Week 2 Reading Overview
Choose from CLASSICAL and/or BIBLICAL units for Weeks 3 and 4.
Week 3: Aesop (Jacobs)
Week 4: Cupid and Psyche
Choose from MIDDLE EASTERN and/or INDIAN units for Weeks 5 and 6.
Week 5: Ancient Egypt
Week 3: Aesop (Jacobs)
Week 4: Cupid and Psyche
Choose from MIDDLE EASTERN and/or INDIAN units for Weeks 5 and 6.
Week 5: Ancient Egypt
Week 6: Life of the Buddha
Choose from ASIAN and/or AFRICAN units for Weeks 7 and 9.
Week 7: The Monkey King
Week 9: Tibet
Choose from NATIVE AMERICAN units for Weeks 10 and 11.
Week 10: Great Plains
Week 11: Marriage Tales
Choose from BRITISH and/or CELTIC units for Weeks 12 and 13.
Week 12: King Arthur
Week 13: More English Tales
Choose from EUROPEAN units for Weeks 14 and 15.
Week 14: Russian
Week 15: Heptameron
I am excited about all of these, of course, but there are so much more in each unit that I want to read. I tried to stray away from some of the stories I already know and pick those that are new to me. The picture of Buddha below shows my interest in The Life of the Buddha story. Also, because I am Buddhist, I have learned the story from the Vietnamese perspective, so it would be interesting to see if there are differences or new details in this telling of the story. This plan should give me a wide variety of readings, which include fables, myths, medieval stories, and even some love stories.
Choose from ASIAN and/or AFRICAN units for Weeks 7 and 9.
Week 7: The Monkey King
Week 9: Tibet
Choose from NATIVE AMERICAN units for Weeks 10 and 11.
Week 10: Great Plains
Week 11: Marriage Tales
Choose from BRITISH and/or CELTIC units for Weeks 12 and 13.
Week 12: King Arthur
Week 13: More English Tales
Choose from EUROPEAN units for Weeks 14 and 15.
Week 14: Russian
Week 15: Heptameron
I am excited about all of these, of course, but there are so much more in each unit that I want to read. I tried to stray away from some of the stories I already know and pick those that are new to me. The picture of Buddha below shows my interest in The Life of the Buddha story. Also, because I am Buddhist, I have learned the story from the Vietnamese perspective, so it would be interesting to see if there are differences or new details in this telling of the story. This plan should give me a wide variety of readings, which include fables, myths, medieval stories, and even some love stories.
(Buddhist quote by Hartwig HKD on Flickr)
Oh, I am so excited that you want to do some of the Buddhist readings, Anhthu! The Buddhist "jataka tales" are the oldest and most important collection of folktales in the world, but for some reason they are not very famous. I love the jataka tales, and I am guessing you might be familiar with some of these stories already. You can find jataka tales all over Asia now; wherever the teachings of the Buddha traveled, so did the jataka tales. If you are interested in that, I have a page here with lots of information about them and lots of jataka books online; this is a page from my Indian Epics class materials, but it is useful for this class too: Buddhist Jataka free books online
ReplyDeleteWe also have some jataka tale comic books on Reserve in Bizzell Library which you can use as extra reading for this class anytime! There are not so many Buddhists in India nowadays, but of course Buddhism began in India, and the jataka tales that the Buddha told are still very popular as Indian folktales, which is why they have all these jataka tale comic books: Jatala Tale comic books in Bizzell