Readings and assignments are due on the day assigned.

WEEK ONE:

  F   5  June                     Introduction to the course.

 M  8  June                     The Enlightenment (289-297)
                                       Pope: An Essay on Man (511-518)
 
W  10 June                    Swift: “A Modest Proposal” (483-489)

F  12 June                    Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (431-483)

WEEK TWO:

M  15 June                     Akinari: “Bewitched” (634-653)

W 17 June                     Start: Voltaire: Candide (518-585)

F  19 June                    Finish Candide
 
WEEK THREE:

M  22 June                    Test #1

W  24 June                    Romanticism (657-664)
                                       Blake: “The Lamb” (785); “The Tyger” (789); “The Sick Rose”      
                                       (790); "The Chimney Sweeper" (791)
                                       Wordsworth: “Tintern Abbey” (794-798); “The World is too
                                       Much With Us" (803)

F  26 June                    Pushkin: The Queen of Spades (842-863)

WEEK FOUR:

M  29 June                   Whitman: Song of Myself (971-980)

W  1 July                     Douglass: Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass (906-968)
 
F   3 July                     No class: Independence Day observed.

WEEK FIVE:

M  6 July                      Realism (1061-1071)
                                      Baudelaire: The Flowers of Evil (1181-1196)
 
W  8 July                      Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1199-1143)
 
F  10 July                    Test #2

WEEK SIX:

M  13 July                  Twentieth Century (1355-1383)
                                   Yeats: “Sailing to Byzantium” (1464)
                                   Lu Xun “Diary of a Madman” (1684-1693)

W  15 July                  Robbe-Grillet: "The Secret Room" (2363-2369)
                                   Gordimer: "Oral History" (2369-2381)

F  17 July                  Kafka: Metamorphosis (1754-1791)

WEEK SEVEN:

M  20 July                 Devi: “The Breast Giver” (2406-2426)
         
W  22 July                Ellison: “King of the Bingo Game” (2266-2273)

F   24 July                  Conrad: Heart of Darkness

WEEK EIGHT:
 
M  27 July                Finish Conrad: Heart of Darkness

W  29 July                Start: Achebe: Things Fall Apart (2498-2597)

F  31 July                Finish: Things Fall Apart

 
FINAL EXAMINATION:  WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST 7:50-9:50 AM

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