Class Schedule & Assignments (subject to change):
Reminder: Readings and assignments must be completed by the date on which they are listed.
Updated 9/8
Thurs. 8/27: Introduction to course. John Guillory, “Canon” (in-class)
Tues. 9/1: “What is Enlightenment?” (section introduction), Immanuel Kant, “What is Enlightenment?” (1784) and Mary Wollstonecraft, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792)
– Assignment: Reading Questions; comment on first blog post
Thurs. 9/3: Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz, “Poem 145,” “Poem 164,” “Philosophical Satire, Poem 92” (17th c.) and Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” (1729)
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Tues. 9/8: Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone (1740-1750), Ch. 1-3, Ch. 17; “Early Modern Chinese Literature”
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Thurs. 9/10: No class. (Monday schedule)
Tues. 9/15: No class.
Thurs. 9/17: “Romantic Poets and Their Successors”; William Wordsworth: “Tintern Abbey,” “The World is Too Much With Us,”; Rosalía de Castro, “As I composed this little book,” “I well know there is nothing,” “As the clouds,” You will say about these verses,” “Some say plants don’t speak”
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Tues. 9/22: No class.
Thurs. 9/24: John Keats, “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be,” “Bright Star,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “Ode to a Nightingale”
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Fri. 9/25 (Tuesday schedule): **Class canceled.**
Tues. 9/29: “An Age of Revolutions in Europe and the Americas,” Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) (Ch. I-IX)
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Thurs. 10/1: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) (Ch. X-end); selections from selections from Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself*
Tues. 10/6: Herman Melville, Bartleby, The Scrivner (1853)
**assignments for 10/6 and 10/8 have been switched from original dates on syllabus
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Thurs. 10/8: Comparative Essay Due; “For World Literature*”
Tues. 10/13: Emily Dickinson: all poems in anthology
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Thurs. 10/15: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (1864) (Part I), “Realism Across the Globe”
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Tues. 10/20: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (Part II)
Thurs. 10/22: Ghalib: “I’ve Made My Home Next Door to You,” “Couplets,” “It Was Essential,” “My Tongues Begs for the Power of Speech,” “Now Go and Live in a Place,” “Petition: My Salary”; Adrienne Rich, “Ghazals: Homage to Ghalib*”(1969-1978) (will read Rich in class)
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Tues. 10/27: Midterm Exam, in class
Thurs. 10/29: Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, Acts I & II (1890)
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Tues. 11/3: Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler¸Acts III & IV
Thurs. 11/5: Rabindranath Tagore, “Punishment” (1893); Higuchi Ichiyo, “Separate Ways”
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Tues. 11/10: “Modernity & Modernism,” Lu Xun, “Diary of a Madman” (1918) and “Medicine” (1919)
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Thurs. 11/12: Virginia Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own” (1929)
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Tues. 11/17: Virginia Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own*” (1929); Alice Walker “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens*”
Thurs. 11/19: Chinua Achebe, “Chike’s School Days” (1960); Ama Ata Aidoo, “Two Sisters” (1970)
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Tues. 11/24: Adrienne Rich: “Diving Into the Wreck,” “Cartographies of Silence,” “Twenty One Love Poems,” “From an Old House in America” (all readings on BB)
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Thurs. 11/26: No class (Thanksgiving)
Tues. 12/1: Nawal El Saadawi, “In Camera” (1980); Hanan Al-Shaykh, “The Women’s Swimming Pool” (1982)
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Thurs. 12/3: Peer Review Workshop; draft of anthology introduction due
Tues. 12/8: Junot Diaz, “Drown (1996)”; selections from Claudia Rankine, Citizen* (2014)
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Thurs. 12/10: Presentations
Final exam period (date TBD): Presentations, continued; Final projects due