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Requirements. This is an upper-level seminar. By far the most important requirement in this shortened course is to attend every class and to come having done the reading, both required and suggested, and ready to participate fully in the discussion. Suggested reading will be assigned and discussed in class. Apart from that, the course will conclude with a short paper, due on December 11. Be prepared to discuss the subject of your paper the week before, in class.
Suggested and Supplemental Reading Robert Alter, Rogue's Progress: Studies in the Picaresque Novel (Harvard, 1965) Harry Levin, Contexts of Criticism (Harvard, 1957) Stuart Miller, The Picaresque Novel (Case Western, 1967) Ulrich Wicks, Picaresque Narrative, Picaresque Fictions (Greenwood, 1989)
Required Reading List
November 6, 2007
Lazarillo de Torres, translated by W. S. Merwin (New York Review Books, 2005 [1554])
November 13
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Rinconete and Cortadillo" and "The Dogs' Colloquy," in Exemplary Stories (Penguin, 1972 [1613]);
Francisco de Quevedo, "The Swindler" in Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels (Penguin, 2003 [1626]);
Thomas Nashe, "The Unfortunate Traveller" in The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works (Penguin, 1972 [1594])
November 20
Johann Grimmelshausen, The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus (Dedalus, 1999 [1668]);
Johann Grimmelshausen, The Life of Courage: The Notorious Thief, Whore and Vagabond (Dedalus, 2001 [1670])
November 27
Daniel Defoe, Roxana, the Fortunate Mistress… (Adamant, 2000 [1724])
December 4
Herman Melville, The Confidence Man: His Masquerade (Norton, 2005 [1857])
December 11
Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of Night (New Directions, 2006 [1934])
December 18
Jerzy Kosinski, The Painted Bird (Grove, 1976 [1965])