EMAIL<\/a> | SYLLABUS<\/a> | POLICIES<\/a> | QUESTIONS<\/a> | PRESENTATIONS<\/a> | JOURNALS<\/a> | PAPER<\/a> | FINAL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n COURSE INFORMATION<\/strong>. English 211, Course Code 21000, Section 1. MWF 9:00 \u2013 9:50 a.m., McCarthy Hall (MH) 406. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: M\/W 8:00 \u2013 8:55 a.m. in University Hall (UH) 329. Email: e211@ajdrake.com. Catalog: \u201cMajor periods and movements, major authors, and major forms through 1760. Units (3). Satisfies requirements for General Education (GE) Category III.B.2 with grade of C or better.\u201d I will use +\/- grading. The English Dept. may be reached at (657) 278-3163. Students who need special accommodations at the main campus should contact the Disability Support Services Office in UH 101 or call (657) 278-3117; for the Irvine Campus, see Student Affairs, IRVC-159 phone (657) 278-3112. One other required link: Emergency Preparedness Guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Greenblatt, Stephen and Carol T. Christ. The Norton Anthology of English Literature,<\/em> 9th. edition. Package 1: Vols. A, B, C. Paperback. Norton: 2012. ISBN-13: 978-0393913002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n FOCUS AND OBJECTIVES<\/strong>. This course will will follow a roughly chronological order and will cover a selection of literary, critical, and dramatic texts from the late old-English Period and early Medieval Period through the English Renaissance and the mid-eighteenth century Neoclassical Era. The aims of a broad survey are to acquaint you with a variety of excellent work from the periods and movements studied and to point you towards further exploration of the areas that most interest you. My comments will provide historical and thematic background, but the course will center on discussion of the specific qualities and language of assigned texts. In surveys, my method is never to impose ambitious claims of universal coherence, thematic unity, etc. on the material, but instead to follow a roughly chronological order, noting themes and issues as they arise and connecting them when appropriate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ACTIVITIES<\/strong>. In class, there will be a mix of lectures, student presentations, whole-class and smaller-group discussion, occasional quizzes, an essay, and a final exam. I encourage questions and comments\u2014class sessions improve when students take an active part. Outside class, do the assigned readings before the relevant discussion dates, complete your journal sets as outlined below, start planning and drafting your essay early, and work on your presentation drafts. In literary studies, the aim is to read and discuss actively and thereby to develop your own voice in response to the texts you read. Insightful interpretation and the ability to make compelling connections are central goals. The essay, discussions, presentations, and journal-keeping should combine to help you work towards these goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n COURSE POLICIES<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>. Please review the course policies page early in the semester. Key points easily stated here: missing more than 20% of sessions may affect course grade; failing to stay reasonably engaged during sessions may also adversely affect course grade; academic dishonesty on any assignment (journals, presentations, paper, exam) may result in course failure. The four evaluative requirements outlined below must be substantially completed to earn at least a \u201cC\u201d in the course. Since most assignments will be due by email, it is students\u2019 responsibility to contact me promptly if they do not get an email verifying receipt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PRESENTATIONS REQUIREMENT<\/a><\/strong>. At the beginning of the course, students will sign up for one or two 5-7 minute in-class presentations on an author of their choosing (if possible). I will provide presenters with a range of journal questions from which they need choose only one, and a few days after sign-up I will post a schedule on the Presentations page. Each session will feature one or more presentations. Required: Around five days in advance of your presentation, email me as full a draft as possible of what you intend to say in class. I will email you back with advice. If I suggest developing the remarks further, email me a revised version at least one day before your in-class presentation. I won\u2019t judge students on their rhetorical skills during the presentation, but rather on evidence of prior preparation and consultation as well as on the written draft. How to do well on this assignment: email me as required, and send a final written version; craft your responses to invite discussion; aim for spontaneity and a personal touch: use the question as a springboard rather than a prescription. (15% of course grade.