Classic to Modern 
56:350:594

Syllabus

• Peter Levi on The Homeriad
• Auerbach on "Odysseus' Scar"
• Hexter on Ring Composition
• The Presocratics
• Plato:Ion, Cratylus and Apology 
• Shankman, "Plato and Postmodernism"
• Loomis on The Grail Story
• Bloom on King Lear
• Coleridge on King Lear
• The Waste Land facsimile pages
  

• Stylesheet

Primary Texts:

Atwood, The Penelopiad
Beckett, Endgame
The Bible (KJ edition)
Chrétien, Perceval
Dante, The Divine Comedy, trans. Ciardi
Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Homer, The Iliad, excerpts
Homer, The Odyssey, trans. Robert Fitzgerald
Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
Milton, Paradise Lost
The Norton Anthology of Western Literature, Vol.I [8th ed.], ed. Sarah Lawall.
Shakespeare, Hamlet (Arden)

Handouts and Weposts: