| 1 |
1/22 |
First
Class
Welcome!
The Listserv Assignment |
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| 2 |
1/27 |
The
Who and How of Reading |
Alberto
Manguel
A History of Reading
1-53
Review the Quotation and Citation Guidelines for Listserv Posts and Formal Writing Assignments |
Reading
Post A1 |
| 2 |
1/29 |
Reading
as Memory, as Learning, as Dialogue, as Metaphor
Types of Context |
Alberto
Manguel
A History of Reading
54-93, 162-85 |
Reading
Post B1 |
| 3 |
2/3 |
Reading: Questions of Genre and Power |
Alberto
Manguel
A History of Reading
108-47, 186-235, 278-89 |
Reading
Post C1 |
| 3 |
2/5 |
The
Romantic Ode
Form and Technique
Negative Capability |
John
Keats
“Ode
on Melancholy”
“Ode
on a Grecian Urn”
A letter to George and
Thomas Keats, [21 December, 1817]
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Reading
Post D1 |
| Synthesis Post B1 due Saturday, 2/8 |
| 4 |
2/10 |
The Romantic Ode (continued)
A Contemporary Variation |
John
Keats
“Ode
to a Nightingale”
Eaven Boland
“Ode to Suburbia” |
Reading Post A2 |
| 4 |
2/12 |
The
Dramatic Monologue
Form and Point of View
|
Robert Browning
“Porphyria’s Lover”
“My Last Duchess”
“Soliloquy of the Spanish
Cloister” |
Reading Post B2 |
| Preparatory
Work for Poetic Form Essay Option #1 due Thursday, 2/13 by midnight |
| Synthesis
Post D1 due Saturday, 2/15 |
| 5 |
2/17 |
The
Dramatic Monologue (continued)
Form and the Philosophical Poem |
Robert Browning
“Fra Lippo Lippi”
“Abt.
Vogler”
|
Reading
Post C2 |
| 5 |
2/19 |
The
Dramatic Monologue
Variations |
T.
S. Eliot
“The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock”
Robert Hayden
“Night,
Death, Mississippi”
Wallace Stevens
“The Idea of Order at Key West” |
Reading
Post D2 |
| Preparatory
Work for Poetic Form Essay Option #2 due Thursday, 2/20 by midnight |
| Synthesis
Post A1 due Saturday, 2/22 |
| 6 |
2/24 |
Shakespeare and His Context
Shakespeare as the Master of Language
Shakespeare and Character |
William Shakespeare
King Lear
I.1-I.3
Ancillary materials in your edition of King Lear:
“Reading Shakespeare’s Language,” “Shakespeare’s Life,” “Shakespeare’s Theatre,” “The Publication of Shakespeare’s Plays,” and “An Introduction to This Text”
A brief explanation of humours
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Reading
Post B3 |
| 6 |
2/26 |
Aristotelean Principles of Tragedy
The Uses of Comedy in Tragedy |
William Shakespeare
King Lear
I.4-III.2
Aristotle
Excerpts from Poetics |
Reading
Post A3 |
| Poetic
Form Essay Option #1 due Friday 2/28 by midnight |
| Synthesis
Post C1 due Saturday, 2/29 |
| 7 |
3/2 |
The Double Plot
|
William Shakespeare
King Lear
III.3-IV.5 |
Reading
Post D3 |
| 7 |
3/4 |
Shakespearean Negation |
William Shakespeare
King Lear
IV.6-V.3 |
Reading
Post C3 |
| Poetic
Form Essay Option #2 due Friday 3/6 by midnight |
| Synthesis
Post B2 due Saturday, 3/21 |
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3/9-3/18 |
Extended Spring Break/Viral Outbreak |
| 8 |
3/23 |
Film Adaptation |
Special Supplement
Elements of Film
A brief explanation of four of the main elements of film production, and how they affect the viewer’s experience
Movie Assignment: Ran (1985)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, and Masato Ide, adapted from King Lear by William Shakespeare
Starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Ryu, Akira Tenao, Jinpachi Nezu, and Mieko Harada
On Reserve at Fenwick Library (PN1997 .R36 1998)
Also available streaming through Vudu and iTunes for $3.99 |
Reading (Viewing)
Post A4 |
| 8 |
3/25 |
Translation |
Alberto
Manguel
A History of Reading
260-77
Dante Alighieri
Inferno
Canto V
Seven Translations
Carlyle, Ciardi, Singleton, Sisson, Mandelbaum, Musa, Pinsky |
Reading
Post B4 |
| Synthesis
Post D2 due Saturday, 3/28 |
| 9 |
3/30 |
Postmodern Fiction
Structure and Narrative
Oulipo |
Italo
Calvino
Invisible Cities
1-5 (ending on page 82) |
Reading
Post C4 |
| 9 |
4/1 |
Postmodernism and Humanism |
Italo
Calvino
Invisible Cities
6-9 (83-165) |
Reading
Post D4 |
| Synthesis
Post A2 due Saturday, 4/4 |
| 10 |
4/6 |
The Second-Person Voice
Incipits |
Italo
Calvino
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
“Chapter one” through “Leaning from the steep slope” |
Reading
Post B5 |
| 10 |
4/8 |
Satire and Pastiche
Erasure |
Italo
Calvino
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
“Chapter four” through “In a network of lines that enlace” |
Reading
Post A5 |
| Synthesis
Post C2 due Saturday, 4/11 |
| 11 |
4/13 |
Readerly
vs. Writerly Texts
|
Italo
Calvino
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
“Chapter seven” through “On the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon” |
Reading
Post D5 |
| 11 |
4/15 |
Postmodernism and Humanism Redux |
Italo
Calvino
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
“Chapter nine” through “Chapter twelve” |
Reading
Post C5 |
| Synthesis
Post B3 due Saturday, 4/18 |
| 12 |
4/20 |
Calvino’s Literary Values |
Italo
Calvino
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Preface (page 1)
“Lightness”
“Quickness”
|
Reading
Post A6 |
| 12 |
4/22 |
Calvino’s Literary Values, continued
The Hypernovel |
Italo
Calvino
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
“Exactitude”
“Visibility”
“Multiplicity” |
Reading Post C6 |
| Synthesis
Post D3 due Saturday, 4/25 |
| 13 |
4/27 |
Critical Perspectives
|
Roland Barthes
“The Death of the Author” |
Reading
Post B6 |
| 13 |
4/29 |
Peer Response Instructions
Using Research Productively
Final Research Project Instructions |
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Intertextuality Essay Draft |
| 14 |
5/4 |
Peer Response Day |
Your Peers’ Essays
|
Peer Response |
| 14 |
5/6 |
Critical Perspectives |
Teresa de Lauretis
“Calvino and the Amazons”
Lucia Re
“Calvino and the Value of Literature”
Laurence Breiner
Italic Calvino: The Place of the Emperor in Invisible Cities
Madeleine Sorapure
Being in the Midst:
Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler |
Reading Post D6 |
| Intertextuality Essay Final Version due Saturday, 5/9 by midnight |
| 15 |
5/11 |
Research Project Workshop
Course Evaluations |
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Critical Reading Exercise |
| Synthesis
Post A3 and C3 due Thursday, 5/14, by midnight |