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Readings:
Path I
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Topics
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| UNIT ONE: SIGNPOSTS |
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T, 9-21
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The Cost of Art
watch this 43-min. intro. to the course BEFORE day 1
E. B. Browning’s “A Musical Instrument” (1860; 1860)
C. Rossetti's "In an Artist's Studio" (1856; 1896)
E. Dickinson's poems #448, #519
P. L. Dunbar's "Sympathy" (1899)
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- course
guidelines
- topics: the uses, abuses, and costs of art
- mini-lecture: "The Woman Question" PDF
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| R, 9-23 |
Death and the Maiden
R. Browning's “Porphyria’s Lover” (1834; 1836, 1842)
R. Browning's "My Last Duchess" (1842, 1842)
A. Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” (1831-32; 1832 & 1842) |
- concepts: parabolic drift, monodram
- format: sml grp exrcs
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| T, 9-28 |
Faith & the Ineffable
E. B. Browning's "The Soul's Expression" (1844)
E. B. Browning's "Exaggeration" (1844)
M. Arnold's "Dover Beach" (ca.1851; 1867)
E. Dickinson's #207, #236, #598, #1773 (1861-84)
G. M. Hopkins's “Pied Beauty” (1877; 1918)
C. A. Eastman's "The Great Mystery" (1911) |
- topics: faith, religious doubt, the Ineffable
- mini-lecture: Christianity in Britain, PDF
- mini-lecture: Emily Dickinson, PDF
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| R, 9-30 |
The Disenfranchised: Gender, Disability, Race, Religion [content warning: rape]
E. B. Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" (1846; 1848, 1850)
R. Browning's "Deaf and Dumb" (1864)
E. Dickinson's poems: #320, #620 (1861-84)
M. Arnold's "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" (c.1852; 1855)
P. L. Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask" (1897)
Zitkála-Šá's "America's Indian Problem" (1921)
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- topics: Nature, beauty, madness, religion
- mini-lecture: the slave trade
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| T, 10-5 |
Gendered Interiorities
M. Arnold's "The Buried Life" (1852)
C. R. Rossetti's "Winter: My Secret" (1857; 1862)
C. P. Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper" (1892)
EXAM #1: multiple choice & T/F questions (scantron)
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- concepts: interiority; imagination vs. empiricism
- format: roundtable
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| UNIT TWO: A MATTER OF DEPTH |
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R, 10-7
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The Purpose(s) of Art
J. Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice (1851-53), on "savageness" in Gothic architecture, Vol. 2, chp. 6
R. Browning's "Andrea del Sarto" (c.1853; 1855)
W. Pater's Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1868; 1873) |
- topics: artistic production; sexuality; industry; slavery; aestheticism
- format: guided discussion w/ slideshow
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T, 10-12
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The Pre-Raphaelites: Purity & Power
D. G. Rossetti’s “The Blessed Damozel” (1846; 1850)
Neil Gaiman's "How They Met Themselves" (Jan. 2000)
C. Rossetti's "Goblin Market" (1859; 1862)
W. Morris's "The Defence of Guenevere" (1858)
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- topics: tone, voice, allegory
- mini-lecture: The Pre-Raphaelites, PDF
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| R, 10-14 |
The Contours of Realism
G. Eliot's "Mr. Gilfil's Love Story" (1857, 1858), chps. 1-8 of "Mr. Gilfil's Love Story" in Scenes of Clerical Life
G. E.'s "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" (1856; 1856) |
- format: slideshow-assisted roundtable
- mini-lecture: G. Eliot & Realism, PDF
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| T, 10-19 |
A Question of Characterization
G. Eliot's "Mr. Gilfil's Love Story" (1857, 1858), chps. 9 - Epilogue of "Mr. Gilfil's Love Story" in Scenes of Clerical Life
Graphing Narrative Modalities: video |
- topics: Realism, Romanticism, Sentimentalism, etc.
- format: sml grp
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| R, 10-21 |
What Is Real?
H. James's "The Real Thing" (1892, 1909)
Charles Chesnutt's "The Goophered Grapevine" (1887)
EBB's "Lord Walter's Wife" (1862)
Exam #2 study guide |
- topics: mapping narrative modalities
- format: roundtable discussion
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T, 10-26 |
Straddling Two Worlds
G. M. Hopkins's "God's Grandeur" (1877; 1918)
G. M. Hopkins's "As Kingfishers Catch Fire" (1877; 1918)
G. M. Hopkins's "Carrion Comfort" (1885; 1918)
G. M. Hopkins's "No Worst, there is none" (1885; 1918)
G. M. Hopkins's "Thou art indeed just, Lord" (1889; 1918)
EXAM #2: multiple choice & essay [no passage ID's] |
- terms: inscape, instress, sprung rhythm, ellipsis, syntax, coinage
- topics: Nature; God; beauty
as immediate and omnipresent
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| UNIT THREE: SPLIT IN TWO |
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R, 10-28 |
His Friend's Strange Preference
O. Wilde's "The Harlot's House" (1885, 1908)
Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), pp.1-26 |
- format: Mad Lib exercise in pairs
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T, 11-2 |
This Seemingly So Solid Body
Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), pp.27-54
assign term paper & workshopping visit; each Path 2 grp finds 60-min. slot that works here (between Nov. 29 & Dec. 3) |
- format: roundtable discussion
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| R, 11-4 |
Race Matters
W. Whitman's "I Sing the Body Electric" (1855)
B. T. Washington’s "The Atlanta Exposition Address" (1895, 1901)
W. E. B. Dubois’s The Souls of Black Folk (1904), chps. 1 & 3 |
- format: lecture, discussion
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| T, 11-9 |
NO CLASS / DR. M TAKES ANNUAL ONE-DAY HOLIDAY |
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R, 11-11 |
NO CLASS / VETERAN'S DAY HOLIDAY
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| T, 11-16 |
A Delicious, Grotesque, Impossible Dream
D. G. Rossetti's "Jenny" (1848, 1870)
K. Chopin's The Awakening (1899), chps. 1-12 |
- format: intructor-directed discussion
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| R, 11-18 |
Alone Together
K. Chopin's The Awakening (1899), chp. 13-23
EXAM #3: essay (60 minutes) |
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| M, 11-29 thru F, 12-3 |
TERM PAPER WORKSHOP
email term paper outline to Dr. M and everyone in your Path 2 group before attending one-hour workshopping of outline
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| T, 11-30 |
That Monster Made Up of Beauty and Brutality
K. Chopin's The Awakening (1899), chp. 24-39
students create and print out 4-5 discussion questions concerning chp. 24-39; turn in hard copies |
- format: Path 2 chalk or dry erase drawings and discussion
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| R, 12-2 |
A Pair of Pariahs
Oscar Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (1897; 1898)
Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush" (1899; Dec. 29, 1900)
bring to class hard copies of Dr. M's comments on your short, Path 2 essay--constitutes part of participation grade |
- format: roundtable discussion
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TERM
PAPER due Thurs., Dec. 9 by 11:59 p.m.
(send Word file with .doc extension via email)
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