2005_101_syllabus

Aristophanes

English/FYE 101
Fall 2005
Jefferson Hendricks
Centenary College of Louisiana

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Bobbie Ann Mason

Syllabus

Week 1:

Tu Aug 23

Introduction to Course
"To His Coy Mistress" -- Andrew Marvell

***** 11:00 am President's Convocation -- Brown Chapel

Th Aug 25

Required reading:

Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave," Chapter VII of The Republic
"To His Coy Mistress" -- Andrew Marvell (in A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, p. 385)

Background reading:

Introductory Notes on Classical Greece -- Ian Johnston, Malaspina University-College, Canada
Plato -- Island of Freedom
"Plato's Allegory of the Cave" -- Wikipedia
"The Allegory of the Cave" -- S. Marc Cohen, U. of Washington
on Plato's Theory of Forms -- S. Marc Cohen, U. of Washington
on Plato's The Republic and "The Allegory of the Cave" -- Gordon L. Ziniewicz
Plato -- Thomas Brickhouse, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Plato's Political Philosophy -- W. J. Korab-Karpowicz, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Week 2:

Tu Aug 30

Required reading:

Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

Background reading:

"Sigmund Freud" -- Petri Liukkonen and Ari Pesonen
"Freud: Conflict and Culture" -- Library of Congress online exhibit
"Civilization and Its Discontents" -- Scott Brewster, The Literary Encyclopedia
on "Civilization and Its Discontents" -- Bob Corbett, Webster U.
on "Civilization and Its Discontents" -- Brad McCormick, Columbia U.
"Psychoanalysis and Sigmund Freud" -- Mark Klages, U. of Colorado
Module on Freud and Psychoanalysis -- Dino Felluga, Purdue U.
"Freud's Theory of Mind" and on "Civilization and Its Discontents" -- Chrstian Perring, Dowling College

Th Sep 1

Required reading:

Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

Background reading:

Sigmund Freud and the Freud Archives -- The New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Society
Freud on the Internet -- Andreas Teubner, Brandeis U.
"Freud's Future of an Illusion and Civilization and Its Discontents" -- Marianna Scheffer
a Freud timeline and notes on Civilization and Its Discontents -- Tad Beckman, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA

Week 3:

M Sep 5 ***** 750 word essay on The Tempest and Forbidden Planet delivered to Jackson Hall 307 by 2:00 pm

Tu Sep 6

Required reading:

The Tempest and Forbidden Planet

Background reading:

Shakespeare biography -- Shakespeare Online
essays on The Tempest -- Shakespeare Online
Forbidden Planet -- IMDB.com
Forbidden Planet -- Science Fiction Filmsite
review of Forbidden Planet -- Richard Scheib
"Forbidden Planet, Forbidden Fruit" -- Ingrid Richter

Th Sep 8

Required reading:

The Tempest and Forbidden Planet

Background reading:

"You Can Go Home Again, Can't You? An Introduction to The Tempest" -- Ian Johnston, Malaspina-University College, Canada
The Tempest -- SparkNotes
The Tempest -- CliffsNotes

Week 4:

Tu Sep 13

Writing Workshop

Th Sep 15

Required reading:

review The Tempest and Forbidden Planet
"To His Coy Mistress" -- Andrew Marvell (in HCAL)
HCAL, pp. 1-57.

Background reading:

an essay on form in Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" -- VirtuaLit, Bedford/St. Martin's (pdf file)
"Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' -- A New Historicist Reading" -- VirtuaLit, Bedford/St. Martin's (pdf file)
cultural contexts (feminine sexuality) for Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" -- VirtuaLit, Bedford/St. Martin's
"Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' -- A Feminist Reading" -- VirtuaLit, Bedford/St. Martin's (pdf file)

Week 5:

Tu Sept 20

Required reading:

HCAL, pp. 77-80.
begin reading Lysistrata

Background reading:

"Aristophanes, Comedy, and Greek Theatre" -- U. of Indiana
"Introduction to Old Comedy" -- Roger Dunkle, Brooklyn College
"Aristophanes and Greek Old Comedy" -- John Porter, U. of Saskatchewan

Th Sep 22

*** Note: We meet class in Kilpatrick Auditorium today for a class with the Blackfriars's troupe
Required reading:

finish Lysistrata

Background reading:

a Lysistrata study guide -- Roger Dunkle, Brooklyn College
"Women in the Oikos: The Stranger Within" -- Catherine Colegrove, Canterbury School

***** Blackfriars Stage Co. Schedule: All performances in Kilpatrick Auditorium. Must pick up tickets from the Office of Sponsored Research in Hamilton Hall. The first ticket is free. Additional tickets are $5.

Tuesday, September 20 7:00 PM Return to the Forbidden Planet
Wednesday, September 21 7:00 PM Much Ado About Nothing
Thursday, September 22 7:00 PM Return to the Forbidden Planet
Friday, September 23 7:00 PM Richard III
Saturday, September 24 1:00 PM Much Ado About Nothing
Sunday, September 25 7:00 PM Return to the Forbidden Planet

***** Lysistrata by Aristophanes @ The Marjorie Lyons Playhouse: Sept. 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 & Oct. 1 at 8 p.m.; Sept. 25 at 2 p.m.

