Great Books 2
Keirstead
Reading Schedule
The Eighteenth Century: Reason and Enlightenment
Frontispiece from an early edition of Robinson Cruose (1719) |
8/22 Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (3-46)
8/24 RC (46-104) 8/27 RC (105-89) 8/29 RC (189-249) 8/31 RC (250-306) and selected scenes from Castaway 9/3 Labor--Class Canceled 9/5 Alexander Pope: Essay on Man (308-14) 9/7 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: from Confessions (427-37) 9/10 Goethe: Faust (438-61) 9/12 Faust (461-507) 9/14 Faust (507-40)
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The Early Nineteenth Century: Romanticism
Blake's illustration for "The Lamb", from Songs of Innocence (1789) |
9/17 William Blake: from Songs of Innocence
(540-45)
9/19 Blake cont. 9/21 Blake: from Songs of Experience (545-48) 9/24 Charles Dickens: David Copperfield (Part 1: 9-49). Hereafter abbreviated as DC. 9/26 William Wordsworth: Ode: Intimations of Immortality (555-60), The World Is Too Much with Us (560-61) 9/28 DC (Part 2 : 49-90)
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The Mid to Late Nineteenth Century: Varieties of Realism
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) |
10/1 Class Canceled: Read Dickens!!! 10/3 Mid-term Exam 10/5 DC (Parts 3-5: 90-215) 10/8 Whitman: from Song of Myself (753-61) 10/10 Whtiman cont. (761-65) Paper 1 Due 10/12 DC (Parts 6 & 7: 215-298) 10/15 Emily Dickinson: Poems (823-27) 10/17 Dickinson cont. (827-32) 10/19 DC (Parts 8 and 9: 299-380)
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The Twentieth Century: Modernism and the End of Empire
| 10/22 Freud: Dora (1354-85)
10/24 Dora (1385-1414) 10/26 DC (Part 10: 381-421) 10/29 T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1676-79) 10/31 Virginia Woolf: from A Room of One's Own (1615-38) 11/2 DC (Part 11: 421-461)
11/16 Class Canceled 11/17-11/25 Thanksgiving Break 11/26 Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1881-94) 11/28 Jorge Luis Borges: The Garden of Forking Paths (1905-14) 11/30 Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart (2060-85) 12/3 TFA (2085-2120) 12/5 TFA (2120-53) Paper 2 Due 12/7 Course Conclusion 12/10 Final Exam (Section 022), 8-10:30 12/14 Final Exam (Section 019), 8-10:30 |
Cityscape from Fritz Lang's 1926 film Metropolis |