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xviii

Time Line

Part 1 World Literature Today: A Geographical Tour

Contemporary World Literature and Culture

Unit Introduction

(1)

Mexico

Passport to Mexico

(4)

Like Water for Chocolate

(8)

Laura Esquivel

Reading Skills

(3)

``A Modest Proposal''

Jonathan Swift Great Britain

Nigeria

Passport to Nigeria

(4)

``Marriage Is a Private Affair''

(7)

Chinua Achebe

Writing Skills: The Process of Writing

(2)

Greece

Passport to Greece

(4)

``Poseidonians''

(3)

Constantine Cavafy

Research Skills

(2)

France

Passport to France

(4)

The Bald Soprano

(6)

Eugene Ionesco

Speaking and Listening Skills

(2)

Russia

Passport to Russia

(4)

``Conversation with an American Writer''

(4)

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Thinking Skills

(3)

India

Passport to India

(4)

Nectar in a Sieve

(5)

Kamala Markandaya

Writing Skills: Writing a Critical Essay

(2)

China

Passport to China

(4)

``The Street-Sweeping Show''

(5)

Feng Jicai

Language Skills: Parts of Speech

(3)

Japan

Passport to Japan

(4)

``The Nose''

(8)

Focus: Akutagawa Ryunosuke

Writing Skills: Creative Writing

100

(2)

Unit Review

102

(6)

Part 2 Themes in World Literature

The Struggle Against Intolerance

Unit Introduction

108

(1)

Echoes

109

(103)

A Doll's House

110

(57)

Henrik Ibsen Norway

Insights: Women--Rights and Writers

167

(1)

``The Introduction''

Anne Finch

Orlando Furioso

Ludovico Ariosto

``Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!''

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Requiem

168

(12)

Anna Akhmatova

Insights: The Holocaust

180

(1)

Night

181

(8)

Elie Wiesel

The Bluest Eye

189

(7)

Toni Morrison

Kaffir Boy

196

(7)

Mark Mathabane

Insights: Apartheid

203

(1)

``By Any Other Name''

Santha Rama Rau

Gifts of Passage

204

(8)

Global Voices: Discussing Introlerance

212

(2)

Selections for Additional Reading

``Crazed Man in Concentration Camp''

214

(1)

Agnes Gergely

``The Censors''

214

(1)

Luisa Valenzuela

United Nations Commission on Human Rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

215

(1)

Unit Review

216

(265)

Other Selections Exploring This Theme:

``The Youngest Doll,''

481

(623)

Rosario Ferre

The Woman Warrior

1104

Maxine Hong

Sonnet 23

847

(13)

Louise Labe

``Of Cannibals,''

860

Michel de Montaigne

``Conversation with an American Writer,''

(162)

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Love

Unit Introduction

220

(1)

Echoes

221

(65)

Aeneid

222

(23)

Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

``The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter''

245

(5)

Li Po

Insights: Imagery and Ideographic Writing

250

(1)

Canzoniere

251

(5)

Petrach (Francesco Petrarca)

Sonnet 3, ``It was the morning of that blessed day''

Sonnet 300, ``Great is my envy of you...''

Insights: The Form of the Sonnet

256

(1)

``Whoso List to Hunt''

256

(1)

Sir Thomas Wyatt

Sonnet 18

William Shakespeare

``Though I am Laila of the Persian romance''

257

(4)

Princess Zeb-un-Nissa

``Tonight I Can Write''

261

(5)

Pablo Neruda

``Penelope's Despair''

266

(4)

Yannis Ritsos

``The Little Heidelberg''

270

(8)

Isbel Allende

Insights: Magical Realism

278

(1)

``Love after Love''

279

(5)

Derek Walcott

Global Voices: Discussing Love

284

(2)

Selections for Additional Reading

Song of Solomon

286

(1)

King James Bible

Sonnet 75, ``One day I wrote her name...'' Amoretti

286

(1)

Edmund Spenser

``Your love turned...''

