English 5
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Syllabus Dr. Driscoll.
Santa Monica College
Office hours: MW 11:15 to 12:15
and
Friday 11:15 to 1:15.Drescher 311J
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Text: Norton Volume 1
Ninth Edition:
The Major Authors. It should look like this:
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Each piece of Literature has an ‘author’ introduction attached to it: I have not put the page numbers in all cases, but do make sure you read each one of these for each and every author that we read. Example: We will read ‘Chevrefoil’ by Marie de France and the poem is on page 155, However, if you flick back you will see the introduction for her life and work is on pages 141-142. I will be assuming that you are always studying (not just ‘looking at’) the author intros even though they are not directly specified on the syllabus. No make up’s. No extra credit.
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1. The Middle Ages: 3 parts
a) Anglo-Saxon Literature:
1) Introduction: ‘The Middle Ages to ca. 1485’ (p 3-25).
2) Bede and Caedmon's Hymn 29
3) The Dream of the Rood 32.
4) The Wanderer 107
5) The Wife’s Lament 110
b) Anglo-Norman Literature: Read the little Intro on 119-120
6) Marie de France : Lanval 120
and c) Middle English in the Fourteenth And Fifteenth Centuries:
7) Read Gawain and the Green Knight (135-188)
8) Geoffrey Chaucer: 188 -214. The Canterbury Tales a) General Prologue and The Miller's Tale page 214-230.
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Exam 1: Based on above readings: multiple choice and the translation. It will cover, the main big intro, all author intros and all the literature itself. Be prepared to write a 'translation' of Chaucer (approx 20-30 lines). Use the Neville Coghill parallel text on-line to help you: It is here: http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/chaucer/duallang1.htm
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2. The Sixteenth Century/ The Early Seventeenth Century
9) Introduction: ‘The Sixteenth Century: 1485-1603.’ (349 onwards).
10) Elizabeth I: Read it all 392 onwards.
11) Shakespeare: Sonnets: 20, 29, 55, 71, 73, 126, 130, 144. (1058ff)
12) Shakespeare: Othello. Read the first three Acts. 552-607.
13) Introduction: The Early Seventeenth Century: 1603-1660 (637)
14) John Donne: (666) The Flea, The Good Morrow, Song, The Sun Rising, A Nocturnal Upon St Lucie’s Day, The Apparition, The Ecstasy
15) Thomas Hobbes: from Leviathan 724-729
16) Katherine Phillips Upon the Double Murder of Charles I 747
17)Andrew Marvell An Horation Ode 757
Exam 2: MC and the translation:Based on above readings: The main big intros (two of them this time) , all author intros and all the literature itself. Be prepared to write a 'translation' of Shakespeare (approx 20-30 lines) from Othello.
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3. The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660-1785)
18) Introduction: 931-958
19) Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels: Chapter 5 1147.
20) Alexander Pope: starts on 1205, and ‘An Essay on Criticism’: Part Two only 1214-1221. Check out this for some help: http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/batewj/pope.htm
21) William Hogarth: ‘Marriage a la Mode’ 1275
22) Samuel Johnson: The Preface to Shakespeare 1340-1350
23) Frances Burney: A Masectomy 1379-1384
24) Thomas Gray: ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ 1396
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Exam 3: MC and the translation:Based on above readings: The main big intro , all author intros and all the literature itself. Be prepared to write a 'translation' of Pope (approx 20-30 lines)
Quizzes and Assignments
I have not put down detailed dates for the readings, but we will move so as to cover one third of the readings per month …The same goes for the exams, when we have finished one volume we can review and then have an exam. Please bring a basic scantron (882 kind) to each exam and a big bluebook.
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All exams will be done in class. All quizzes 60 points. (35 for m. c. questions and 15 for the translation) 10 points participation and 10 points full attendance. (i.e. 3 or less absences)
70+70+70+10+10 = 230
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Historical Contexts :
For a frame of Reference. You don't need to memorize dates.
Medieval
43 AD : Roman Invasion/Conquest
307-37: Constantine
450: Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britons
597: Conversion of A-S’s to Christianity.
731: Bede writing.
750: Beowulf.
787: Vikings attack
871-99: King Alfred.
1066: Norman Conquest by William I
1135: Monmouth writing
1095-1221: Crusades.
1152: Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine
1170: Murder of Becket
1215: Magna Carta
1304-21: Dante’s Divine Comedy
1327: Edward III
1337-1453: Black Death
1362: English used in Law and Parliament
1373: Gawain written.
1381: Peasant’s Revolt
1387: Chaucer writing The Canterbury Tales.
1415: Agincourt: Henry V defeats the French.
1431: English burn Joan of Arc in Rouen.
1476: Caxton.
1485: Earl of Richmond defeats Richard III and becomes Henry VII (Tudor).
Renaissance
1504: Mona Lisa painted
1509: Henry VIII
1517: German Reformation
1521: Pope Leo X names Henry VIII ‘Defender of the Faith’
1532-34: Henry VIII declares himself head of C of E. Elizabeth I born
1558: Elizabeth I becomes Queen (Tudor/Protestant).
1564: birth of Shakespeare.
1570: Pope excommunicates Elizabeth.
1584: Raleigh attempts to colonise Virginia.
1588: Spanish Armada.
1592: Donne’s writings circulating
1599: Globe Theatre opens
1603: death of Eliz. I, succession of James I (Stuarts)
1605: Gunpowder Plot.
1607: Jamestown, Virginia settled.
1625: death of James I, accession of Charles I.
1642: Civil War, theatres closed by Christians. (Puritans)
1649: Execution of Charles I by Christians (Puritans)
1660: Restoration of Charles II. (theatres re-opened)
Enlightenment
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1660: Pepys begins Diary
1665: Plague
1666: Fire of London
1667: Paradise Lost by Milton
1685: James II crowned
1688: William of Orange crowned
1702: Anne crowned.
1714: Death of Anne.
1716: Thomas Gray born.
1742: Walpole resigns
1757: Birth of Willam Blake
1760: George III
1760 : Tristram Shandy written.
1770: Birth of Beethoven
1775: American Revolution.
1780 : Gordon Riots in London
1783: William Pitt becomes Prime Minister
1789: Storming of the Bastille......French Revolution and Romanticism. (Now take English 6!)
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