Week 6:

Mon Sep 26 ***** Review (250-350 words) of Return to the Forbidden Planet due -- Jackson Hall 307 by 2:00 pm

Tu Sep 27

Classes Cancelled: Hurricane Rita

Th Sep 29

Required reading:

Finish up Lysistrata

Background reading:

Lysistrata -- SparkNotes
"The Plot of the Lysistrata and the Hostages of Line 244" -- Jenny Strauss Clay, U. of Virginia
"The Comic City" (Aristophanes' Lysistrata) -- Nigel Nicholson, Reed College

Week 7:

Mon Oct 3 ***** Review (250-350 words) of Lysistrata due -- Jackson Hall 307 by 2:00 pm

Tu Oct 4

Required reading:

Finish up Lysistrata
"Young Goodman Brown" -- Nathaniel Hawthorne (Handbook to Critical Approaches)

Th Oct 6

Required reading:

"Everyday Use" -- Alice Walker (Handbook to Critical Approaches)

Week 8:

Tu Oct 11

Mid-term Exam -- Study Guide

We Oct 12: ***** Five-hundred word essay on Lysistrata due in Jackson Hall 307 by 2:00 pm

Th Oct 13: No Class: Fall Break

Week 9:

Tu Oct 18

Required reading:

Review A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature (Chapters 1 and 2 complete; Chapter 3, pp. 51-57, 66-73; Chapter 4, pp. 77-80, 82-87)
William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the Swan" (print out a copy and bring it to class)
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), "Leda" (print out a copy and bring it to class)

Background reading:

Th Oct 20

Required reading:

A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, Chapter 5: "The Formalist Approach," pp. 90-121, 137-141, and 149-152.
John Donne, "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" (print out a copy and bring it to class)

Background reading:

John Donne -- Anniina Jokinen
John Donne -- Wikipedia

Week 10:

Tu Oct 25

Writing Workshop
Required reading:

Begin reading In Country -- Bobbie Ann Mason (at least read up to Chapter 19, p. 129)
A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, Chapter 6: "The Psychological Approach: Freud," pp. 152-161, 169-172, and 174-182.

Th Oct 27

Required reading:

In Country -- Bobbie Ann Mason (reading quiz on entire book)
"Bobbie Anne Mason" -- Wikipedia

Background reading:

"Winning Her Father's War" (review of In Country) -- Joel Conorroe, New York Times
"Bobbie Ann Mason's Border States" -- Mervyn Rothstein, New York Times
review of In Country -- Stephanie @ Submerged Truth (a recent Centenary graduate)

Week 11:

Tu Nov 1

Required reading:

In Country -- Bobbie Ann Mason
"An Interview with Bobbie Ann Mason" -- The Missouri Review
A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, Chapter 7: "Mythological and Archetypal Approaches," pp. 182-191, 199-208, and 216-221.

Background reading:

"Bobbie Ann Mason's Portrayal of Modern Western Kentucky" -- Judy Aycock-Simpson, Tennessee Technological U.
"Bobbie Ann Mason's New Kentucky Home" -- Annita J. Turpin, Roanoke College
"Changing Roles and Finding Stability: Women in Bobbie Ann Mason's Shiloh and Other Stories" -- Tina Bucher, U. of Tennessee
"Mason's Characters Get Some College" -- Scott Vander Ploeg, Madisonville Community College

Wed Nov 2 Reading by Corrington Award Winner Bobbie Ann Mason -- 7:00 pm -- Kilpatrick Auditorium, Smith Building

Th Nov 3

Required reading:

A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, Chapter 8: "Feminisms and Gender Studies," pp. 222-242, 257-259, and 264-274.

Week 12:

Mon Nov 7 ***** Seven/eight hundred word essay (3 or so typed pages) on In Country due in Jackson Hall 307 by 2:00 pm

Tu Nov 8

Required reading:

Edgar Allan Poe, "Annabel Lee"

Th Nov 10

Required reading:

Sylvia Plath, "Daddy"

Week 13:

Tu Nov 15

Required reading:

begin reading Frankenstein
review A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, Chapter 7: "Mythological and Archetypal Approaches"

Th Nov 17

Required reading:

Frankenstein

Week 14: No Classes: Thanksgiving Break

Tu Nov 22
Th Nov 24

Week 15:

Tu Nov 29 ***** Seven/eight hundred word essay (3 or so typed pages) on In Country due in Jackson Hall 307 by 2:00 pm

Required reading:

Frankenstein
review A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, Chapter 8: "Feminisms and Gender Studies"

Th Dec 1

Required reading:

Frankenstein

Background reading:

Frankenstein -- SparkNotes
"Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature" -- National Institutes of Health
Resources for the Study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Martin Irvine, Georgetown U.

Week 16:

Tu Dec 6:

final exam review and evaluations

Th Dec 8:

No Class -- work on final essay -- (I am available for one-on-one meetings at this time)

Fr Dec 9: ***** 500 to 750-word essay (2-3 typed pages) on some aspect of Frankenstein and one of its media adaptations due in Jackson Hall 307 by 2:00 pm

Final Exam Schedule: (both classes in Jackson Hall 113)

T-1 (8:20-9:35 Tu & Th) class -- Monday, December 12, 8:00 to 11:00 am

T-2 (9:45 -11:00 Tu & Th) class -- Tuesday, December 13, 12:00 – 3:00 pm

Study Guide for Essay Questions on Final Exam. Be prepared to write essays on three of the following works. You will be asked to apply one of the critical approaches in constructing an argument/analysis of these works. For example: you could be asked to construct "a feminist/gender analysis of some aspect of Frankenstein" or "a myth/archtype analysis of "Everyday Use" or a "formalist analysis of 'Daddy'.

1. Frankenstein
2.    "Daddy"
3.     "Annabel Lee"
4.      "Leda and the Swan"
5.    "Everyday Use"
6.    "Young Goodman Brown"
7.    "To His Coy Mistress"