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.

Note (11 October 2007): Please be aware of changes to the syllabus moving the date of Exam Two up to November 2nd.

September 5	Introduction
Part One: European Experiments
September 7	Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, pp. 1-33
September 10	Calvino, pp. 34-76
September 12	Calvino, pp. 77-114
September 14	Calvino, pp. 115-160
September 17	Calvino, pp. 161-209
September 19	Calvino, pp. 210-end	WEB-X 1 DEADLINE
September 21	D. H. Lawrence, "Maximus" (5) Kikaku, "Above the Boat" (6) Issa, "From the Bough" (6)
September 24	Follain, "Music of Spheres" (7) de Andrade, "In the Middle of the Road" (8)
September 26	EXAM ONE
Part Two: Asia's Two Powers
September 28	Wang Wei, "Song about Xi Shi" (179), "Dancing Woman, Cockfighter Husband, and the Impoverished Sage" (180) Su Tung P'o, "On a Painting by Wang the Clerk" (56)	RESPONSE TO WEB-X 1 DUE
October 1	Ha J1n, In the P0nd, chs. 1-3
October 3	Jin, chs. 4-7
October 5	Jin, chs. 8-10
October 8	Jin, chs. 11-13	WEB-X 2 DEADLINE FOR JIN*
October 10	Jin, chs. 14-15
October 12	Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, ch. 1
October 15	Roy, ch. 2
October 17	Roy, chs. 3-4
October 19	Roy, chs. 5-7
October 22	Roy, chs. 8-10
October 24	Roy, chs. 11-12
October 26	Roy, 13-14
October 29	Roy, 15-18
October 31	Roy, 19-end
November 2	EXAM TWO
November 5	Tu Fu, "To Pi Ssu Yao" (181) Po Chü-I, "Golden Bells" (245) Chu Shu Shen, "Morning" (216)	WEB-X 2 DEADLINE FOR ROY*
November 7	Tomas Tranströmer, "Outskirts" (13) Bronislaw Maj, "Seen Fleetingly from a Train" (97)	WEB-X 2 DEADLINE FOR LUMINOUS THINGS
Part Three: Growing up in Madness
November 9	Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis, Introduction-p. 39
November 12	Satrapi, pp. 40-79
November 14	Satrapi, pp. 80-117
November 16	Satrapi, pp. 118-end	WEB-X 2 DEADLINE FOR SATRAPI*
November 19	Chris Abani, Graceland, chs. 1-3
November 21	Abani, chs. 4-6
November 23	Thanksgiving Holiday
November 26	Abani, chs. 7-10
November 28	Abani, chs. 11-13
November 30	Abani, chs. 14-16
December 3	Abani, chs. 17-20
December 5	Abani, chs. 21-24
December 7	Abani, chs. 25-27	WEB-X 2 DEADLINE FOR ABANI*
December 10	Abani, chs. 28-end
December 12	Anna Swir, "The Same Inside," (200) "I Wash the Shirt" (204) Zbigniew Herbert, "Elegy of Fortinbras" (301)
December 14	Aleksander Wat, "From Persian Parables" (297) Constantine Cavafy, "Waiting for the Barbarians" (305-6)	RESPONSE TO WEB-X 2 DUE
December 18	EXAM THREE (Final Exam), 2-3:55pm

* This deadline only applies to students who have signed up for this author.