Dr. Yoder
English 2337.07     World Literature     Spring 2009
Assignment Schedule

Week 1 (Jan. 13-15)
T     Introduction
Th   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 (Jan. 220-22)
T     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
Th    

Week 3 (Jan. 27-29)
T     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"
Th    

Week 4 (Feb. 3-5)
T     Christina Rossetti: "Goblin Market"
Th    

Week 5 (Feb. 10-12)
T     Joao Guimaraes Rosa, "The Third Bank of the River"
Th    Collette, "The Other Wife"
       Ernest Hemingway, "Soldier's Home"

Week 6 (Feb. 17-19)
T     Jorge Luis Borges, "Man on Pink Corner" (handout)
       Jorge Luis Borges, "The Story from Rosenda Juarez"
Th    Ryunosuke Akutagawa, "In a Grove"

Week 7 (Feb. 24-26)
T     Nadine Gordimer, "Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants"
Th    Alan Paton, "A Drink in the Passage"

Week 8 (Mar. 3-5)
T     Review
Th    Mid-Term Exam

Week 9 (Mar. 10-12)
T     Sophocles, Antigone
Th    

Week 10 (Mar. 17-19):
T     Sophocles, Antigone
Th    

Mar. 24-26: SPRING BREAK

Week 11 (Mar. 31-Apr. 2)
T     Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
Th    

Week 12 (Apr. 7-9)
T     Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
Th    

Week 13 (Apr. 14-16)
T     Grace Ogot: "The Rain Came"
Th    James Joyce: "Araby"

Week 14 (Apr. 21-23)
T---------> Papers Due: Paper guidelines are here.
        Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: "Vicarious Love"
Th    Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"

Week 15 (Apr. 28-30)
T     Pablo Neruda: "The Word"
Th    LAST DAY OF CLASS

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