September 3:

Introduction (no previous assignment)

September 10:

Plato, Phaedrus (first reading)

September 17:

Plato, Phaedrus (second reading)

September 24:

Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy (books 1-3)

October 1:

Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy (books 4-5)

October 8:

Manguel, History of Reading, pp. 3-173

October 15:

WWW TRAINING

October 22:

Manguel, History of Reading, pp. 177-319

October 29:

Erasmus, Praise of Folly (first attempt)

November 5:

Nabokov, Pale Fire (first reading)

November 12:

Nabokov, Pale Fire (second reading)

November 19

TBA

November 26:

NO SEMINAR

December 3:

Conclusions