Derek Jacobi as Claudius, Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet, Julie Christie as Gertrude
in Branagh's Hamlet (1996)
Derek Jacobi as Claudius, Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet, Julie Christie as Gertrude
in Branagh's Hamlet (1996)
En 12 Introduction to Literature
Spring 2007
Dr. Richard Regan
Office hours: Mon 1:30-3, Wed 1-3, Thurs 1:30-3, and by appointment.
Texts: Editions of the works below are in the campus bookstore.
Electronic Sources: MLA Style of Citation
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)
Poetry: An Introduction (5th edition), Michael Meyer (Bedford/St. Martin's)
Schedule:
January 18- Introduction, The Research Paper
January 22 - A Midsummer Night's Dream (campus cable 8 pm Ch.67 Sunday & Wednesday)
CLICK to go to the class on the play.
January 25 - MLK Convocation
January 29, February 1- A Midsummer Night's Dream (campus cable 8 pm Ch.67 Sunday and Wednesday)
The Works of the Bard: including a SEARCH engine
A Midsummer Night's Web and MOO
A Hypertext Version of A Midsummer Night's Dream
Research paper topics (Thursday)
February 5, 8- Antigone
Didaskalia: Introduction to Ancient Theater
Study Guide for Sophocles' Antigone
Thesis and Outline (Thursday)
February 12 - Library Research Session
February 15 - Hamlet
CLICK to go to the class on the play.
"An English Renaissance Understanding of the Word 'Tragedy'"
"Shakespeare and the Tragic Virtue"
Hamlet on the Ramparts (see "Films")
Notes on Reserve Reading (Thursday)
February 19 - Holiday
February 22 - Hamlet (Hamlet on campus cable 8 pm Ch.67
Tuesday and Wednesday)
"A Romance of Electronic Scholarship"
"Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: 'Reason of State' in Hamlet"
Who Knows Who Knows Who’s There? An Epistemology of Hamlet (Or, What Happens in the Mousetrap)
Revised Thesis, Outline, and 1st page
Ferbuary 26, March 1 - Hamlet (campus cable 8 pm Ch.67 Monday through Wednesday)
"Multiplicity of Meaning in the Last Moments of Hamlet"
"'Too Much in the Black Sun': Hamlet's First Soliloquy, A Kristevan View
Periodical Bibliography (Thursday)
March 5, 8- The Crucible
American Literature on the Web: Arthur Miller
RESEARCH PAPER DUE
March 19, 22 - Hedda Gabler
March 26, 29 - Searching for Caleb
"Anne Tyler, Writer 8:05 to 3:30"
Anne Tyler: A Critical Companion
Anne Tyler: A Bio-bibliography
"Living Lessons: The Evolving Racial Norm in the Novels of Anne Tyler"
Drama paper topic (Monday)
April 2- Poetry: An Introduction
Website for Poetry: An Introduction
EASTER BREAK
April 9- Holiday
April 12 - Poetry: An Introduction
April 16, 19 - Poetry: An Introduction
for Robert Frost:
Robert Frost Poems (on one easy page)
Selected Poetry of Robert Frost
Bartleby's Frost Collection (by book)
Frost reads his poems (audio in Real Player)
April 23 - Poetry: An Introduction
April 26 - Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon
"The South in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: Initiation, healing, and home"
"Anaconda love": parental enmeshment in Toni Morrison's 'Song of Solomon.'
"Dead letter office: conspiracy, trauma, and Song of Solomon's posthumous communication"
April 30 - Song of Solomon
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