Reading schedule

     This page shows the readings we'll be discussing in each class, as well as all writing assignments.  All of our books should be available in the Caltech bookstore; if you like, see the list of required books. 

     As a rough guide, each week's reading will probably take you at least four hours.  If you add about an hour for writing up a one-page Problem, and also allow for a fast re-reading and note-taking session before our discussion, you should plan to spend about six hours.  For many people, it may work best to spread the reading time over at least two sessions.

     Please remember that one-page Problems are due at 6 pm, one hour before class; you can turn them in by email (haugen@hss.caltech.edu) or on paper to my office (301d Dabney).  The first of these is due for our second class on January 12.

5 January
Handouts and discussion; course information

12 January
Plato, Symposium (click for .pdf file)
      Due:  Problem 1
      Topics for Paper 1 to be handed out

19 January
Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier, author's preface and book 1 (pages 31-104; .pdf file)
Spenser poems in English Sixteenth-Century Verse (pages 343-415; .pdf file)
      Due:  Problem 2

26 January
Surrey and Drayton poems in English Sixteenth-Century Verse (pages 183-214, 583-87; .pdf file)
      Due:  Paper 1

2 February
Austen, Northanger Abbey
      Due:  Problem 3

9 February
Stories from Conan Doyle, Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: 
    "The Adventure of a Scandal in Bohemia" (pp. 3-24)
    "The Adventure of a Case of Identity" (pp. 47-62)
    "The Man With the Twisted Lip" (pp. 103-24)
    "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" (pp. 125-43)
Comments on Paper 1 to be handed out
Elements of a Good Paper handout
      Due:  Problem 4

16 February
Stories from Conan Doyle, Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes:
    "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb" (pp. 167-86)
    "The Cardboard Box" (pp. 278-96)
    "The Yellow Face" (pp. 297-313)
Topics for Paper 2 to be handed out
      Due:  Revision of Paper 1

23 February
Frayn, Copenhagen
      No written assignment

2 March
Wittgenstein, Brown Book, part 1 (pages 77-125)
      Due:  Paper 2 (you need to bring three hard copies so we can do a peer review during next week's class)

9 March
Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" (1941) and "The Lottery in Babylon" (1941):  .pdf file
      Due:  comments on your classmates' papers for a peer review session during this class

13 March (Monday of finals week)
      Revision of Paper 2 is due in Prof. Haugen's office, 301d Dabney


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