West Texas A&M University
English 203C
Literature of the 
 NonWestern World
When: These lessons are the same as those found in the course manual for the correspondence course English 203C offered by West Texas A&M University. Click the WT logo above to go to WTAMU.  
Instructor: john.rothfork@nau.edu
Class: English 203C

Welcome to the support site for Literature of the Non-Western World.  This page offers you fairly easy access to the 13 lessons that constituted the online version of this course.  You may wish to use these pages, especially the "explication" pages, as study aids for the Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces.  Click the button to see the syllabus:

Use the maroon navigation bar at the top of each page to access the four pages that constitute each lesson.  The bar looks like this:
Introduction Explication Questions Review

The navigation bar will only work for each unit or lesson.  For example, if you access lesson 03 below, the navigation bar will only work "inside" unit 03.  To access other units, return to this page to click on the unit number you want to see.
Unit         Texts
01 Gilgamesh, Egyptian poetry
02 Chinese Book of Songs
03 Confucius, Chuang Tzu (Daoism)
04 Chinese poetry: T'ao Ch'ien, Li Po, Tu Fu, Li Ch'ing Chao, Han-Shan, etc.
05 India: Ramayana, Bhagavad-Gita:                       
06 India: Sakuntala, Bhakti poets
07 Japan: Basho, Kojima Nobuo
08 Islam: The Koran
09 The 1,001 Nights, Naguib Mahfouz, "Zaabalawi,"
10 The Epic of Son-Jara, Nadine Gordimer
11 Things Fall Apart (part 1)
12 Things Fall Apart (part 2)
13 Native American texts

Some of the links offered in each lesson will not work because they refer to pages on the WT server.