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Module 1: The Origins of Monotheism See: Volume I, A Section 1, 2, 4	• Akhenaten • Akkadian • Homer

Module 2: The Problem of Violence in the Ancient World See: Volume I, A Section 1, 2 Volume I, B Section 10 Volume II, F Section 23	• Ssu-ma Ch'ien • Rabbi Ephraim Ben Jacob • Lu Xun

Module 3: The Paradoxical Nature of Medieval Warriors See: Volume I, B Section 8, 9	• Geoffrey Chaucer • Alighieri Dante • Bertran De Born • Abolqasem Ferdowsi

Module 4: Variations on the Theme of Romantic Love in the Middle Ages See: Volume I, B Section 6, 7, 9 Volume I, C Section 10, 12, 14	• Ariosto • Boccaccio • Notker Balbulus • Chandidasa • Chaucer • Charles D'Orleans • Marie de France • Hadewijch of Brabant • Mahadeviyakka • Mirabai • Sei Shonagon • Virgil

Module 5: Uncertain Identity in a Changing World See: Volume I, B Section 7, 8 Volume I, C Section 11, 12 Volume II, F Section 22	• Faridoddin Attar • Alighieri Dante • Lope De Vega • Birago Diop • Niccolò Machiavelli • William Shakespeare

Module 6: The Emergence of the Personal in the European Renaissance: Representations of the Inner Life See: Volume I, B Section 6 Volume I, C Section 12, 13	• Baldesar Castiglione • Michel Montaigne • Francis Petrarch • William Shakespeare • Tu Fu

Module 7: Fantastic Travels in the Pre-Modern World See: Volume II, D Section 14, 16, 17	• Ueda Akinari • Matsuo Basho • Evliya Çelebi • Wu Cheng-en • Ihara Saîkaku • Jonathan Swift • François Voltaire

Module 8: Women and Learning in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries See: Volume I, C Section 10 Volume II, D Section 16, 18 Volume II, E Section 20 Volume II, F Section 24	• Chaucer • Sor Juana • Molière • Alexander Pope • Ihara Saikaku • K'ung Shang-Jen • Somadeva • Alfonsina Storni • Voltaire • Dorothy Wordsworth • Cao Xuequin

Module 9: Nature and the Self in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature See: Volume I, B Section 9 Volume II, E Section 18	• Rosalía De Castro • Alphonse De Lamartine • Ghalib • Heinrich Heine • Friedrich Holderlin • Giacomo Leopardi • Dorothy Wordsworth • William Wordsworth

Module 10: Labor, Free and Unfree, in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries See: Volume II, E Section 20 Volume II, F Section 23	• Blake • Chekhov • Dostoevsky • Freud • Heine • Ibsen • Herman Melville • Tolstoy

Module 11: Cross-Cultural Aesthetics in a Global Context See: Volume II, F Section 21, 22	• Zhang Ailing • Bertolt Brecht • Lorna Goodison • Tanizaki Jun'ichiro • Naguib Mahfouz • Wole Soyinka • William Butler Yeats

Module 12: Insiders' Views of the Colonial Experience See: Volume II, F Section 23, 24	• Chinua Achebe • Albert Camus • Ruben Dario • Mahasweta Devi • Franz Kafka • A. B.Yehoshua

Module 13: The Purpose of Writing: From Things to Thoughts in the Ancient World * See: Volume I, A Section 2, 3, 5, 14	• Catullus • Homer • Ovid • Plato • Sappho • Shakespeare

Module 14: The Sharing of Narrative Materials in the Middle Ages * See: Volume I, B Section 10	• Boccaccio • Chaucer

Module 15: Oratory and Oral Performance in Pre-Modern Africa and the Americas * See: Volume I, C Sections 13, 14, 15	• Eramus

Module 16: Science and Religion in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Literature * See: Volume II, D Sections 18	• Molière, Tartuffe • Pope • Voltaire • Swift

Module 17: The Uncanny in Nineteenth-Century Literature * See: Volume II, E Sections 20, 22	• Goethe • Coleridge • Pushkin • Dorothy Wordsworth • Stephane Mallarmé

Module 18: The Persistence of Memory in Twentieth-Century Literature * See: Volume II, F Section 23, 24	• Freud • Proust • Eliot • Dadie • Rulfo • James Joyce • William Faulkner • Tadeusz Borowski • Gabriel Garcia Marquez • Chinua Achebe • Wole Soyinka • William Wordsworth

These modules are designed to help students look deeply into the analytical perspectives proposed in the introductory essays that provide an overview of the contents of each volume of The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Second Edition. Each module begins by highlighting a few important lines in one or more of these introductory essays to establish the subjects for study.

Focusing either on a single resonant text or a central unifying theme and supplementing it with materials culled from the Internet, the module invites students to take a closer look both at the text or theme in question and at the world out of which the focal subject developed.

Study exercises assist students to articulate and document the new insights toward which the supplementary materials should lead: by working not only with the anthology texts, but with images, maps, and supporting articles available online, students have the opportunity to proceed at their own pace, discovering in their own words and by their own investigations the critical conclusions presented by the editors in their rich and closely argued introductions.

Suggested comparisons with selections found in other volumes of The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Second Edition reinforce students' comprehension of the thematic continuities that relate readings to each other and to the major intellectual movements and concerns introduced in the discovery modules.