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E212: British Literature since 1760 Short Presentation Instructions--Updated 04/11 Al Drake | 520 Hum. M/W 12:00-1:00 | 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. *Note--if I include two questions rather than one, as in 12/13, it's a suggestion that perhaps the two questions might go together well to make a single presentation. WEEK 2 02/10. Anna Barbauld, Charlotte Smith; Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine. Barbauld's "Washing-Day" (29-31), "Life" (31-32). Smith's "Written at the Close of Spring" (33), "To Sleep" (33), "To Night" (33-34), "Written in the Church-Yard..." (34), "On Being Cautioned..." (34-35), "The Sea View" (35). Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (121ff). Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men (128ff). Paine's Rights of Man (133ff). Edmund Burke Q. 3 Erin Townsell. WEEK 3 02/17. William Blake, Mary Robinson. Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience (43ff) and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (72ff). Robinson's " London's Summer Morning" (92-93), "January, 1795" (93-94), "The Poor Singing Dame" (94-96). Blake Q 3. Helen Tackett. WEEK 4 02/24. William Wordsworth and Dorothy Wordsworth. William's "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" (238ff), "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" (252), "Three years she grew" (252), "Lucy Gray" (254), "I wandered lonely as a cloud" (254), "The Solitary Reaper" (293), "Tintern Abbey" (235); "Intimations of Immortality" (286). Dorothy's Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals (383-97). W. Wordsworth Q 2. Leila Hage. WEEK 5 03/03. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Robinson. Coleridge's Biographia Literaria (467ff), Lectures on Shakespeare (486ff), The Statesman's Manual (489ff), "The Eolian Harp" (419), "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (422), "Kubla Khan" (439), "Frost at Midnight" (457), "Dejection: an Ode" (459). Robinson's "To the Poet Coleridge" (98-99) and "The Haunted Beach" (96-97). Coleridge Q 1. Brian Staples. WEEK 6 03/10. Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. Shelley's "Mutability" (701), "Ozymandias" (725), " Mont Blanc" (720), "Ode to the West Wind" (730), "To a Sky-Lark" (765), "Adonais" (772). Keats' "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" (826), "The Eve of St. Agnes" (834), "Ode to a Nightingale" (849), "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (851), "To Autumn" (872), "Letters" (889ff). Shelley Q 2. Glenn Schnars. WEEK 8 03/24. Jane Austen. Persuasion. (discussion of novel, separate text) Note: I still need to convert the study questions to the edition we are using--I'll do that soon and then list them below for presenters. Austen Q 1-2. (Vol. 1 Ch. 1). Michelle Young. WEEK 10 04/07. Thomas Carlyle and J. S. Mill. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1077ff), Past and Present (1110ff). J. S. Mill's Autobiography (1166-73) and On Liberty (1146-55). Carlyle Q 3. Megan Ozima. WEEK 11 04/14. Alfred Tennyson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Christina Rossetti. Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" (1204ff) and In Memoriam A.H.H. (1230ff) Prologue (1231), 1-3, 5, 7, 11, 14-15, 28, 34, 39, 54-56, 75, 108, 118, 123-24, 126, 130-31, Epilogue. Hopkins' "God's Grandeur" (1651), "As Kingfishers Catch Fire" (1652), "The Windhover" (1652), "Pied Beauty" (1653), "Binsey Poplars" (1654), "Duns Scotus' Oxford" (1654), "Carrion Comfort" (1656), "I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day" (1657), "That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire..." (1658), "Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord" (1658). Rossetti's "Song--She sat and sang alway" (1584), "Song--When I am dead, my dearest" (1584), "After Death" (1585), "In an Artist's Studio" (1586), "Winter: My Secret" (1588), "No, Thank You, John" (1601), "Sleeping at Last" (1604). Tennyson Q 4. Marissa Jasso. WEEK 12 04/21. H. Rider Haggard. King Solomon's Mines. (Separate text) Haggard Q 2. Nicole Wicker. WEEK 13 04/28. Wilfred Owen and William Butler Yeats. Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "Apologia Pro Poemate Meo," "Miners," "Dulce et Decorum Est" (2066ff). Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (2092), "The Second Coming" (2106), "Sailing to Byzantium" (2109), "Leda and the Swan" (2110), "Among School Children" (2111), "Byzantium" (2115), "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop" (2116). Owen Q 1. Enrique Frias. WEEK 14 05/05. George Bernard Shaw. Pygmalion. [Film and discussion, separate text] Shaw Q 2. Lauren Beck. WEEK 15 05/12. E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence. Forster's "Chapter 2. Mosque" from A Passage to India (2131ff). Lawrence's "Odour of Chrysanthemums," "The Horse-Dealer's Daughter," and "Why the Novel Matters" (2313-45). Forster Q 2. Chris Preecha. WEEK 16 05/19. Anita Desai, J. M. Coetzee, Salman Rushdie. Desai's "Scholar and Gypsy" (2768ff), from Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians (2829ff), and Rushdie's "The Prophet's Hair" (2842ff). Desai Q 2. Christina Fromberg.
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