Semester Schedule

English 303, Fall 2001

 

Note revisions, Wed., Nov. 7
Derek Walcott rescheduled for Thursday, October 18--mark your calendars!

Aug. 29  Course Introduction Aug. 31

begin Brontë, Jane Eyre

see some pictures here

Sep. 5 Jane Eyre, cont. Sep. 7 finish Jane Eyre
Sep. 12

finish Jane Eyre, some more

Derek Walcott's reading tonight has been cancelled

Sep. 14

class cancelled for National Day of Remembrance

letter to my students

Sep. 19 Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott," "The Lotos-Eaters," "Ulysses" (Norton 2B 1204-1214) Sep. 21 Tennyson, selections from In Memoriam (Norton 2B 1230-1280). Focus especially on sections 54-56, 93-96, and 120-124.
Sep. 26

R. Browning, "Andrea del Sarto" (Norton 2B 1385-1390) and "Caliban Upon Setebos" (Norton 2B 1402-1409)

explication essay due

Sep. 28 M. Arnold, "To Marguerite--Continued" and "Dover Beach" (Norton 2B 1479-80 1492-3)
Oct. 3

C. Rossetti, "Goblin Market" (Norton 2B 1589-1601)

see study questions here

see the PRB slide show here (originally developed for English 315, Victorian Literature)

also take a look at "In an Artist's Studio"

Oct. 5

Pater, Selections from The Renaissance (Norton 2B 1638-1644)

G.M. Hopkins, ""God's Grandeur," "Spring," "Carrion Comfort," "No Worse, There is None," "Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord" (Norton 2B 1651-1658)

Hopkins/Pater notes here

Oct. 10 Kipling, "The Widow at Windsor," "Danny Deever," "Recessional," "Hyenas" (Norton 2B 1888-1893) Oct. 12 Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Norton 2C 1957-2017)
Oct. 17

Yeats, "Easter 1916," "Sailing to Byzantium," "Leda and the Swan," "The Second Coming" (Norton 2C 2085ff)

email paper ideas to me

Attend Derek Walcott's reading tomorrow night, Oct. 18

Oct. 19

class cancelled; instructor at professional meeting

Yeats, "Among School Children," "Lapis Lazuli," The Circus Animals' Desertion" (Norton 2C 2085ff)

Oct. 24

T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (Norton 2C 2364-2367)

first analytical paper due

Attend J. M. Coetzee's reading tomorrow night, Oct. 25

Oct. 26 T. S. Eliot, "The Waste Land" (Norton 2C 2368-2383)
Oct. 31 Woolf, To the Lighthouse Nov. 2 To the Lighthouse, cont.
Nov. 7 finish To the Lighthouse Nov. 9 W.H. Auden, "Musée des Beaux Arts," "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" (Norton 2C 2501ff)
Nov. 14

Heaney, Boland: Selections in Norton 2C, 2818-2829, 2834-2837

Read Heaney's Nobel lecture here; hear him read here and hear Boland read here

Nov. 16

Walcott, selections in Norton 2C 2580-2587 and Nobel lecture

email paper ideas to me by Monday, 11/19

Nov. 21 THANKSGIVING BREAK Nov. 23 THANKSGIVING BREAK
Nov. 28 Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians Nov. 30

finish Waiting for the Barbarians

second analytical paper due

Dec. 5 Freud, Hideous Kinky Dec. 7

finish Hideous Kinky

Review for final

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