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TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
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Date |
Course content
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Key words/
literary terms |
Unit 1: The 19th- Century: Love, Class and Life
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1 |
02-21 |
INTRODUCTION
TO THE COURSE
"Porphyria's
Love" "My
Last Duchess"
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dramatic monologue
Love
and Death
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* |
02-23 |
"The Bride Comes
to Yellow Sky" (1898) Stephen Crane
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The Old West & Cowboy myth
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2 |
02-28 |
HOLIDAY |
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* |
03-02 |
"The £1,000,000
Bank-Note" (1893) Mark Twain |
Money
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3 |
03-07 |
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03-09 |
P&P,
Vol. I, Chap. 7-12 |
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4* |
03-14 |
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03-16 |
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5 |
03-21 |
P&P,
Vol. I Chap 13-23
Group report
(2) |
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03-23 |
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6 |
03-28 |
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03-30
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7 |
04-04 |
HOLIDAY |
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04-06 |
P&P,
Vol. III, Chap. 1-8 @
1st
Journal due
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8 |
04-11 |
P&P,
Vol. III, Chap. 1-8
Group report
(3) |
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04-13 |
P&P,
Vol. III, Chap. 9-19 |
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9 |
04-18 |
P&P,
Vol. III, Chap. 9-19 |
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04-20 |
Conclusion on P&P and Unit 1
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Is it too different from us? |
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character list |
Unit 2. Classical Poetry on Love
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10 |
04-25 |
MIDTERM EXAM |
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* |
04-27 |
Metaphysical
Poetry
John
Donne (1572-1631):
"A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" |
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11 |
05-02
05-04 |
John Donne
"The Flea"
Andrew Marvell (1621-78):
"To His Coy Mistress"
Group report
(4) |
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12 |
05-0905-11 |
16TH
CENTURY POETRY
William Shakespeare (1564-1616):
Sonnet 18
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"
Sonnet 73
"That time of year thou mayst in me behold"
the courting
sonnet from Romeo & Juliet 5/11 @
2nd Journal due |
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13 |
05-16
05-18 |
Medieval Ballad
+ Your Songs
Group report (5)
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Love and Death
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Unit 3: Tragedy vs. Capitalism
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14 |
05-23
05-25 |
Arthur Miller:
The Death of a Salesman
Act I |
Act 1, Act
2, Act
3
group's,
tragedy & pathos;
society
& individual;
social
realism & expressionism;
American
dream
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15 |
05-30
06-01 |
The
Death of a Salesman Act
II 6/1 @
3rd Journal due
Group Report (6)
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16 |
06-06
06-08 |
The
Death of a Salesman Requiem
& Conclusion
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17 |
06-13 |
FINAL EXAM |
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