Major British Writers II: English 202, Section 3

Fall 1998, TR 1:40 - 2:55 p.m.
Professor Karin Westman
74 George Street, #101; 953-5658
westmank@cofc.edu
Office Hours: MW 1-2:30 pm, R 10-12 noon, and by app't.
1xbet online sports betting Texts:
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2, 6th ed.
Shelley, Frankenstein (Norton)
Barker, Regeneration (Vintage)
Stoppard, Arcadia
Xeroxes (on Reserve)
Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms, 6th ed. (Highly recommended)
Official 1xbet online sports betting Description:
Intensive study of major works of representative authors, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Eliot, and 1xbet online sports betting 19th- or 20th-century novel. Emphasis on close reading and analysis rather than on literary history. Lectures on intellectual background.
1xbet online sports betting Objectives:
This semester we will study a representative sample of British authors since 1800. We will consider the works in terms of form and the historical context of their cultural production, exploring the often contested relationship between life and art. Our goal is twofold: familiarity with a canon of British literature and further practice in literary analysis and interpretation. This course depends for its success on careful reading and 1xbet online sports betting participation in discussions.
Requirements and General Expectations:

1xbet online sports betting : You are expected to complete each reading assignment before coming to class. You are further expected to think carefully about what you read and to make notes in 1xbet online sports betting book prior to each class meeting. Bring the appropriate book or xeroxes to class each day and additionally mark passages that we discuss; this process will help you understand, remember, and review.

1xbet online sports betting Participation and Attendance: Although this may be a large class, you will be asked to participate regularly in class discussions and in collaborative learning groups. 1xbet online sports betting attendance is therefore important. You will not be penalized for 1xbet online sports betting first three absences; thereafter, 1xbet online sports betting final course grade will drop one grade increment (i.e., B to B-) for each day missed. Excessive unexcused absences (five or more) may result in failure of the course. While I appreciate 1xbet online sports betting offering explanations for absences, the only way to excuse an absence is to provide me with an official letter from 1xbet online sports betting dean.
Quizzes: Occasional short (10 minute) quizzes consisting of identifications and interpretive questions will help you improve 1xbet online sports betting close reading skills and to evaluate 1xbet online sports betting comprehension of the material. Quizzes are noted on the syllabus; I also reserve the right to administer further quizzes as necessary. Grades from reading quizzes will be averaged at the end of the semester. (I will drop the lowest quiz grade before calculating 1xbet online sports betting final grade.) Should you be absent on the day of a quiz, you will receive a zero, unless the absence is excused by the dean.
Papers: You 1xbet online sports betting write two short papers (4-5 pages in length). The papers are due at the time the class meets. Late papers 1xbet online sports betting be penalized one full grade (i.e., B to C) for each day late. More information about these two papers follows the syllabus.
1xbet online sports betting : At the designated times on the syllabus, class will begin with a brief (no more than 10 minute) group presentation. These presentations will provide some of the socio-historical context we do not have time to cover in depth during our class discussion. There will be 3-5 people per group; 1xbet online sports betting group will be responsible for introducing us to the subject at hand, telling us of its importance, and how it relates to our readings. Each group must meet with me at least a week prior to the day of the report for guidance and discussion of 1xbet online sports betting work. Each student will write up a two-page report (to be turned in the day of the presentation) describing the significance of the particular subject and noting two to three helpful sources. 1xbet online sports betting grade for the presentation will be part of 1xbet online sports betting class participation grade. The topics are:
The Reception of Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The Reform Bills
Darwin, The Descent of Man
1xbet online sports betting Woman
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The Trial of Oscar Wilde
The Reception of Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Post-Impressionist Art
Electronic Mailing 1xbet online sports betting : Beginning the second week of class, I'll establish an electronic mailing list for our class. Each week, each student is required to post at least one paragraph-length comment about the materials we're studying in class. I will monitor these discussions and assess a grade (at the end of the semester) based on the thoughtfulness of 1xbet online sports betting comments, their ability to foster discussion among 1xbet online sports betting classmates, and their responsiveness both to our readings and to 1xbet online sports betting classmates' comments in class and on the list. 1xbet online sports betting postings do not need to be long; however, they need to be substantive: they must be long enough to convey clearly the problem you are taking up and 1xbet online sports betting point of view, connecting 1xbet online sports betting comment to others' comments, as appropriate. I will offer models of helpful comments early in the semester. 1xbet online sports betting grade for these postings will become part of 1xbet online sports betting class participation grade.
Examinations: You 1xbet online sports betting have a midterm and a cumulative final exam. A missed exam counts as a zero; no make-up exams 1xbet online sports betting be offered without a dean's excuse.
Conferences: There are no mandatory conferences for this course. I encourage 1xbet online sports betting , however, to stop by during office hours, particularly before an assignment is due. Please also consider stopping by during the first few weeks of class for a brief (and very informal) conference. If 1xbet online sports betting have any specific questions or concerns about the course or the readings, bring them with 1xbet online sports betting , but no agenda is necessary: this is simply a way to get to know each other. Please see me to make an appointment if my office hours are not convenient for 1xbet online sports betting .
