Course Schedule, Spring 2008 Literature Humanities

January 23 Virgil, AENEID: Books 1 & 2

28 Virgil, AENEID: Books 3-9

30 Virgil, AENEID: Books 10-12

February 4 Augustine, THE CONFESSIONS: Books 1-6

6 Augustine, THE CONFESSIONS: Books 8-10

11 Dante, INFERNO: 1-5; 10-11; 13; 15; 19; 26-28; 33-34

13 Dante, PURGATORIO 1-3; 10-13; 21-22; 24; 26-27; 30; PARADISO 3-4; 15-17; 19; 27; 33

18 Boccaccio, THE DECAMERON: Prologue (1-3); Day I Intro (4-23) & novellas 1, 2, 3;
Day II: 7,8,9; Day III: 1, 10; Day IV: Intro (284-291) & 1,2,5

20 Boccaccio, THE DECAMERON: Day V: 4,10; Day VI (complete); Day VII: 2, 6, 8, 9; Day VIII: 7;
Day IX: 6, 10; Day X: 5, 10; Epilogue (798-802)

25 Montaigne, THE ESSAYS: “To the Reader,” “On Idleness,”

“On the Power of the Imagination,” “On Cannibals,” “On Democritus and Heraclitus”

27 Montaigne, THE ESSAYS: “On Repentance” & “On Experience”

March 3 Shakespeare, HAMLET: Acts 1-3

5 Shakespeare, HAMLET: Acts 4 & 5

10 Cervantes, DON QUIXOTE, Part I: Prologue, chapters 1-11

12 Midterm

24 Cervantes, DON QUIXOTE: Part I: ch. 12-41

26 Cervantes, DON QUIXOTE: Part I: ch. 41-52, Part II: ch.1-3;16;18;72-74

31 Austen, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: Chapters 1-34

April 2 Austen, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: Chapters 35-61

7 Emerson, “The American Scholar,” “Self-Reliance,” and “Experience”

9 Whitman, “Song of Myself”

14 Dostoyevsky, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: Parts 1-4

16 Dostoyevsky, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: Parts 5-6

21 Woolf, TO THE LIGHTHOUSE: “The Window”

23 Woolf, TO THE LIGHTHOUSE: “Time Passes” and “The Lighthouse”

28 AMERICAN SHORT STORIES (To be distributed)

30 AMERICAN SHORT STORIES

May5 Last Day