286

(1)

Empress Nur Jahan

Wuthering Heights

287

(1)

Emily Bronte

The Gardener

287

(1)

Rabindranath Tagore

``If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem''

287

(1)

Yehuda Amichai

``Love Orange''

287

(3)

Olive Senior

Unit Review

290

Other Selections Exploring This Theme:

``Marriage Is a Private Affair,''

(446)

Chinua Achebe

``Lot's Wife,''

470

(272)

Anna Akhmatova

``Lady Maria, your worth and excellence,''

742

(80)

Bieris de Romans

``Federigo's Falcon,''

822

Giovanni Boccaccio

``Song Composed in August,''

384

(307)

Robert Burns

Selected Poems

691

(56)

Catullus

The Divine Comedy

747

Dante

``Rice Pudding,''

347

Kamala Das

Like Water for Chocolate

(723)

Laura Esquivel

Tristan

732

(286)

Gottfried von Strassburg

``Araby,''

1018

James Joyce

Sonnet 23

847

(111)

Louise Labe

Cyrano de Bergerac

958

Edmond Rostand

``But Not Everybody Wants Love,''

610

(1)

Sappho

``At Last,''

610

(1)

``It Gives Me Joy to Think,''

611

(415)

Orlando

1026

Virginia Woolf

Coping with Death

Unit Introduction

294

(1)

Echoes

295

(61)

``The Weighing of the Heart of Ani''

Anonymous

The Book of the Dead

296

(6)

Insights: Death Rituals

302

(1)

``The Death of Socrates'' Phaedo

303

(7)

Plato

``Lament for His Son'' the Shah-nama

310

(4)

Firdausi

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

314

(9)

Leo Tolstoy

The Sound of the Mountain

323

(7)

Kawabata Yasunari

``Life Is Sweet at Kumansenu''

330

(9)

Abioseh Nicol

``Tuesday Siesta''

339

(8)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

``Rice Pudding''

347

(7)

Kamala Das (Madhavikutty)

Global Voices: Discussing Death

354

(2)

Selections for Additional Reading

``Life is a malady ...''

356

(1)

Abu'l-Ala al-Ma`arri

``David's Lament for Jonathan''

356

(1)

Pierre Abelard

``Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat''

356

(1)

Thomas Gray

``After Death''

357

(1)

Christina Rossetti

``A Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire of a Child in London''

357

(1)

Dylan Thomas

Unit Review

358

(144)

Other Selections Exploring This Theme:

The Epic of Gilgamesh

502

(533)

Anonymous

``The Guitar,''

1035

Federico Garcia Lorca

from the Koran

778

``Let's Not Pretend,''

611

(1)

Sappho

``Life Slips By,''

612

(62)

``Pericles' Funeral Oration,''

674

(85)

Thucydides

``Ballade,''

759

Francois Villon

the Aeneid

222

Virgil

Night

181

(181)

Elie Wiesel

Communion with Nature

Unit Introduction

362

(1)

Echoes

363

(64)

``Hymn to the Sun''

364

(6)

Akhenaten

Insights: Hymns and Psalms

370

from the King James Bible

Israel

Judea

Psalm

(114)

Psalm

137

(235)

``I Built My Cottage among the Habitations of Men''

372

(4)

T'ao Ch'ien

Insights: The Pastoral Tradition

376

(2)

Haiku and Tanka

378

(6)

Matsuo Basho

``the old pond--''

``the sound of the water jar''

``the first snow''

``The snow is melting''

Kobayashi Issa

``In the summer rain''

Yosa Buson

``In the lingering wake''

Ki no Tsurayuki

``Song Composed in August''

384

(6)

Robert Burns

``The Iguana'' from Out of Africa

390

(5)

Isak Dinesen

``The Flower of Air''

395

(7)

Gabriela Mistral

To ``Free-Spirited Fisherman''

402

(4)

Li Ch'ing-chao

``The Garden of Stubborn Cats''

406

(11)

Italo Calvino

``Season''

417

(4)

Wole Soyinka

``Of Autumn''

421

(4)

Veronica Porumbacu

Global Voices: Discussing Nature

425

(2)

Selections for Additional Reading

Of Nature

427

(1)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Road from Coorain

427

(3)

Jill Ker Conway

Unit Review

430

(495)

Other Selections Exploring This Theme:

``They say that plants don't talk ...,''

925

Rosalia de Castro

The Sound of the Mountain

323

(544)

Kawabata yasunari

Fables

867

(198)

Jean de La Fontaine

``The First Sally (A) or Trurl's Electronic Bard,''

1065

Stanislaw Lem

Metamorphoses

Unit Introduction

434

(1)

Echoes

435

(57)

``The Story of Actaeon'' from Metamorphoses

436

(8)

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

``The Lay of the Werewolf''

444

(9)

