Readings & Films

[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]

Calendar.

SES #	TOPICS	READINGS & FILMS
1	Introduction to the course	[LDT] Prologue and Ch. 1–2
2	Discuss: Lazarillo de Tormes	[LDT] Finish reading Thought questions on Lazarillo de Tormes
3	Discuss: Lazarillo de Tormes	[LLD] Read to Letter 22 Notes on Les Liaisons dangereuses to Letter 22
4	Les Liaisons dangereuses	[LLD] Read to Letter 82 Notes on Les Liaisons dangereuses Letters 40–99
5	Discuss: Les Liaisons dangereuses	[LLD] Read to Letter 146 Notes on Les Liaisons dangereuses Letters 114–146
6	Discuss: Les Liaisons dangereuses	[LLD] Finish reading Notes on Les Liaisons dangereuses Letters 147–End
7	Discuss: Les Liaisons dangereuses	Watch: Dangerous Liaisons
8	Discuss film: Dangerous Liaisons	Watch: Cruel Intentions Notes on Dangerous Liaisons and Cruel Intentions
9	Discuss film: Cruel Intentions Compare two movie versions	[TR] Start reading Important moments in Thérèse Raquin (first half)
10	Discuss: Thérèse Raquin	[TR] Continue reading
11	Discuss: Thérèse Raquin	[TR] Finish reading Important moments in Thérèse Raquin (second half)
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