En 12 Introduction to Literature

Spring 2002

Dr. Richard Regan

 

MLA Citation Examples

Electronic Sources: MLA Style of Citation

WWW Tutorial and Quiz (Nyselius Library)

 

Texts:

Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Signet Classic)

Shakespeare, Hamlet (Signet Classic)

Sophocles, Antigone (Chandler)

Ibsen, Hedda Gabler (Dover)

Miller, The Crucible (Penguin)

Morrison, Song of Solomon (Penguin - Plume)

Tyler, Searching for Caleb (Random House)

Introduction to Poetry, 7th ed., ed. Hunter (W.W.Norton)

Schedule:

January 17 - Introduction, The Research Paper

January 24 - A Midsummer Night's Dream

"...Petrarch and Pyramus in the Woods of Athens"

"Imaging the Children of Pan": an article at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival website

A Midsummer Night's Web and MOO

A Study Guide to A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Hypertext Version of A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Film Website

(campus cable 8pm Ch.68 Monday and Wednesday)

Jan.28,31 - A Midsummer Night's Dream

(campus cable 8pm Ch.68 Monday and Wednesday)

Research paper topics (Thursday)

February 4,7 - Antigone

Thesis and Outline (Thursday)

Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today

Antigone's Flaw

Antigone Resources

February 11,14 - Hamlet

(campus cable 8 pm Ch.54 Monday and Wednesday)

Notes on Reserve Reading (Monday)

A Short Course on Shakespeare's Hamlet

Lecture on Hamlet

"The Sublime or the Ridiculous: Hamlet in American Culture"

"The Mixture of High and Low Culture in Hamlet I,i: A Close Reading"

"Multiplicity of Meaning in the Last Moments of Hamlet"

February 18 - Holiday

(Hamlet on campus cable 8 pm Ch.68 Monday and Wednesday)

February 23 - Hamlet

Revised Thesis, Outline, and 1st page

February 25 - LIBRARY RESEARCH SESSION (REQUIRED)

(Hamlet oncampus cable 8 pm Ch.54 Sunday through Wednesday)

February 28 - Hamlet

Research Paper due

SPRING HOLIDAYS

Special Assignment: see Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1

March 11,14 - The Crucible

Arthur Miller

American Literature on the Web: Arthur Miller

"Arthur Miller and his The Crucible"

"The Crucible and the Classroom: An Examination of Arthur Miller's Technique of Dealing with the Devil"

Spring Holidays

March 18,21 - Hedda Gabler

Henrik Ibsen Linkpage

Hedda Gabler: Production History

Hedda Gabler: Perspectives

"Suicide and Ibsen's Hedda Gabler" (.pdf file)

From Ibsen's Notes on Hedda Gabler

"Hedda Gabler: Psychoanalysis and the Space of (the) Play"

March 25 - Searching for Caleb (reading quiz)

Review of Searching for Caleb

"Anne Tyler, Writer 8:05 to 3:30"

Drama paper topic

EASTER HOLIDAYS

 

April 4 - Introduction to Poetry

Poetry Daily

April 8,11 - Introduction to Poetry

Drama Paper due (Monday)

April 15,18 - Introduction to Poetry

April 22,25 - Introduction to Poetry

for Robert Frost:

The Robert Frost Web Page

Robert Frost Poems (on one easy page)

Selected Poetry of Robert Frost

Index of Poets

Bartleby's Frost Collection (by book)

Frost reads his poems (audio-Real Player download)

April 29,30 - Song of Solomon (reading quiz)

A Toni Morrison Page

FINAL EXAM: Tuesday, May 7 at 9

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