Reading Fiction: Imaginary Journeys

Readings

Required Texts

You should use the editions specified here.

Books on order (in order in which they will be used):

1. [Odyssey] = Lattimore, Richmond. The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by Richmond Lattimore. Harper Colophon Books, 1975.
2. [Arthurian Romances] = Troyes, Chrétien de. Arthurian Romances. Translated by William W. Kibler. Penguin Classics, 2004. ISBN: 9780140445213.
3. [Don Quixote] = Saavedra, Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote. Translated by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003. ISBN: 9780142437230.
4.  [Gulliver’s Travel] = Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels. Oxford World’s Classics, 2009. ISBN: 9781439586204.
5. [Frankenstein] = Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Penguin Classics, 2007. ISBN: 9780143105039.
6. [Heart of Darkness] = Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. Penguin Classics, 2012. ISBN: 9780143106586.
7. [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
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)