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n JOURNALS REQUIREMENT<\/a><\/strong>. Responses to a choice of questions from the study questions page for each author. Four separate journal sets due by email as specified below in the session schedule. Electronic format required. I will not mark journal sets down unless they are late (maximum grade = B), incomplete, or so brief and derivative as to suggest evasion of intellectual labor: they should consist of honest responses to the assigned readings, not \u201cyes-or-no\u201d style answers, quotation of the assigned texts without further comment, or pasted secondary material from Internet sources. How to do well on this assignment: read instructions; complete entries as you go through each text; send sets on time, making sure I verify receipt; respond with a thoughtful paragraph on each chosen question–use your own words and refer to the texts\u2019 specific language. (30% of course grade.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n TERM PAPER REQUIREMENT<\/a><\/strong>. By Monday, April 20, a one-paragraph description addressing the paper\u2019s general topic and specific argument will be due by email. Not providing this description on time may affect the final draft grade. Please read the term paper instructions carefully since they contain the general prompt, suggested topics, and advance draft comments. I reserve the right to require proof of the final paper\u2019s authenticity, such as notes or an early draft. Final draft (5-7 pages) due as specified towards the bottom of the syllabus page. There is no need to consider this a research paper, though you are free to make it one. CSUF academic integrity policies apply — see UPS 300.021). How to do well on this assignment: send required advance paragraph on time and incorporate advice; allow time for revision; proofread and follow MLA formatting and style guidelines; avoid exhaustive coverage and stale generalities: instead, develop a specific, arguable set of claims, demonstrating their strength by showing how they enhance our understanding of specific language, structures, and themes; document your online\/print sources; read instructions and take advantage of our writing guides. (30% of course grade.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n FINAL EXAM REQUIREMENT<\/a><\/strong>. The exam will consist of substantive id passages (30% of exam), mix-and-match questions (match phrase or concept x to author\/text y; 30% of exam), and key lecture points paired with substantive quotations from the assigned texts (40% of exam). Books and notes allowed for all sections, but no laptops. Students may not share books or notes during the exam. Exam date: see below. How to do well on this assignment: read the online prep. sheet; take good notes and ask questions\/make comments; above all, enjoy the works rather than thinking of them only as \u201ctest material.\u201d If you take pleasure in the assigned texts\u2019 language, attend to the sophistication with which they have been structured, and reflect on the intellectual\/moral\/spiritual value you derive from them, you are likely to earn a good exam grade. (25% of course grade.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n EMAILING ASSIGNMENTS<\/strong>. Email journals, presentations, and term paper as attachments, though it\u2019s a good idea also to paste them into the message itself as a backup strategy, especially if you\u2019re using a program other than Microsoft Word to generate your materials. Don\u2019t send more than one document in the same email. Label subject lines appropriately: \u201cE211 Journal 1, Jane Rodriguez,\u201d etc. Journal \u201csets\u201d include responses to questions about several authors; do not send entries on each author separately. Responses on the set\u2019s relevant authors should be combined into one document.) Contact me if you don\u2019t receive prompt email confirmation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *2023 Note<\/strong>: Visitors may download the following questions in PDF format: BRITISH LITERATURE TO C18<\/a><\/strong> | SHAKESPEARE<\/a><\/strong>. Editions may differ from the ones used for this course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bede | Rood | Chaucer | Malory | Everyman | Wyatt | Sidney | Marlowe | Spenser | Elizabeth I | Ralegh | Shakespeare | Donne | Jonson | Bacon | Milton | Behn | Pope | Gay | Addison and Steele | Johnson | Boswell | Burney<\/p>\n\n\n\n 01\/19. Mon. MLK JR. Holiday, no classes. Campus closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 01\/21. Wed. Course Introduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 01\/23. Fri. Bede and Anonymous. From Bede\u2019s Ecclesiastical History <\/em>(Vol. A, 30-32). Anonymous author\u2019s \u201cThe Dream of the Rood\u201d (Vol. A, 33-36).