English 2337.09     World Literature Reading Schedule    Spring 2006

Jan. 17 T Intro
         19 Th Close Reading / Seeing Anew: Psalm 23 (handout)

         24 T Joao Guimaraes Rosa, "The Third Bank of the River"
         26 Th Yasunari Kawabata: "The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket"
                      Collette, "The Other Wife"

         31 T Jorge Luis Borges, "Man on Pink Corner" (handout)
Feb.    2 Th Jorge Luis Borges, "The Story from Rosenda Juarez"

         7 T Ryunosuke Akutagawa, "In a Grove"
         9 Th Selma Lagerlof, "The Outlaws"

         14 T Grace Ogot, "The Rain Came"
         16 Th Bessie Head, "The Lovers"

         21 T Walt Whitman, "Give the Splendid Silent Sun"
                   Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Sonnet 32"
         23 Th 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"

         28 T Christina Rossetti: "Goblin Market"
Mar.   2 Th

         7 T Review
         9 Th Mid-Term

         14 T Sappho, "To an Army Wife, in Sardis"
                   Gaius Valerius Catullus, "Though heart's hurt exhausts me always now"

         16 Th Sophocles, Antigone

         21 T
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         28 T SPRING BREAK
         30 Th SPRING BREAK

Apr. 4 T Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing
         6 Th
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         18 T Eudora Welty, "A Worn Path"
         20 Th Earnest Hemingway, "Soldier's Home"

         25 T Nadine Gordimer, "Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants"
         27 Th Alan Paton, "A Drink in the Passage"

May 2 T Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
         4 Th LAST DAY

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