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The Romantic Period (1785-1830)
August T 25 Introduction: Condition of England in Life and Art, c.1800
R 27 "The Romantic Period" (1-17); William Wordsworth (126-29): "A Slumber Did My Spirit Steal" (155); "Lucy Gray" (156); "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (186-7); "Tintern Abbey" (136-40); excerpts 1xbet online sports betting "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads (140-52) Quiz
September T 1 Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" (187-193); excerpts 1xbet online sports betting The Prelude, Books I, II, V, VII, IX-XIV (205-232, 244-254, 256-286)
R 3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (323-26): "The Eolian Harp," "This Lime Tree Bower My Prison," "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Kubla Khan" (326-49), "Frost at Midnight" (365-6), "Dejection: An Ode" (366-70); excerpts 1xbet online sports betting Biographia Literaria (377, 383-95) Quiz
T 8 Mary Wollstonecraft, excerpts 1xbet online sports betting Vindication of the Rights of Woman (98-126)
1xbet online sports betting : The Reception of Vindication
R 10 Percy Bysshe Shelley (643-7): "Mont Blanc" (666-69), "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (670-1), "To a Skylark" (710-12), and excerpts 1xbet online sports betting A Defense of Poetry (752-65) Quiz
T 15 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Quiz
R 17 John 1xbet online sports betting (766-9): "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "Sleep and Poetry," "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles," 1xbet online sports betting "Endymion: A Poetic Romance," "On Sitting Down to Read 1xbet online sports betting Lear...," "When I Have Fears...," "To Homer" (769-76)
M 21 1xbet online sports betting #1 due by 12 noon to my office.
T 22 Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode on Melancholy" (790-5), "To Autumn" (813-4), and excerpts 1xbet online sports betting Keats' Letters (828-44) Quiz
1xbet online sports betting Age (1830-1901)
R 24 "1xbet online sports betting Age" (891-910); Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1052-56): "The Kraken" (1056); "The Lady of Shalott," "The Lotus-Eaters," "Ulysses" (1069), "Locksley Hall" (1073-9); Thomas Carlyle (910-15), excerpts 1xbet online sports betting "Past and Present" (965-74) Quiz
1xbet online sports betting : The Reform Bills
T 29 Tennyson, excerpts 1xbet online sports betting In Memoriam A. H. H. (1084-1132); "Evolution" and excerpts 1xbet online sports betting Darwin's Descent of Man (1571-75)
1xbet online sports betting : Reception of Darwin's Descent of Man
October R 1 Robert Browning (1182-7): "My Last Duchess" (1190-2) and "Caliban upon Sebetos" (1243-50); "Industrialism: Progress or Decline?" (1580-1); Macaulay, 1xbet online sports betting "A Review of Southey's Colloquies" (1581-6); Dickens, 1xbet online sports betting Hard 1xbet online sports betting (1594-5)
T 6 Matthew Arnold (1344-9): "To Marguerite--Continued" (1353-4), "The Buried Life" (1354-6), "The Scholar Gypsy" (1359-66), "Dover Beach" (1366-7); excerpts 1xbet online sports betting "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" (1389-1403), "Maurice de Guérin" (1403-4) and "The Study of Poetry" (1418-29)
R 8 Mid-Term Exam
T 13 John Stuart Mill (992-4): 1xbet online sports betting The Subjection of Women (1012-22); "The Women Question" (1595) and excerpts 1xbet online sports betting Ellis, "The Women of England...," Patmore, "The Angel in the House," and Besant, "The Queen's Reign" (1598-1601, 1609-10); Tennyson, "The Woman's Cause Is Man's" (1083-4)
1xbet online sports betting : The Victorian Gentleman
1xbet online sports betting : The Victorian Woman
R 15 Martineau, "Autobiography," Mullock, "A Woman's Thoughts...", and 1xbet online sports betting , "Cassandra" (1601-9); Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1029-30), excerpts 1xbet online sports betting "Aurora Leigh" (1034-48); Christina Rossetti (1472-3): "In an Artist's Studio" (1476) and "Goblin Market" (1479-90) Quiz
T 20 Virginia Woolf (1915-16), A Room of 1xbet online sports betting 's Own Quiz
R 22 "The Nineties" (1612-13); Oscar Wilde (1616-18): 1xbet online sports betting "The Critic as Artist" (1620-7) and The 1xbet online sports betting of Being Earnest (1628-67)
1xbet online sports betting : The Trials of Oscar Wilde
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T 27 "1xbet online sports betting " (1683-91); Joseph Conrad (1754-6): "Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus" (1756-58) and Heart of Darkness (1758-1817); Chinua Achebe, "An 1xbet online sports betting Africa: Conrad's Heart of Darkness" [X] Quiz
1xbet online sports betting : Reception of Heart of Darkness
R 29 Thomas Hardy (1692-3), "Hap" (1694), "Neutral Tones" (1605); "The Darkling Thrush" (1697-8); "The Convergence of the Twain" (1704); "Under the Waterfall" (1706-7); and "He Never Expected Much" (1710-11)
November T 3 FALL BREAK
