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Reading Selection List Reading Selection List Epic : Beowulf (Old English) Gilgamesh (Sumerian) Kebra Nagast (The Glory of the Kings) (Ethiopic) La Chanson de Roland (Song of Roland) (French) Mahabharata (Sanskrit) Popol Vuh (Book of Counsel) (Maya) Son-Jara or Sundiata (Maninka or Bamana) Heike Monogatari (The Tale of the Heike) (Japanese) Utendi wa Tambuka (The Story of Tambuka) (Swahili) Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley or The Tain) (Old Irish) Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval or Lancelot (French) Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy) (Italian) John Milton, Paradise Lost (English) Hesiod, Erga kaí Hēmérai (Works and Days) or Theogony (Greek) Homer, Iliad, Odyssey (Greek) Ludovico Ariosto, L'Orlando furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando) (Italian) Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas ( The Lusiads) (Portuguese) Michael Madhusuda Datta, Meghnad-badh kabya (The Slaying of Meghanada) (Bengali) Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered) (Italian) Valmiki, Ramayana (Sanskrit) Wolfram von Eschenbach,Parzival (German) Vergil, Aeneid (Latin) Lyric An Anthology of Modern Urdu Poetry (Urdu) An Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry (ed. Earl Miner) (Japanese) Kokinshu poems (Japanese) Mu'allaqat (Hanging Poems) (classical Arabic) The Hindi Classical Tradition (Snell’s edition) (Hindi) Treasury (Vidyakara’s edition) (Sanskrit) Abu Nuwas (classical Arabic) Aime Cesaire (especially Cahier d'un retour au pays natal) (French) Alexander Pope (English) al-Mutanabbi (classical Arabic) Anna Akhmatova (especially Requiem) (Russian) Arnaut Daniel (Occitan) Arthur Rimbaud (French) Bernart de Ventadorn (Occitan) César Vallejo (espeically Los Heraldos Negros) (Spanish) Charles Baudelaire (especially Les Fleurs du mal) (French) Chris Abani (English) Constantine Cavafy (modern Greek) Denis Brutus (English) Derek Walcott (English) Du Fu (Chinese) Edgar Allen Poe (English) Edmund Spenser (especially The Fairie Queen) (English) Elizabeth Bishop (English) Emily Dickinson (English) Eugenio Montale (especially Ossi di seppia) (Italian) Ezra Pound (English) Federico Garcia Lorca (Spanish) Friedrich Hölderlin (German) Francesco Petrarch (especially Il canzoniere) (Italian) Gabriele D'Annunzio (especially Il Trionfo della Morte) (Italian) Gaius Valerius Catullus (Latin) 1 Georg Trakl (German) Gertrude Stein (English) Giacomo Leopardi I canti) (Italian) Giorgos Seferis (Greek) Jayadeva, Gita Govinda (Sanskrit) John Dryden (English) John Keats (English) John Milton (English) Joseph Brodsky (Russian) Juan de la Cruz (Spanish) Juan Ruiz (especially Libro del Buen Amor [Book of Good Love]) (Spanish) Judah Ha-Levi and Shmuel ha-Nagid (Hebrew) Jules Laforgue (French) Kabir (especially The Weaver's Songs) (Hindi) Kalidasa (especially Meghaduta or Sakuntala) (Sanskrit) LiPo and TuFu (from Arthur Cooper’s Penguin edition) (Chinese) Louise Bennet (Creole) Mahmud Darwish (Arabic) Marianne Moore (English) Mazisi Kunene (especially Emperor Shaka the Great) (Zulu) Michelangelo (especially sonnets) (Italian) Niccolò Foscolo (especially I sepolcri and/or Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis) (Italian) Nizar al-Qabbani (Arabic) Octavio Paz (Spanish) Odysseas Elytis (Greek) Ovid, Metamorphoses (Latin) Pablo Neruda (Spanish) Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali) Rainer Maria Rilke (German) Ralph Waldo Emerson (English) Robert Frost (English) Rubén Dario (especially Azul) (Spanish) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English) Sappho (Greek) Sédar Senghor (French, Senegal) Sextus Propertius (Latin) Shlomo Ibn Gabirol (Hebrew) Stéphane Mallarmé (French) T. S. Eliot (English) W. H. Auden (English) Wallace Stevens (English) Walt Whitman (English) William Butler Yeats (English) William Carlos Williams (English) William Shakespeare (English) William Wordsworth (English) Yehuda Amichai (Hebrew) Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Russian) Drama Everyman (Old English) Aeschylus, Oresteia (or any other drama) (Greek) Anton Chekhov, Vishniovy sad (The Cherry Orchard) (or any other drama) (Russian) Aristophanes, Lysistrata (or any other drama) (Greek) August Wilson, The Piano Lesson (or any other drama) (English) Bertolt Brecht, Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (Mother Courage) (or any other drama) (German) Caryl Churchill, Cloud Nine (1978) (English) Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Shinjūten no Amijima (Love Suicides of Amijima) (Japanese) Dario Fo Mistero buffo (Comic Mysteries) or Morte accidentale di un anarchico (Accidental Death of an Anarchist) (Italian) 2 David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly (English) Eduardo De Filippo, Filumena Marturano (Italian) Euripides, Bacchae (or any other drama) (Greek) Friedrich von Schiller, Maria Stuart (Mary Stuart) or Der Geisterseher(The Ghost-Seer) (German) Georg Büchner, Woyzeck (German) George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (or any other drama) (English) George Lillo, London Merchant (English) Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler (Norwegian) Isaac Babel, Sunset (Russian) Jean Racine, Phèdre (French) Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Faust (German) John Dryden, All for Love (English) Luigi Pirandello, Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (Six Characters in Search of an Author)Henry IV (Italian) Molière, Misanthrope (French) Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼ o, Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry When I Want) (Gikuyu) Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (English) Pedro Calderón de la Barca, La Vida es sueño (Life Is a Dream) (Spanish) R. B. Sheridan, School for Scandal (English) Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot or Endgame (English) Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (or any other drama) (Greek) Tang Hsien-tsu, Mudanting (Peony Pavilion) (Chinese) Tawfiq al-Hakim, Fate of a Cockroach and Other Plays (Arabic) Tony Kushner, Angels in America (English, US) Utpal Dutt, Three Plays (Bengali) William Shakespeare (any drama) (English) Wole Soyinka, The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite or Death and the King’s Horseman (English) Zeami, Hagoromo (The Feather Mantle )(any Noh play) (Japanese) Essays, Criticism, Memoir, and Other The Thousand and One Nights (Arabic) African Folktales (ed. Roger Abrahams) (various) Hebrew Bible (esp. Genesis and Exodus) (Hebrew) Kalila wa-Dimna (Arabic, Persian, and Hindi) Qur’an (Arabic) New Testament (esp. Matthew, Acts, Epistle to the Romans]) (Greek) Al-Jahiz, Kitab al-Bukhala (Book of Misers) or Risdlat al-qiydn (Epistle on the Singing Girls) (classical Arabic) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Arkhipelag GULAG (1973) (Russian) Anton Chekhov, "Duel" (The Duel) and Dama s sobachkoi (Lady with A Dog) (or any other short story) (Russian) Aristotle, Poetics (Greek) Augustine, Confessiones (Confessions) (Latin) Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography (English) Christine de Pizan, Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (The Book of the City of Ladies) (French) Denis Diderot, Supplement au Voyage de Bougainville, Lettre sur les Sourds et Muets (or any other text) (French) Frantz Fanon, Les Damnés de la Terre (The Wretched of the Earth) (French) Friedrich Nietzsche, Die Geburt der Tragödie (The Birth of Tragedy (German) Garcilaso de la Vega (especially Comentarios reales de los incas [Royal Commentaries of the Incas]) (Spanish) Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (Middle English) Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera (English and Spanish) Hayyim Nahman Bialik, “The Pool,” “City of Slaughter” or “Desert Dead” (Hebrew) Horace, Ars Poetica (Latin) Isaac Babel, Odessa Tales (short stories) (Russian) Ismat Chughtai, Short Stories or The Crooked Line (Urdu) James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son (English) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or Confessions (French) Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones (Spanish) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Turkish Embassy Letters (English) Longinus, On Sublimity (Greek) Mahasweta Devi, “Pterodactyl,” “Puran Sahay,” and “Pirtha” (Bengali) Mahatma Gandhi, Hind Swaraj 3 Mary Rowlandson, Captivity (English) Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman (English) Nathalie Sarraute, Tropismes or Enfance (French) Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (English) Niccolò Machiavelli, La Mandragola or Il Principe (Italian) Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Russian) Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead or The Armies of the Night (English) Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative (English) Plato, Symposium, Phaedrus, or Republic (Greek) Sadaat Hasan Manto, Short Stories (Urdu) Sei Shonagon, Pillow Book (Japanese) Sima Qian, Records of the Historian (Chinese) Sholem Aleichem, Tevye the Milkman and the Railroad Stories (Yiddish) Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (English) Zhuangzi, Chuang-tzǔ (Inner Chapters) (Chinese) Novels Abudlrazak Gurnah, Paradise, Desertion, or By the Sea (English) Abraham B. Yehoshua, Mar Manni (Hebrew) Albert Camus, La Peste or L'Etranger (French) Albert Cohen, Solal (1930) (French) Alejo Carpentier, Los pasos perdidos (The Lost Steps) (1953) (Spanish) Alessandro Manzoni, I-Promessi Sposi (1827) (Italian) Alex La Guma, In the Fog of the Season’s End (English) Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin (Russian) Al-Tayyib Salih, Mawsim al-Higra ilā ash-Shamāl (Season of Migration to the North) (Arabic) Ama Ata Aidoo, Our Sister Killjoy or The Rape of Shavi (English) Amitav Ghosh, Shadow Lines (English) Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness (or any other novel) (Hebrew) Amos Tutuola, The Palm Wine Drinkard (English) André Gide, Les Faux-monnayeurs (1925) (French) André Malraux, La Condition humaine (French) Anita Desai, Baumgartner’s Bombay (English) Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (English) Apuleius, The Golden Ass (Latin) Assia Djebar, L'Amour, la fantasia (1993) (French) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Kapalkundala (1866), Vishabriksha (The Poison Tree), or Anandamath (Bengali) Ben Okri, The Famished Road (English) Bessie Head,
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