Until otherwise noted, all discussions will take place from 7:00 – 9:00 pm via virtual Zoom session. Please contact Max Yela (maxyela@uwm.edu) for more information on how to attend the discussion.
June 26
E.T.A. Hoffmann
“The Automata” (1814)
“The Sandman” (1817)
July 31
Arthur C. Clarke
“Transience” (1949)
“The Sentinel” (1951)
“The Nine Billion Names of God” (1952)
“The Star” (1954)
August 28
Ovid
Book 1 and Book 2 from Metamorphoses (8 CE; translated by Ian Johnston, 2011)
September 25
Rachel Carson
Selections from Silent Spring (1962)
Chapters 1-3
Chapters 16-17
October 30
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
Selected Letters from an American Farmer (1782)
Letters I, III, IX, XII
November 27
Marcel Proust
“Seascape, with Frieze of Girls” Part II, from Within a Budding Grove, volume 2 of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past) (1919)
December
Holidays – no discussion
January 29
Naguib Mahfouz
“Zaabalawi” (1962)
“The Conjurer Made Off with the Dish”(1967)
“The Time and the Place” (1982)
“Half a Day” (1989)
February 26
Guy de Maupassant
“Boule de Suif” (1880)
“The Necklace” (1884)
“The Wreck” (1886)
March 26
Alice Munro
“Dance of the Happy Shades” 1968
“Boys and Girls” 1968
“The Beggar Maid” 1977
April 30
Selection from Beowulf (ca. 10th/11th century CE) translated by Seamus Heaney (1999)
Lines 1-1643
May 28
William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 2 (ca. 1591)