Connections: English 226: Current Syllabus

This is the syllabus of English 226 for Fall 2006.

Friday, August 25

First day: introductions and course outline, reading Wordsworth's "Solitary Reaper"

Monday, August 28

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott" (1832/42)
Plato, the allegory of the cave, from The Republic (360 B.C.E.)

Come to class having prepared one or two specific questions about the readings.

Wednesday, August 30

Note: here and throughout this syllabus, the first (less indented) list of readings is required, while the second (more indented) list of readings is supplemental and optional. Here, for example, Ruskin's writing is required reading, while Landow's commentary is optional.

John Ruskin, Modern Painters (1843) and from the section of The Stones of Venice called "The Nature of Gothic" (1852)
- Victorian Web editor George Landow has adapted his previously published introduction to Ruskin and his works on his site, making that page one of the better ones on the patchy and sprawling Victorian Web.

Linking passages: group I

Friday, September 1

No class today--I will be away giving a conference paper.

Monday, September 4

Oscar Wilde, from "The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue" (1889) and from "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)
- Wilde's famous trials have inspired two excellent sites. The Bobst Library at NYU has built a spectacular web version of their exhibition commemorating the centennial of the trials: Reading Wilde, Querying Spaces. Though less polished and flashy, the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School's site on the trials also contains a wealth of interesting information.

Linking passages: group II

Wednesday, September 6

James Joyce, "Araby," from Dubliners (1914, anthology 2434)
- Dictionary of Literary Biography (Grinnell only): Joyce as novelist and short-fiction writer
- The Modern World, which produces excellent author pages, has an extensive one devoted to Joyce.
- R.L. Callahan of Temple maintains Work in Progress, an excellent Joyce site including articles, maps of Joyce's Dublin, and much more.
- Edward J. Maloney and David F. Fanning of Ohio State maintain the James Joyce Resource Center, with a bibliography of books, a timeline, and "casebooks" of references to Joyce scholarship grouped by critical approach.
- Yet another very good site: The James Joyce Portal

Linking passages: group III

Friday, September 8

The class meets today in small groups. Each group should communicate in advance to choose a meeting place.

Monday, September 11

Joyce, "Eveline" (anthology 2438) and "Clay" (2441), from Dubliners

Linking passages: group IV

Wednesday, September 13

Joyce, "The Dead" (anthology 2445), from Dubliners

Linking passages: group V

Friday, September 15th

Seminar A meets in the regular classroom, with group 1 doing responses. Seminar B (groups 4, 5, and 6) does responses and meets in small groups.

Monday, September 18

Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), pages 3-158

Linking passages: group VI

Wednesday, September 20

Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, pages 159-276

Linking passages: group I

Friday, September 22

Seminar B meets in the regular classroom, with group 4 doing responses. Seminar A (groups 1, 2, and 3) does responses and meets in small groups, led by group member #2.

Monday, September 25

PAPER PROSPECTUS DUE IN CLASS
FOR STUDENTS WRITING PAPERS

Speeches on Irish independence (anthology 2379)
William Butler Yeats, "Easter 1916" (1916, anthology 2397) and "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" (1922, anthology 2396)
- Dictionary of Literary Biography (Grinnell only): Yeats as poet and essayist

Linking passages: group II

Wednesday, September 27

T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917, anthology 2509) and companion readings; "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919, anthology 2544)
- Prufrock and Other Observations, a Bartleby e-text of Eliot's 1917 volume of poetry
- The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism, a Bartleby e-text of Eliot's 1920 work.

Linking passages: group III

Friday, September 29

FIRST EXAM/PAPER DATE:

Take the exam in the classroom at the usual class time

submit your paper under my office door by 3:00 p.m.

Monday, October 2

Eliot, The Waste Land (1922), anthology 2518
- Eliot reading the poem

Linking passages: group IV

Wednesday, October 4

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929)
- Dictionary of Literary Biography (Grinnell only): Woolf as novelist and essayist
- Virginia Woolf on Women and Fiction -- A Distance Learning Project (Joel Rich and Nancy Henderson) was originally a course page for a distance-learning project; it is now an archive of discussions, a brief chronology and primary bibliography, and excerpts from some of the women's works Woolf discusses.
- This collaborative site on Mrs. Dalloway has a lot of material that can help orient you in the novel.

Linking passages: group V

Friday, October 6

Seminar A meets in the regular classroom, with group 2 doing responses. Seminar B (groups 4, 5, and 6) does responses and meets in small groups, led by group member #3.

