READINGS:
ALWAYS READ INTRODUCTIONS TO THE PERIOD, AUTHOR, and WORK
Specific Assignments and Due Dates Will be Discussed in Class
THE WESTERN TRADITION
The ENLIGHTENMENT in EUROPE
- Voltaire - Candide, or Optimism
ROMANTICISM in EUROPE
- Rousseau - Confessions, Part I - Selections
- Pushkin - "The Queen of Spades"
REALISM in EUROPE
- Flaubert - "A Simple Heart"
- Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground
- Baudelaire - The Flowers of Evil
- Tolstoy - "The Death of Ivan Ilyich"
- Ibsen - Hedda Gabler
TWENTIETH CENTURY
- Proust - Remembrance of Things Past; Swann's Way - Overture
- Rilke - "Duino Elegies" - Selections
- Akhmatova - "Requiem"
- Borges - "The Garden of Forking Paths
- Gordimer - "Oral History"
INDIA
CHINA
- Cao Xueqin - The Story of The Stone - Selections
JAPAN
- Basho - "The Narrow Road of the Interior"
- Tanizaki - "In Praise of Shadows"
- Kojima - "The American School"
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