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.

W	January 16	Introduction

M	January 21	Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
W	January 23	José Saramago, Blindness, pp. 1-159

M	January 28	Saramago, pp. 160-239
W	January 30	Saramago, pp. 240-326

M	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"
W	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)*

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)*
W	February 13	MIDTERM EXAM

M	February 18	Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, chs. 1-4
W	February 20	Hamid, chs. 5-8

M	February 25	Hamid, chs. 9-12
W	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)*

M	March 4	Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman, Author's Note, Acts 1-2
W	March 6	Soyinka, Acts 3-5 RESPONSE PAPER ON SOYINKA DUE

March 11-15 Spring Break

M	March 18	Aravind Adiga, White Tiger, The First Night, The Second Night (pp. 1-78)
W	March 20	Adiga, The Fourth Morning, The Fourth Night (pp. 79-145) PEER EDITING DAY FOR CHARACTER ANALYSIS

M	March 25	Adiga, The Fifth Night, The Sixth Morning (147-189)
W	March 27	Adiga, The Sixth Night (191-247)

M	April 1	Adiga, The Seventh Night (248-276) CHARACTER ANALYSIS DUE
W	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

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)*
W	April 10	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus, pp. 1-51

M	April 15	Adichie, pp. 52-109
W	April 17	Adichie, pp. 110-161

M	April 22	Adichie, pp. 162-205
W	April 24	Adichie, pp. 206-253

M	April 29	RESPONSE PAPER ON ADICHIE DUE Adichie, pp. 254-307
W	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)*

F	May 10	FINAL EXAM, noon-1:50pm