Eng. 214-709 Dr. Sharon Wilson
351-2985 Ross 1170B
sharon.wilson@unco.edu MTh 2:00-2:55 & by appt.
Summer 2003
Web page: http://www.asccsa.unco.edu/faculty/swilson
BRITISH LITERATURE II SYLLABUS
Notes:
I June 30 M Intro., Handouts. Poetry: Blake: Headnote and “Songs of Innocence and Experience” introductions and poems, esp. “The Lamb,” “The Chimney Sweeper,” “The Sick Rose, “The Tyger
Begin reading Frankenstein.
The
Bride of Frankenstein film (1935).
July 1 T 1. (cont.) Norton: 2A THE ROMANTIC PERIOD 1785-1830: Introduction, Timeline. Wordsworth Headnote, “Lines Composed...Tinturn Abbey,” “I Wandered Lonely as a Crowd,” “Ode: Intimations of Immortality,” “The World is Too Much with Us”; Dorothy Wordsworth: “Grasmere”
2. SIGN UP FOR ORAL . Coleridge: Headnote, “Rime of Ancient Mariner” Kubla Khan”
2 W 1. Mary Wollstonecraft Headnote,“A Vindication of the Rights of Women,” Anna-Letitia Barbauld: Headnote, “The Rights of Woman.” Percy Shelley: Headnote, “Ozymandias,” LAST DAY TO SIGN UP FOR ORAL
2. “Ode to the West Wind; Keats: Headnote, “La Belle Dame sans Merci,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “Lamia.” Oral(s):
3 Th 1. 2 B
VICTORIAN AGE 1830-1901: Introduction, Timeline, Appendices.
Tennyson: Headnotes,“The
Lady of Shalott,” “Ulysses,”
“Break, Break, Break.”
2. Browning: Headnotes, “My Last Duchess, “Fra Lippo Lippi’; Elizabeth Barrett Browning Headnote, “The Cry of the Children”
II 7 M 1. Arnold: Headnote, “Dover Beach,” From “The Function of Criticism”; Oral:
2. THE NINETIES: (AESTHETES AND DECADENTS) Pater: Conclusion to “The Renaissance”; The Nineties Introduction; Lewis Carroll: “Jabberwocky,” [“Humpty Dumpty’s Explication of Jabberwocky”].
8 T ROMANTIC
PERIOD (cont.): Frankenstein Brief Paper Quiz Due
9 W Frankenstein. Essays: Collings, Smith; Glossary: Intertextuality
10 Th 1. “ Oral: Romantic and Victorian Period and Criticism QUIZ
2. MODERNISM: Handout. 2 C THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: Hardy: Headnotes, “Hap,” “The Darkling Thrush,” “The Convergence of the Twain”
III 14 M 1. 2 B Wilde Headnotes and The Importance of Being Earnest. Oral. 2. Yeats: Headnote, “Lake Isle of Innisfree,” “When You Are Old,” “The Wild Swans at Coole,” “Easter 1916”
15 T 1. (cont.) “The Second Coming” “Sailing to Byzantium,” “Leda and the Swan,” “Lapis Lazuli,” “Under Ben Bulben”; Goldberg Handout.
2. (cont.) Shaw Headnotes, Mrs. Warren’s Profession
16 W 1. “ Oral. VICTORIAN PERIOD (cont.):
2. Jane Eyre Author’s Preface, Bronte letter to Rev. Henry Nussey.
17 Th Jane Eyre Brief Paper Quiz Due
Recommended:.Jane Eyre film.
19 F Last day to withdraw
IV 21 M Jane Eyre Criticism Quiz: Adrienne Rich, Sandra Gilbert, Terry Eagleton
22 T Jane Eyre Oral(s):
MODERNISM (cont.) Joyce Headnotes, “The Dead,” Oral:
23 W 1. “
2. “Thomas Headnote, “The Force. . .,” “Fern Hill,” “Do Not Go Gentle”
LONG PAPER DUE.
24 Th 1. Headnotes, A Room of One’s Own with 2 B (Victorian) Coventry Patmore: “The Angel in the House“
2. “ Eliot Headnotes, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “The Waste Land,” “The Hollow Men”; Oral:
V 28 M 1. Theatre of the Absurd; Pinter Headnotes, The Dumb Waiter
2. Beckett, Headnotes, Endgame Modernism Quiz
FINAL EXAM QUESTION HANDED OUT
29 T 1. Beckett, Endgame Oral:
2. Angela Carter Handout
30 W Rhys Headnotes and Intro; Wide Sargasso Sea Brief Paper Quiz Due. POSTMODERNISM (see Frankenstein Glossary and sheet) and POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE
Recommended:.Wide Sargasso Sea film
31 Th “ & Emery, Rody, Spivak QUIZ
VI Aug 4 M Wide Sargasso Sea. FINAL EXAM DUE
Wide Sargasso Sea Orals:
5 T 1. Lessing Headnotes, “To Room Nineteen”
2. Walcutt Headnotes, “A Far Cry from Africa,”
6 W 1. Nadine Gordimer Headnotes, “The Moment Before the Gun Went Off.” 2. “ Katherine Mansfield Headnotes, “The Garden Party”
Student Selections from any volume of Norton, Orals and/or Film, such as Wide Sargasso Sea.
7 Th Student Selections from any volume of Norton, Orals and/or Film, such as Wide Sargasso Sea.
Suggested other readings: Lawrence, Rushdie, Munro