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ENGL 392 Spring 2004
Junior Seminar: Major Authors of World Literature
Texts:
Apuleius,
The Golden Ass
Douglas Robinson, Translation and Taboo
Banana
Yoshimoto, N.P.
Course pack (available at CopyTime)
Syllabus:
Th 1/8 Introduction
T 1/13 The Egyptian Book of the Dead (course pack)
Th 1/15 OT: Genesis 6-9, 19, 38 (any Bible translation, preferably more
than one)
T 1/20 Exodus (any Bible translation, preferably more than one)
Th 1/22 Barnstone (course pack)
T 1/27 Barnstone (course pack)
Th 1/29 Hebrew
Book of the Dead
T 2/3 Plato, Ion; Robinson, from Who Translates? (course
pack)
Th 2/5 Plato, from Gorgias; Robinson, The Translator's Turn
(course pack); Paul, 1 Cor 15; Robinson, Translation and Taboo
(61-64)
T 2/10 Robinson, fromWho Translates? (course pack); Paul, 1 Cor
14,
Th 2/12 Apuleius, The Golden Ass (books 1-5)
T 2/17 Golden Ass (books 6-10)
Th 2/19 Golden Ass (book 11), Robinson, Translation and Taboo
(1-17); FIRST PAPER DUE
T 2/24 Translation and Taboo (17-37)
Th 2/26 Translation and Taboo (37-45)
T 3/2 Philo, Augustine, Robinson (course pack); Translation and Taboo
(110-14)
Th 3/4 Robinson, from LXX (course pack)
spring break
T
3/16 Jerome (course pack); Translation and Taboo (102-10)
Th 3/18 Robinson,
"Divine Inspiration" (course pack)
T 3/23 Aelfric (course pack);
Translation and Taboo (81-85)
Th 3/25 More (course pack); Translation
and Taboo (85-92)
T 3/30 Translation and Taboo (159-69)
Th 4/1
Rumi (course pack)
T 4/6 Omar Khayyam's
Rubaiyat, FitzGerald's translation
Th 4/8 about FitzGerald's translation; Robinson, from Translation and
Empire (course pack)
T 4/13 Abdelkebir Khatibi, Love in Two
Languages, "Epigraph" (course pack)
Th 4/15 Mokichi Saito,Red Lights Shakko, sequence 18 (course pack)
T 4/20 Banana Yoshimoto, N.P.
Th 4/22 N.P.
T 4/27 Nogu Svelo, "Posledniy put'" ("The Last Journey")
(course pack)
Th 4/29 last day of class; FINAL PAPER DUE
