Required Texts
You should use the editions specified here.
Books on order (in order in which they will be used):
- [Odyssey] = Lattimore, Richmond. The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by Richmond Lattimore. Harper Colophon Books, 1975.
- [Arthurian Romances] = Troyes, Chrétien de. Arthurian Romances. Translated by William W. Kibler. Penguin Classics, 2004. ISBN: 9780140445213.
- [Don Quixote] = Saavedra, Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote. Translated by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003. ISBN: 9780142437230.
- [Gulliver’s Travel] = Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels. Oxford World’s Classics, 2009. ISBN: 9781439586204.
- [Frankenstein] = Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Penguin Classics, 2007. ISBN: 9780143105039.
- [Heart of Darkness] = Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. Penguin Classics, 2012. ISBN: 9780143106586.
- [To the Lighthouse] = Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. ISBN: 9780156907392.
The following schedule is meant to suggest the pace at which you should divide up your reading. In class, we will go slowly over some parts and quickly over others; we will also move readings up or push them back as seems necessary.
SES # | TOPICS / READINGS |
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1 | Introduction |
2 | [Odyssey] excerpts from Book 1; Books 9–12 |
3 | [Odyssey] excerpts from Book 1; Books 9-12 (continued) |
4 | [Arthurian Romances] “The Knight of the Cart” |
5 | [Arthurian Romances] “The Knight of the Cart” (continued) |
6 | [Don Quixote] Prologue and Chapters 1–5, 7–22, and 52 (i.e., pp. 11–51, 58–186, and 467–79) |
7 | [Don Quixote] |
8 | [Gulliver’s Travels] Parts 1 and 4, “A Voyage to Lilliput” and “A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms” |
9 | [Gulliver’s Travels] (continued) |
10 | [Frankenstein] |
11 | [Frankenstein] (continued) |
12 | [Frankenstein] (continued) |
13 | [Frankenstein] (continued) |
14 | [Heart of Darkness] |
15 | [Heart of Darkness] (continued) |
16 | [Heart of Darkness] (continued) |
17 | [Heart of Darkness] (continued) |
18 | [To the Lighthouse] |
19 | [To the Lighthouse] (continued) |
20 | [To the Lighthouse] (continued) |
21 | [To the Lighthouse] (continued) |