Dr. Yoder
English 2337.06     World Literature     Fall 2009

Week 1 (Aug. 26)
     Intro
     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.

Week 2 (Sept. 2)
     Petrarch: Sonnet 24 to Laura in Death (click here for a copy.)
     William Shakespeare: Sonnet 130 (click here for a copy.)
     William Wordsworth: "Nuns Fret Not" (click here for a copy.)
     Percy Shelley: "Ozymandias"(click here for a copy.)
     Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnet 32

Week 3 (Sept. 9)
     Octavio Paz: "Two Bodies"
      Sappho: "To an Army Wife in Sardis"
      Hafiz: "Not all the sum of earthly happiness"
      Walt Whitman: "Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun"

Week 4 (Sept. 16)
     Christina Rossetti: "Goblin Market"

Week 5 (Sept. 23)
     Joao Guimaraes Rosa, "The Third Bank of the River"
     Collette, "The Other Wife"
     Ernest Hemingway, "Soldier's Home"

Week 6 (Sept. 30)
     Jorge Luis Borges, "Man on Pink Corner" (handout)
     Jorge Luis Borges, "The Story from Rosenda Juarez"

Week 7 (Oct. 7)
     Nadine Gordimer, "Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants"
    Alan Paton, "A Drink in the Passage"

Week 8 (Oct. 14)
    Mid-Term Exam

Week 9 (Oct. 21)
     Sophocles, Antigone

Week 10 (Oct. 28)
     Sophocles, Antigone

Week 11 (Nov. 4)
     Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

Week 12 (Nov. 11)
     Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

Week 13 (Nov. 18)
     ESSAYS DUE: The assignment is here.
     Grace Ogot, "The Rain Came"
     Adelaide Casely-Hayford, "Mista Courifer"

Week 14 (Nov. 25)
      THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

Week 15 (Dec. 2)
     Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"

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