Reading Schedule


WEEK I

  • Jan. 15--Introduction; visit Computer Lab 101.


WEEK II

  • Jan. 18--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday (no class)

CHILEAN LITERATURE



WEEK III

  • Jan. 25--Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows--read 57 pp.
  • Jan. 27--Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows--read 57 pp.
  • Jan. 29--Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows--read 57 pp.


WEEK IV

BRAZILIAN LITERATURE

  • Feb. 01--MOVIE: Quilombo, written/directed by Carlos Diegues (114 min).
    Begin reading Jorge Amado, The War of the Saints --read 50 pp.
  • Feb. 03--MOVIE: Quilombo, written/directed by Carlos Diegues (114 min).
    Continue reading Jorge Amado, The War of the Saints --read 50 pp.
  • Feb. 05--MOVIE: Quilombo, written/directed by Carlos Diegues (114 min).
    Continue reading Jorge Amado, The War of the Saints --read 50 pp.


WEEK V

  • Feb. 08--Jorge Amado, The War of the Saints --read 50 pp.
  • Feb. 10--Jorge Amado, The War of the Saints --read 50 pp.
  • Feb. 12--Jorge Amado, The War of the Saints --read 50 pp.
    ASSIGN TAKE-HOME EXAM #1. Due Wed., 2/19.


WEEK VI

  • Feb. 15--Jorge Amado, The War of the Saints --read 50 pp.
  • Feb. 19--TAKE-HOME EXAM #1 DUE (no class). Submit a hard copy to my office (Grubbs 450) or email it attached as a .doc file to knichols11@cox.net.


WEEK VII

ARGENTINIAN LITERATURE

  • Feb. 24--Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph (online);
    Julio Cortázar, Axolotl (online)

CARIBBEAN LITERATURES

  • Feb. 26--Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Ti-Jean and his Brothers, Acts I & II (in Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays, 85-130).


WEEK VIII

  • Mar. 01--Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Ti-Jean and his Brothers, Act III (in Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays, 131-66).
    ASSIGN PAPER #1--due Mon., Mar. 8. See paper directions.
  • Mar. 05--MOVIE: Sugar Cane Alley (107 min.), based on Joseph Zobel (Martinique), Black Shack Alley.


WEEK IX

MEXICAN LITERATURE

  • Mar. 12--Carlos Fuentes, "The Two Americas" (in The Orange Tree, pp. 205-229--on library reserve).


WEEK X

  • Mar. 15-19--SPRING BREAK


WEEK XI

  • Mar. 22--Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo
  • Mar. 24--Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo.


WEEK XII

BORDERLANDS CHICANO/A LITERATURE



Revised Schedule


WEEK XIII

UNITED STATES LITERATURE

  • Apr. 05--TAKE-HOME EXAM #2 DUE (no class). Submit a hard copy to my office (Grubbs 450) or email it attached as a .doc file: knichols11@cox.net.
  • Apr. 07--William Faulkner, "The Fire and the Hearth" (in Go Down, Moses, 31-95)
  • Apr. 09--William Faulkner, "The Fire and the Hearth" (in Go Down, Moses, 96-127).
    ASSIGN PAPER #2: due Mon., Apr 26. See paper directions.
    Outside Reading (for paper): Faulkner, "The Old People" (in Go Down, Moses, 155-80)


WEEK XIV

  • Apr. 12--William Faulkner, "The Bear" (in Go Down, Moses, 183-243).
  • Apr. 14--William Faulkner, "The Bear" (in Go Down, Moses, 243-301).
  • Apr. 16--William Faulkner, "The Bear" (in Go Down, Moses, 301-315) and
    Outside Reading (for paper): Faulkner, "Delta Autumn" (in Go Down, Moses, 317-48)


WEEK XV

  • Apr. 21--VIDEO: Flannery O'Connor, The Displaced Person (55 min.).
  • Apr. 23--VIDEO: Flannery O'Connor, The Displaced Person (55 min.); O'Connor handout.


WEEK XVI

CANADIAN LITERATURE

  • Apr. 26--PAPER 2 DUE. Late papers will be graded down.
    MOVIE: Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (108 Min.)
  • Apr. 28--MOVIE: Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (108 Min.);
    Begin reading Thomas King, Medicine River--read 49 pp
  • Apr. 30--MOVIE: Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (108 Min.);
    Continue reading Thomas King, Medicine River--read 49 pp


WEEK XVII

  • May 03--Thomas King, Medicine River--read 49 pp
  • May 05--Thomas King, Medicine River--read 49 pp.
    ASSIGN TAKE-HOME EXAM #3. Due Wed., May 12.
  • May 07--Thomas King, Medicine River--read 49 pp


FINAL: TAKE-HOME EXAM #3--due Wed., May 12. No class. Submit a hard copy to my office (Grubbs 450) or email it to me attached as a .doc file: knichols@pittstate.edu.







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Updated: 12-10-12