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Weeks I - 4

Course Introduction and lecture: The first four links provide interesting information on ancient Greek culture. When you go to these sites, you will have to experiment (surf around) to find the best pages. (They are not in any particular order.)

Ancient Greek Civilizations

Greek Odyssey

Classical Myth: The Ancient Sources

Exploring Ancient World Cultures

Sophocles Antigone

Thoreau "Resistance to Civil Government"

Lecture (Golden Age of Greece)

Aristophanes Lysistrata

Weeks 5 - 7

Hebrews and Ancient Israel

Bible

I Samuel 16, 17, 18 II Samuel 5, 6, 7:1-17

II Samuel 11, 12:1-24 and Psalm 51

Psalm 100, 91, 150, 78, 136, 22, 23

Job 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 32, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42

Psalm 1, 15, 37

I Kings 3:3-15

Proverbs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 16, 18, 27, 28

Ecclesiastes (The Entire Book)

Song of Solomon (The Entire Book)

Review for Test I

World Lit. Vocabulary Test 1

The Greeks, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Drama

The Hebrews, Bible, Poetry

Weeks 8 - 9

Hesse Siddhartha

Weeks 10 - 11

Kafka Metamorphosis

Weeks 12 - 13

Marquez A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

Paz My Life with the Wave (Illustrated in Spanish)

Weeks 14 - 15

Maupassant

"Mademoiselle Fifi" "Ghosts" "The Colonel's Ideas"

"Two Little Soldiers" "The Diary of a Madman" "Simon's Papa"

"Waiter, a 'Brock'" "The Artist" "Sequel to a Divorce"

"Miss Harriet" "Was It a Dream?" "The Hand"

Test II

Literary Research Assignment

Several suggested handouts for the writing project follow:

Literary Research Assignment (Tentative)

Literary Criticism: Overview of Approaches

Literary and Rhetorical Terminology

Analyzing Novels and Short Stories

Writing about Literature (Purdue)

Writing a Paper on Fiction in Nine Steps: (Good advice, short, simple)

Writing about Poetry

MLA Page Format for Word

MLA Style Center

MLA (OWL Prudue)

Correction Symbols

Sample Student Essays, (Old MLA Format):

"The Ironies of Life"

"American Dreams"