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WEEK #	LEC #	READINGS	ASSIGNMENTS / EXAMS


1	1	John Crowe Ransome. "Captain Carpenter." (handout).


	2	Joyce. "An Encounter."


2	3	Kipling. The Man Who Would Be King. Thorburn. "Introduction." Initiation. (handout).	Summary of week 1 lec #2 (maximum two pages).


	4	Conrad. Heart of Darkness.


3		Conrad. Heart of Darkness.


4	5	Conrad. The Shadow-Line.


	6	Ford. The Good Soldier.


5		Ford. The Good Soldier.


	7	Kafka. The Metamorphosis.	First Paper Due.


6		Kafka. The Metamorphosis.


			Midterm Exam.


7	8	D.H. Lawrence. "The Horse-Dealer's Daughter." (handout).


	9	Joyce. "Araby," "Two Gallants," "Grace," "The Dead". In Dubliners.


8		Joyce. "Araby," "Two Gallants," "Grace," "The Dead". In Dubliners.	Second Paper Due.


9	10	Joyce. Chap. 4 - 18 In Ulysses.


	11	Joyce. Chap. 4 - 18 In Ulysses.


10	12	Woolf. To the Lighthouse.


		Woolf. To the Lighthouse.


11	13	Faulkner. "That Evening Sun." ___. "Old Man."


12		Faulkner. "That Evening Sun." ___. "Old Man."


	14	Babel. "The Story of My Dovecot." ___. "Crossing the Zbrucz." ___. "Pan Apolek." ___. "My First Goose." ___. "The King." ___. "How It Was Done in Odessa." ___. "The Sin of Jesus."


13		Babel. "The Story of My Dovecot." ___. "Crossing the Zbrucz." ___. "Pan Apolek." ___. "My First Goose." ___. "The King." ___. "How It Was Done in Odessa." ___. "The Sin of Jesus."


			Final Exam.


14	15	Nabokov. Pale Fire.


		___. Pale Fire.	Third Paper Due.


15	16	Summary perspectives: The Moral Vision of Modern Fiction.