Readings & Films

[LDT] = Anonymous. Lazarillo de Tormes. Edited and translated by Ilan Stavans. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015. ISBN: 9780393938050. [Preview with Google Books]

[LLD] = Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre. Les Liaisons dangereuses. Reissue edition. Translated by Douglas Parmée. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780199536481. [Preview with Google Books]

[TR] = Zola, Émile. Thérèse Raquin. Reprint edition. Penguin Classics, 2005. ISBN: 9780140449440. [Preview with Google Books]

[KSW] = Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman. Reissue edition. Vintage, 1991. ISBN: 9780679724490.

[TBP] = Rulfo, Juan. The Burning Plain and Other Stories. Illustrated by Kermit Oliver. Translated by George D. Schade. University of Texas Press, 1971. ISBN: 9780292701328. [Preview with Google Books]

SES # TOPICS READINGS & FILMS
1 Introduction to the course [LDT] Prologue and Ch. 1–2
2 Discuss: Lazarillo de Tormes

[LDT] Finish reading

Thought questions on Lazarillo de Tormes

3 Discuss: Lazarillo de Tormes

[LLD] Read to Letter 22

Notes on Les Liaisons dangereuses to Letter 22

4 Les Liaisons dangereuses

[LLD] Read to Letter 82

Notes on Les Liaisons dangereuses Letters 40–99

5 Discuss: Les Liaisons dangereuses

[LLD] Read to Letter 146

Notes on Les Liaisons dangereuses Letters 114–146

6 Discuss: Les Liaisons dangereuses

[LLD] Finish reading

Notes on Les Liaisons dangereuses Letters 147–End

7 Discuss: Les Liaisons dangereuses Watch: Dangerous Liaisons
8 Discuss film: Dangerous Liaisons

Watch: Cruel Intentions

Notes on Dangerous Liaisons and Cruel Intentions

9

Discuss film: Cruel Intentions

Compare two movie versions

[TR] Start reading

Important moments in Thérèse Raquin (first half)

10 Discuss: Thérèse Raquin [TR] Continue reading
11 Discuss: Thérèse Raquin

[TR] Finish reading

Important moments in Thérèse Raquin (second half)

12 Finish: Thérèse Raquin

de Assis, Machado. Dom Casmurro. Translated by Helen Caldwell. Reprint edition. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. ISBN: 9780374523039. [Preview with Google Books]

Person, Ethel S. “Love Triangles.” The Atlantic. February 1988.

13 Discuss: Dom Casmurro Watch: Doña Flor and Her Two Husbands
14

Discuss: Doña Flor and Her Two Husbands

Finish discussion of Dom Casmurro

Mann, Thomas. Dead in Venice. Translated by Stanley Appelbaum. Dover Publications, 1995. ISBN: 9780486287140. [Preview with Google Books]
15 Discuss: Death in Venice No assigned readings
16 Discuss: Death in Venice Watch: Death in Venice
17

Discuss film: Death in Venice

Finish discussion of Death in Venice

Watch: Cat People

[KSW] Ch. 1–11

18

Discuss: Kiss of the Spider Woman to Ch. 11

[KSW] Finish reading
19 Finish discussion of Kiss of the Spider Woman Watch: Kiss of the Spider Woman
20 Discuss film: Kiss of the Spider Woman

[TBP] “They Gave Us the Land.” [Preview with Google Books]

[TBP] “Tell Them Not to Kill Me!” [Preview with Google Books]

[TBP] “Paso del Norte.”

21

Discuss: Short stories by Juan Rulfo

Guest lecturer: Joaquín Terrones

Márquez, Gabriel García. Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Reprint edition. Vintage, 2003. ISBN: 9781400034710.
22

Discuss: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Final discussion

Fourth essay due three days after Session 22

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