Since the weather forced cancellation of our last class, I am posting this information for those who inquire.

I will use some of the exam period to provide an overview of the Pirandello stories we did not get to discuss and to remind you of key issues we have been talking about in the last month.

You should bring to the exam your copies of the La Fontaine Fables, Dostoyevsky's The Gambler, and Pirandello's stories.  They can be used in writing the final essay exam.  I will give you all at least two topics to choose from for this final essay.  I will provide passages from all the works, some of which must be used in the essay.  (If some students come without books, they will have to use more of those passages provided.  Those with books can use passages they select in addition to the minimum required ones.)

You should also bring five quotations about current events from any sources on a single sheet of paper to the exam.  Stories connected with gambling (including capitalism), the powerful and the powerless (monarchs and others), universal human nature and experience (such as the pride of the hare who is confident he can outrun the tortoise, the raven who is flattered by the fox into dropping the cheese, etc.).  You will use one of these items somewhere in your final exam.  Include the appropriate bibliographical information about where you found each item on the same sheet.

If this doesn't answer all your questions, please email me, and I will try to respond.

M. Lund