Marie de Franc

Themes: Terrifying Tales of Transformation

453

(1)

from The Metamorphosis

454

(16)

Franz Kafka

``Lot's Wife''

470

(4)

Anna Akhmatova

``The Fifth Story''

474

(7)

Clarice Lispector

``The Youngest Doll''

481

(9)

Rosario Ferre

Global Voices: Discussing Change

490

(2)

Selection for Additional Reading

``Apollo and Daphne'' from Metamorphoses

492

(2)

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

Unit Review

494

(44)

Other Selections Exploring This Theme:

``The Five Worlds and Their Suns,''

538

(37)

Anonymous

from the Sunjata

575

(8)

Anonymous

from Chuang Tzu

583

Chuang Chou

Part 3 The History of World Literature

Roots of World Literature

Unit Introduction

500

(1)

Echoes

501

(82)

from The Epic of Gilgamesh

502

(14)

Anonymous

Themes: The Hero and the Quest

516

(2)

from the King James Bible

518

(14)

from Genesis

from the Popol Vub

532

(6)

Anonymous

``The Five Worlds and Their Suns''

538

(6)

Anonymous

from the Tao Te Ching

544

(6)

Lao-tzu

from the Analects

550

(5)

Confucius (K'ung Fu-tzu)

Themes: Society and the Individual

555

(1)

from the Rig Veda

556

(4)

``Creation Hymn''

from the Ramayana

560

(15)

Valmiki

from the Sunjata

575

(8)

Anonymous

Selections for Additional Reading

``Inanna and Ishkur''

583

(1)

Enheduanna

from Chuang Tzu

583

(1)

Chuang Chou

``The Four Noble Truths, or the First Sermon''

583

(1)

Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha

Unit Review

584

Other Selections Exploring This Period:

`Hymn to the Sun,''

364

Akhenaten

``The Weighing of the Heart of Ani,''

296

(292)

Anonymous

Classical Literature

Unit Introduction

588

(3)

Echoes

591

(119)

from the Iliad

592

(18)

Homer

``But Not Everybody Wants Love''

610

(6)

Sappho Greece

``At Last''

``It Gives Me Joy to Think'' Fragment 144

``Let's Not Pretend''

``Life Slips By''

``I Think of Achilles''

Insights: Greek Drama

616

(2)

Oedipus the King

618

(56)

Sophocles

``Pericles' Funeral Oration''

Thucydides

from History of the Peloponnesian War

674

(9)

from From the Founding of the City, Book I

683

(8)

Livy (Titus Livius)

``My life, my love, you say our love will last forever''

691

(5)

Gaius Valerius Catullus Rome

``My woman says that she would rather wear the wedding-veil for me''

``I hate and love''

``You are the cause of this destruction''

from The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans

696

(13)

Plutarch

Insights: The Renaissance: The Classics Revisited

709

(1)

from The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

Selections for Additional Reading

from The Histories

710

(2)

Herodotus

Unit Review

712

Other Selections Exploring This Period:

``The Story of Actaeon,''

436

Ovid

``The Death of Socrates,''

303

Plato

from the Aeneid

222

(494)

Virgil

Medieval Literature

Unit Introduction

716

(3)

Echoes

719

(90)

Themes: Chivalry and Courtly Love

720

(2)

from The Art of Courtly Love

Andreas Capellanus (Andre le Chapelain)

from The Story of the Grail

722

(10)

Chretien de Troyes

Tristan

732

(10)

Gottfried von Strassburg

``Lady Maria, your worth and excellence''

742

(5)

Bieris de Romans

from The Divine Comedy

747

(12)

Dante Alighieri

``Ballade''

759

(6)

Francois Villon

from The Tale of Genji

765

(5)

Murasaki Shikibu

from The Pillow Book

770

(8)

Sei Shonagon

from the Koran

778

(6)

The Exordium

The Cataclysm

Daylight

``The Fisherman and the Jinnee'' from The Thousand and One Nights

784

(11)

Anonymous

Insights: Tales within Tales

795

(1)

from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

796

(6)

Omar Khayyam

Insights: The Art of Translation

802

(2)

``The Man Who Fled from Azrael''

804

(5)

Rumi (Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi) Persia

``The Elephant in the Dark House'' from the Mathnavi

Selections for Additional Reading

from The Song of Roland

809

(3)

Anonymous

``I Sing of a Maiden''

812

(1)

Anonymous

from The Chronicle of Contemporary Events

813

(1)

