Tuesday: Literature
Week 1
TITLE: Ulysses
BIBLIOGRAPHY: all common knowledge
RECOMMENDED READING: For those fearful of tackling Ulysses, oyce’s novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and short story collection Dubliners (1914) give similar portraits of Dublin in shorter and more accessible form.
Week 2
TITLE: Ernest Hemingway
BIBLIOGRAPHY: all common knowledge
RECOMMENDED READING: For a change from the unbridled machismo of many of Hemingway’s works, try A Moveable Feast (1964), a loosely nonfictional, beautifully written account of his years amid the Paris café culture of the 1920s.
Week 3
TITLE: The Harlem Renaissance
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com
RECOMMENDED READING: The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader, edited by David Levering Lewis
Week 4
TITLE: Paradise Lost
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com
Week 5
TITLE: Homer
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com
RECOMMENDED READING: Thomas R. Martin’s Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times (2000) provides a concise overview of ancient Greek history; Thomas H. Carpenter’s Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (1991) focuses on mythology.
Week 6
TITLE: Heart of Darkness
Week 7
TITLE: Modernism
RECOMMENDED READING: Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (1998) provides a comprehensive collection of modernist texts and some of the seminal works of the 1800s that influenced the movement.
Week 8
TITLE: Catch-22
Week 9
TITLE: Gabriel García Márquez
RECOMMENDED READING: For a glimpse at other major Latin American authors of the twentieth century, try Pablo Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924), Octavio Paz’s essay collection The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950), or Isabel Allende’s novel The House of the Spirits (1982).
Week 10
TITLE: “Ozymandias”
Week 11
TITLE: William Faulkner
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com, http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/%7Eegjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html
RECOMMENDED READING: To get a taste of Faulkner’s style before diving into one of his novels, read a few of his masterful, atmospheric short stories. His best known are “The Bear” and “A Rose for Emily.”
Week 12
TITLE: The Great Gatsby
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com
RECOMMENDED READING: Fitzgerald’s sprawling, disorganized novel Tender Is the Night (1934) provides a completely different reading experience from the leanness and tight focus of The Great Gatsby.
Week 13
TITLE: John Steinbeck
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com, wikipedia.com
RECOMMENDED READING: Steinbeck’s final work, and one of his most enduringly popular, is Travels with Charley (1962), a thoughtful, nostalgic account of a cross-country road trip he took with his dog.
Week 14
TITLE: Don Quixote
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com, wikipedia.com
Week 15
TITLE: The Canterbury Tales
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com
Week 16
TITLE: The Divine Comedy
BIBLIOGRAPHY: none
Week 17
TITLE: Beowulf
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com, sparknotes.com
RECOMMENDED READING: John Gardner’s novel Grendel (1971) is a spellbinding postmodern retelling of Beowulf from Grendel’s perspective.
Week 18
TITLE: Salman Rushdie
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com, http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/anglophone/satanic_verses/svnotes.pdf
Week 19
TITLE: Pride and Prejudice
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com
Week 20
TITLE: Candide
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com
Week 21
TITLE: Postmodernism
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com
RECOMMENDED READING: The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism explores postmodernism as it has related to literature, art, architecture, music, film, television, and other fields.
Week 22
TITLE: Brave New World
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com, wikipedia.com, sparknotes.com
Week 23
TITLE: Postcolonialism
BIBLIOGRAPHY: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2748
Week 24
TITLE: Anton Chekhov
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com, sparknotes.com
RECOMMENDED READING: Two playwrights often mentioned alongside Chekhov are Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, from Norway and Sweden, respectively. All three had major influence on twentieth-century drama.
Week 25
TITLE: Virginia Woolf
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com
Week 26
TITLE: Moby-Dick
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com, wikipedia.com
Week 27
TITLE: “The Road Not Taken”
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com, http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/frost/road.htm
RECOMMENDED READING: Other notable poems by Frost include “Mending Wall” (1914), “Fire and Ice” (1923), “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (1923), and “Directive” (1947).
Week 28
TITLE: The Scarlet Letter
Week 29
TITLE: Walt Whitman
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Britannica.com, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry 2nd ed.
Week 30
TITLE: Charles Dickens
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com
Week 31
TITLE: Henry James (1843–1916)
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com
Week 32
TITLE: The Waste Land
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com, wikipedia.com, sparknotes.com, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry 2nd ed.
RECOMMENDED READING: Other well-known works by Eliot include the poems “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1917) and Four Quartets (1942).
Week 33
TITLE: Marcel Proust
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com, wikipedia.com, sparknotes.com
Week 34
TITLE: Invisible Man
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com
Week 35
TITLE: Howl
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com, wikipedia.com
RECOMMENDED READING: Other literary landmarks of the Beat generation include Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (1957) and William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch (1959).
Week 36
TITLE: Tennessee Williams
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com
Week 37
TITLE: William Shakespeare
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com, wikipedia.com
RECOMMENDED READING: One of the most popular recent works of Shakespeare criticism is Harold Bloom’s Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998), which argues that Shakespeare essentially invented the modern notion of personality.
Week 38
TITLE: Fyodor Dostoevsky
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com, wikipedia.com, sparknotes.com
Week 39
TITLE: Lolita
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com, wikipedia.com
RECOMMENDED READING: Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003) is a fascinating memoir about a woman’s experience of reading banned books under the repressive regime of the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran.
Week 40
TITLE: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com, wikipedia.com, sparknotes.com
RECOMMENDED READING: Twain’s nonfiction counterpart to his Mississippi River novels, Life on the Mississippi (1883), contains his personal reminiscences about life in the region.
Week 41
TITLE: Madame Bovary
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com
Week 42
TITLE: Waiting for Godot
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com
Week 43
TITLE: Oscar Wilde
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com
Week 44
TITLE: Metafiction
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com
Week 45
TITLE: “This Is My Letter to the World”
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com
Week 46
TITLE: Romanticism
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com, wikipedia.com
Week 47
TITLE: Sonnet 18
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com, wikipedia.com
Week 48
TITLE: Leo Tolstoy
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com, wikipedia.com, sparknotes.com, Columbia Encyclopedia
Week 49
TITLE: “I, Too, Sing America”
BIBLIOGRAPHY: britannica.com
Week 50
TITLE: “The Second Coming”
BIBLIOGRAPHY: wikipedia.com, sample from Noah
Week 51
TITLE: Magic Realism
BIBLIOGRAPHY: wikipedia.com, britannica.com
Week 52
TITLE: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
BIBLIOGRAPHY: wikipedia.com, britannica.com
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