A Reader
Great Works of Literature I invites you to explore texts written by authors from ancient, medieval, and early modern cultures. This reader collects and links to some of the texts we’ll be exploring this semester. The Manifold platform will also allow us to engage in social annotation, sharing comments, questions, and ideas within the readings.
Ancient Roman art in the Bardo National Museum, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• Proem • Day the First Introduction • Day the First – First Story • Day the Second – Seventh Selection • Day the Seventh – Eighth Story • Day the Tenth – Tenth Story • Conclusion of the Author
(https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/lays-of-marie-de-france/section/127a7e71-bbe5-4f8a-be76-9b17f1cdcda9#h.v7kwxxa26vit)
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Day 1 and Day 10
Marie de France, The Lays of Marie de France
Marguerite de Navarre, Heptameron, Prologue, Novella 4, 11, 69, and 72
Homer, The Odyssey (separate paperback)
Li Bai [a.k.a. Li Po/ Li Bo], Selected poems
Li Yu, “The Female Ch’en Ping Saves Her Life with Seven Ruses” (from Silent Operas)
Lucretius, “Hymn to Venus” and “Philosophy”
Mirabai, selections from Ecstatic Poems (Blackboard)
Jalal al-Din Rumi, The Divani Shamsi Tabriz
Sappho, Poems
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Murasaki Shikibu, Tale of Genji “Chamber of Kin,” “Beautiful Cicada,” and “Barrier House”
Sophocles, Antigone
Extracts from the Sunjata Epic
The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman (separate paperback)
T’ang Hsien-tsu (Tang Xianzu), The Peony Pavilion
The Thousand and One Nights (c. 879 C.E.): “The Tale of King Shahrya-r and of his Brother, King Shahzama-n,” “The Strange Khalifah,” “The Perfidy of Wives,” “The Tender Tale of Prince Jasmine and Princess Almond” (Blackboard)
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