English 203 (Spring 2010)
Dr. Fike
Key: RP = response paper
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Jan. 12 |
Introduction to the course; lecture on the Anglo-Saxon literary context |
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Jan. 14 |
Anglo-Saxon Period, Volume 1: 3-11; "Deor's Lament" 98-100; "The Wanderer" 100-04; optional reading: see link on slide show page to "'The Wanderer' and the Psychology of Sailing" | |
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Jan. 19 |
"The Battle of Maldon," and "The Dream of the Rood" 104-18; and Beowulf, lines 2368-2724 (pages 84-92) |
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Jan. 21 |
Middle English Period 11-18; Chaucer, "General Prologue" (Penguin paperback); please number the lines of poetry in your book (not everyone has the same pagination) |
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Jan. 26 |
Wife of Bath's "Prologue" and "Tale" |
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Jan. 28 |
Pardoner's "Prologue" and "Tale" |
Quiz |
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Feb. 2 |
Early Modern Period 503-18; Marlowe, Doctor Faustus 845-99 |
RP 1 |
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Feb. 4 |
Marlowe continued; discussion questions |
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Feb. 9 |
Sidney, Defence of Poesie 636-49 and Sonnet 5 from Astrophel and Stella 632 |
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Feb. 11 |
Shakespeare's Sonnets 927-38 |
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Feb. 16 |
Milton, "Lycidas" 1251-57; also read the background handout on Paradise Lost (see link on on slide show page) |
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Feb. 18 |
Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 9, 1322-50 |
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Feb. 23 |
Donne, selected poems 1024-44, esp. "The Flea" and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"; also the Holy Sonnets on 1050-52 |
Quiz |
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Feb. 25 |
18th Century 1549-60; Swift, "A Modest Proposal" 1767-73; also read Dr. Koster's overview of the period |
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Mar. 2 |
Pope's The Rape of the Lock 1867-88 |
RP 2 |
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Mar. 4 |
Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Book 4, 1782-1836 | |
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Mar. 9 |
Midterm examination on the Anglo-Saxon Period, Middle English Period, Renaissance, and 18th Century: bring a large bluebook and a blue or black ballpoint pen. |
Midterm |
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Mar. 11 |
Romantic Period Volume 2: 3-9; Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience 17-29 |
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| T | Mar. 16 | Spring Break | |
| R | Mar. 18 | Spring Break | |
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Mar. 23 |
Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey" 146-50, "The World Is Too Much With Us" 174, and "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" 592-611 |
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| R | Mar. 25 | Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book 1, 188-96; and Book 12, 223-25, lines 208-335; Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, Chapter XIV, 645-50; "Frost at Midnight" 273-75; "Kubla Khan" 254-57; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 238-54 | Quiz |
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Mar. 30 |
Victorian Period 789-99 and
1177-79; Tennyson, "Ulysses" and "The Lady of Shalott" 1184-88 and 1204-04; Browning, "My Last Duchess" 1288-89
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"Porphyria's Lover"; Arnold, "Dover Beach" 1379-80; and Hecht's
"The Dover Bitch"
Remember to submit your RP 3 to turnitin.com: I.D. 3050830; password "winthrop." |
RP 3 |
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Apr. 1 |
Newman, "The Idea of a University"; Mill, On Liberty and "On the Subjection of Women," and "A Crisis in My Mental History": 869-94 and 912-17 |
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Apr. 6 |
Modern Period 1511-20; Conrad, Heart of Darkness 1613-79 | |
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Apr. 8 |
Conrad continued |
Quiz |
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Apr. 13 |
Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 1970-76 |
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Apr. 15 |
Yeats, selected poems, 1679-1721: "The Magi," "The Second Coming," "Sailing to Byzantium," "Leda and the Swan," "Among School Children, "The Wild Swans at Coole," "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," and "The Song of Wandering Aengus" |
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Apr. 20 |
Woolf, A Room of One's Own (paperback) |
Course evaluation |
| R | Apr. 22 | Postmodern Period: Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape: https://www.msu.edu/~sullivan/BeckettKrapp.html; bring periodicity handout | |
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Apr. 28 |
Final examination at 11:30 a.m.: bring a large bluebook and a blue or black ballpoint pen. |