Monday, October 9

Woolf, first part of Mrs. Dalloway (1925, anthology 2556-2608)

Linking passages: group VI

Wednesday, October 11

Woolf, second part of Mrs. Dalloway (1925, anthology 2608-2655)

Linking passages: group I

Friday, October 13

Seminar B meets in the regular classroom, with group 5 doing responses. Seminar A (groups 1, 2, and 3) does responses and meets in small groups, led by group member #3.

FALL BREAK

Monday, October 23

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)
- Dictionary of Literary Biography (Grinnell only): Dickens as novelist
- Dickens has attracted a fair amount of attention on the Web, and the best door to that information is David Perdue's Dickens Page.

Linking passages: group II

Wednesday, October 25

Evelyn Waugh, "The Man Who Liked Dickens" (1933, anthology 2819)
George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language" (1950, anthology 2836) and "Shooting an Elephant" (1936, anthology 2844)
- Dictionary of Literary Biography (Grinnell only): Waugh as novelist and short-fiction writer, Orwell as essayist, and Rushdie as novelist
- Doubting Hall: A Guided Tour around the Works of Evelyn Waugh
- A solid page of Orwell resources

Linking passages: group III

Friday, October 27

Seminar A meets in the regular classroom, with group 3 doing responses. Seminar B (groups 4, 5, and 6) does responses and meets in small groups, led by group member #4.

Monday, October 30

Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape (1958)
- Apmonia: a site for Samuel Beckett by The Modern World, has an impressive array of top-notch information available from its long front page, including a biography, articles, reviews, notes on productions, and an image gallery.
- The University of California at Santa Barbara hosts The Samuel Beckett Endpage, a strong site although probably second to Apmonia.

Linking passages: group IV

Wednesday, November 1

Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1952)

Linking passages: group V

Friday, November 3

PAPER PROSPECTUS DUE IN CLASS
FOR STUDENTS WRITING PAPERS

Seminar B meets in the regular classroom, with group 6 doing responses. Seminar A (groups 1, 2, and 3) does responses and meets in small groups, led by group member #4.

Monday, November 6

Beckett, Endgame (1958)

Linking passages: group VI

Wednesday, November 8

We will have the review session for students taking the exam during the regular class period on this day.

Friday, November 10

SECOND EXAM/PAPER DATE:

Take the exam in the classroom at the usual class time

submit your paper under my office door by 3:00 p.m.

Monday, November 13

Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1899)

Linking passages: group I

Wednesday, November 15

Tom Stoppard, Travesties (1974)
Encyclopedia Britannica on Tristan Tzara
Tzara, "Dadaism"
- Dictionary of Literary Biography (Grinnell only): Stoppard
- British Writers (Grinnell only): Stoppard
- The National Gallery of Art's online exhibition of Dada
- Tzara, "L'amiral Cherche Une Maison à Louer" (sound recording, item #2 on the linked page)

Linking passages: group II

Friday, November 17

Seminar A meets in the regular classroom, with group 1 doing responses. Seminar B (groups 4, 5, and 6) does responses and meets in small groups, led by group member #1 (except group 6, led by group member #5).

Monday, November 20

Derek Walcott, Omeros (1990), pages 1-131
- Dictionary of Literary Biography (Grinnell only): Walcott
- Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select (Grinnell only): Walcott
- Walcott's Nobel page

Linking passages: group III

Wednesday, November 22

No class meeting today--keep reading Omeros.

THANKSGIVING BREAK

Monday, November 27

Walcott, Omeros, pages 133-325

Linking passages: group IV

Wednesday, November 29

Hanif Kureishi, My Beautiful Laundrette (screenplay of 1986 film, anthology 2942)
- British Writers (Grinnell only): Kureishi
- Contemporary Literary Criticism (Grinnell only): Kureishi

Linking passages: group V

Friday, November 17

Seminar B meets in the regular classroom, with group 4 doing responses. Seminar A (groups 1, 2, and 3) does responses and meets in small groups, led by group member #1.

Monday, December 4

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), pages 3-95
- British Writers (Grinnell only): Winterson
- Dictionary of Literary Biography (Grinnell only): Winterson

Linking passages: group VI

Wednesday, December 6

PAPER PROSPECTUS DUE IN CLASS
FOR STUDENTS WRITING PAPERS

Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, pages 91-176

No linking passages today--we will take some time to discuss how the class has gone.

Friday, December 8

Last day: wrapping up, weeping for lack of more class sessions

Bring your small group retrospective to class.

Wednesday, December 13

FINAL EXAM/PAPER DATE:

Take the exam in the classroom at 9:00 a.m.

submit your paper under my office door by 3:00 p.m.

