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 2009
Dr. Richard Regan
Office hours: Mon 1-3, Thurs 1-3, and by appointment.
Texts: Editions of the works below are in the campus bookstore.
Electronic Sources: MLA Style of Citation
Texts:
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (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 12 - Introduction, The Research Paper
January 15 - Twelfth Night
CLICK to go to the class on the play.
January 19 - MLK holiday
January 22 - MLK Convocation
January 26 and 29 - Twelfth Night
CLICK to go to the class on the play.
"Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night": Contemporary Film and Classic British Theatre"
Research paper topics (Thursday)
February 2 - Antigone
Didaskalia: Introduction to Ancient Theater
Study Guide for Sophocles' Antigone
Thesis and Outline (Thursday)
February 5 - LIBRARY RESEARCH SESSION
February 9 - 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")
February 12 - Hamlet
Notes on Reserve Reading (Thursday)
February 17 - Hamlet
Tuesday
"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)"
February 19 - Hamlet
Revised Thesis, Outline, and 1st page (Thursday)
Ferbuary 23 - Hamlet
"Multiplicity of Meaning in the Last Moments of Hamlet"
"'Too Much in the Black Sun': Hamlet's First Soliloquy, A Kristevan View
February 26 - Introduction to The Crucible
Periodical Bibliography (Thursday)
SPRING HOLIDAYS
March 9 - The Crucible
American Literature on the Web: Arthur Miller
March 12 - Introduction to Hedda Gabler
RESEARCH PAPER DUE
March 16 - Hedda Gabler
From Ibsen's Notes on Hedda Gabler
"Hedda Gabler: Psychoanalysis and the Space of (the) Play"
March 19 - Introduction to Searching for Caleb (reading quiz)
March 23 - Searching for Caleb (reading quiz)
"Anne Tyler, Writer 8:05 to 3:30"
"Living Lessons: The Evolving Racial Norm in the Novels of Anne Tyler"
Drama paper topic (Monday)
March 26 - Poetry: An Introduction
March 30 and April 2 - Poetry: An Introduction
Website for Poetry: An Introduction
April 6 - Poetry: An Introduction
Drama Paper due
EASTER BREAK
April 16 - 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 20 and 23 - Poetry: An Introduction
April 27 and 30 - Song of Solomon (reading quiz)
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"
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