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 01\/26. Mon. Geoffrey Chaucer. From The Canterbury Tales,<\/em> \u201cGeneral Prologue\u201d (Vol. A, 243-63).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 01\/28. Wed. Geoffrey Chaucer. From The Canterbury Tales,<\/em> \u201cThe Wife of Bath\u2019s Prologue\u201d (Vol. A, 282-301).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 01\/30. Fri. Geoffrey Chaucer. From The Canterbury Tales, \u201cThe Wife of Bath\u2019s Tale\u201d (Vol. A, 301-10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 02\/02. Mon. Sir Thomas Malory. From Morte Darthur <\/em>(Vol. A, 482-500).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 02\/04. Wed. Everyman <\/em>(Vol. A, 508-29).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 02\/06. Fri. Sir Thomas Wyatt. \u201cThe long love\u201d and Petrarch\u2019s \u201cRima 140\u201d (Vol. B, 648-49); \u201cWhoso list to hunt\u201d and Petrarch\u2019s \u201cRima 140\u201d (649-50); \u201cMy galley\u201d (651); \u201cDivers doth use\u201d (652); \u201cMadam, withouten many words\u201d (653); \u201cThey flee from me\u201d (653-54); \u201cMy lute, awake!\u201d (655); \u201cForget not yet\u201d (656); \u201cBlame not my lute\u201d (656-57); \u201cWho list his wealth and ease retain\u201d (658); \u201cMine Own John Poins\u201d (659-61).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 02\/09. Mon. Sir Philip Sidney and Christopher Marlowe. Sidney\u2019s \u201cThe Defense of Poesy\u201d (Vol. B, 1046-51, 1066-74 only). Marlowe\u2019s \u201cHero and Leander\u201d (1108-26), \u201cThe Passionate Shepherd to His Love\u201d (Vol. B, 1126).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 02\/11. Wed. Edmund Spenser. \u201cEpithalamion\u201d (Vol. B, 990-99).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 02\/13. Fri. Queen Elizabeth I. All Selections (Vol. B, 749-59).<\/p>\n\n\n\n JOURNAL SET 1 DUE BY EMAIL WED. 02\/18<\/a><\/strong>. (Bede through and including Elizabeth I. Please expect an email from me verifying receipt of this and subsequent journal sets.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 02\/16. Mon. President\u2019s Day. No classes. Campus closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 02\/18. Wed. Sir Walter Ralegh. \u201cThe Nymph\u2019s Reply to the Shepherd\u201d (Vol. B, 1024-25); \u201cWhat is our life? (1025); \u201c\u2026to His Son\u201d (1025); \u201cThe Lie\u201d (1026-27); \u201cFarewell, False Love\u201d (1028); \u201cMethought I saw the grave where Laura lay\u201d (1028-29); \u201cNature, that washed her hands in milk\u201d (1029-30); \u201cThe Author\u2019s Epitaph\u2026\u201d (1030); from The discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful Empire of Guiana <\/em>(1030-33) and from The History of the World <\/em>(1033-34).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 02\/20. Fri. Shakespeare. Twelfth Night,<\/em> Act 1 (Vol. B, 1189-1204).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 02\/23. Mon. Shakespeare. Twelfth Night,<\/em> Act 2 (Vol. B, 1204-18).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 02\/25. Wed. Shakespeare. Twelfth Night,<\/em> Act 3 (Vol. B, 1219-35).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 02\/27. Fri. Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act 4 (Vol. B, 1235-41).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 03\/02. Mon. Shakespeare. Twelfth Night,<\/em> Act 5 (Vol. B, 1241-50).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 03\/04. Wed. John Donne. \u201cThe Flea\u201d (Vol. B, 1373); \u201cThe Good-Morrow\u201d (1373-74); \u201cThe Sun Rising\u201d (1376); \u201cThe Canonization\u201d (1377-78); \u201cA Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy\u2019s Day\u201d (1382-84); \u201cA Valediction: Forbidding Mourning\u201d (1385-86); \u201cThe Ecstasy\u201d (1386-88).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 03\/06. Fri. John Donne. From Holy Sonnets <\/em>(Vol. B, 1410-15), \u201cGood Friday, 1613. Riding Westward\u201d (1415-16); from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions<\/em> and \u201cDeath\u2019s Duel\u201d (1419-24).