Dr. Yoder
Week 1 (Aug. 26)
English 2337.06 World Literature Fall 2009
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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