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Part One: Literature of the Ancient World
Week One (Aug. 21-25)
Monday, Aug. 21: Introduction to Class.
Wed., Aug. 23: Discussion of Gilgamesh. (Vol. A pgs. 10-24)
Friday: Aug. 25: Discussion and analysis of Gilgamesh. (pgs. 25-40)
Week Two (Aug. 28-Sept. 1)
Monday, Aug. 28: The Bible and Job. (Vol. A pgs. 52-56; 77-93)
Wed., Aug. 30: Introduction to Ancient Greece and Homer (pgs. 105-119)
Friday, Sept. 1: Discussion of Iliad (pgs 120-147)
Week Three (Sept. 6-8)
Wed., Sept. 6: Discussion of Iliad and Odyssey (Vol. A pgs. 205-246)
Friday, Sept. 8: Discussion of Odyssey (pgs. 319-347)
Week Four (Sept. 11-15)
Monday, Sept. 11: Discussion of the Odyssey (Vol. A pgs. 347-376)
Wed., Sept. 13: Discussion of the Odyssey (pgs. 483-516)
Friday, Sept. 15: Poetry and Thought in Early China ; Confucius (pgs. 805-831)
Week Five (Sept. 18-22)
Monday, Sept. 18: Ssu-Ma Ch’ien and Chinese Historians (Vol. A pgs. 858-879)
Wed., Sept. 20: India ’s Heroic Age (881-885) &the Mahabharata (pgs. 953-966)
Friday, Sept. 22: Discussion of the Mahabharata (pgs. 967-1001)
Week Six (Sept. 25-29)
Monday, Sept. 25: Roman Empire (Vol. A pgs. 1041-1045) & Aeneid (1106-1124)
Wed., Sept. 27: Ovid and Metamorphoses (pgs. 1134-1149)
Friday, Sept. 29: Discuss Metamorphoses (pgs. 1149-1182)
Week Seven (Oct. 2-6)
Monday, Oct. 2: Exam 1: Literature of the Ancient World
Part Two: Literature of the Middle Ages
Wed., Oct. 4: Discuss Short Paper Due Oct. 27
Week Eight (Oct. 11-13)
Wed., Oct. 11: Intro Islamic Lit (Vol. B pgs. 1419-1428); Discuss Koran (pgs. 1429-1460). E-mail topic of short paper to nkerns@purdue.edu
Friday, Oct. 13: Discuss Beowulf (Vol. B pgs. 1621-1681
Week Nine (Oct. 16-20)
Monday, Oct. 16: Finish Beowulf (pgs. 1681-1702); Medieval lyrics (1783-1787; 1790-92; 1807-1814)
Wed., Oct. 18: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Vol. B pgs. 1991-2003)
Friday, Oct. 20: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (pgs. 2003-2045)
Week Ten (Oct. 23-27)
Friday, Oct. 27: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Prologue and the Wife of Bath's tale (pgs. 2045-2067; 2082-2106)
Friday, Oct. 27: Short paper due
Week Eleven (Oct. 30-Nov. 3)
Monday, Oct. 30: Japan's Golden Age - Poetry (Vol. B pgs. 2143-2174)
Wed., Nov. 1: Shikibu's Tale of Genji (pgs. 2174-2204)
Friday, Nov. 3: Mystical Poetry of India (pgs. 2373-2405)
Week Twelve (Nov. 6-10)
Monday, Nov. 6: Exam 2: Literature of The Middle Ages
Part Three: Literature of the Renaissance
Wed., Nov. 8: Discuss longer paper due Dec. 4; Begin Africa and Son-Jara (Vol. C pgs. 2409-2416)
Friday, Nov. 10: Africa and the Son-Jara (pgs. 2416-2429)
Week Thirteen (Nov. 13- 17)
Monday, Nov. 13: Discuss Son-Jara (Vol. C pgs. 2429-2462)
Wed., Nov. 15: Renaissance in Europe (pgs. 2465-2475); Petrarch (2476-79; 2485-2490)
Friday, Nov. 17: Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (pgs. 2534-2549)
Week Fourteen (Nov. 20)
Monday, Nov. 20: Marguerite De Navarre's Heptameron (2564-2591)
Week Fifteen (Nov. 27-Dec. 1)
Monday, Nov. 27: Mary Wroth's Urania (Handouts in class)
Wed., Nov. 29: Discuss Urania
Friday, Dec. 1: Shakespeare's Sonnets (Handouts in class)
Week Sixteen (Dec. 4-Dec. 8)
Monday, Dec. 4: Paper Due
Monday, Dec. 4: Milton and Paradise Lost (Vol. C pgs. 2996-3013)
Wed., Dec. 6: Discuss Paradise Lost (pgs. 3013-3049)
Friday, Dec. 8: Finish Paradise Lost (pgs. 3049-3060)
Week Seventeen:
Saturday, Dec. 16 at 3:20 pm in HEAV 125: Exam 3 Literature of the Renaissance