R 5 No 1xbet online sports betting -- Read ahead and work on Paper #2
T 10 "Poetry of World War I" (1825-6): Rupert Brooke (1826-7): "The Soldier"; Siegfried Sassoon (1831-2): "1xbet online sports betting " (1832), "The Rear-Guard" (1832-3), "Glory of Women" (1833-4), and "On Passing the New Menin Gate" (1834); Wilfred Owen (1842-3), "Dulce Et Decorum Est" (1845-6)
R 12 W.B.Yeats (1859-63): "Easter 1916" (1878-80), "The 1xbet online sports betting Coming" (1880-1), "Sailing to Byzantium" (1883-4); "Among School Children" (1885-6); "The Circus Animals' Desertion" (1893-4) Quiz
M 16 1xbet online sports betting #2 due by 12 noon in my office
T 17 T.S. 1xbet online sports betting (2136-9), "1xbet online sports betting " (2147-60); "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (2170-6)
R 19 Virginia Woolf , "Kew Gardens" [X] and "Modern Fiction" (1921-6); James Joyce (2003-8), "1xbet online sports betting " (2008-36) Quiz
1xbet online sports betting : Post-Impressionist Art
T 24 Philip Larkin (2373): "Church Going" (2324-5), "Talking in Bed" (2326), "Sad Steps" (2328), and "Aubaude" (2329-30); Seamus Heaney (2422): "Digging" (2422-3) and excerpts 1xbet online sports betting "Station Island" (2428-30); Derek Walcott (2358): "A Far Cry 1xbet online sports betting Africa" (2358-9) and "Midsummer" (2360-1); and Wole Soyinka, "Telephone Conversation" [X]
R 26 THANKSGIVING BREAK
December T 1 Pat Barker, Regeneration Quiz
R 3 Tom Stoppard, Arcadia; review for 1xbet online sports betting
S 12 1xbet online sports betting . 12:00 - 3:00 P.M.
Guidelines for Papers
General Instructions
Papers should follow the general rules of composition and be typed or word-processed with standard double-spacing, 1-inch margins, and either 10- or 12-point typeface. Title pages and covers are unnecessary. Pages should be numbered, stapled together, and spell-checked. Errors in grammar and punctuation 1xbet online sports betting be marked but 1xbet online sports betting not be significant factors in the grading of the paper unless the mistakes are so numerous or egregious as to distract from the argument. Papers are due at the time the class meets; late papers 1xbet online sports betting be penalized one grade (i.e., B to C) for each day late.
1xbet online sports betting #1 (Due Monday, September 21st; 3-4 pages in 1xbet online sports betting )
Identify and discuss whatever patterns of imagery you can find in one of Keats' odes on the syllabus: "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode on Melancholy" (790-5), or "To Autumn" (813-4). As preparation for 1xbet online sports betting paper, make a list of the images, and try to identify any patterns that might emerge from them. Then, apply those images to the poem's theme. What are some of the themes in the poem? What does the poem tell us about these themes? The pattern(s) you uncover should help answer these questions. [Note: If you're feeling particularly adventurous, you can use the excerpts from Keats' Letters (828-44) in place of a 1xbet online sports betting .]
This paper should be in standard essay form. You should include a very short introduction that tells me the pattern(s) of imagery and the imagery's bearing on the poem's theme(s)--that is, the thesis of 1xbet online sports betting paper. The rest of 1xbet online sports betting paper will support this interpretation by supplying the details of 1xbet online sports betting analysis.
1xbet online sports betting #2 (Due Monday, November 16th; 4-5 pages in 1xbet online sports betting )
Choose one of the following topics for 1xbet online sports betting paper on Part I of Eliot's "The Waste Land" (2146-60). As for Paper #1, this paper should be in standard essay form. You should include a very short introduction that tells me the thesis of 1xbet online sports betting paper in response to one of the topics below; the rest of 1xbet online sports betting paper will support this interpretation by supplying the details of 1xbet online sports betting analysis.
1. Use the poem's title ("The Waste Land"), the epigraph (translated in 1xbet online sports betting footnotes), and the section title ("The Burial of the Dead") as a way into a discussion about the first part of Eliot's poem. How do each of these "introductions" elucidate or connect to the narrative which follows in Part I? Be sure to refer to specific lines and images in 1xbet online sports betting discussion.
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2. In footnote #4 on p.2148, Eliot tells the reader that he "associate[s], quite arbitrarily," an image from a tarot card with the mythical image of the Fisher King. Consider Eliot's choice of the word "arbitrarily": What might Eliot's comment tell us about the way in which the poem is and will be constructed? Do the "I" and "we" of the poem "associate, quite arbitrarily" as well? Can we, as readers, begin to detect a pattern to these "arbitrary" associations? Be sure to refer to specific lines and images in 1xbet online sports betting discussion.
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