Syllabus: Readings
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Online Reading (click to view): Francis Bacon's New Atlantis

Margaret Cavndish's Blazing World,
The First Part (to go over in class together)
The Second Part (recommended)

Cervantes' Don Quixote
Monday, Session One: Appearance and Reality:
Volume One: Chapters 1-2, 8-9, 21, 25, 38, 44-45, 48

Iconographical and Emblematic:
Volume Two: Chapters 6, 14, 16, 22- 23, 41, 62, 64-65, 68

Wednesday, Session Two:Metafiction, Self-reflexivity, and Reader-response:
Volume One: Chapters 2-3, 30, 32, 36, 41
Volume Two: Chapters 4, 11, 26, 44-45, 59, 67, 70, 72-74