ENGL 206: World Literature II

by Kim Allen Gleed

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Surveys global literature from 1700 to the present. This course emphasizes an understanding of the interplay of literary elements, literary criticism as well as the cultural context that influenced the works studied.

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Publisher
Harrisburg Area Community College
Subjects
Humanities
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. About the Book
  7. 1: Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694)
  8. 1.1: from The Narrow Road to the Deep North
  9. 2: François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778)
  10. 2.1: Candide, or Optimism
  11. 3: Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)
  12. 3.1: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845)
  13. 4: William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
  14. 4.1: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
  15. 5: Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
  16. 5.1: Correspondences
  17. 6: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
  18. 6.1: Because I could not stop for Death
  19. 6.2: I heard a fly buzz when I died
  20. 6.3: There's a certain slant of light
  21. 7: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
  22. 7.1: The Cabuliwallah
  23. 8: Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
  24. 8.1: The Death of Ivan Ilych
  25. 9: Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
  26. 9.1: A Doll's House
  27. 10: Lu Xun (1881-1936)
  28. 10.1: Diary of a Madman
  29. 11: W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
  30. 11.1: Easter 1916
  31. 12: T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
  32. 12.1: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
  33. 13: Anna Akhmatova (1889-1996)
  34. 13.1: Requiem
  35. 14: Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)
  36. 14.1: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
  37. 15: Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
  38. 15.1: The Haw Lantern
  39. 16: Hanan al-Shaykh (1945- )
  40. 16.1: The Women's Swimming Pool
  41. 17: Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- )
  42. 17.1: Yellow Woman
  43. 18: Haruki Murakami (1949- )
  44. 18.1: The Second Bakery Attack
  45. 19: Jamaica Kincaid (1949- )
  46. 19.1: Girl
  47. 20: Joy Harjo (1951- )
  48. 20.1: My House Is the Red Earth
  49. 20.2: When the World as We Knew It Ended
  50. Back Matter
  51. Detailed Licensing