COURSE: ENG 211W-1 SPRING 2003
TIME
AND PLACE: MWF
TEXTS: THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE, VOL.I, 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 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
9) Learn how to write an essay about literature, as a primary paper, and then the incorporation of secondary
scholarship.
DATE ASSIGNMENT
January
13 Introduction
15 Caedmon’s
Hymn and Old English Prosody
Beowulf (Beowulf
as a Young Warrior, pp. 29-79)
17 Beowulf
(Beowulf as a Young Warrior, pp. 29-79)
20 Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
22 Beowulf
(Beowulf as an Old King, pp. 79-99)
24 Teacher
will be absent from class
27 Chaucer: The General Prologue and Parson’s Prologue
29 Chaucer: The General Prologue and Parson’s Prologue
31
Chaucer: The Wife of
February
3 Chaucer: The Wife of
5 Chaucer: The Wife of
7 Sir Gawain and The
Green Knight, Parts I and II
10 Sir
Gawain and The Green Knight, Parts III and IV
12 The
Book of Margery Kempe: All Selections
Julian
of Norwich’s Book of Showings: All
Selections
14 Review
for Essay on the Middle Ages and Discussion of How to
Write Good Literary Essays (Read the Introduction)
17 In-Class
Essay on Medieval English Literature
19 More: Utopia
21 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
24 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
26 Elizabethan
Sonnets: Shakespeare, Sonnets (18,
129,130,135,144,146,147)
28
Elizabethan
Sonnets: Shakespeare, Sonnets (18,
129,130,135,144,146,147)
March
3 Marlowe,
Doctor Faustus
5 Marlowe,
Doctor Faustus
7 Hoby: The Courtier (The Ladder of Love)
8-16 SPRING BREAK
17 Hoby: The Courtier
(The Ladder of Love)
19 PAPER
DUE (First Version––Primary Sources Only––See Note Below)
21 Renaissance
Lyric Poetry: Donne (A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, The
Ecstasy), Herbert (The Collar, The Pulley), Marvell (To His Coy Mistress)
24 Renaissance
Lyric Poetry: Donne (A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, The
Ecstasy), Herbert (The Collar, The Pulley), Marvell (To His Coy Mistress)
26 RETURN
PAPERS (Explanation of Second Version)
28
31
April
2
4 Rationalism
and the Enlightenment
Bacon: Novum Organum (The Idols)
A
Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton
7 Rationalism
and the Enlightenment
Hobbes: Leviathan (Selections)
9 Review
for Essay on the Renaissance and Discussion of How to Write Literary Essays
(Read: Introduction to the Sixteenth Century and Introduction to the Early
Seventeenth Century)
11 In-Class
Essay on Renaissance English Literature
14 Swift: Gulliver's Travels, Book IV
16 Swift: Gulliver's Travels, Book IV
18 Spring
21
23 Pope: An Essay on Man, Epistle I
25 The
Woman Question: Aemilia
Lanyer, Mary Astell, Daniel
Defoe, Anne Finch, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
28 Johnson: Rasselas
30 Johnson: Rasselas
May
2 PAPER
DUE (Second Version––See Note Below––At least four separate footnoted
sources required)
5 Review for Exam
7 Reading
Day
14 Final Exam:
NOTES: 1) All assignments of individual authors and works
include the preceding introductions.
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 six cuts
for whatever reason. After that a
letter grade is dropped from the final average.
After twelve 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) Leaving the
room while class is in session. Leaving
class while it is in session without notifying the instructor is considered
impolite. Leaving and returning, except
in the case of an emergency, is considered disrespectful. Such instances will be noted and counted
as a cut.
6) 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: Two In-Class essays, 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 as footnotes.
7) You will be
given three to five unannounced ID quizzes throughout the semester. The average of these will count as 10% of
your final grade, with the other 90% being an average of the three essays and
the two versions of the paper.
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