English 1582
Schedule
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.
| T | September 7 | Introduction | |
| Th | 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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| T | 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) |
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| 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 |
| T | September 21 | Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation, pp. 1-51 | |
| Th | September 23 | Iweala, pp. 52-93 | WEB FORUM 1 RESPONSE DEADLINE |
| T | September 28 | Iweala, pp. 93-142 | WEB FORUM 2 DEADLINE FOR IWEALA. |
| Th | September 30 | PART ONE EXAMINATION | |
| T | 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) |
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| Th | October 7 | Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, pp. 3-51 | |
| T | October 12 | García Márquez, pp. 52-103 | |
| Th | October 14 | García Márquez, pp. 104-163 | |
| T | October 19 | García Márquez, pp. 164-224 | |
| Th | October 21 | García Márquez, pp. 225-278 | |
| T | October 26 | García Márquez, pp. 279-342 | WEB FORUM 2 DEADLINE FOR GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ* |
| Th | October 28 | García Márquez, concluding thoughts | |
| T | November 2 | PART TWO EXAMINATION | |
| Th | November 4 | Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, Part I | |
| T | November 9 | Dostoevsky, Part II, Chs. 1-5 | |
| Th | November 11 | Dostoevsky, Part II, Chs. 6-10 | WEB FORUM 2 DEADLINE FOR DOSTOEVSKY* |
| 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 |
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| Th | November 18 | Dai Sijie, Part II, pp. 42-90 | |
| T | November 23 | Dai Sijie, Part II, pp. 89-134 | |
| Th | November 25 | Thanksgiving Holiday | |
| 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* |
| T | December 14 | Ibsen, Act III | |
| Th | December 16 | Ibsen, concluding thoughts | WEB FORUM 2 RESPONSE DUE |
| Sat | December 18 | Final Exam, 4-5:55pm |
* This deadline only applies to students who have signed up for this author.
11 September 2010