SYLLABUS 257 SPRING 2005
JOY PASSANANTE / BRINK 203 / 882-1038 (Home office); 885-7128 (Brink office)
joy@uidaho.edu / http://www.class.uidaho.edu/joy / http://www.class.uidaho.edu/eng257jp
ASSISTANT: NATE LOWE lowe6984@uidaho.edu
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MONDAY |
WEDNESDAY |
FRIDAY
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Jan 12 Introductions |
14 Joseph/Job |
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17 Holiday |
19 Job; Homer, Iliad I |
21 Iliad VI |
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24 Iliad VIII, IX |
26 Iliad IX |
28 Iliad XVI |
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31 Iliad XVIII |
Feb 2 Iliad XXII |
4 Iliad XXIV |
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7 Iliad catchup |
9 Sappho lyrics; prep for exam |
11 EXAM #1 |
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14 Virgil, Aeneid I; Report: Punic Wars |
16 Aeneid II |
18 Aeneid IV; gender exercise |
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21 Holiday |
23 Aeneid IV, VI |
25 Aeneid VIII |
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28 Aeneid; intro to Middle Ages; Report: Feudalism |
Mar 2 Marie de France, Eliduc (Fowles translation on line); Report: courtly love. EVENING: D.J. DUNCAN |
4 Eliduc |
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7 Eliduc; Dante, Inferno Cantos 1-3 |
9 Inferno Cantos 4-6
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11 Inferno Cantos 11-16 REVIEW #1 DUE |
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springbreak |
springbreak |
springbreak |
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21 Inferno Cantos 23-26 |
23 Inferno Cantos 34-36; Paradiso final canto |
25 Chaucer, Canterbury Tales General Prologue. Report: Peasants’ Revolt |
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28 Canterbury Tales, Prologue to & The Miller’s Tale; Report: The Knight’s Tale |
30 EXAM #2
EVENING: TONY HOAGLAND |
Apr 1 NO CLASS |
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4 Canterbury Tales finished; intro to the Renaissance; Reports: Renaissance art & humanism |
6 Petrarch, sonnets |
8 Machiavelli, The Prince |
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11 The Prince |
13 Shakespeare, Hamlet |
15 Hamlet |
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20 Hamlet |
22 Hamlet
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25 Hamlet |
27 Hamlet |
29 Hamlet à la Branagh REVIEW #2 DUE |
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May 2 Hamlet à la Branagh |
4 Hamlet COMPREHENSIVE FINAL ESSAY DUE (no late papers) |
6 Hamlet—the climax
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Final exams: 10:30 class = FRIDAY, 13 MAY, 10-12
11:30 class = WEDNESDAY, 11. MAY, 10-12
DEPARTMENT-SPONSORED READINGS
Wednesday March 2: David James Duncan (nonfiction)
Wednesday March 30: Tony Hoagland (poetry)
UI Theatre & Film production of Macbeth:
April 21-23 and
April 27-30 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, April 24 & May 1 at 2 pm