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Syllabus for
English 202-E |
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Catalog Description: |
Prerequisite: 102. A chronological survey of
the major works and writers in British literature from the Romantic through
the Modern periods. |
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Course Goals: |
The chief course goal is for the student to become
familiar with the masterpieces of British literature from the Romantic
through the Victorian and Modern periods. Additional goals include the
student's becoming conversant with literary types, forms, and styles as well
as gaining an appreciation of his/her cultural heritage as it is expressed
through literature. The works selected for study will be some of the
best and most representative poems, plays, stories, and novels drawn from the
three periods of literary history covered in the course. To achieve the
desired course goals, emphasis in study will be placed upon literary theory,
i.e. the ars poetica of each writer as it is reflected in specific
works of literature, and also upon critical analysis. The student will
become acquainted with additional works of fiction and drama not included in
the required texts through the preparation of one collateral reading
report. |
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Grading: |
Grades will be based on study questions and classroom
participation (10%), 3 quizzes (20%), 1 essay (10%), 2 exams (20% each), 1
collateral reading report (10%), and 1 oral report (10%). |
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Grade Scale: |
A=100-90, B=89-80, C=79-70, D=69-60, F=50. |
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Jan. 30 |
Introduction
to the Course: Syllabus and Background for the Romantic Period (1785-1830). |
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Feb. 1 |
"The
Romantic Period (1785-1830)" in The Norton Anthology of English
Literature, Vol. II, pp. l-22; Blake, pp. 76-79, 81-97. Focus on
"Introduction," p. 81; "The Lamb," p. 83;
"Introduction," p. 87; and "The Tyger," p. 92.
Write 10 study questions and their answers for each class assignment. |
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Feb. 4 |
Blake:
"Holy Thursday," p. 86 and "Holy Thursday," p. 90;
"London," p. 94; "The Garden of Love," p. 94; "Ah,
Sun-flower," p. 93; and "The Sick Rose," p. 91. |
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Feb. 6 |
Wordsworth:
"Introduction," pp. 243-245; "Preface to Lyrical Ballads
(1802)," pp. 262-274; "Tintern Abbey," pp. 258-262. |
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Feb. 8 |
Wordsworth:
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality," pp. 306-312. |
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Feb. 11 |
Wordsworth: The
Prelude, pp. 322-324, 331-336, 343-347, 385-389, 378-381. |
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Feb. 13 |
Essay #l (on Blake and Wordsworth). Video: The Worship
of Nature from Civilization: A Personal View by Sir Kenneth Clark. |
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Feb. 15 |
Coleridge:
"Introduction," pp. 424-426; Biographia Literaria, pp.
474-483; "Kubla Khan," pp. 446-448. |
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Feb. 18 |
Coleridge:
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," pp. 430-446. |
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Feb. 20 |
Coleridge:
"The Eolian Harp," pp. 426-428; "This Lime-Tree Bower My
Prison," pp. 428-430; "Frost at Midnight," pp. 464-466. |
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Feb. 22 |
Quiz #1 (on Romantic Period, Blake, Wordsworth, and
Coleridge). |
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Feb. 25 |
Keats:
"Introduction," pp. 878-880, 940-955; "Ode to a
Nightingale," pp. 903-905, "Ode on a Grecian Urn." pp.
905-907. |
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Feb. 27 |
Keats:
"Ode on Melancholy," pp. 907-908; "To Autumn," pp.
925-926. |
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Feb. 29 |
Keats:
"La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad," pp. 899-900; "The Eve of
St. Agnes," pp. 888-898. |
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Mar. 3 |
Bronte:
"Introduction," in Norton, pp. 1311. Wuthering
Heights (first half of the novel--to the death of Catherine Earnshaw
Linton). |
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Mar. 5 |
Bronte: Wuthering
Heights (second half of the novel). |
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Mar. 7 |
Bronte: Wuthering
Heights. |
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Mar. 10 |
Mid-term
Exam |
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Mar. 12 |
"The
Victorian Age (1830-1901)," pp. 979-999; Tennyson:
"Introduction," pp. 1109-1112; "Ulysses," pp. 1123-1125;
"Tithonus," pp. 1125-1126. |
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Mar. 14 |
Tennyson:
"The Lotos-Eaters," pp. 1119-1123; "The Lady of Shalott,"
pp. 1114-1118. |
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Mar. 17 |
Browning:
"Introduction," pp. 1248-1252; "My Last Duchess," pp.
1255-1256; "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," pp. 1253-1255. |
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Mar. 19 |
Browning:
"Andrea del Sarto," pp. 1280-1286; "Fra Lippo Lippi," pp.
1271-1280 |
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SPRING
BREAK |
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Mar. 31 |
Browning:
"The Bishop Orders His Tomb," pp. 1259-1262; "Rabbi Ben
Ezra," pp. 1305-1310. |
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Apr. 2 |
Quiz #2 (on The Victorian Age, Tennyson, and Browning)
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Apr. 4 |
Arnold:
"Introduction," pp. 1350-1354; "Dover Beach," pp.
