COURSE SCHEDULE | Great Works of World Literature: Fall 2023

Date	Class Topic	readings due	assignments due
	WEEK 1
Tues, August 29	Introduction to Class
Thurs, August 31	The World of Fiction (and Introduction to Reading Plays)	Reading Due: Watch 10 Things I Hate About You Reading Due: Elinor Fuchs, “E.F.’s Visit to a Small Planet”
	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	17^th-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”
Thurs, October 5	Kafka’s Metamorphosis	Reading Due: Kafka, Metamorphosis
	WEEK 7
Tues, October 10	NO CLASS
Thurs, October 12	LIBRARY DAY		PERSONAL RESPONSE DUE
	WEEK 8
Tues, October 17	The 20^th Century	Reading Due: Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
Thurs, October 19	The 20^th Century (Streetcar continued)	Reading Due: Linda Hutcheon, “Beginning to Theorize Adaptation”
	WEEK 9
Tues, October 24	Modern Chinese Literature	Reading Due: Lu Xun, “The New Year’s Sacrifice”
Thurs, October 26	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	20^th Century Africa	Reading Due: Wole Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman
	WEEK 11
Tues, November 7	20^th Century Africa (continued)	Reading Due: Athol Fugard, Master Harold and the Boys
Thurs, November 9	NO CLASS		FINAL PAPER TOPIC DUE
	WEEK 12
Tues, November 14	PRESENTATION DAY
Thurs, November 16	PRESENTATION DAY
	WEEK 13
Tues, November 21	Magical Realism	Reading Due: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “Eyes of a Blue Dog”
Thurs November 23	NO CLASS
		(following dates TBD)

DECEMBER 17: FINAL PAPER DUE 11:59PM

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