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Note: details may change. Rev. 12/10/11
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Peter Berek Office Hours: 15 Johnson Chapel, Thursday 2-4 and by appointment. Phone: Home, (413) 253-9166. Johnson Chapel office, (413) 542-5408 E-mail pberek@mtholyoke.edu or pberek61@amherst.edu |
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Note: Our syllabus will evolve as the semester progresses. The on-line “Readings and Schedule” on which you will come to rely will initially serve as a prediction of where the class will go and eventually become a record of where we have been. Assignments are subject to change, and will certainly grow more specific. We will read and discuss all the works listed below and you will write about ten papers—most of them a page or two long, but with some longer papers (3-5 pages) toward the end of the semester. Due dates for papers may change. But you can rely on ample notice of any changes and on my consulting with the class about any substantial modification to the schedule. |
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Sept 5 |
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Housman, "Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries"; Auden, "Epitaph on a Tyrant"; Ralegh, "Epitaph on the Earl of Leicester" (Rattle Bag, 142-143); MacDiarmid, "Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries" (Rattle Bag, 35) Also on handout. |
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Sept 12 |
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Housman, "Loveliest of Trees" (253), Larkin, "Cut Grass (119); Beddoes, "The Crocodile" (114-115); Wordsworth, "Crossing the Alps" (115); Plath, "Crossing the Water" ((117). |
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Plath, "Among the Narcissi" (28); Auden, "As I Walked Out One Evening" (39); Hopkins, "As Kingfishers Catch Fire" (41); Bishop, "The Fish" (153).
Paper due at start of class. |
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Sept 19 |
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Donne, "The Sun Rising" (handout); O'Hara, "A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island" (438-440); Auden, "Stop All the Clocks" (406). |
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Sonnets on handout: Sidney, "Who will in fairest book of nature know" (Astrophil and Stella, 71); Shakespeare, "Not marble nor the gilded monuments"; Donne, "At the round earth's imagined corners" (Holy Sonnet 7); Milton, on the Late Massacre at Piedmont"; Drayton, "Since there's no help" (390).
Paper due Thursday, 4 PM, instructor's mailbox. |
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Sept 26 |
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Lowell, "Alfred Corning Clark" (24); Bishop, "The Bight" (76); Blake, "Auguries of Innocence" (47); Bishop, "The Sandpiper" (363). |
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Betjeman, "Death in Leamington" (123); Jarrell, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" (125); Frost, "Desert Places"(125); Byron, "The Destruction of Sennacherib" (126). Paper due Thursday, 4 PM, instructor's mailbox. |
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Oct 3 |
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Wordsworth, "Boat Stealing" (83), "Crossing the Alps" (115), "One Christmas-time" (327), "Nutting" (314), "There was a boy" (419), "Was it for this" (456). |
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Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale" (316), "To Autumn" (434). Paper due Thursday, 4 PM, instructor's mailbox. |
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Oct 10 |
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[Sat-Tuesday Fall Break] View King Lear, McKellen version, before Wednesday Oct. 12 (e-reserve) |
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No class--Fall Break |
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King Lear
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Oct 17 |
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King Lear Paper due at start of class. |
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King Lear Screening, King Lear, dir. Grigori Kozintsev, 1969. 140 minutes. 7 PM, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather. |
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Oct 24 |
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King Lear
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Sarah Ruhl, Eurydice. |
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Oct 31 |
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Eurydice |
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Forster, Howards End, through p. 91. Paper due Friday, 5 PM, instructor's mailbox. |
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Nov 7 |
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Howards End, through page 198. |
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Howards End, complete.
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Nov 14 |
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Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad. Read Part A, through p. 108. If short of time, read first three chapters, through p. 58. Bring to class both Goon Squad and Howards End. |
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A Visit from the Goon Squad, complete. Paper due Friday, 5 PM, instructor's mailbox. |
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Nov 21 |
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Thanksgiving Recess, Sat Nov 19-Sun Nov 27 |
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Nov 28 |
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A Visit from the Goon Squad |
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Tuesday, November 29, 8 PM, Cole Assembly Room, Converse--Jennifer Egan reading. |
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Naipaul, Between Father and Son (through page 198)
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Dec 5 |
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Between Father and Son (through page 198) |
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Dean Young, Fall Higher Paper due Thursday, 4 PM, instructor's mailbox. |
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Dec 12 |
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Fall Higher |
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Fall Higher Paper due 5 PM, instructor's mailbox. |
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Classes End Wednesday, Dec 14 No Final Exam |
Submitted by Peter Berek
on Saturday, 12/10/2011, at 4:18 PM