If a text is not publicly accessible/open access, the reading will be available via Blackboard.
| WEEK 1 Thurs (August 31) – The World of Fiction (and Introduction to Reading Plays) Reading Due: Elinor Fuchs, “E.F.’s Visit to a Small Planet” (BLACKBOARD) |
| WEEK 2 Tues (September 5) – Elizabethan England (Shakespeare and Adaptation) Reading Due: Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew Thurs (September 7) – Mexico and the Spanish Colonies Reading Due: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Loa to the Divine Narcissus |
| WEEK 3 Tues (September 12) – 17th-century Japan and “Floating World” literature Reading Due: Ihara Saikaku, “The Greengrocer’s Daughter with a Bundle of Love” Thurs (September 14) – “Floating World” literature continued Reading Due: Ihara Saikaku, “Gengobei, the Mountain of Love” |
| WEEK 4 Tues (September 19) – The Enlightenment Era Reading Due: Kant, “What is Enlightenment?” Reading Due: Voltaire, Candide (parts I – V or 1 – 5) Thurs (September 21) – The Enlightenment Era continued Reading Due: Voltaire, Candide (parts VI – XVII or 6 – 17) |
| WEEK 5 Tues (September 26) – The Enlightenment Era continued Reading Due: Voltaire, Candide (parts XVIII – XXX or 18 – 30) Thurs (September 28) – Realism and Naturalism Reading Due: Ibsen, A Doll’s House |
| WEEK 6 Tues (October 3) Bengali Renaissance Literature Reading Due: Rabindranath Tagore, “Punishment” (BLACKBOARD) Thurs (October 5) Reading Due: Kafka, Metamorphosis |
| WEEK 7 No readings |
| WEEK 8 Tues (October 17) The 20th Century Reading Due: Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire Thurs (October 19) The 20th Century (Streetcar continued) Reading Due: Linda Hutcheon, “Beginning to Theorize Adaptation” (BLACKBOARD) |
| WEEK 9 Tues (October 24): Modern Chinese Literature Reading Due: Lu Xun, “The New Year’s Sacrifice” Thurs (October 26): Quebecois Literature Reading Due: Michel Tremblay, Les Belles-soeurs |
| WEEK 10 Tues (October 31): Adaptation + Indigenous Literature Reading Due: Tomson Highway, The Rez Sisters Thurs (November 2): 20th Century Africa Reading Due: Wole Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman |
| WEEK 11 Tues (November 7): 20th Century Africa (continued) Reading Due: Athol Fugard, Master Harold and the Boys |
| WEEK 12 No readings due |
| WEEK 13 Tues (November 21) Magical Realism Reading Due: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “Eyes of a Blue Dog” (BLACKBOARD) |
| WEEK 14 Tues (November 28): Reading Due: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” (BLACKBOARD) |
| WEEK 15 Tues (December 5) Reading Due: Toni Morrison, “Récitatif” (BLACKBOARD) |
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