Textbook Poetry Fiction Film Theory Contexts Research and Writing Research Writing Courses Tutorial 120 121 224 226 Syllabus Discussion Board Assignments Policies Old Syllabi Seminars Site Information Site Updates Navigation Site Map	Syllabus This is the syllabus of English 226 for Fall 2006. Friday, August 25 First day: introductions and course outline, reading Wordsworth's "Solitary Reaper" Monday, August 28 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott" (1832/42) Plato, the allegory of the cave, from The Republic (360 B.C.E.) Come to class having prepared one or two specific questions about the readings. Wednesday, August 30 Note: here and throughout this syllabus, the first (less indented) list of readings is required, while the second (more indented) list of readings is supplemental and optional. Here, for example, Ruskin's writing is required reading, while Landow's commentary is optional. John Ruskin, Modern Painters (1843) and from the section of The Stones of Venice called "The Nature of Gothic" (1852) Victorian Web editor George Landow has adapted his previously published introduction to Ruskin and his works on his site, making that page one of the better ones on the patchy and sprawling Victorian Web. Linking passages: group I Friday, September 1 No class today--I will be away giving a conference paper. Monday, September 4 Oscar Wilde, from "The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue" (1889) and from "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891) Wilde's famous trials have inspired two excellent sites. The Bobst Library at NYU has built a spectacular web version of their exhibition commemorating the centennial of the trials: Reading Wilde, Querying Spaces. Though less polished and flashy, the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School's site on the trials also contains a wealth of interesting information. Linking passages: group II Wednesday, September 6 James Joyce, "Araby," from Dubliners (1914, anthology 2434) Dictionary of Literary Biography (Grinnell only): Joyce as novelist and short-fiction writer The Modern World, which produces excellent author pages, has an extensive one devoted to Joyce. R.L. Callahan of Temple maintains Work in Progress, an excellent Joyce site including articles, maps of Joyce's Dublin, and much more. Edward J. Maloney and David F. Fanning of Ohio State maintain the James Joyce Resource Center, with a bibliography of books, a timeline, and "casebooks" of references to Joyce scholarship grouped by critical approach. Yet another very good site: The James Joyce Portal Linking passages: group III Friday, September 8 The class meets today in small groups. Each group should communicate in advance to choose a meeting place. Monday, September 11 Joyce, "Eveline" (anthology 2438) and "Clay" (2441), from Dubliners Linking passages: group IV Wednesday, September 13 Joyce, "The Dead" (anthology 2445), from Dubliners Linking passages: group V Friday, September 15th Seminar A meets in the regular classroom, with group 1 doing responses. Seminar B (groups 4, 5, and 6) does responses and meets in small groups. Monday, September 18 Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), pages 3-158 Linking passages: group VI Wednesday, September 20 Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, pages 159-276 Linking passages: group I Friday, September 22 Seminar B meets in the regular classroom, with group 4 doing responses. Seminar A (groups 1, 2, and 3) does responses and meets in small groups, led by group member #2. Monday, September 25 PAPER PROSPECTUS DUE IN CLASS FOR STUDENTS WRITING PAPERS Speeches on Irish independence (anthology 2379) William Butler Yeats, "Easter 1916" (1916, anthology 2397) and "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" (1922, anthology 2396) Dictionary of Literary Biography (Grinnell only): Yeats as poet and essayist Linking passages: group II Wednesday, September 27 T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917, anthology 2509) and companion readings; "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919, anthology 2544) Prufrock and Other Observations, a Bartleby e-text of Eliot's 1917 volume of poetry The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism, a Bartleby e-text of Eliot's 1920 work. Linking passages: group III Friday, September 29 FIRST EXAM/PAPER DATE: Take the exam in the classroom at the usual class time or submit your paper under my office door by 3:00 p.m. Monday, October 2 Eliot, The Waste Land (1922), anthology 2518 Eliot reading the poem Linking passages: group IV Wednesday, October 4 Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929) Dictionary of Literary Biography (Grinnell only): Woolf as novelist and essayist Virginia Woolf on Women and Fiction -- A Distance Learning Project (Joel Rich and Nancy Henderson) was originally a course page for a distance-learning project; it is now an archive of discussions, a brief chronology and primary bibliography, and excerpts from some of the women's works Woolf discusses. This collaborative site on Mrs. Dalloway has a lot of material that