[LDT] = Anonymous. Lazarillo de Tormes. Edited and translated by Ilan Stavans. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015. ISBN: 9780393938050. [Preview with Google Books]
[LLD] = Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre. Les Liaisons dangereuses. Reissue edition. Translated by Douglas Parmée. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780199536481. [Preview with Google Books]
[TR] = Zola, Émile. Thérèse Raquin. Reprint edition. Penguin Classics, 2005. ISBN: 9780140449440. [Preview with Google Books]
[KSW] = Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman. Reissue edition. Vintage, 1991. ISBN: 9780679724490.
[TBP] = Rulfo, Juan. The Burning Plain and Other Stories. Illustrated by Kermit Oliver. Translated by George D. Schade. University of Texas Press, 1971. ISBN: 9780292701328. [Preview with Google Books]
| SES # | TOPICS | READINGS & FILMS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to the course | [LDT] Prologue and Ch. 1–2 |
| 2 | Discuss: Lazarillo de Tormes |
[LDT] Finish reading |
| 3 | Discuss: Lazarillo de Tormes |
[LLD] Read to Letter 22 |
| 4 | Les Liaisons dangereuses |
[LLD] Read to Letter 82 |
| 5 | Discuss: Les Liaisons dangereuses |
[LLD] Read to Letter 146 |
| 6 | Discuss: Les Liaisons dangereuses |
[LLD] Finish reading |
| 7 | Discuss: Les Liaisons dangereuses | Watch: Dangerous Liaisons |
| 8 | Discuss film: Dangerous Liaisons |
Watch: Cruel Intentions |
| 9 |
Discuss film: Cruel Intentions Compare two movie versions |
[TR] Start reading |
| 10 | Discuss: Thérèse Raquin | [TR] Continue reading |
| 11 | Discuss: Thérèse Raquin |
[TR] Finish reading |
| 12 | Finish: Thérèse Raquin |
de Assis, Machado. Dom Casmurro. Translated by Helen Caldwell. Reprint edition. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. ISBN: 9780374523039. [Preview with Google Books] Person, Ethel S. "Love Triangles." The Atlantic. February 1988. |
| 13 | Discuss: Dom Casmurro | Watch: Doña Flor and Her Two Husbands |
| 14 |
Discuss: Doña Flor and Her Two Husbands Finish discussion of Dom Casmurro | Mann, Thomas. Dead in Venice. Translated by Stanley Appelbaum. Dover Publications, 1995. ISBN: 9780486287140. [Preview with Google Books] |
| 15 | Discuss: Death in Venice | No assigned readings |
| 16 | Discuss: Death in Venice | Watch: Death in Venice |
| 17 |
Discuss film: Death in Venice Finish discussion of Death in Venice |
Watch: Cat People [KSW] Ch. 1–11 |
| 18 | Discuss: Kiss of the Spider Woman to Ch. 11 | [KSW] Finish reading |
| 19 | Finish discussion of Kiss of the Spider Woman | Watch: Kiss of the Spider Woman |
| 20 | Discuss film: Kiss of the Spider Woman |
[TBP] "They Gave Us the Land." [Preview with Google Books] [TBP] "Tell Them Not to Kill Me!" [Preview with Google Books] [TBP] "Paso del Norte." |
| 21 |
Discuss: Short stories by Juan Rulfo Guest lecturer: Joaquín Terrones | Márquez, Gabriel García. Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Reprint edition. Vintage, 2003. ISBN: 9781400034710. |
| 22 |
Discuss: Chronicle of a Death Foretold Final discussion | Fourth essay due three days after Session 22 |