English 212
Spring 2003: Section 04
Dan Albergotti
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Email: cdalberg@uncg.edu
Office
Hours:
Texts
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2 (7th edition)
Brontë,
Course
Requirements
Your grade for this course will be determined by your performance on three tests, a series of reading quizzes, and a final exam. The assignments will be weighted as follows:
Test One: 20%
Test Two: 20%
Test Three: 10%
Final exam: 30%
If you wish, you may choose to substitute a literary analysis essay of 1000-1500 words (4-6 double-spaced, typed pages) for one of the three tests. You must make your decision to write an essay instead of taking the test at least one week before the test date, and I must approve your essay topic.
Goals
The university’s general education guidelines specify the following as goals for literature classes: At the completion of the course, the student will be able to:
• identify and understand various characteristics of literature,
• apply techniques of literary analysis to texts,
• develop skills in careful reading and clear writing,
and
•
understand the diverse social and historical contexts in which the works were
written.
Attendance
A course in literature lives or dies with class participation. If you are here for class, having carefully read and reacted to the assigned works and prepared to discuss those reactions with the class, then you will get more out of the course—and so will your classmates. In other words, it’s crucial that you be here. We only meet twice a week, so we’ll be covering a lot of ground each class period. Therefore, I must insist on your regular attendance. If you miss more than six (6) class periods, for any reason, I will penalize your final grade, at my discretion, by at least one letter. In other words, there is no such thing as an excused absence in my course; you get six days, and that’s it. Also, I consider late arrival unprofessional and rude. If you show up late, do not expect to be counted present.
Academic Misconduct
I will prosecute any case of academic misconduct. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to, the following:
•plagiarism—representing the words or ideas of others as one’s own (including the copying of words and ideas from reference works)
•cheating—using unauthorized material during examinations
•lying—misrepresenting anything related to academic matters
Penalties for academic misconduct range from official reprimands and the designated failure of work (or courses) to suspension from the university for definite or indefinite periods of time. The automatic penalty for a second offense is suspension. [I serve on the academic misconduct committee, and I’m frequently astounded by the fact that many students do not realize that there is a recognizable difference between undergraduate writing and professional criticism.]
Special Accommodations
Students who need special accommodations in class and/or during testing must make an individual appointment with me as soon as possible to insure that arrangements can be made.
Syllabus
T, Jan 14: Introductions to course, each other
TH, Jan 16: “The Romantic Period” (1-21)
T, Jan 21: Blake—Introduction (35-39) • Songs of Innocence (“Introduction” • “The Lamb” • “The Chimney Sweeper” • “Holy Thursday”) • Songs of Experience (“Introduction” • “The Clod and the Pebble” • “Holy Thursday” • “The Chimney Sweeper” • “The Tyger” • “London”)
TH, Jan 23: Blake—The Marriage of Heaven and Hell • Letter to Dr. John Trusler (88-90)
T, Jan 28: Wordsworth—Introduction (219-21) • Preface to Lyrical Ballads (140-52) • “We Are Seven” • “Resolution and Independence” • “The Solitary Reaper”
TH, Jan 30: Wordsworth—“Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” • “Elegiac Stanzas” • The Prelude, Book First, Book Sixth, Book Fourteenth
T, Feb 4: Coleridge—Introduction (416-18) • Biographia Literaria, Chapters 13-14 • “Kubla Khan”
TH, Feb 6: Coleridge—“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” • “The Eolian Harp” • Robinson—“To the Poet Coleridge” (98)
T, Feb 11: Byron—Introduction (551-55) • Manfred • Don Juan, Canto 1
TH, Feb 13: Byron—Don Juan, Canto 2 • Letter to Douglas Kinnaird (640-42)
T, Feb 18: P. B. Shelley—Introduction (698-701) • “A Defence of Poetry” • “Ozymandias” • “Ode to the West Wind”
TH,
Feb 20: P. B. Shelley—“Adonais” • Keats—Introduction
(823-26) • “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” • “The Eve of St. Agnes”
T, Feb 25: Keats—“Ode to a Nightingale” • “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
TH, Feb 27: Test One
T, Mar 4: “The Victorian Age” (1043-63) • Tennyson—Introduction (1052-56) • “The Lady of Shalott” • “The Charge of the Light Brigade”
TH, Mar 6: Tennyson—In Memoriam
March 10-14: Spring Break
T,
Mar 18: Brontë—Introduction
(1418-19) •
TH,
Mar 20: Brontë—
T, Mar 25: R. Browning—Introduction (1182-87) • “Porphyria’s Lover” • “The Laboratory”
TH, Mar 27: R. Browning—“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” • “My Last Duchess”
T,
Apr 1:
TH,
Apr 3:
T, Apr 8: Test Two
TH, Apr 10: “The Twentieth Century” (1897-1913) • Hardy—Introduction (1916-17) • “Hap” • “The Darkling Thrush” • “The Convergence of the Twain”
T, Apr 15: Hardy—“Channel Firing” • “In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’” • Wilfred Owen—Introduction (2066) • all poems and letters (2066-74)
TH, Apr 17: Yeats—Introduction (2085-88) • “The Wild Swans at Coole” • “The Second Coming” • Eliot—Introduction (2360-63) • “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
T,
Apr 22: Eliot—The
TH, Apr 24: Larkin—Introduction (2564-65) • “Church Going” • “Talking in Bed” • “High Windows” • “Aubade”
T, Apr 29: Test Three
TH, May 1: Evaluations • review for final exam
Final Exam: Thursday,
May 8: 8:00-11:00