Dr. Yoder
English 2337.04     World Literature     Spring 2007

Week 1 (Jan. 17, 19)
W     Intro
F      Psalm 23: This link will take you to a webpage with many different translations of Psalm 23. Plan to discuss the original King James Version (1611), the New King James Version (1982), and the most recent Jewish Publication Society Translation from The Tanakh (1985).

Week 2 (Jan. 22, 24, 26)
M     Joao Guimaraes Rosa, "The Third Bank of the River"
W     Yasunari Kawabata, "The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket"
F      Collette, "The Other Wife"

Week 3 (Jan. 29, 331, Feb. 2)
M     Jorge Luis Borges, "Man on Pink Corner" (handout)
W     Jorge Luis Borges, "The Story from Rosenda Juarez"
F      Ryunosuke Akutagawa, "In a Grove"

Week 4 (Feb. 5, 7, 9)
M     Selma Lagerlof, "The Outlaws"
W     Franz Kafka, "A Country Doctor"
F      Naguib Mafouz, "The Conjurer Made Off with the Dish"

Week 5 (Feb. 12, 14, 16)
M     Grace Ogot, "The Rain Came"
W     Bessie Head, "The Lovers"
F      Adelaide Casely-Hayford, "Mista Courifer"

Week 6 (Feb. 19, 21, 23)
M     Walt Whitman, "Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun"
         Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Sonnet 32"
W      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"
F

Week 7 (Feb. 26, 28, Mar. 2)
M     Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
W
F

Week 8 (Mar. 5, 7, 9)
M     Review
W     Mid-Term Exam
F      Paper Writing

Week 9 (Mar. 12, 14, 16)
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 (Mar. 19, 21, 23)
M      Sophocles, Antigone
W

Week 11 (Mar. 26-30)
SPRING BREAK

Week 12 (Apr. 2, 4, 6)
M     Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing
W
F

Week 13 (Apr. 9, 11, 13)
M     Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing
W
F

Week 14 (Apr. 16, 18, 20)
M     Nadine Gordimer, "Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants"
      Final Paper Due The assignment is here.
W     Alan Paton, "A Drink in the Passage"
F      Alice Walker, "Roselily"

Week 15 (Apr. 23, 25, 27)
M     Ernest Hemingway, "Soldier's Home"
W     James Joyce, "Araby"
F      Eudora Welty, "Why I Live at the P. O." (available for download here)

Week 16 (Apr. 30, May 2)
M     Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
W     LAST DAY OF CLASS

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