COURSE: ENG 211W-01 FALL 2002

TIME: MWF 9:00-9:50 AM TISDALE

PLACE: MCIVER

TEXTS: the norton anthology of english literature, vol. I, 7th ed.

DATE ASSIGNMENT

LEARNING GOALS

1) Identify and understand varied characteristics of literature;

2) Apply techniques of literary analysis to texts;

3) Use literary study to develop skills in careful reading and clear writing;

4) Demonstrate understanding of the diverse social and historical contexts in which literary texts have been written and

interpreted;

5) Develop a sense of the influence of great works of literature in three contiguous periods;

6) Exercise the use of literary study as a means of growth and self-discovery;

7) Learn how to write essays about literature, comparing themes and motifs in several works;

8) Expose the student intensively to the early modern culture and literature of England;

9) Learn how to write an essay about literature, as a primary paper, and then the incorporation of secondary

scholarship.

August

19 Introduction

21 Slides of Anglo-Saxon Sites

23 The First English Poet: Caedmon’s Hymn

Old English Poetry and How It Works

26 Beowulf (Beowulf as a Young Warrior, pp. 29-79)

28 Beowulf (Beowulf as a Young Warrior, pp. 29-79)

30 Chaucer: The General Prologue I

September

2 LABOR DAY HOLIDAY

4 Chaucer: The General Prologue II

6 Chaucer: The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale I

9 Chaucer: The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale II

11 Chaucer: The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale III

13 Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, Parts I and II

16 Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, Parts III and IV

18 The Book of Margery Kempe: All Selections

20 Julian of Norwich’s Book of Showings: All Selections

23 Review for Essay on the Middle Ages and Discussion of How to Write Good Literary Essays (Read the Introduction, pp. 1-14)

25 In-Class Essay

27 More: Utopia

30 Elizabethan Sonnets: Sidney, Astrophil and Stella (1,5,6, 21,31,39,45,71 and Leave Me, O Love)

Spenser, Amoretti (34,54,75,79)

Daniel, Delia (45)

Drayton, Idea (61)

Donne, Holy Sonnets (7,10,14)

Donne, Meditation 17

October

2 Elizabethan Sonnets: Sidney, Astrophil and Stella (1,5,6, 21,31,39,45,71 and Leave Me, O Love)

Spenser, Amoretti (34,54,75,79)

Daniel, Delia (45)

Drayton, Idea (61)

Donne, Holy Sonnets (7,10,14)

Donne, Meditation 17

4 Elizabethan Sonnets: Shakespeare, Sonnets (18, 129,130,135,144,146,147)

7 Elizabethan Sonnets: Shakespeare, Sonnets (18, 129,130,135,144,146,147)

9 Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

11 Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

14-15 FALL BREAK

16 Hoby: The Courtier (The Ladder of Love)

18 Hoby: The Courtier (The Ladder of Love)

21 Renaissance Lyric Poetry: Donne (A Valediction Forbidding Mourning,

The Ecstasy), Herbert (The Collar, The Pulley), Marvell (To His

Coy Mistress)

23 PAPER DUE (First Version––Primary Sources Only––See Note Below)

25 Renaissance Lyric Poetry: Donne (A Valediction Forbidding Mourning,

The Ecstasy), Herbert (The Collar, The Pulley), Marvell (To His

Coy Mistress)

28 RETURN PAPERS (Explanation of Second Version)

30 Milton: Paradise Lost, Book I

November

1 Milton: Paradise Lost, Book IX

4 Milton: Paradise Lost, Continued Discussion

6 Rationalism and the Enlightenment

Bacon: Novum Organum (The Idols)

A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton

8 Rationalism and the Enlightenment

Hobbes: Leviathan (Selections)

11 Review for Essay on the Renaissance and Discussion of How to Write Literary Essays (Read: Introduction to the Sixteenth Century, pp. 469-498 and Introduction to the Early Seventeenth Century, pp. 1209-1232)

13 In-Class Essay on the Renaissance

15 Swift: Gulliver's Travels, Book IV

18 Swift: Gulliver's Travels, Book IV

20 Addison: Spectator 519 (On the Scale of Being)

22 Pope: An Essay on Man, Epistle I

25 The Woman Question: Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Astell, Daniel Defoe, Anne Finch, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

27 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

29 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

December

2 Johnson: Rasselas

4 Thomas Gray (Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard); Christopher Smart [Jeoffrey]

6 PAPER DUE (Second Version––See Note Below––At least four separate footnoted sources required)

9 Review for Exam

11 Final Exam: 8:00-11:00 AM

NOTES: 1) All assignments of individual authors and works include introductions and biographical sketches.

2)Class participation: The instructor assumes that your presence in class means that you have read the assignment. He will call on you from time to time and expects you to contribute to discussion. If it is clear that you are consistently not prepared then your final grade will be lowered. There may be times when pressing duties or emergencies prevent you from completing the reading. Please inform the instructor beforehand so that he will know not to call on you. Always bring your text to class.

3)Attendance Policy: Students are allowed five cuts for whatever reason. After that a letter grade is dropped from the final average. After ten cuts, then two grades are dropped, and so on. Tardiness is counted as a cut.

4)Bad Weather Policy: Class will be held unless there is a media announcement that the University is closed.

5)Writing Intensive Course: This means that special attention in this class is given to writing skills. Consult the syllabus for how this works. In addition, students may voluntarily seek out individual conferences with the instructor. As the syllabus indicates, there will be five writing assignments: Three in class essays (including the exam) and a term paper in two versions. The first version is to be written in response to a thesis you develop out of the primary material. The second version involves both a revision and the addition of secondary research from the library. You are to integrate at least four different secondary sources into your paper. These must be documented properly.

6)The instructor will give unannounced quizzes several times throughout the semester. The cumulative average of these will count 10% of your final grade. The other five assignments will count %90.

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