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E211: British Literature to 1760 Short Presentation Instructions Alfred Drake | Uni Hall 329 | W 3-4 | ajdrake@ajdrake.com Each class, several students will offer informal responses to a different study question about the text/s we are discussing that day. Early in the semester, students will sign up in advance for three different authors, and I'll connect relevant study questions to those authors. Students will give an informal presentation on the appropriate day. Responses need not take more than about 3 minutes, not including time for others' remarks. There is no need to turn in anything, but it might be useful to write an outline or make notes.Your assessment of the author's claims is always a valid addition to the question. If you come to an office hour or email me beforehand, I can offer suggestions. This component will be worth 25% of the course grade. I am not going to judge responses finely, provided that you have put some effort into them. It's important that you attend class on the days for which you sign up. Logistics make it impractical to do a makeup with the original response, though perhaps you can do another response later. Below is a list containing three things for each session: the authors we will discuss, the number of each study question I've chosen for discussion (with short description), and the names of the presenters. The author hyperlinks below send you to the study question pages for the respective authors--they contain the questions. WEEK 2 02/09. Bede, "Dream of the Rood," and Beowulf. (Hyperlinks refer to full questions--please see the relevant study questions page for your author.) Bede Q 1. Marta Chanez. Below is the rest of the schedule. I'll fill in the exact study questions for the remaining authors very soon: WEEK 3 02/16. Marie de France and Geoffrey Chaucer. Marie de France's "Lanval" (126ff). Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. General Prologue lines 1-164 (pp. 215-19) Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale (pp. 253-81). France Q 1. Marta Chanez. WEEK 4 02/23. Thomas Wyatt and Thomas More. Wyatt's "The Long Love," "My Galley," "Madam, Withouten Many Words," "Whoso List to Hunt," "My Lute, Awake!" "They Flee from Me," "Divers Doth Use," "Blame Not My Lute," "Forget Not Yet," "Who List His Wealth and Ease," "Mine Own John Poins" ( 527ff). More's Utopia (503ff). Wyatt Q 10/12. Marta Chanez. WEEK 6 03/09. William Shakespeare. Henry V. [Discussion, separate text] Shakespeare 1. Chris Andrews. WEEK 8 03/23. William Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice. [Discussion, separate text] Shakespeare Q 1. Kim Berkheimer. WEEK 10 04/06. John Donne and George Herbert. Donne's "The Flea," "The Good Morrow," "Song--Go and Catch a Falling Star," "The Canonizaton," "A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy's Day," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "Holy Sonnets" (all), "Good Friday, 1613: Riding Westward" (1233ff). Herbert's "The Altar," "Redemption," "Easter," "Easter Wings," "Affliction (I)," "Prayer (1)," "Jordan (1)," "Denial," "Jordan (2)," "Time," "The Bunch of Grapes," "The Pilgrimage," "The Pulley," "The Flower," "Discipline," "Death" (1595ff). Donne Q 1/3. Chris Andrews. WEEK 11 04/13. John Milton and John Dryden. Milton's Paradise Lost 1-4, 9 (1815ff). Dryden's "An Essay of Dramatic Poesy" (2114-18). Milton Q 1. Jennifer Brown. WEEK 12 04/20. Samuel Pepys and Jonathan Swift. Pepys' Diary entry "The Great Fire" (2122-27). Swift's Gulliver's Travels. (2329ff). Pepys Q 1. Natalie Naanouh. WEEK 13 04/27. Joseph Addison/Richard Steele and Alexander Pope. Addison/Steele's "The Gentleman; the Pretty Fellow"; "Dueling"; "The Aims of the Spectator"; "Wit: True, False, Mixed"; "Paradise Lost: General Critical Remarks"; and "On the Scale of Being" (2479ff). Pope's The Rape of the Lock and "Eloisa to Abelard" (2525ff). Addison/Steele Q 1. Brittany Hill. WEEK 14 05/04. John Gay and William Hogarth. Gay's The Beggar's Opera (2605ff). Hogarth's Marriage à la Mode (2652ff). [Study questions are now available.] Gay Q 1. Travis Coover. WEEK 15 05/11. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. 05/11. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. Johnson's Rasselas, (2678-2712) Rambler #4 "On Fiction)" (2712-15), "Metaphysical Wit" (2736-38). Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D (2752-83). Johnson Q 3. Jennifer Brown. WEEK 16 05/18. Frances Burney, Thomas Gray, William Collins, and William Cowper. 05/18. Frances Burney, Thomas Gray, William Collins, and William Cowper. Burney's Journals and Letters (2783-2805). Gray's "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College"; "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (2825ff). Collins' "Ode Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746" and "Ode on the Poetical Character" (2833ff). Cowper's selections from The Task and "The Castaway" (2875ff). Burney Q 1. Lara Kraetz.
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