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SCHEDULE
 As of 3 December.

WEEK 1 Introduction

    Th 6 Sept. Truth and Aesthetics
    • Review Syllabus
    • Poetic forms introduced.

 

 

WEEK 2 Contexts for Reading

    T 11 Sept. Post-Modern Reading
    • Lecture, "Words, Reality, Truth"

     

    Th 13 Sept. Old English (and Employment)

    • Presentation by Colleen Doherty, Asst. Director, Field Placement CHFA
    • Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms (hereafter GLT): Motif, Myth, Myth critics, Symbol, Rhetoric, Apostrophe, Alliteration due
    • Longman Anthology (hereafter LA), "Wulf and Eadwacer" (108), "The Wife's Lament" (108-09) due


WEEK 3 Caedmon, Judith, and Origins

    T 18 Sept. Caedmon
    • Diagnostic due (optional)
    • LA, "The Wanderer" (104 ff.),"The Middle Ages" (3-26) due
    • GLT, Metaphor, Middle English Period, Absence
    • Lecture: "The Conventions of Beginnings"

     

    Th 20 Sept. Judith

WEEK 4 Beowulf

    T 25 Sept.

    • LA, "Beowulf" (27-75) lines 1-2184 due
    • Lecture: "Interlace"

     

    Th 27 Sept. The Dragon

    • GLT, Meter due
    • LA, "Beowulf" lines 1-3174, pp. 27-94 due
    • Lecture: "End Times and Morals"


WEEK 5 Chaucer's Clerics

    T 2 Oct. Canterbury Tales

    • GLT, Miracle Play, Lai, Irony, and Allegory due
    • LA, "Geoffrey Chacuer" (216-221); "General prologue" lines 1-207;
    • Lecture: "Wheat and Chaff"

     

    Th 4 Oct. CT Cont.

    • GLT, Beast Fable, Fabliau due
    • NA, "General prologue" lines 208-412; "The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale" (299-314) due
    • Lecture: "Love among the Chickens"
    • QUIZ


WEEK 6 The Wife of Bath

    T 9 Oct. Wives and the Wife

    • NA, "General prologue" lines 413-624; "Wife of Bath's Prologue" (256-275) due
    • GLT, Feminist Criticism
    • Lecture: "Authority"

     

    Th 11 Oct. Wife of Bath Continued

    • NA, "General prologue" lines 625-860; "Wife of Bath's Tale" due
    • Lecture: "Balance and Justice"


WEEK 7 End of the Medieval Stuff

    T 16 Oct. Pardoner's Tale
    • "Pardoner's Prologue and Tale" (284-299) due (see also translation)

     

    Th 18 Oct. Lyrics, Ballads, and Singing Folk

    • GLT, Lyric, Ballad, Ballad Stanza due
    • Marie de France, "Lanval" (127 ff.) due

 

WEEK 8 Renaissance a.k.a. Early Modern

    T 23 Oct. Renaissance Wit

    • GLT, Renaissance, Early Tudor Age, Elizabethan Age due
    • LA, "Sir Philip Sidney," "Apology for Poetry" (435-443); "The Apology in Context" (443-451) due
    • Lecture: "The Ontology of Wit"
    • QUIZ

     

    Th 25 Oct. Women's Defence of Poesy

    • LA, Isabella Whitney, "A Careful Complaint" (455-456); Mary Herbert, "The Doleful Lay of Clorinda" (462-464); Aemilia Lanyer, "Pilate's Wife" (471-473); Queen Elizabeth, "On Monsieur's Departure: (476-77) and "The Golden Speech" (484-85) due
    • Lecture: "Overcoming the Male Past"

 

WEEK 9 Faust

    T 30 Oct. Faustus

    • LA, "The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus," Acts 1-2 (501-519) due
    • Lecture: "Choice and Destiny"

     

    Th 1 Nov. Faustus cont.

    • LA, "The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus," Acts 3-5 (519-549) due
    • Lecture: "The Faust Legacy"
    • QUIZ

 

WEEK 10 Milton I

    T 6 Nov. Areopagitica

    • LA, "John Milton" (759-61); "Areopagitica" (775-84) due
    • LA, Milton, "When I Consider..." (774); "Methought I Saw..." (775); "How Soon Hath Time..." (773); "Lycidas" (768-73) due
    • Lecture: "Athens and Rome" (see picture of Areopagus)

     

    Th 8 Nov. Paradise Lost

    • LA, Milton, PL Book One due
    • Lecture: "Justifications"
    • QUIZ

     



WEEK 11 Milton II

    T 13 Nov. Milton Cont.

    • LA, Milton, PL Book Two due
    • Lecture: "Rhetoric"

     

    Th 15 Nov. Milton Cont. and Midterm Review

    • LA, Milton, PL Book Nine due
    • Review for Midterm (bring any questions to class)


WEEK 12 Thanksgiving

    T 20 Nov. MIDTERM

     

    Th 22 Nov. No class

WEEK 13 Shakespeare

    T 27 Nov. Sonnets

    • LA, Sonnets 1, 18, 20, 29, 55, 60

     

    Th 29 Nov. Sonnets

    • LA, Sonnets 73, 87, 106, 116, 126, 138


WEEK 14 Herbert and Marvell

    T 4 Dec.Herbert

    • On Reserve, Seamus Heaney due
    • ON-LINE: "The Pulley," "The Pilgrimage" due
    • LA, "Jordan(1)" (682)
    • Lecture: "The Redress of Balance"

     

    Th 6 Dec.Marvell

    • "The Garden"
    • (note that your final paper is due in eleven days)


WEEK 15 Donne and Undone

    T 11 Dec.Eros

    • LA, "Song" (664), "The Flea" (667), "A Valedicion: Forbidding Mourning" (668) due
    • Lecture: "The Signifying Monk"
    • (Quiz was overlooked.)

     

    Th 13 Dec.Agape and Conclusions

    • LA, "Holy Sonnets" 6, 9, 10 due
    • Lecture: "Darkling Glass"
    • QUIZ
    • Final Paper Due 5 pm on 17 December

NO FINAL EXAM