As part of your written work this semester, each of you will be posting a short (but detailed and thoughtful) written response on the blog to one of our assigned readings. Your response must be a minimum of 500 words (approximately 2 double-spaced typewritten pages) and should approach your assigned text in one of the following ways:
–text to self (How can you connect some aspect of this text to your own life experience and identity?)
–text to world (What connections can you draw between this text and the world in which we live?)
–text to text (How might you connect this text to another text you have encountered either in this course or elsewhere?)
This assignment is not asking you to summarize the text or to provide an analysis of it. It is, rather, a place for you to share your own subjective response to the reading. Your response must be posted to the class blog by midnight on the night before your text is being discussed in class. Be prepared to talk about your post informally in class.
Akinari, “Bewitched” — Stephen
Pope, “Essay on Man” — Edward
Rousseau, Confessions — Jose
Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman — Eden
Blake, selected poems — Claire
Wordsworth, selected poems — Lisander
Shelley, selected poems — Ishita
Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — Brian
Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl — Sophia
Ibsen, Hedda Gabler — Emily
Tolstoy, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” — Tinza
Tagore, “Punishment” — Emmanuel
Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” — Sasha
Lu Xun, “Upstairs in a Wineshop” —
Kafka, “The Metamorphosis” — James
Borowski, “This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen” — Dayanna
Salih, “The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid” — Mannal
Morrison, “Recitatif” —
Allende, “And of Clay are We Created” —
