Schedule
The following schedule is subject to change according to the demands of the class. I will announce changes to it in class when the need presents itself. Page numbers in parentheses locate poems in A Book of Luminous Things.
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September 7 |
Introduction |
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| September 9
Epiphany: D. H. Lawrence, "Maximus" (5)
Kikaku, "Above the Boat" (6)
Issa, "From the Bought" (6)
Jean Follain, "Music of Spheres" (7)
Carlos Drummond de Andrade, "In the Middle of the Road" (8) |
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September 14 |
Wisława Szymborska, "Seen from Above" (41)
Anna Swir, "The Sea and the Man" (47)
Bronisław Maj, "Seen Fleetingly, from a Train" (97)
Ch'in Kuan, "Along the Grand Canal" (100)
Wang Wei, "Morning, Sailing into Xinyang" (101) |
Th |
September 16 |
Po Chü-I, "After Collecting the Autumn Taxes" (111), "Rain" (112)
Joseph Brodsky, "In the Lake District" (115), "Odysseus to Telemachus" (116)
Rainer Maria Rilke, "Going Blind" (195) |
WEB FORUM 1 DEADLINE |
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T |
September 21 |
Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation, pp. 1-51 |
Th |
September 23 |
Iweala, pp. 52-93 |
WEB FORUM 1 RESPONSE DEADLINE |
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T |
September 28 |
Iweala, pp. 93-142 |
WEB FORUM 2 DEADLINE FOR IWEALA. |
Th |
September 30 |
PART ONE EXAMINATION
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October 5 |
Anna Swir, "The Same Inside" (200), "I Wash the Shirt" (204)
Chu Shu Chen, "Morning" (216)
Tadeusz Rozewicz, "A Sketch for a Modern Love Poem" (231) |
Th |
October 7 |
Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, pp. 3-51 |
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T |
October 12 |
García Márquez, pp. 52-103 |
Th |
October 14 |
García Márquez, pp. 104-163 |
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T |
October 19 |
García Márquez, pp. 164-224 |
Th |
October 21 |
García Márquez, pp. 225-278 |
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T |
October 26 |
García Márquez, pp. 279-342 |
WEB FORUM 2 DEADLINE FOR GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ* |
Th |
October 28 |
García Márquez, concluding thoughts |
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T |
November 2 |
PART TWO EXAMINATION |
Th |
November 4 |
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, Part I |
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November 9 |
Dostoevsky, Part II, Chs. 1-5 |
Th |
November 11 |
Dostoevsky, Part II, Chs. 6-10 |
WEB FORUM 2 DEADLINE FOR DOSTOEVSKY* |
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T |
November 16 |
Aleksander Wat, "A Joke" (243)
Po Chü-I, "The Philosophers: Lao-Tzu" (244), "Golden Bells" (245), "After Getting Drunk, Becoming Sober in the Night" (246)
Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Part I, pp. 3-41 |
Th |
November 18 |
Dai Sijie, Part II, pp. 42-90 |
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T |
November 23 |
Dai Sijie, Part II, pp. 89-134 |
Th |
November 25 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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T |
November 30 |
Dai Sijie, pp. 135-end |
WEB FORUM 2 DEADLINE FOR DAI SIJIE* |
Th |
December 2 |
Raymond Carver, "Wine" (248)
Zbigniew Herbert, "Elegy of Fortinbras" (301)
Constantine Cavafy, "Waiting for the Barbarians" (303) |
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T |
December 7 |
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House, Act I |
Th |
December 9 |
Ibsen, Act II |
WEB FORUM 2 DEADLINE FOR IBSEN* |
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T |
December 14 |
Ibsen, Act III |
Th |
December 16 |
Ibsen, concluding thoughts |
WEB FORUM 2 RESPONSE DUE |
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Sat |
December 18 |
Final Exam, 4-5:55pm |
* This deadline only applies to students who have signed up for this author.
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