ENGL 200: Myth, Genre & Archetype in the Harry Potter Novels
Dr. Jo Koster: 228 Bancroft; 803-323-4557; kosterj@winthrop.edu
Owens 204, MTWR　03:30-05:30 http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/engl200HP.htm


June-July 2008--last updated on 05/18/2013

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SS: Sorcerer's Stone   CS: Chamber of Secrets  PA: Prisoner of Azkaban  GF: Goblet of Fire  OP: Order of the Phoenix  HB: Half-Blood Prince   DH: Deathly Hallows

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June 9 Classes Begin

What are myths, archetypes, and genres?
Class will be sorted into Houses for group presentation and for House Cup competition.

Outside Reading: from the Introduction to Bruno Bettleheim's The Uses of Enchantment (1977)--Please finish this sometime this week. Take good notes on this, since many of the questions we'll be taking up in class will bounce off these ideas.

Here's today's PowerPoint.

 June 10: Archetypes: The Unknown Hero

SS: Chs. 1, 4
PA: Chs. 7, 15, 20
DH: Ch. 17

 June 11: Practice Quiz

Archetypes: Good and Evil

PA: Ch. 17-19
GF: Chs. 32-25
OP: Chs. 33-36
HB: Chs. 26-28
 

 June 12 Quiz
Archetypes: The Teacher, The Hero's Companions

As a model for your research paper, read Christiane Berger's "More Than Just a Fashion: T.H. White's Use of Dress as a Means of Characterization," Connotations 7.1 (1997/98): 135-140.

SS: Ch. 6
PA: Chs. 10, 22
OP: Ch.  18
 
June 16: Myths--The Search for Ancestry

SS: Ch. 12
CS: Chs. 16-17
PA: Chs. 17-19

Here's today's PowerPoint.

 June 17: Myths--The Search for Ancestry (cont.)

OP: Chs. 2, 4, 28, 37
HB: Ch. 3
DH: Chs. 13, 16

 June 18 Quiz
Myths--A Wizard's Powers

SS: Chs. 9, 17
 CS: Ch.  11
PA: Ch. 7
GF: Chs. 20, 26

Here is today's PowerPoint.

 June 19: Myths--A Hero's Quest. Outside Reading: Kate Behr, "'Same-as-Difference': Narrative Transformations and Intersecting Cultures in Harry Potter," JNT (Journal of Narrative Theory) 35.1 (Winter 2005): 112-132.

SS: Ch. 17
OP: Ch. 18
HB: Ch. 20

Here is today's PowerPoint.

Brief House Presentation conferences w/ Dr K
 
June 23: Myths--A Hero's Quest (cont.)
Outside Reading: J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories.

Review outline of Tolkien.

Stephanie's presentation on the Hero's Quest

Today you must tell us the topic for your research paper.

OP: Ch. 37
HB: Chs. 23, 30
DH: Chs. 34-35

 June 24: GEM (Ghastly English Midterm)

IDs (20 pts), 5 short answer questions (30 pts), and two 3-paragraph essay questions (25 pts each)

 June 25: Genre and The Education Novel: The Sword in the Stone as a source for Harry Potter. Have completed The Sword in the Stone by today.  Please bring Prisoner of Azkaban to class with you.

The Sword in the Stone and its Literary Heritage PowerPoint

 June 26: House Presentations

Gryffindor PowerPoint

Hufflepuff PowerPoint
June 30:  Quiz
The Education Novel: The Sword in the Stone as a source for Harry Potter.  Outside Reading: Adderley, C. M. "The Best Thing for Being Sad: Education and Educators in T. H. White's Once and Future King." Quondam et Futurus: A Journal of Arthurian Interpretations  1992 Spring; 2 (1): 55-68.

Here you go, Amy: Bring SS and OP with you.

Stephanie's PowerPoint.   Dr. K's PowerPoint.

 July 1:  The Education Novel: Tom Brown's Schooldays as a source for Harry Potter. Have completed TBS by today.

Today's (and possibly tomorrow's) PowerPoint.

 July 2: The Education Novel: Tom Brown's Schooldays as a source for Harry Potter.  Please bring Sorceror's Stone and Order of the Phoenix to class with you.

Official "Only Five of Us Are Here So Dr. K. Declared 'Let's Go Work on Our Papers' Day"

 July 3: Outside Reading: Stonely, Peter. "Family Values and the 'Republic of Boys': Tom Brown and Others." Journal of Victorian Culture 3.1 (Spring 1998): 69-92. Please bring Sorceror's Stone and Order of the Phoenix to class with you.

Stephanie's PowerPoint

Rough Draft Confs. with Dr. K and Ms. Harris
July 7:  Quiz.  Should the Harry Potter novels be censored on the basis of literary merit? Outside reading: Bloom, Byatt & Taylor, more Bloom, and Stephen King; ALA "Banned Books" material. Remember: Gryffindors focus on the anti-Harry side; Hufflepuffs focus on the pro-Harry side for class discussion (everybody's responsible for both sides for the quiz and final exam). July 8: Paper Due at the beginning of class--no exceptions. It must also be submitted to www.turnitin.com by this time. 

Last day to win House Cup points.

Finish discussion of censorship and the literary merits of the Harry Potter series.

Last day to submit possible essay questions for the Final Exam.

 July 9: Summation, evaluation, exam preparation, feasting (bring milk). The House Cup will be awarded to the group with the collective highest scores on quizzes, tests, and the House Presentations.

Costumes Encouraged!!!!

Quidditch for Muggles and Quidditch at Middlebury

 July 10: EFT (Excruciating Final Test)

This will consist of IDs (10 pts), short answers (15 pts) and three essay questions (25 pts each). One of the essay questions will be comprehensive; the rest of the exam will focus on material read since the midterm on June 24.