World Literature

Tuesday/Thursday 8:00 a.m.
McClurg 118

ENG 111B

ENG 111D

Course materials:

• Syllabus

  • View online

  • Download as Word document

• Course schedule

• Response Paper Guidelines

  • Weekly prompts

• Grading Standards

  • Download as Word document

Supplementary resources:

This will evolve over the course of the semester. If you come across a good supplementary resource, please suggest it for inclusion here!

• Textbook Web Site

• Epic of Gilgamesh

  • David Damrosch. "Epic Hero." Smithsonian Magazine May 2007.
    Article on the rediscovery of the Epic of Gilgamesh

  • Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Mesopotamia

• Book of Job

• Iliad

  • Character list

  • Study guide to the Iliad from Reed College.
    Includes timeline, outline, geography, and searchable full text

• Medea

  • Searchable text with reader comments, from MIT.

• Metamorphoses

  • Searchable text with reader comments, from MIT.

  • Archive of images from early texts, from University of Vermont

• Bhagavad Gita

• Koran

• Tao Qian

• Tale of Genji

  • Introduction to Murasaki Shikibu

  • Excerpts from Lady Murasaki's diaries

  • Guide to the Tale of Genji, including summaries and character notes, from Pacific University

• Inferno

  • Columbia University's Digital Dante with searchable text, images, and more

  • Renaissance Dante editions from the University of Notre Dame

  • Hypermedia Dante site from the University of Virginia

• Decameron

• Heptameron

• Petrarch

• Don Quixote

  • Texas A&M's Cervantes Project site
    Includes links to online texts and images, biographies, a timeline, and more. (Use the navigation bar at the top of the page to find resources.)

  • The route of Don Quixote from Minnesota State-Mankato.

• Tartuffe

• Basho

  • Commentary on Narrow Road to the Deep North, from Columbia University

• Gustav Flaubert

• Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

• James Joyce

• Gabriel García Márquez

• Wole Soyinka, The Lion and the Jewel