Dr. Yoder
English 2337.10     World Literature     Fall 2006

Week 1 (Aug. 29-31)
T      Intro
Th     I will be attending the conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), so there will be no class today. However, I do want you to read Psalm 23 from the Bible.
This link will take you to a webpage with many different translations of Psalm 23. Please look especially at the original King James Version (1611), the New King James Version (1982), and the most recent Jewish Publication Society Translation from The Tanakh (1985). Look particularly at the pronouns and the verb tenses, and how the translations differ. We will begin our discussion on Tuesday with a consideration of these different versions.

Week 2 (Sept. 5-7)
T        Joao Guimaraes Rosa, "The Third Bank of the River"
Th     Yasunari Kawabata, "The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket"
          Collette, "The Other Wife"

Week 3 (Sept. 12-14)
T      Jorge Luis Borges, "Man on Pink Corner" (handout)
Th    Jorge Luis Borges, "The Story from Rosenda Juarez"

Week 4 (Sept. 19-21)
T      Ryunosuke Akutagawa, "In a Grove"
Th    Selma Lagerlof, "The Outlaws"

Week 5 (Sept. 26-28)
T      Grace Ogot, "The Rain Came"
Th    Bessie Head, "The Lovers"

Week 6 (Oct. 3-5)
T      Walt Whitman, "Give the Splendid Silent Sun"
         Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Sonnet 32"
Th    Dante Alighieri, "Because you know youčre young in beauty yet"
        Bernard Dadie, "Dry Your Tears, Africa!"
        Ocavio Paz, "Two Bodies"
        William Wordsworth, "My Heart Leaps Up"

Week 7 (Oct. 10-12)
T     Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
Th

Week 8 (Oct. 17-19)
T      Review
Th      Mid-Term Exam

Week 9 (Oct. 24-26)
T      Sappho, "To an Army Wife, in Sardis"
        Gaius Valerius Catullus, "Though heart's hurt exhausts me always now"
Th    Sophocles, Antigone

Week 10 (Oct. 31-Nov. 2)
T      Sophocles, Antigone
Th

Week 11 (Nov. 7-9)
T     Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing
Th

Week 12 (Nov. 14-16)
T     Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing
Th

Week 13 (Nov. 21-23)
T     Anita Desai, "Pineapple Cake"
Th THANKSGIVING

Week 14 (Nov. 28-30)
T      Nadine Gordimer, "Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants"
      Final Paper Due
Th    Alan Paton, "A Drink in the Passage"

Week 15 (Dec. 5-7)
T      Eudora Welty, "A Worn Path"
Th    Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"

Week 16 (Dec. 12 -- Last Day of Class)
T            LAST DAY OF CLASS

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