FALL 2004
TIME: MWF 11:00-11:50 AM
SCIENCE 233
TISDALE
TEXT: THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, VOL. II, 7TH ED.
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;
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 several
periods; and
6) Exercise the use of literary study as a means of growth and self-discovery.
DATE ASSIGNMENT
August
16 Introduction
The Romantic Revolt: The Mirror and the Lamp
18 Blake: Songs of Experience
20 Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
23 Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads
25 Wordsworth: The Prelude (Book I)
27 Wordsworth: The Prelude (from Bks. VII, IX, X)
30 Wordsworth: The Prelude (from Bks. XIV)
September
1 Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
3 Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
6 LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
8 Keats: When I Have Fears, Bright Star, La Belle Dame Sans Merci
10 Keats: Ode to a Nightingale
13 Keats: The Eve of St. Agnes
15 Keats: Letters
17 Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
20 Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
22 Test One: Romantic Period (Ten Quotations)
The Victorian Problems: God, Machines, and Art
24 Industrialism: Progress or Decline? (pp. 1696-1719)
27 The Woman Question (pp. 1719-1739)
29 Tennyson: The Lady Of Shalott
October
1 Tennyson: Ulysses
4 Robert Browning: Fra Lippo Lippi
6 Robert Browning: Robert Browning: An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical
Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
8 Hopkins: All Selections
9-12 FALL BREAK (Second Week of March)
13 Hopkins: All Selections
15 Rosetti (Christina): Goblin Market
18 Rosetti (Christina): Other Selections
20 Elizabeth Gaskell: The Old Nurse’s Story
22 Arnold: The Buried Life, Dover Beach
25 Arnold: The Scholar Gypsy
27 Test Two: Victorian Period (Ten Quotations)
Modern Period: Alienation, Mechanization, Iconoclasm, and Continuing Threads
29 Yeats: Adam's Curse, When You Are Old
November
1 Yeats: A Prayer for My Daughter, The Second Coming
3 Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium, Byzantium
5 Willfred Owen: All Selections
8 Joyce: The Dead
10 Joyce: The Dead
12 Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own
15 Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own
17 Katherine Mansfield: The Garden Party
19 D. H. Lawrence: The Odour of Chrysanthemums
22 D. H. Lawrence: Poetry (All Selections)
24-28 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
29 Doris Lessing: To Room Nineteen
December
1 W. H. Auden: Spain 1937, Musée des Beaux Arts
3 W. H. Auden: In Memory of W. B. Yeats, The Shield of Achilles
6 Dylan Thomas: The Force that through . . . , Fern Hill, Do Not Go Gentle
. . .
7 Reading Day
13 Test Three: The Modern Period (Ten Quotations) 8:00-11:00 AM
NOTES:
(1) Each assignment of individual authors and works includes the supplementary
materials in the texts.
(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 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) Grading: There are three tests based on the identification and explication
of quotations from the assigned works. Each of the three tests counts as
one third of the final grade.
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