Intro2Lit

 

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Unit 1: The 19th- Century: Exploring Human Boundaries

Handouts ; Last Year's syllabus (with students' group reports)

1

02-27

INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) "Song"
1. dramatic monologue
Love and Death

03-02 Robert Browning (1812-1889) "My Last Duchess" (690)
*"Porphyria's Love"(due 3/1)
 

2

03-06 P.B. Shelley (1792-1822): *"Ozymandias"(737) (e-text)
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) *"Ulysses" (927)(e-text)
2. Art, Ambition and Mortality
annotations (due 3/4)

03-09 Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)"The Lady of Shalott"  

3

03-13

John Keats (1795-1812): "Ode on a Grecian Urn"(659);
"To Autumn" (925)
@
Group Report (1)
3. Art, Human and Nature
group1 "Urn" "Autumn"

 

03-16

William Blake (1757-1827) "Tyger"(920)
"The Sick Rose" (716)

4

03-20


Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
*"The Tell-Tale Heart" (due 3/18)

4. Boundaries Within

 

03-23

Frankenstein (1): Introd and Letters and Chaps 1 and 2-- Narrative Frames and Family Relations

5. Human, Nature and Scientific Creation

5

03-27

Frankenstein (2): Chaps 3-10 -- Science and Creation

 

03-30

Frankenstein (2): Chaps 3-10 (cont'd)

 

6

04-3

Spring Break

 

 

04-6

Frankenstein (2): Chaps 3-10 (cont'd)

 

7

04-10

Frankenstein (3): Chaps 11-17 -- The Human Monster's Education
@ Group Report (2)

group 2

 

04-13

No Class

 

8

04-18
noon

Frankenstein (4): Chaps18-23 --Revenge and Obsession
@ Group Report (3) @ 1st Online Discussion due

group 3

 

04-20

Frankenstein (4): Chaps18-23 (cont'd)

 

9

04-24

Frankenstein (5): Chap 24 and Conclusion -- Romantic Hero and Gender


Quiz on 19th-c poetry

Unit 2. Classical Poetry on Love

  04-24

Metaphysical Poetry

 John Donne (1572-1631)"A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" John Donne "The Flea"

Metaphysical Poetry

  04-27 Andrew Marvell (1621-78): "To His Coy Mistress"  

10

05-01

MIDTERM EXAM

 

05-04

William Shakespeare (1564-1616):

Sonnet 18 "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"

Shakespearean Sonnet

11 05-08

Sonnet 73 "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"

the courting sonnet from Romeo & Juliet  5/11

@ Group Report (4)

group 4

 

05-11

Medieval Ballad: "Edward" (913)

12

05-15

 

"Barbara Allen" "Sir Patrick Spens" (909)

@ Group Report (5) @ Close-Analysis Journal due

 how to record

Unit 3: Family Relations, Memory and Madness

  05-18 Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
The Glass Menagerie Scenes I-II

gm 1, 2, 3

group 5

Proof

conclusion

13

05-22

05-25

The Glass Menagerie Scenes III-V
@ Group Report (6)

14

05-29

06-01

The Glass Menagerie Scenes VI-VII & Conclusion

15

06-05

06-08

David Auburn Proof

Conclusion: Literary and Human Norms and Margins

@ 2nd Online Discussion --optional

16

06-12

06-15

FINAL EXAM