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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2016): August 2015
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2016). Monday, August 31, 2015. For Wednesday: Chaucer, "The Knight's Tale" Parts I and II, pp.26-53. Answer any TWO of the following questions. Q1: Why do you think the Knight tells a story of “modern” knights and chivalry in ancient Greece? Why might someone use the past to tell of the present? How does one setting help reinforce the other? Which of the two do you feel suffers more for love of Emily? How might this be a commentary on the love story itself? How might thi...
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2016): October 2015
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2016). Monday, October 26, 2015. For Wednesday: School for Scandal, Acts III and IV. Answer TWO of the following. Q1: In Act IV, Joseph attempts to seduce Lady Teazle in an interesting manner. What is his argument for taking an indiscretion against Sir Peter, and why is Lady Teazle almost convinced by it? What does this say about the morals of a so-called "man of sentiment"? Why do their arguments strike us as curiously artificial and borrowed? Friday, October 23, 2015.
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2016): For Friday: Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Cantos 3-4
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2016). Wednesday, November 2, 2016. For Friday: Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Cantos 3-4. Synopsis of Canto 4: Crushed by the weight of her tragedy, Belina is insensible. So Umbriel, one of the spirits, goes down to the underworld (echoing The Odyssey, where Odysseus visits Achilles in death) to seek an audience with the Queen of Spleen. For 18. Been content to seize/Hairs less in sight, or any hairs but these! Answer TWO of the following:. The stakes to losing these in 18.
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Critical Responses to Poetry (Fall 2016): For Friday: Poems by Claude McKay (pp.289-298)
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Critical Responses to Poetry (Fall 2016). Wednesday, November 16, 2016. For Friday: Poems by Claude McKay (pp.289-298). For Friday, read the following poems by Claude McKay:. If We Must Die. On a Primitive Canoe. The Tropics in New York. When Dawn Comes to the City. The two post-Harlem poems, Saint Isaac's Church, and Barcelona, are optional]. De mo' me wuk, de mo' time hard,. I don't know what fe do;. I ben' me knee an' pray to Gahd,. Yet t'ings same as befo.'. De taxes knocking' at me door,. Also, does...
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Critical Responses to Poetry (Fall 2016): For Monday: The Women of the Renaissance
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Critical Responses to Poetry (Fall 2016). Friday, November 11, 2016. For Monday: The Women of the Renaissance. Photo of Mamie Estelle Fearing Scurlock, by Addison Scurlock, c.1910. For Monday's class, read all the female poets included in our anthology of the Harlem Renaissance:. Bennett, "Song" and "Hatred" (pp.221-223). Cowdery, "The Young Voice Cries" (pp.238-240). Fauset, "La Vie C'est La Vie" and "Dead Fires" (pp.254-255). Spencer, "Lady, Lady" (p.299). Why might this be? Where is there true allegia...
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Critical Responses to Poetry (Fall 2016): September 2016
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Critical Responses to Poetry (Fall 2016). Monday, September 26, 2016. For Wednesday: Culler, Chapter 7: "Performative Language". For Wednesday, be sure to read Ch.7 of Culler (the penultimate chapter we'll read of this book) and prepare for an in-class response. This chapter is a bit tricky, so here are some ideas to consider to help you prepare:. What is the basic difference between a constative and performative utterance? Under what circumstances can a constative become. What does Butler mean by gender...
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Critical Responses to Poetry (Fall 2016): August 2016
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Critical Responses to Poetry (Fall 2016). Wednesday, August 31, 2016. For Friday: Sappho: "Her Girls and Family". For Friday's class, we might dip back into some of the poems from the previous sections, so let's only add one more section: "Her Girls and Family" (pp.33-53). We'll do another writing in class on Friday, focusing more on the differences of translation, particularly between rhyme and free verse. Here are some other ideas to consider which might come up:. In Chapter 5, Culler writes that "The ...
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Critical Responses to Poetry (Fall 2016): For Wednesday: Hughes' Poetry (see below)
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Critical Responses to Poetry (Fall 2016). Monday, November 7, 2016. For Wednesday: Hughes' Poetry (see below). For Wednesday, make sure to read all the selections below from Langston Hughes:. The Negro Speaks of Rivers. Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria. As you read, consider some of the following ideas:. How does Hughes' style compare with Cullen's? Would Cullen agree with his approach? How do these poems seem to illustrate Hughes' ideas of the "racial mountain" in his essay? In traditional literatu...
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Critical Responses to Poetry (Fall 2016): Critical Paper #2: Theoretical Perspectives
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Critical Responses to Poetry (Fall 2016). Monday, November 21, 2016. Critical Paper #2: Theoretical Perspectives. Critical Paper #2: Theoretical Perspectives. 8220;Are they being called upon to “preach”? To be “salesmen”? To “prostitute” their writing? Must they “sully” themselves? Must they write “propaganda”? No; it is a question of awareness, of consciousness; it is above all, a question of perspective.” (Wright, Blueprint for Negro Writing). Ideas and the perspectives that we now take for granted?
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2016): December 2014
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2016). Wednesday, December 3, 2014. The Winners of the Creative Assignment! First: Dillon Darnell, "The Persuasive Politician". Second: Cheyenne Counts, "Separation Along the Walls". Third: Elyse Marquardt, "A Love Unrequited". Congratulations and PLEASE come by my office sometime this week to collect your prize! If you don't, I'll simply bring it to the Final Exam, but that means you would have to wait a whole week- the suspense would eat you alive! A Clerk of Oxford.
