Recommended (but not required) editions. Feel free to use your own favorites. We will read and discuss them in the order listed:

1. Sophocles, Antigone, trans. Braun (Oxford, Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
2. Plato, Symposium, trans. Waterfield (Oxford Classics)
3. Rabelais, Gargantua & Pantagruel, trans. Screech (Penguin Classics)
4. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, ed. Warren (Oxford World Classics)
5. Racine, Phedre, trans. Hughes (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
6. Austen, Persuasion, ed. Spacks (Norton Critical)
7. Prince, The History of Mary Prince, ed. Salih (Penguin Classics)
8. Rimbaud, A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat, trans. Varese (New Directions)
9. Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (Back Bay Books)
10. Ishiguro, The Buried Giant (Knopf)

To supplement our discussion on Oyeyemi's Boy, Snow, Bird:

Viktor Shklovsky -- On the literary experience of "defamiliarization"

Making Strange: On Victor Shklovsky

Vladimir Propp -- Consider the listing of "Functions" and "Characters" to supplement our discussion on the fairy tale.

Excerpts from Morphology of the Folktale at MIT

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Boy, Snow, Bird

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