Blog Post Sign Up

Please sign up to do a post and help lead discussion for one class session. To receive credit, your blog post should be up 24 hours before the class session and you must be in class to discuss your post. You may post commentary and questions on anything that interests you about the day’s reading. Try to stick closely to the text; its language; and concerns, images, and characters represented in the text (as opposed to writing about the author, historical/social context, etc.). Please do NOT write your post on background readings, if any are assigned during your day. You may include images and/or links to relevant material.

Tips for Good Blog Posts: Aim to write blog posts that will spur interest and discussion, posts about which you can have something productive to say in class. You might consider some of the following questions: What specific passage(s) would you like to turn your classmates to? What are the questions you have about the text? What touched you? What spiked your anger or curiosity? What did or didn’t you like about the reading, and why? What does the text remind you of? What supplemental or related information might you point classmates to? I’m looking for a good paragraph or two of meaningful commentary and questioning.

You will also post comments on 3 classmates’ posts. To count, comments must be posted before the class session that the post is about. At least one comment must be posted by Oct 2 and one after Nov. 4. What constitutes a good comment? Good comments do more than just say “I agree” or “Good post!” You should respond at some length in a substantive way to something specific in the author’s post. Be prepared to chime in during the in-class discussion of the text.

Sep 9 Tartuffe, Molière

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Sep 16 “Life of a Sensuous Woman,” Saikaku

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Sep 18 Poems by Sor Juana and/or selections of Haiku

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Sep 23 Essay on Man, Epistle I, Pope

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Sep 25 “Bewitched,” Akinari

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Sep 30 Poems by Keats

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Oct 2 Poems by Dickinson and Rossetti

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Oct 7 Bartleby, the Scrivener, Melville

______Oct 9 Poems and other works by Baudelaire

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Oct 15 The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy

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Oct 21 “Punishment” and “Kabuliwala,” Tagore

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Oct 23 “Diary of a Madman” and “Medicine,” Lu Xun

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Oct 28 The Metamorphosis, Kafka

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Nov 6 “A Room of One’s Own,” Woolf

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Nov 11 Poems by Lorca and Neruda

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Nov 13 Stories by Borges and Cortazar

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Nov 18 “Sealed Off,” Ailing

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Nov 20 ‘”One Out of Many,” Naipaul and poems by Osundare

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Nov 25 “The Perforated Sheet,” Rushdie

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Dec 2 Stories by El Saadawi and Al-Shaykh

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Dec 4 Stories by Morrison and Diaz

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Dec 9 Stories by T’ien-Hsin and Pamuk

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