Global Literature Syllabus

GLOBAL LITERATURE

Unit I: Poetry

Pablo Neruda: A Dog has Died
Seamus Heaney: Digging
Wole Soyinka: Telephone Conversation
Patrick White: The Widening Compass of Pain
George Seferis: Helen

Unit II: Prose

Octavio Paz: The Clerk’s Vision
Winston Churchill: Painting as a Pastime

Unit III: Short Story

Nadine Gordimer: Once Upon a Time
Gabriel García Márquez: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Ronald Dahl: Lamb to the Slaughter

Unit IV: Drama

Rabindranath Tagore: Red Oleanders

Unit V: Fiction

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Erica Ferencik: Girl in Ice

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Global Literature Syllabus