Rhetoric I: The First-Year Experience
"The Quest for Knowledge"
(ENGL 101F) 
Fall 2001

David Havird
JH 311, 5085
http://personal.centenary.edu/~dhavird/
dhavird@centenary.edu
Office Hours: MW 2-4 and by appointment

 

Calendar of Assignments (Draft, 19 August 2001)
 
 
Week Assignment Event
August 20-24 Plato, The Republic (171-183);
The Matrix		  
August 27-31 Ovid, Metamorphoses 3 (omitting "Echo and Narcissus"): "Cadmus," "Diana and Actaeon," "Semele and the Birth of Bacchus," "Tiresias"  
September 3-7
Monday, Labor Day Holiday		 Metamorphoses continued: "Pentheus and Bacchus";
Williams, The Bacchae of Euripides;
Essay 1 due Friday--go to topic.		 Mark Zeltser, Recital, Thursday, 11:10 a.m., Hurley Auditorium
September 10-14 The Bacchae continued Debate: Apollonians vs. Dionysians, Thursday, 11:10, Kilpatrick Auditorium  POSTPONED
September 17-21 Nussbaum, "Introduction" to The Bacchae (vii-xlii)
Sophocles, Electra		 Debate: Apollonians vs. Dionysians, Tuesday, 11:10, Kilpatrick Auditorium
September 24-28 Sophocles, Electra continued
Williams, Selected Poems
  • for Monday: "The Sanctity" (45), "The Last Deaths" (52), "Bob" (55)
  • for Wednesday: Review "The Sanctity" and "The Last Deaths"
Essay 2 due Friday--go to topic.		 Attaway Fellow S. Giora Shoham, two lectures in Hurley Auditorium:
  • "The Bacchae, Sacrifice, and the Sacred," Monday, 7 p.m.
  • "Valhalla, Calvary, and Auschwitz," Tuesday, 7 p.m.
October 1-5
Friday, Fall Break		 Williams, Selected Poems
  • for Monday: "Near the Haunted Castle" (60), "The Cave" (62), "Blades" (66)
John Donne, Two Holy Sonnets from Wit		  
October 8-12 Shakespeare, King Henry V
October 15-19 King Henry V continued

Workshop with SSE (Wednesday, Kilpatrick Auditorium): 
"Two Kings on One Throne: 
Henry the Ruthless or Henry the Merciful?
Henry the Manipulator or Henry the Straightfoward?"

 Shenandoah Shakespeare Express
October 22-26 Essay 3 due Wednesday (Note change of date!)--Revision of Essay 2

Williams, Selected Poems

  • For Monday: "From My Window" (81), "My Mother's Lips" (84), "The Dog" (86)
  • For Wednesday: "The Critic" (127, Autumn), "Easter" (132, Karen), "Child Psychology" (199)
  • For Friday: "Combat" (93)
 Pulitizer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams, the twelfth annual recipient of the John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence, to meet informally with three classes on Thursday at 9:45 in the South Dining Hall--open to all!  Presentation of Corrington Medal, Thursday, 7 p.m., Kilpatrick Auditorium
October 29-November 2 Shelley, Frankenstein Frankenstein Film Festival;
Sophocles' Electra, Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m., Marjorie Lyons Playhouse
November 5-9 Frankenstein continued Rose Van Thyn, Thursday, 11:10, Kilpatrick Auditorium;
Electra, Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m., Marjorie Lyons Playhouse
November 12-16 Spiegelman, Maus: A Survivor's Tale  
November 19-23
Thanksgiving Break		    
November 26-30 Spiegelman, Maus: And Here My Troubles Began;
Essay 4 due Friday--go to topic.		  
December 3-7
Preparation Week		 Douglass, Narrative  

Wednesday, December 12, 8:30-11:30: Final Exam
 

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