can help orient you in the novel. Linking passages: group V Friday, October 6 Seminar A meets in the regular classroom, with group 2 doing responses. Seminar B (groups 4, 5, and 6) does responses and meets in small groups, led by group member #3. Monday, October 9 Woolf, first part of Mrs. Dalloway (1925, anthology 2556-2608) Linking passages: group VI Wednesday, October 11 Woolf, second part of Mrs. Dalloway (1925, anthology 2608-2655) Linking passages: group I Friday, October 13 Seminar B meets in the regular classroom, with group 5 doing responses. Seminar A (groups 1, 2, and 3) does responses and meets in small groups, led by group member #3. FALL BREAK Monday, October 23 Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843) Dictionary of Literary Biography (Grinnell only): Dickens as novelist Dickens has attracted a fair amount of attention on the Web, and the best door to that information is David Perdue's Dickens Page. Linking passages: group II Wednesday, October 25 Evelyn Waugh, "The Man Who Liked Dickens" (1933, anthology 2819) George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language" (1950, anthology 2836) and "Shooting an Elephant" (1936, anthology 2844) Dictionary of Literary Biography (Grinnell only): Waugh as novelist and short-fiction writer, Orwell as essayist, and Rushdie as novelist Doubting Hall: A Guided Tour around the Works of Evelyn Waugh A solid page of Orwell resources Linking passages: group III Friday, October 27 Seminar A meets in the regular classroom, with group 3 doing responses. Seminar B (groups 4, 5, and 6) does responses and meets in small groups, led by group member #4. Monday, October 30 Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape (1958) Apmonia: a site for Samuel Beckett by The Modern World, has an impressive array of top-notch information available from its long front page, including a biography, articles, reviews, notes on productions, and an image gallery. The University of California at Santa Barbara hosts The Samuel Beckett Endpage, a strong site although probably second to Apmonia. Linking passages: group IV Wednesday, November 1 Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1952) Linking passages: group V Friday, November 3 PAPER PROSPECTUS DUE IN CLASS FOR STUDENTS WRITING PAPERS Seminar B meets in the regular classroom, with group 6 doing responses. Seminar A (groups 1, 2, and 3) does responses and meets in small groups, led by group member #4. Monday, November 6 Beckett, Endgame (1958) Linking passages: group VI Wednesday, November 8 We will have the review session for students taking the exam during the regular class period on this day. Friday, November 10 SECOND EXAM/PAPER DATE: Take the exam in the classroom at the usual class time or submit your paper under my office door by 3:00 p.m. Monday, November 13 Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1899) Linking passages: group I Wednesday, November 15 Tom Stoppard, Travesties (1974) Encyclopedia Britannica on Tristan Tzara Tzara, "Dadaism" Dictionary of Literary Biography (Grinnell only): Stoppard British Writers (Grinnell only): Stoppard The National Gallery of Art's online exhibition of Dada Tzara, "L'amiral Cherche Une Maison à Louer" (sound recording, item #2 on the linked page) Linking passages: group II Friday, November 17 Seminar A meets in the regular classroom, with group 1 doing responses. Seminar B (groups 4, 5, and 6) does responses and meets in small groups, led by group member #1 (except group 6, led by group member #5). Monday, November 20 Derek Walcott, Omeros (1990), pages 1-131 Dictionary of Literary Biography (Grinnell only): Walcott Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select (Grinnell only): Walcott Walcott's Nobel page Linking passages: group III Wednesday, November 22 No class meeting today--keep reading Omeros. THANKSGIVING BREAK Monday, November 27 Walcott, Omeros, pages 133-325 Linking passages: group IV Wednesday, November 29 Hanif Kureishi, My Beautiful Laundrette (screenplay of 1986 film, anthology 2942) British Writers (Grinnell only): Kureishi Contemporary Literary Criticism (Grinnell only): Kureishi Linking passages: group V Friday, November 17 Seminar B meets in the regular classroom, with group 4 doing responses. Seminar A (groups 1, 2, and 3) does responses and meets in small groups, led by group member #1. Monday, December 4 Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), pages 3-95 British Writers (Grinnell only): Winterson Dictionary of Literary Biography (Grinnell only): Winterson Linking passages: group VI Wednesday, December 6 PAPER PROSPECTUS DUE IN CLASS FOR STUDENTS WRITING PAPERS Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, pages 91-176 No linking passages today--we will take some time to discuss how the class has gone. Friday, December 8 Last day: wrapping up, weeping for lack of more class sessions Bring your small group retrospective to class. Wednesday, December 13 FINAL EXAM/PAPER DATE: Take the exam in the classroom at 9:00 a.m. or submit your paper under my office door by 3:00 p.m.
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