LITERATURE PROJECT
Below, you will find a list of authors from the ancients to the present. All of these authors are in the textbook, Norton Anthology of World Literature: Pre-1650 and Post-1650, 5th edition, vols. A, B, C, D, E, and F. The page number for each author or work follows the entry in parenthesis. Select only from the authors and works listed here. For longer works, I have written a suggestion of what you should cover when analyzing the work.
Each student will study one of the authors and/or works from this list. To sign up for one of these selections, please create a new discussion thread and write the author’s name in the “Subject” box of the discussion thread.
Before you sign up, be sure to read names of the authors already selected. Every student must do a different author or work if no author is listed. If someone else has chosen the selection you pick, then I will have to delete your selection, and you will need to pick another.
For detailed information on how to prepare this research project, please see the Literary Research Project assignment menu folder.
–The Epic of Gilgamesh– (A-90), Tablets (A-94) (one tablet)–
–Euripides (A-742), Medea (A-745), (one section)–
–Virgil (A-885), The Aeneid (A-890), (one book)–
–Augustine (B-575), Confessions (B-577) (one book)–
–Beowulf (B-648), (one section–note sections are titled)–
–Petrus Alfonsi (B-817), The Scholar’s Guide (B-818) (one parable)–
–The Thousand and One Nights (B-1101) (one tale)–
–Giovanni Boccaccio (B-1147) The Decameron (B-1151) (one story)–
–Murasaki Shikibu (B-224), The Tale of Genji (B-229) (one chapter)–
–Christine de Pizan (B-1323), The Book of the City of Ladies (B-1325), (one chapter)–
–Niccolo Machiavelli (C-186), The Prince (C-189) (one chapter)–
–Francois Rabelais (C-290), Gargantua and Pantagruel (C-292) (one chapter)–
–Miguel de Cervantes (C-408), Don Quixote (C-413) (one chapter from Part 1)–
–Popol Vuh, (C-568) (one part)–
–John Donne (C-782), Holy Sonnets (C-782) (one poem)–
–Alexander Pope (D-370), An Essay on Man: Epistle 1 (D-395) (one section)–
–Jean-Jacques Rousseau (E-51), Confessions (E-56) (one book)–
–Olaudah Equiano (E-72), The Interesting Narrative . . . (E-74) (one chapter)–
–Frederick Douglas (E-213), Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas (E-218) (one chapter)–
–Herman Melville (E-275), “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (E-278)–
–Samuel Taylor Coleridge (E-334), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (E-337)–
–Virginia Woolf (F-410), A Room of One’s Own: Chapter 3 (F-435)–
–Toni Morrison (F-1229), “Sweetness” (F-1230)–
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