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English Literature to 1650
English 101, Fall 2005, Patricia Fumerton
Schedule: T, R 9:30 - 10:45 am, Girvetz
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| Class 1 (Sept 22 R) |
Introduction/ The Problems of Translation |
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THE ETHOS OF THE EARLY AND LATER MIDDLE AGES
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| Class 2 (Sept 27 T) |
Anglo-Saxon
Epic
Beowulf,
pp. 29-71
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| Class 3 (Sept 29 R) |
Anglo-Saxon Epic
Beowulf, pp. 71-99
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| Class 4 (Oct 4 T) |
Medieval Epic and Chivalric Romance
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
Parts 1 and 2 (pp. 158-181)
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| Class 5 (Oct 6 R) |
Medieval Epic and Chivalric Romance
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
Parts 3 and 4 (pp.181-210) |
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| Class 6 (Oct 11 T) |
Medieval and Chivalric Romance
Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Wife of Bath's Tale"
(READER)
****Guest Lecturer: Carol Pasternack****
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THE ETHOS OF THE RENAISSANCE
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| Class 7 (Oct 13 R) |
Renaissance Epic: Chivalric Romance/ Allegory
Spenser, The Faerie Queene,
Book 1, Proem (1.Proem) and Book 1, canto 1,
stanzas 1-28 (1.1.1-28)
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| Class 8 (Oct 18 T) |
Renaissance Epic:
Chivalric Romance/ Allegory
Spenser, The Faerie Queene,
Book 1, canto 1, stanzas 29-55 (1.1.29-55)
and all of canto 2 |
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| Class 9 (Oct 20 R) |
TEST #1 |
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| Class 10 (Oct 25 T) |
Women Writers and Romance Fiction
Lady Mary Wroth, selections from Urania
(READER)
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| Class 11 (Oct 27 R) |
Popular Broadside Ballads: Alehouse versus Domestic House
"The Good Fellows' Frolick," "So Long Have I Followed the Alewife's Cans,"
"A Merry Discourse," "Good Ale for My Money," "A Healthy to All
Good-Fellowes," "The Industrious Smith," "Lamentation of a New-
Married Man," "A Merry Dialogue betwixt a Married Man and His Wife,"
"Robin and Kate," "The Lady and the Blackamoor," "Anne Wallens'
Lamentation"
(READER)
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| Class 12 (Nov 1 T) |
Domestic Drama, Domestic Crime
Arden of Faversham,
pp. 3-52
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FIRST PAPER DUE IN CLASS (class attendance mandatory)
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| Class 13 (Nov 3 R) |
Domestic Drama, Domestic Crime
Arden of Faversham,
pp. 52-103
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| Class 14 (Nov 8 T) |
Courtly Lyrics and Sonnets
Sir Thomas Wyatt, "Whoso List to Hunt," "Madam, Withouten Many Words,"
"They Flee from Me"
(pp. 527, 529-30)
Sir Philip Sidney, from Astrophil and Stella, sonnets 1, 9, 41, and Fourth Song
(pp. 917, 919, 923, 928-29)
William Shakespeare, sonnets 18, 20, 29, 130, 144
(pp. 1031-32, 1040-42)
Lady Mary Wroth, from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, sonnets 1, 3; Song 2;
sonnets 28, 46, and sonnet 1 from "Crowne of Sonnets"
(READER)
George Herbert, "Easter Wings," "Jordan (I)," "Jordan (2)"
(pp. 1599, 1601-02, 1605-06)
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| Class 15 (Nov 10 R)
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TEST #2 |
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| Class 16 (Nov 15 T) |
Donne's Poetry: the Transmutation of Self
John Donne, "The Good Morrow," "The Sun Rising," "The Canonization,"
"Love's Alchemy," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Ecstasy,"
"The Relic," "Holy Sonnet 10," "Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward,"
"A Hymn to God the Father"
(pp. 1236, 1239-41, 1245, 1248-50, 1253-54, 1270, 1272-73, 1275-76)
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Jonson's Poetry: The Buried Self
Ben Jonson, "On My first Daughter," "To John Donne," "On my First Son,"
"To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with Mr. Donne's Satires," "Inviting a
Friend to Supper," "To Penshurst," "Song: To Celia," "My Picture Left in
Scotland," "Ode to Himself"
(pp. 1394-1402, 1409, 1416-18)
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| Class 18 (Nov 22 T) |
Jonsonian Drama: The Overreacher
Ben Jonson, Volpone, Acts 1-3 (pp. 1301-56)
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| Thursday Nov 24 |
Thanksgiving Holiday-- NO CLASS |
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| Class 19 (Nov 29 T) |
Jonsonian Drama: The Overreacher
Jonson, Volpone, Acts 4-5 (pp. 1356-93)
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| Class 20 (Dec 1R) |
Civil War Poetry: The Conflicted Subject
Andrew Marvell, "The Coronet," "A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body,"
"To His Coy Mistress," "The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of
Flowers," "The Mower's Song," "The Garden," "An Horatian Ode"
(pp. 1685-88, 1691-92, 1698-1704)
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SECOND PAPER DUE IN CLASS (class attendance mandatory)
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