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Jan. 3 |
None |
Introduction to the course |
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Jan. 5 |
Molière Tartuffe, Acts I-III Introduction to French Renaissance theater: read questions 1-7 and 14-16 Browse timeline |
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Jan. 8 |
Molière Tartuffe, Acts |
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Jan. 10 |
Jonathan Swift, excerpt from Gulliver's Travels (all) |
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Jan. 12 |
Voltaire Candide, Chapters I-XIX |
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Reading Due That Day |
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3 |
Jan. 15 |
Martin Luther King Day |
None |
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Jan. 17 |
Voltaire Candide, Chapters XX-XXX |
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Jan. 19 |
Goethe Faust, Part I: Dedication, Prelude, Prologue. Scenes I, III, IV. Email due: Explain the regions of your source. Annotated list format preferred: see examples in "How to Write Summaries" document. (200 words |
Romanticism |
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4 |
Jan. 22 |
Goethe Faust, Part I: Scenes VII-XX. |
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Jan. 24 |
Goethe Faust, Part I: Scenes XXIII-XXV. Paper 1a due |
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Jan. 26 |
Blake, Introduction, Songs of Innocence, London, The Tyger Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, On Seeing the Elgin Marbles, Ode to Psyche |
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Reading Due That Day |
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5 |
Jan. 29 |
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein |
Romanticism |
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Jan. 31 |
Mary Shelley Frankenstein |
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Feb. 2 |
Midterm Exam |
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6 |
Feb. 5 |
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave |
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Feb. 7 |
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave |
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Feb. 9 |
Walt Whitman, "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," "Song of Myself," Sections 1, 2 and 52 (scroll down to bottom) Introdcution to "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life." "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life." Paper 1b due |
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Reading Due That Day |
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7 |
Feb. 12 |
Henrick Ibsen, A Doll House |
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Feb. 14 |
Henrick Ibsen, A Doll House |
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Feb. 16 |
Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author Proposal for Paper 2 due. An email explaining what you will do is all that's required. If you are going to find and summarize a source, you must include a bibliographic citation for it in the email. |
Modernism |
8 |
Feb. 19 |
Presidents' Day: No Class |
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Feb. 21 |
Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author |
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Feb. 23 |
James Joyce The Dead Read all. Class discussion will focus on how the story fits McHale's definition of modernism. |
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Reading Due That Day |
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9 |
Feb. 26 |
Class meets in Macalister 4011 James Joyce The Dead |
Modernism |
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Feb. 28 |
No class during the day: see next entry |
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February 28 |
Mandel Auditorium, 7 PM, attend dress rehearsal for The Good Woman of Setzuan |
Modernism |
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March 2 |
Bertold Brecht. The Good Woman of Setzuan |
Modernism |
10 |
March 5 |
Jorge Luis Borges, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" Paper 2 Due |
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March 7 |
Italo Calvino, from Italian Folktales, The Parrot. The Canary Prince. Quack, Quack! Stick to My Back! Fair Brow. The Five Scapegraces. Catherine the Wise. Wormwood |
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March 9 |
Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape |