REQUIRED TEXTS
Abrams, M. H., et al. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors. 6th Ed. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1996.
Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Intr. Susan Fromberg
Shaeffer.
New York and London: Signet/Penguin, 1959.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
* Exams: Two major exams, a midterm and a final, comprehensive in
nature,
essay in format. Quizzes as well.
* Oral reports: The first is to be a report that seeks to situate
accurately
one of the literary works on our syllabus in the overall context of
literature
generally and British literature specifically; thus, each student will
present a talk on the work of one of the assigned authors, and while
the
talk may be summative in part, it must also in part be
interpretive.
The second report will be on the end of term research project (see
below).
The reports should each last five to ten minutes.
* Papers: The first is to be a brief (five hundred words),
impressionistic
paper on the relevance of the literature being studied in the course to
your life. The second paper will be a thousand word analysis of
one
of the works on the syllabus. The third paper, consisting of at
least
three thousand words, is to be the culmination of a research project
whose
topic is to be determined in conference with the instructor. This
research paper must be fully documented (see below). For this
paper,
a minimum of three secondary research sources must be cited;
encyclopedias
and dictionaries may be used, and of course the textbooks, but these
will
not be considered legitimate secondary sources for the purpose of this
assignment. Papers that are not sufficiently researched and
documented
will not receive a passing grade.
All papers must be word processed on 8 1/2" x 11" paper, double
spaced with one inch margins, spell checked, and to the best of one's
ability
grammar checked. If on occasion use is made of the ideas or words
of someone else in one's writing, then the source(s) of those ideas
and/or
words must be cited; that is, when appropriate, papers must be fully
documented
(you must cite sources--using footnotes, endnotes, or parenthetical
documentation,
which include specific page numbers keyed to particular passages in
your
text, and complete bibliographical information). Of course, as
stated
already, the final research paper must be fully documented.
PAPERS
NOT MEETING ALL OF THESE REQUIREMENTS WILL NOT BE READ AND WILL NOT
RECEIVE
CREDIT.
COURSE SCHEDULE
I: Introduction to the course.
II: Beowulf; Abrams 1-47, 52-64.
III: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Abrams 165-219.
IV: Spenser, "Sonnet 34"; Sidney, "Sonnet 31"; Nashe, "A Litany in
Time of Plague"; Donne, "Holy Sonnet" 7, "A Valediction:
Forbidding
Mourning"; Herbert, "Love (3)"; Abrams 253-73, 412, 549, 559, 564,
571-86,
597-98, 610, 812.
V: Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part One; Abrams 465-67, 482-548. FIRST
PAPER DUE.
VI: Milton, Paradise Lost Books I, X, and XII; Abrams 635-36, 662-683,
781-98.
VII: Midterm Examination. TERM PAPER TOPIC DUE.
VIII: Swift, "A Modest Proposal"; Pope, "An Essay on Man"; Abrams
819-41,
1048-58, 1096-1103.
IX: Wordsworth, from Lyrical Ballads; Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind";
Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn"; Abrams
1261-79,
1328-36, 1668-71, 1700-1702, 1767-70, 1791-95.
X: Brontë, Wuthering Heights. TERM PAPER THESIS STATEMENT,
ONE PARAGRAPH DESCRIPTION AND BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE.
XI: E. B. Browning, "A Year's Spinning"; Tennyson, "Now Sleeps the
Crimson Petal"; R Browning, "My Last Duchess"; Arnold, "Dover
Beach";
C Rossetti, "An Apple-Gathering"; Abrams 1833-55, 1858, 1877-81,
1903-04,
1976-82, 1985-86, 2038-43, 2059-60, 2103-04, 2108. SECOND
PAPER
DUE.
XII: Hopkins, "God's Grandeur"; Yeats, "The Second Coming," "Leda and
the Swan," Among Schoolchildren"; Abrams 2125- 28, 2135-45, 2263-67,
2280,
2283-85.
XIII: Auden, "Musée des Beaux Arts," "In Memory of W. B. Yeats";
Thomas, "The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the
Flower,"
"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"; Abrams 2551-53, 2556, 2258,
2564-65,
2570.
XIV: Joyce, "The Dead"; Lawrence, "The Horse-Dealer's Daughter";
Abrams,
2340-73, 2418-21, 2434-46.
XV: Reports on research.
XVI: Final Examination. RESEARCH PAPER DUE.
COURSE GRADE
First Paper 5%
Second Paper 20%
End of Term Research Paper
- 25%
Final Examination 30%
Midterm Examination 10%
Oral Reports 10%