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 with asterisk locate poems in A Book of Luminous Things.
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January 16 |
Introduction |
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January 21 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday |
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January 23 |
José Saramago, Blindness, pp. 1-159 |
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January 28 |
Saramago, pp. 160-239 |
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January 30 |
Saramago, pp. 240-326 |
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February 4 |
RESPONSE PAPER ON SARAMAGO DUE
Epiphany Poems in The Book of Luminous Things (4-8)*, including
D. H. Lawrence "Maximus"
Kikaku, "Above the Boat"
Issa, "From the Bough"
Jean Follain, "Music of Spheres"
Carlos Drummond de Andrade, "In the Middle of the Road"
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February 6 |
Wisława Szymborska, "In Praise of Self-Deprecation" (21)*, "Four in the Morning" (22)*, "View with a Grain of Sand" (67)*
Valéry Larbaud, "Images" (77-78)* |
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M |
February 11 |
Joseph Brodsky, "In the Lake District" (115)*,
"Odysseus to Telemachus" (116)*
Tomas Tranströmer, "Syros" (126)*, "Outskirts" (130)* and "Tracks" (154)*
Rolf Jacobsen, "Rubber" (155)* |
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February 13 |
MIDTERM EXAM |
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M |
February 18 |
Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, chs. 1-4 |
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February 20 |
Hamid, chs. 5-8 |
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February 25 |
Hamid, chs. 9-12 |
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February 27 |
RESPONSE PAPER ON HAMID DUE
Anna Swir, "The Same Inside" (200)*, "I Wash the Shirt" (204)*
Wang Wei, "Song about Xi Shi" (179)*, "Dancing Woman, Cockfighter Husband, and the Impoverished Sage" (180)*
Rainer Maria Rilke, "Going Blind" (195)* |
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March 4 |
Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman, Author's Note, Acts 1-2 |
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March 6 |
Soyinka, Acts 3-5
RESPONSE PAPER ON SOYINKA DUE |
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March 11-15 Spring Break |
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M |
March 18 |
Aravind Adiga, White Tiger, The First Night, The Second Night (pp. 1-78) |
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March 20 |
Adiga, The Fourth Morning, The Fourth Night (pp. 79-145)
PEER EDITING DAY FOR CHARACTER ANALYSIS |
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March 25 |
Adiga, The Fifth Night, The Sixth Morning (147-189) |
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March 27 |
Adiga, The Sixth Night (191-247) |
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April 1 |
Adiga, The Seventh Night (248-276)
CHARACTER ANALYSIS DUE |
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April 3 |
Tadeusz Rozewicz, "A Sketch for a Modern Love Poem" (231-232)*
Wisława Szymborska, "In Praise of My Sister" (252-253)*
Li Po, "The Birds Have Vanished" (277)*
RESPONSE PAPER ON ADIGA DUE |
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M |
April 8 |
Wang Wei, "Lazy about Writing Poems" (280)*, "A Farewell" (281)*
Miron Białoszewski, "A Ballad of Going down to the Store" (285)*
Southern Bushmen, "The Day We Die" (289)* |
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April 10 |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus, pp. 1-51 |
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April 15 |
Adichie, pp. 52-109 |
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April 17 |
Adichie, pp. 110-161 |
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April 22 |
Adichie, pp. 162-205 |
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April 24 |
Adichie, pp. 206-253 |
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April 29 |
RESPONSE PAPER ON ADICHIE DUE
Adichie, pp. 254-307 |
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May 1 |
Anna Swir, "I'm Afraid of Fire" (296)*
Aleksander Wat, "From Persian Parables" (297)*
Zbigniew Herbert, "Elegy of Fortinbras" (301)*
Constantine Cavafy, "Waiting for the Barbarians" (305)* |
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May 10 |
FINAL EXAM, noon-1:50pm |
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