1368-1369; "To Marguerite--Continued," pp. 1355-1356. |
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Apr. 7 |
Arnold:
"The Buried Life," pp. 1356-1358; "The Scholar Gypsy,"
pp. 1361-1367. |
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Apr. 9 |
Collateral
Reading Report Due. Video: Heroic
Materialism from Civilization: A Personal View by Sir Kenneth
Clark. |
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Apr. 11 |
Hopkins:
"Introduction," pp. 1513-1516; "God's Grandeur," pp.
1516; "The Windhover," pp. 1518; "Spring and Fall: to a young
child," pp. 1521; "Pied Beauty," p. 1518. |
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Apr. 14 |
Hopkins
continued. |
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Apr. 16 |
Shaw:
"Introduction," in Norton, pp. 1743-1746; Major Barbara,
Acts I and II. |
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Apr. 18 |
Shaw: Major
Barbara, Act III. |
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Apr. 21 |
Shaw: Major
Barbara, videotaape. |
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Apr. 23 |
Quiz #3 (on Arnold, Hopkins, and Shaw). |
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Apr. 25 |
"The
Twentieth Century," pp. 1827-1847; Joyce: "The Dead," pp.
2163-2168, 2172-2199. |
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Apr. 28 |
Joyce
continued. |
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Apr. 30 |
Yeats:
"Introduction," pp. 2019-2022; "Sailing to Byzantium,"
pp. 2040; "Among School Children," pp. 2041-2042. |
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May 2 |
Eliot: "
Introduction," pp. 2286-2289; "The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock," pp. 2289-2293. |
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May 5 |
Beckett:
"Introduction," pp. 2393-2394 in Norton; Waiting for
Godot. |
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May 7 |
Beckett
continued. |
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Policies |
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I. |
Attendance and participation in class discussions
are requirements of the course. If a student has a legitimate absence,
he or she is still responsible for the material discussed in class and for
written assignments missed. Each student will be limited to three
unexcused absences. Six
or more absences of any kind
(excused or unexcused) will result
in either a reduction of his or her final grade by at least one letter or
failure of the course. |
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II. |
Essays and Other Written Assignments |
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A. For exams, put your name, the course name , and
the date on the first page. Write on both sides of the page. Blue books
will be used for assignments (except quizzes) written in class. |
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B. For essays prepared outside of class, write a
title page, an outline, and five typed pages of text. Use the form
recommended in The Bedford Handbook
on pp. 667-697. The essays required in this course are not research
assignments. They are critical analyses that do not require
documentation of secondary sources. A student will need to support his
or her ideas with quotations from primary sources. These quotations
should be documented. |
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C. All written assignments must be handed in for
you to pass the course. |
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D. Late Assignments: A student has one week beyond
the due date to turn in a late assignment. His or her grade will be
reduced by one letter grade unless he or she has a legitimate excuse. Any assignment turned in later than
the allowed extension will receive a zero. The number of extensions may
be limited at the instructor's discretion. |
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III. |
No incomplete will be offered unless the student has
consulted the instructor before the end of the semester and has gained the
instructor's approval. |
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Collateral Reading List |
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Novels: |
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Jane Austen |
Pride and Prejudice |
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Emma |
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Sense and Sensibility |
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Sir Walter Scott |
The Heart of Midlothian |
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Ivanhoe |
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William Thackeray |
Henry Esmond |
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Vanity Fair |
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Charles Dickens |
Great Expectations |
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Oliver Twist |
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David Copperfield |
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BleakHouse |
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The Tale of Two Cities |
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Charlotte Bronte |
Jane Eyre |
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George Eliot |
Adam Bede |
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The Mill on the Floss |
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Middlemarch |
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E. M. Forster |
A Passage to India |
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Thomas Hardy |
Far from the Madding Crowd |
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The Mayor of Casterbridge |
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles |
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Jude the Obscure |
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Joseph Conrad |
Lord Jim |
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Nostromo |
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D. H. Lawrence |
Sons and Lovers |
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The Rainbow |
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Women in Love |
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Aldous Huxley |
Point Counter Point |
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Brave New World |
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James Joyce |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
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Virginia Woolf |
Mrs. Dalloway |
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Plays: |
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Oscar Wilde |
Lady Windermere's Fan |
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The Importance of Being Earnest |
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John Millington Synge |
The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea (count as one play) |
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Sean O' Casey |
Juno and the Paycock |
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George Bernard Shaw |
Arms and the Man |
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Mrs. Warren's Profession |
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St. Joan |
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T. S. Eliot |
Murder in the Cathedral |
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Family Reunion |
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The Cocktail Party |
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Samuel Beckett |
Endgame |
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Tom Stoppard |
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead |
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Arcadia |