Realist/Naturalist Novels
WEEK ONE
Aug. 20--Introduction
Aug. 22--Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (Russia)--read 55-60 pages per class meeting
Aug. 24--Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
WEEK TWO
Aug. 27--Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina; video selection.
(See Tolstoy Images I.)
Aug. 29--Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Aug. 31--Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
WEEK THREE
Sep. 03--NO CLASS (Labor Day)
Sep. 05--Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Sep. 07--Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina; video selection.
WEEK FOUR
Sep. 10--Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Sep. 12--Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Sep. 14--Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
WEEK FIVE
Sep. 17--Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina; video selection.
Sep. 19--Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Sep. 21--Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
WEEK SIX
Sep. 24--Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Sep. 26--TAKE-HOME EXAM DUE; video selection.
Sep. 28--Emile Zola, L'Assommoir [The Dram-Shop] (France)--read about 50 pages per class meeting
WEEK SEVEN
Oct. 01--Emile Zola, L'Assommoir. (See
Zola Images II.)
Oct. 03--Emile Zola, L'Assommoir
Oct. 05--Emile Zola, L'Assommoir
WEEK EIGHT
Oct. 08--Emile Zola, L'Assommoir
Oct. 10--Emile Zola, L'Assommoir. PAPER ASSIGNED (see directions). Due: Oct. 24.
Oct. 12--FALL BREAK (no class)
WEEK NINE
Oct. 15--Emile Zola, L'Assommoir
Oct. 17--Emile Zola, L'Assommoir
Oct. 19--Emile Zola, L'Assommoir
Post-Colonial Novels
WEEK TEN
Oct. 22--Kamala Markandaya, Nectar in a Sieve
(India)--read about 48 pages per class meeting. See Coleridge's poem Work without Hope.
Oct. 24--Kamala Markandaya, Nectar in a Sieve
Oct. 26--Kamala Markandaya, Nectar in a Sieve
WEEK ELEVEN
Oct. 29--Kamala Markandaya, Nectar in a Sieve
Oct. 31--TAKE-HOME EXAM DUE
Nov. 02--Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (Zimbabwe, Africa)--read about 52 pages per class meeting. (Supplements: Map of Africa and Introduction to Postcolonial Studies.)
WEEK TWELVE
Nov. 05--Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions
Nov. 07--Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions
Nov. 09--Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions
WEEK THIRTEEN
Nov. 12--Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions
Magical Realism
Nov. 14--Isabelle Allende, The House of Spirits(Chili)--read about 49 pages per class meeting
Nov. 16--Isabelle Allende, The House of Spirits
WEEK FOURTEEN
Nov. 19--Isabelle Allende, The House of Spirits
Nov. 21--THANKSGIVING BREAK (no class)
Nov. 23--THANKSGIVING BREAK (no class)
WEEK FIFTEEN
Nov. 26--Isabelle Allende, The House of Spirits
Nov. 28--Isabelle Allende, The House of Spirits
Nov. 30--Isabelle Allende, The House of Spirits
WEEK SIXTEEN
Dec. 03--Isabelle Allende, The House of Spirits
Dec. 05--Isabelle Allende, The House of Spirits
Dec. 07--Isabelle Allende, The House of Spirits
Final: Wed., Dec. 12 at 12:00
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