Dino Compagni

Unit Review

814

Other Selections Exploring This Period:

``Lament for His Son,''

310

(68)

Firdausi

``In the lingering wake,''

378

Ki no Tsurayuki

``The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter,''

245

(199)

Li Po

``The Lay of the Werewolf,''

444

(374)

Marie de France

The Renaissance and the Enlightenment

Unit Introduction

818

(3)

Echoes

821

(71)

``Federigo's Falcon'' from the Decameron

822

(8)

Giovanni Boccaccio

from Orlando Furioso

830

(17)

Ludovico Ariosto

Sonnet 23

847

(4)

Louise Labe

Insights: The Petrarchan Ideal

851

(1)

Sonnet 90

Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)

Sonnet 130

William Shakespeare

from The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha

852

(8)

Miguel de Cervantes

from ``Of Cannibals''

860

(7)

Michel de Montaigne

from Fables

867

(5)

Jean de La Fontaine

``The Lion and the Rat''

``The Oak and the Reed''

from Tartuffe

872

(11)

Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)

Themes: Honesty and Deception

883

(1)

from Candide

884

(8)

Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet)

Selections for Additional Reading

from The Prince

892

(1)

Niccolo Machiavelli

``When You Are Very Old''

893

(1)

Pierre Ronsard

from Pensees

893

(1)

Blaise Pascal

from An Essay on Criticism

894

(1)

Alexander Pope

from Natural Theology

895

(1)

William Paley

Unit Review

896

Other Selections Exploring This Period:

``Your love turned ...,''

286

Empress Nur Jahan

Sonnets 3 and 300

251

(35)

Petrarch

Sonnet 75

286

Edmund Spenser

``Though I am Laila of the Persian romance,''

257

(643)

Princess Zeb-un Nissa

Romanticism, Realism, and Naturalism

Unit Introduction

900

(3)

Echoes

903

(90)

``My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold''

904

(4)

William Wordsworth

Insights: Reactions to Neoclassicism

908

(1)

``Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau'' from ``Auguries of Innocence''

William Blake

``Loreley''

909

(5)

Heinrich Heine

from Les Miserables

914

(11)

Victor Hugo

``They say that plants don't talk...''

925

(5)

Rosalia de Castro

from Germinal

930

(11)

Emile Zola

``The False Gems''

941

(8)

Guy de Maupassant

``The Bet''

949

(9)

Anton Chekhov

from Cyrano de Bergerac

958

(26)

Edmond Rostand

``The Shoes''

984

(9)

Grazia Deledda

Selections for Additional Reading

from The Confessions

993

(1)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

``The Overcoat''

993

(13)

Nikolai Gogol

from Madame Bovary

1006

(4)

Gustave Flaubert

Unit Review

1010

Other Selections Exploring This Period:

``Song Composed in August,''

384

Robert Burns

A Doll's House

110

(204)

Henrik Ibsen

from The Death of Ivan Ilyich

314

(700)

Leo Tolstoy

Modern and Contemporary Literature

Unit Introduction

1014

(3)

Echoes

1017

(101)

``Araby'' from Dubliners

1018

(8)

James Joyce

from Orlando

1026

(9)

Virginia Woolf

``The Guitar''

1035

(5)

Federico Garcia Lorca

``And We Shall Be Steeped''

1040

(4)

Leopold Sedar Senghor

``Metonymy, or The Husband's Revenge''

1044

(8)

Rachel de Queiroz

``The Myth of Sisyphus''

1052

(8)

Albert Camus

``Request to a Year''

1060

(5)

Judith Wright

``The First Sally (A) or Trul's Electronic Bard''

1065

(12)

Stanislaw Lem

Themes: Science Fiction and Social Criticism

1077

(1)

from Being There

1078

(8)

Jerzy Kosinski

``Snapshots of a Wedding''

1086

(8)

Bessie Head

``Games at Twilight''

1094

(10)

Anita Desai

from The Woman Warrior

1104

(8)

Maxine Hong Kingston

``The Wooden Horse then said''

1112

Jenny Mastoraki

Global Voices: Discussing the ``Global Village''

1110

(8)

Selections for Additional Reading

``The Book of Sand''

1118

(2)

Jorge Luis Borges

``A Song on the End of the World''

1120

(1)

Czeslaw Milosz

``Simmering''

1120

(2)

Margaret Atwood

Unit Review

1122

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