English 3413 Mercer

OUTSIDE READING FROM TEXT

From the textbook, read at least 200 pages that you have NOT previously read. Do NOT choose any work originally written in English. Try to choose long sections of works or whole chapters from the text rather short selections. The following works are recommended, but you may choose others as well.

Additional pages from assigned works

Homer, The Odyssey 101-39(t), 151(b)-336 (225 pages)

Dante, The Divine Comedy 1036-1142(t) (107 pages)

Cervantes, Don Quixote 1551(b)-1629(m) (79 pages)

Voltaire, Candide 2053-2101 (49 pages)

Goethe, Faust 2198-2263 (66 pages)

Unassigned works

Gilgamesh 10-42 (33 pages)

The Bible 48-85 (38 pages)

Aeschylus, Agamemnon 339-88 (50 pages)

Euripides, Medea 433-65 (33 pages)

The Ramayana of Valmiki 576-612 (37 pages)

Kalidasa, Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection

746-811 (66 pages)

Ferdowsi, Shahname, "The Tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam"

888-923 (36 pages)

The Song of Roland 956-96 (41 pages)

Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji 1292-1393 (102 pages)

The Epic of Son-Jara 1431-72 (42 pages)

Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone 1768-1887 (120 pages)

Racine, Phaedra 1956-98 (43 pages)

Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground 2363-2420 (58 pages)

Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

2627-74 (48 pages)

Unassigned chapters

"The Invention of Writing and Earliest Literatures"

3-85 (83 pages)

"From Roman Empire to Christian Europe"

703-36 (34 pages)

"China's 'Middle Period'" 813-58 (46 pages)

"The Golden Age of Japanese Culture" 1275-1409 (135 pages)

"Native America and Europe in the New World"

1729-59 (31 pages)

"The Rise of Popular Arts in Premodern Japan"

2103-34 (32 pages)