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 03\/09. Mon. Ben Jonson. \u201cOn My First Daughter\u201d (Vol. B, 1541); \u201cOn Lucy, Countess of Bedford\u201d (1542-43); \u201cInviting a Friend to Supper\u201d (1544-45); \u201cTo Penshurst\u201d (1546-48); \u201cSong: To Celia\u201d (1548-49);\u201dTo the Memory of my Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare\u201d (1556-58), \u201cOde to Himself\u201d (1558-59).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 03\/11. Wed. Sir Francis Bacon. From Essays <\/em>(Vol. B, 1663-75).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 03\/13. Fri. Sir Francis Bacon. From The Advancement of Learning<\/em> (Vol. B, 1675-77) and from Novum Organum <\/em>(1677-81). Read also the selections from William Harvey\u2019s The Anatomical Exercises <\/em>(1687-88) and from Robert Burton\u2019s The Anatomy of Melancholy <\/em>(1690-96).<\/p>\n\n\n\n JOURNAL SET 2 DUE BY EMAIL MON. 03\/16<\/a><\/strong>. (Ralegh through and including Bacon.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 03\/16. Mon. Milton. Paradise Lost,<\/em> Book 1 (Vol. E, 1945-64).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 03\/18. Wed. Milton. Paradise Lost,<\/em> Book 1 (Vol. E, 1945-64).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 03\/20. Fri. Milton. Paradise Lost,<\/em> Book 2 (Vol. E, 1964-86).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 03\/23. Mon. Milton. Paradise Lost, Book 4 (Vol. E, 2003-24).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 03\/25. Wed. Milton. Paradise Lost, Book 9 (Vol. E, 2091-2116).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 03\/27. Fri. Milton. Paradise Lost, Book 9 (Vol. E, 2091-2116).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 03\/30. Mon. Spring recess, no classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 04\/01. Wed. Spring recess, no classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 04\/03. Fri. Spring recess, no classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 04\/06. Mon. Aphra Behn. Oroonoko<\/em> (Vol. F, 2313-58; read approx. the first half).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 04\/08. Wed. Aphra Behn. Oroonoko<\/em> (Vol. F, 2313-58; read approx. the second half).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 04\/10. Fri. Alexander Pope. The Rape of the Lock<\/em> (Vol. F, 2686-2704).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 04\/13. Mon. Pope. \u201cEloisa to Abelard\u201d (Vol. F, 2705-13).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 04\/15. Wed. Pope. from \u201cEssay on Criticism\u201d (Vol. F, 2713-21).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 04\/17. Fri. John Gay. The Beggar\u2019s Opera,<\/em> Introduction and Act 1 (Vol. F, 2789-2803).<\/p>\n\n\n\n JOURNAL SET 3 DUE BY EMAIL MON. 04\/20<\/a><\/strong>. (Milton through and including Pope.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n PARAGRAPH ON PAPER TOPIC AND ARGUMENT DUE BY EMAIL FRI. 04\/24<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 04\/20. Mon. John Gay. The Beggar\u2019s Opera,<\/em> Act 2 (Vol. F, 2803-18).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 04\/22. Wed. John Gay. The Beggar\u2019s Opera,<\/em> Act 3 (Vol. F, 2818-33).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 04\/24. Fri. Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. \u201cThe Aims of the Spectator\u201d (Vol. F, 2644-46); \u201cInkle and Yarico\u201d (2647-49); \u201cThe Royal Exchange\u201d (2649-52) \u201cWit: True, False, Mixed\u201d (2652-56); \u201cParadise Lost: General Critical Remarks\u201d (2657-60); \u201cThe Pleasures of the Imagination\u201d (2660-62); \u201cOn the Scale of Being\u201d (2662-65).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 04\/27. Mon. Samuel Johnson. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, Chs. 1-29 (Vol. F, 2856-95).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 04\/29. Wed. Samuel Johnson. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, Chs. 30-49 (Vol. F, 2896-2923).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 05\/01. Fri. Samuel Johnson. Rambler #4 \u201cOn Fiction\u201d (Vol. F, 2923-26); \u201cThe Preface to Shakespeare<\/em>\u201d (Vol. F, 2936-47).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 05\/04. Mon. Thomas Boswell. From The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.<\/em> (Vol. F, 2962-92).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 05\/06. Wed. Frances Burney. From Journal and Letters.<\/em> (Vol. F, 2993-3011).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 05\/08. Fri. General Review.<\/p>\n\n\n\nREQUIRED TEXTS AT TITAN BOOKSTORE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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