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  

MONDAY

WEDNESDAY

FRIDAY

 

 

Jan 12  Introductions

14  Joseph/Job

17  Holiday

19  Job; Homer, Iliad I

21  Iliad VI

24  Iliad VIII, IX

26  Iliad IX

28  Iliad XVI

31  Iliad XVIII

Feb 2  Iliad XXII

4  Iliad XXIV

7  Iliad catchup

9  Sappho lyrics; prep for exam

11  EXAM #1

14  Virgil, Aeneid I; Report: Punic Wars

16  Aeneid II

18 Aeneid IV; gender exercise

21  Holiday

23  Aeneid IV, VI

25  Aeneid VIII

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

7  Eliduc;  Dante, Inferno Cantos 1-3

9  Inferno Cantos 4-6

 

11  Inferno Cantos 11-16

REVIEW #1 DUE

springbreak

springbreak

springbreak

21  Inferno Cantos 23-26

23  Inferno Cantos 34-36; Paradiso final canto

25  Chaucer, Canterbury Tales General Prologue.  Report: Peasants’ Revolt

28  Canterbury Tales, Prologue to & The Miller’s Tale; Report: The Knight’s Tale

30  EXAM #2

 

 

EVENING: TONY HOAGLAND

Apr 1  NO CLASS

4  Canterbury Tales finished; intro to the Renaissance; Reports: Renaissance art & humanism

6  Petrarch, sonnets

8  Machiavelli, The Prince

11  The Prince

13  Shakespeare, Hamlet

15  Hamlet

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20  Hamlet

22  Hamlet 

 

25  Hamlet

27  Hamlet

29  Hamlet à la Branagh

 REVIEW #2 DUE

May 2  Hamlet à la Branagh

4  Hamlet

COMPREHENSIVE FINAL ESSAY DUE (no late papers)

6  Hamlet—the climax

 

 

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