Session Date
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Session Focus
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Reading Assignment
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Exam Date
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Week 1 Tues. Jan 17
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Introduction to the Course and Discussion of Requirements
View: Selection from Simon Schama's History of Brtain
Riddles and Charms (photocopies)
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Week 1 Thurs. Jan. 19
LAST DAY TO ADD/DROP COURSES
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"Caedmon’s Hymn" Read Abbess Hild of Whitby on Caedmon pp. 11-15
"The Dream of the Rood"
"The Wanderer"
What is litotes and what are kennings?
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Recommended reading in addition to poetry:
The Medieval Period
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Week 2 Tues. Jan. 24
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"The Wife's Lament"
"The Seafarer"
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Schedule Set for Reader Response/Seminars Please let me know today if you have any potential conflicts with dates for seminars
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Week 2
Thurs. Jan. 26
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Anglo-Norman England: Arthurian Romance and Female Fairy Worlds
Marie de France "Lanval" and
"Bisclavret" (The Werewolf)
READER RESPONSE 1: Chiara Abbondanti
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Week 3
Tues. Jan. 31
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
READER RESPONSE 2: Meredith Caldwell
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Recommended Reading in addition to "Gawain"
In Context: The Crises of the 14th century pp. 200ff
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Week 3
Thurs. Feb. 2
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Chaucer: From The Canterbury Tales
The General Prologue
The Miller's Tale
READER RESPONSE 3: Alessandra Colzani
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Recommended Reading in addition to Chaucer selections
In Context: Love and Marriage in Medieval Britain
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Week 4
Tues. Feb. 7
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Chaucer
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
READER RESPONSE 4: Ali Hause
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THURS. FEB. 9 |
CLASS CANCELLED DUE TO CONFERENCE -- MAKEUP DAY FRIDAY APRIL 20TH |
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Week 5 Tues. Feb. 14 |
Piers Plowman
READER RESPONSE 5: Eric Jensen |
Recommended Reading for Tuesday. In Context: Religious and Spiritual Life p. 547ff
For Thurs: View Simon Schama selection on The Plague in the library on reserve |
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Week 5
Thurs. Feb. 16
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The Plague, Visionary Women, Dream Visions and Religious Allegory
Julian of Norwich from A Revelation of Love and Margery Kempe from The Book of Margery Kempe
FIRST ESSAY DUE
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In addition to the reading view Simon Schama's History of Britain series Disc 2 Episode: King Death
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FIRST ESSAY DUE THURSDAY |
Week 6 Tues. Feb. 21 |
Thomas Mallory Selections from Morte D'Arthur
READER RESPONSE 6: Tithi Natale |
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Thurs. Feb. 23 |
Everyman
Reader Response 7: Victor |
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Week 7
Tues. Feb. 28
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Selections from Thomas More's Utopia
Sidney's Defense of Poetry
Castiglione's The Courtier
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Thurs. March 1 |
MID-TERM EXAM |
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Week 8
Tues. March 6
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Spenser's "The Shepherd's Calendar"
The Faerie Queen: Book II Canto 12 "The Bower of Bliss"
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Recommended reading: In Context "Culture"
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Week 8
Thurs. March 8
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The Sonnet
Read all of the sonnets in the Anthology by:
Sir Thomas Wyatt (detailed discussion "Whoso LIst to Hunt"
Sir Philip Sidney (detailed discussion 1, 7, 62 and 71
Edmund Spenser -- the "Amoretti" sonnets
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Week 9 Tues. March 13 |
Class Cancelled due to Dickens Conference British School of Rome 10-1 |
Makeup day Friday April 20th |
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Week 9 Thurs. March 15
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The Sonnet continued:
Read all of Shakespeare's sonnets in the anthology
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Recommended Reading In Context: Unconstant Women, Excellent Women": A 17th Century Debate
1. Chiara Spenser's sonnet 75
2. Meredith Shakespeare's sonnet 130, 29 , 60 or 116.
3. Ali
Shakespeare's sonnet 60
4. Alessandra
Spenser's sonnet 67 |
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Week 10 19-23 |
MARCH BREAK |
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Week 11
Tues. March 27 |
Poetic Dialogues on Sex, Marriage Anxiety and The Pastoral Ideal.
Christopher Marlowe “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
Sir Walter Ralegh “The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd”
John Donne “The Bait”
Robert Herrick “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
Andrew Marvell “To His Coy Mistress”
“Corinna’s Going A-Maying”
Thomas Carew “A Rapture”
Sir John Suckling "A Ballad Upon a Wedding"
Katherine Philips "A Married State"
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Week 11 Thurs. March 29 |
Christopher Marlowe Dr. Faustus |
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Week 12
Tues. April 3
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Shakespeare King Lear
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Week 12
Thurs. April 5
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Shakespeare King Lear
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Week 13 Tues. April 10 |
Thomas Hobbes Selections from Leviathan |
5. Eric
Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 |
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Week 13
Thurs. April 12
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Ben Jonson's "Clerimont's Song" p. 580
"Song to Celia,"
"Inviting a Friend to Supper" and "To Penshurt";
Read Herrick "Delight in Disorder" p. 756
Also have a look at Amelia Lanyer's "The Description of Cooke-ham" -- first Country House poem
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6. Tithi
Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, 147 or 20?
7. Victor
Milton's "On his Blindness" |
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Week 14 Tues. April 17
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George Herbert and John Donne
Read Herbert's "Easter Wings"
"The Pulley"
"The Altar"
Donne's "Good Friday, 1613 Riding Westward"
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Week 14 Thurs. April 19
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John Donne
"The Flea"
"A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"
"Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed"
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SECOND ESSAY DUE
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Week 14 Friday April 20 |
Field Trip to Protestant Cemetery -- MAKEUP DAY
John Milton
Paradise Lost |
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Week 14 Tues. April 24
Week 15
Thurs. April 26
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John Milton
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Paradise Lost
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