Courses
2008 . Second Semester
     
  Anglo-American Literature and the Monster


Schedule

Aug 11 In the beginning Theoretical points; Enuma Elish & the Bible
18 The Middle Ages "The General Prologue” from Canterbury Tales (Chaucer); City of God (Augustine); On the Generation of Animals (Aristotle); Beowulf (Heaney tr.)
25 The Elizabethan Period "A Passionate Shepherd to His Love" (Marlowe) & "Her Reply" (Raleigh); “Of Cannibals” (Montaigne)
Sept 1   The Tempest (Shakespeare); Novum Organum (Bacon)
8   Theory
15 The 17th Century Paradise Lost (Milton)
22 The 18th Century Gulliver's Travel (Swift)
29 Romanticism Philosophical Inquiry into … the Sublime (Burke); Frankenstein (Shelley)
Oct 6   Reading day
13   Reading day
20 Sevfale Attendance required
27 Funcionário Público No class
Nov 3 The Victorian Era Primitive Culture (Tylor); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson) – Paper due
10 The 20th Century: Modernism The Waste Land (Eliot); "Little Red Riding Hood" (Garner); Grendel (Gardner) – Paper due
17 The 20th Century: Post-Modernism Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Dick)
24 The 20th Century: Post-Modernism Geek Love (Dunn); "Tyranny of the Normal" (Fiedler)
Dec 1 The 20th Century: Post-Post-Modernism The Silence of the Lambs (Harris); back to theory

Updated 27-nov-08


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