federation formed
1947
Birago Diop, Tales of Amadou Koumba, "Mother Crocodile"
Bernard Dadié, "The Mirror of Dearth," "The Black Cloth,"
"The Hunter and the Boa"
1947
Massacres across Muslim-Hindu lines accompany partition of

7. India and Pakistan into independent states.
Transistor invented
1948
Ezra Pound, Pisan Cantos
Tadeusz Borowski, Farewell to Maria, which includes Ladies
and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber
1948 Creation of Jewish state in Palestine.
1949 Communist People's Republic of China established.
Apartheid instituted in South Africa.
1950–1953 Korean War involves North and South Korea, the
United Nations, and China.
1952 Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
1952 Revolution in Egypt, which becomes a republic in 1953.
First hydrogen bomb.
1953 Discovery of DNA structure launches modern genetic
science.
1954 Kojima Nobuo, The American School
1955
Alain Robbe-Grillet, The Voyeur
Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo
1956 Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, The Key
1956 First Congress of Black Writers meets in Paris.
1956–1957 Naguib Mahfouz, The Cairo Trilogy
1957
Samuel Beckett, Endgame
Albert Camus, Exile and the Kingdom, which includes The

8. Guest
1958 Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
1958
European Common Market established.
Algerian War of Independence (1958–62).
1959 Tawfiq al-Hakim, The Sultan's Dilemma
1960
Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima mon amour
Shono Junzo, Still Life
Clarice Lispector, Family Ties, which includes The Daydreams
of a Drunk Woman
1960–1962 Independence for Belgian Congo, Uganda,
Tanganyika, Nigeria, Cameroun, etc.
1961 Soviet astronaut orbits earth.
1962
Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
Alain Robbe-Grillet, Snapshots, which includes The Secret
Room
1962–1973 United States engaged in Vietnam War.
1963
Anna Akhmatova, Requiem
Naguib Mahfouz, God's World, which includes Zaabalawi
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Matryona's Home
1965 Recorded performance by Andrew Peynetsa of The Boy
and the Deer
1966
Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution attacks Confucian tradition
and intellectuals in China (1966–69).

9. First Dakar Arts Festival provides showcase for African culture.
1967 Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
1968 Kamau Brathwaite, Masks
Alice Munro, Dance of the Happy Shades, which includes
Walker Brothers Cowboy
1969 American astronaut is first man on moon.
1970 Derek Walcott, Dream on Monkey Mountain
A. B. Yehoshua, Three Days and a Child, which includes Facing
the Forests
Gabriel García Márquez, Death Constant Beyond Love
1972 Ingeborg Bachmann, Three Paths to the Lake, which
includes The Barking
1973 Arab oil producers cut off shipments to nations supporting
Israel; ensuing energy crisis reshapes global economy.
1974 Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman
1975 Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman
1977 Bessie Head, The Deep River
1979 Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter
1980
Mahasweta Devi, Breast-Giver
Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day
Lorna Goodison, Tamarind Season

10. 1980s Widespread concern as damage to the environment is
increasingly documented.
1983–1984
Famine in Ethiopia.
Ethnic and religious riots throughout India.
1986 Nuclear disaster in Chernobyl spreads radiation
contamination throughout Europe.
1987
Floods destroy homes of millions in Bangladesh.
World stock market crash.
1989
Mikhail Gorbachev restructures the Soviet state.
Chinese government shoots thousands of protesters gathered in
Tiananmen Square.
Berlin Wall demolished.
1990 East and West Germany united.
1991
United States and USSR agree to arms reduction.
Economic chaos and nationalist unrest bring end of entity of
"Soviet Union."
1993
European Community, the West's largest trading unit, formed.
World Wide Web established

11. 1994
Nelson Mandela becomes president of South Africa after first
multiracial elections.
Israel and Palestine Liberation Organization sign peace
agreement establishing a Palestinian state and begin negotiating
its conditions.
1997 Scientists in Scotland create Dolly, the clone of an adult
sheep.
1999 A European common currency, the "euro," is issued.
2000 Anita Desai, Diamond Dust, which includes The Rooftop
Dwellers
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Directed Work Project
SEE2020: Event Project
Professor Liz Covino
1. Student will invest a minimum of 3-5 hours working (and/or
planning) an event during the semester. I will provide you with
a list of opportunities or you may select your own event. The
event must be worked on during the term.
2. Student must complete DWP approval form so Professor can
review event site.
3. The paper must be submitted in proper MLA format.
Spelling and grammar errors will result in point deductions.
4. Papers must be submitted through Ulearn/Blackboard; they
must be attached as a separate document by the time and due
date.Section I: Introduction

12. 1. Provide a brief history or review of the event or event office.
2. Explain the purpose and philosophy of the event (not-for-
profit or for-profit).
3. Provide an agenda or schedule of the event activities.
4. Describe the event planning team.
Section II: Event Research
1. Were any Research or Assessment tools utilized? What were
they?
2. Submit a SWOT analysis of the event.
Section III: Developing the Event Plan
1. Why was this event site selected?
2. Does the venue match the event? Why or Why not?
3. Is there any ADA concerns or accommodations?
4. What is the theme of the event?
5. Were there any amenities (bells and whistles) used to
communicate the theme?
6. What suggestions would you make to improve the
effectiveness of the theme?
Section IV: Financial Implications
1. Discuss the sources of revenue for the event (admission fees,
sponsorships, registration, product sales etc.)
2. What are the fixed and/or variable expenses for the event?

13. Section V: Marketing and Promotion
1. Discuss the marketing and promotional efforts used by the
organization or the event manager.
2. Identify all of the event sponsors
3. What type of sponsorship agreements were entered into and
what benefits did sponsors receive in return for their support?
Section VI: Event Reflection
1. Fully describe your duties and role at the event.
2. Evaluate the event as a learning experience.
3. Identify any changes or recommendations you would make.
Directed Work Project Grading Rubric
Section I: Introduction
Points
1. History of event
2. Purpose and Philosophy of event
3. Schedule of Activities
4. Event Planning team
15 ptsSection II: Event Research
1. Assessment Tools Utilized
2. SWOT Analysis
15 ptsSection III: Event Plan
1. Event site
2. ADA concerns

14. 3. Theme of the event
4. Amenities
5. Suggestions
20 ptsSection IV: Financial Implications
1. Sources of revenue
2. Fixed or Variable expenses
10 ptsSection V: Marketing and Promotion
1. Marketing and Promotional efforts
2. Event Sponsors
10 ptsSection VI: Event Reflection
1. Duties described
2. Evaluation as learning experience
3. Changes or recommendations
20 ptsSpelling, grammar and format
10 pts