*   Ficciones (tr 1962) Jorge Luis Borges   *   Hopscotch (tr 1966) Julio Cortázar   *   If on a Winter's Night (tr 1981) Italo Calvino   *   House of Leaves (2000) Mark Z. Danielewski   *   VAS: An Opera in Flatland (2004) Steve Tomasula   *   Kapow! (2012) Adam Thirlwell   *   Heartbreaking Work (2000) Dave Eggers   *   McSweeney's #16 (2005) Beattie, Coover, et al.   *   Vacation (2010) Deb Olin Unferth

1/11 INTRODUCTIONS

1/13 Borges (3-38)

1/15 Borges (39-78)

1/18 NO CLASS - MLK Day

1/20 Borges (81-142)

1/22 Cortázar (I)

1/25 Cortázar (II) Barth - Lit of Exhaustion (HO)

1/27 Cortázar (III)

1/29 Cortázar (IV)

2/1 Cortázar (V) Aarseth - Ergodic Lit (HO)

2/3 Cortázar (VI) Paper #1 Assigned

2/5 Cortázar (VII)

2/8 Cortázar (VIII) Barthes - Death/Author (HO)

2/10 Cortázar (IX) Paper #1 Due

2/12 Calvino (3-51) Paper #2 Assigned

2/15 Calvino (52-193)

2/17 Calvino (194-254) Paper #2 Due

2/19 Danielewski (xi-40)

2/22 Danielewski (41-152)

2/24 Danielewski (153-245)

2/26 Danielewski (246-274) Paper #3 Assigned

2/29 Danielewski (275-422)

3/2 Danielewski (423-490)

3/4 Danielewski (491-521)

3/7 Danielewski (522-662)

3/9 MID-TERM PREP Paper #3 Due

3/11 MIDTERM

3/14 NO CLASS - Spring Break

3/16 NO CLASS - Spring Break

3/18 NO CLASS - Spring Break

3/21 Tomasula (1-276)

3/23 Tomasula (277-370)

3/25 Thirlwell (1-30)

3/28 Thirlwell (31-81)

3/30 Eggers (all prefatory material)

4/1 Eggers (1-45)

4/4 Eggers (46-237)

4/6 Eggers (239-279)

4/8 Eggers (281-310) Paper #4 Assigned

4/11 Eggers (311-437)

4/13 Coover Paper #4 Due

4/15 Beattie / Mathews

4/18 McSweeney's 16 (5-101)

4/20 McSweeney's 16 (103-164)

4/22 Unferth (7-58)

4/25 Unferth (59-215)

4/27 FINALS PREP

4/29 NO CLASS

5/2

5/4 FINAL EXAM 1pm to 3pm

5/6