Dr. Yoder
English 2337     World Literature     Fall 2008

Day 1 (Aug. 22)
F     NO CLASS; Dr. Yoder will be out of town. Students should review the syllabus and readings for next week.

Week 1 (Aug. 25-29)
M     Intro
W     Psalm 23: This link will take you to a page with 3 different translations of Psalm 23: the original King James Version (1611), the New King James Version (1982), and the most recent Jewish Publication Society Translation from The Tanakh (1985). Be prepared to compare the three versions.
F      William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130 (click here for a copy.)

Week 2 (Sept. 1-5)
M     LABOR DAY -- NO CLASS
W     Joao Guimaraes Rosa, "The Third Bank of the River"
F     Yasunari Kawabata, "The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket"
          (To hear a bell cricket and see a video clip of one, click here.)

Week 3 (Sept. 8-12)
M      Collette, "The Other Wife"
W     Jorge Luis Borges, "Man on Pink Corner" (handout)
F      Jorge Luis Borges, "The Story from Rosenda Juarez"

Week 4 (Sept. 15-19)
M     Ryunosuke Akutagawa, "In a Grove"
W     Nadine Gordimer, "Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants"
F      Alan Paton, "A Drink in the Passage"

Week 5 (Sept. 22-26)
M     Walt Whitman, "Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun"
         Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Sonnet 32"
W     Dante Alighieri, "Because you know you're young in beauty yet"
         Bernard Dadie, "Dry Your Tears, Africa!"
         Ocavio Paz, "Two Bodies"
         William Wordsworth, "My Heart Leaps Up"
F

Week 6 (Sept. 29-Oct. 3)
M     Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
W
F

Week 7 (Oct. 6-10)
M     TBA
W     Review
F     Mid-Term Exam

Week 8 (Oct. 13-17)
M     Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Pardoner's Tale"
W
F      Paper Writing

Week 9 (Oct. 20-24)
M     Sappho, "To an Army Wife, in Sardis"
        Gaius Valerius Catullus, "Though heart's hurt exhausts me always now"
W     Sophocles, Antigone
F

Week 10 (Oct. 27-31)
M     Sophocles, Antigone
W

Week 11 (Nov. 3-7)
M     Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
W
F

Week 12 (Nov. 10-14)
M     Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
W
F

Week 13 (Nov. 17-21)
M     Grace Ogot, "The Rain Came"
W     Bessie Head, "The Lovers"
F      Adelaide Casely-Hayford, "Mista Courifer"

Week 14 (Nov. 24-28)
M      Alice Walker, "Roselily"
W     NO CLASS
F      THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

Week 15 (Dec. 1-5)
M     Ernest Hemingway, "Soldier's Home"
--->Final Paper Due The assignment is here.
W     James Joyce, "Araby"
F     Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"

Week 16 (Dec. 8)
M     LAST DAY OF CLASS

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