Great Books II: Playing with Time
Keirstead
Spring 2004
Schedule of Readings and Assignments
(subject to change)
• Note that for quizzes you will be responsible for memorizing four facts about each work we read: its correct title, the author’s name, its date, and its national origin.
• For the first month of the course (through 2/12), please bring your poetry anthology (ERP) with you to each class meeting, even if there is no reading assigned in it for that day.
T 1/13 Course Introduction
R 1/15 Victor Hugo: Notre-Dame de Paris (7-63); Lord Byron, from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage [Ocean] (English Romantic Poetry 136-38)
T 1/20 Hugo: NDP (65-127; 153-180)
R l/22 Hugo: NDP (181-254); John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn (ERP 218-19)
T l/27 Hugo: NDP (255-341); Keats, Ode to a Nightingale (ERP 216-18)
R l/29 Hugo: NDP (342-415)
T 2/3 Hugo: NDP (417-540)
R 2/5 Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (3-42); William Wordsworth, We are Seven (ERP 23-25)
T 2/10 Dickens: GE (43-146); Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality (ERP 51-57)
R 2/12 Dickens: GE (146-202)
T 2/17 Dickens: GE (202-264); Paper l Due
R 2/19 Dickens: GE (264-324)
T 2/24 Dickens: GE (327-421)
R 2/26 Dickens: GE (421-484)
T 3/2 Mid-term exam
R 3/4 H. G. Wells: The Time Machine (59-118)
T 3/9 Wells: TM (119-156); Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (3-18)
R 3/11 Huxley: BNW (19-94)
T 3/16 Huxley: BNW (95-207)
R 3/18 Huxley: BNW (208-259)
T 3/23 Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale (3-99)
R 3/25 Atwood: HT (103-170)
Spring Break (3/29 - 4/2)
T 4/6 Atwood: HT (171-311)
R 4/8 James Dickey: Deliverance (3-89)
T 4/13 Dickey: D (93-200)
R 4/15 Dickey: D (201-278)
T 4/20 Toni Morrison: Beloved (3-49); Paper 2 Due
R 4/22 Morrison: B (50-105)
T 4/27 Morrison: B (106-217)
R 4/29 Morrison: B (218-275); Course evaluations; Exam review
R 5/6 Final Exam, 2:00 Section (061): 5:00-7:30
F 5/7 Final Exam, 9:30 Section (022): 2:00-4:30