Dr. Micheal Crafton Phone: 770-836-6512 Home page: http://www.westga.edu/~mcraftonmcrafton@westga.edu

Office: TLC 2-225 and Bonner House  Office Hours: T, Th 9-11 in TLC 225 Bonner House M,W,F 9-49-11 in TLC 225Email:

 
 
 
 

Course description: A survey of importaant works of British literature. Required for English majors. May count for credit in Area C.2. Prerequisites: ENGL 1101 and ENGL 1102

Course requirements: 1. Daily attendance, preparation, and production of class assignments. 2. Mid-term and final exams. 3. Two short essays. For more information on the assignments, see below.

REQUIRED TEXTS:  The Norton Anthology of English Literature. The Major Authors. Ed. M.H. Abrams et al. 7th ed. New York: Norton, 2001. A Glossary of Literary Terms. M. H. Abrams. Boston: Heinle, 1999.

 

Daily Assignments: Entries in bold are to be found in A Glossary of Literary Terms everything else in the anthology.

T1-7Introduction to class and syllabus; overview of literary periods, periods of English Language Periods of English Literature 210 Canon of Literature 28

TH1-9Anglo-Saxon history; Caedmon's Hymn and “Dream of the Rood” Dream Allegory; Dream Vision 72 Accentual-Syllabic Meter 160 Alliteration 8

T1-14Beowulf (half). Heroic Poetry 76 Kenning 99

TH1-16Beowulf (finish) Bildungsroman 193

T1-21Introduction to Middle English and Medieval Romance: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace, Laymaon, “Lanval” Anglo-Norman Period 211 Medieval Romance 34; Troubadour 48 Breton lay 139; Lai 139

TH1-23Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Middle English Period 211 Courtly love 48; Platonic Love 223 Gothic 110; Interpretation: Typological and Allegorical 132; Alliterative Revival 8

T1-28Chaucer: General Prologue to Canterbury Tales and begin the Wife of Bath’s Prologue Frame Story 287 Verbal irony 135; Satire 275 Style 303

TH1-30Chaucer: Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale Point of View 213

T2-4Introduction to Renaissance: Wyatt, Surrey, Bible, Sonnets of Sidney, Spencer, and Shakespeare Sir Thomas Wyatt  The long love that in my thought doth harbor 340  Whose list to hunt 340  They flee from me 341  Earl of Surrey  Love, that doth reign and live within my thought 344  English Bible  345-347  Spenser  Sonnet 1 430  Sonnet 34 430  Sonnet 54 430  Sydney  Sonnet 1 446  Sonnet 2 446  Sonnet 31 448  Shakespeare  Sonnet 3 495  Sonet 15 496  Sonet 18 496  Sonnet 116 503  Sonnet 129 504  Sonnet 130 504  Sonnet 135 504  Sonnet 138 504  The quiz may ask you to connect the medieval ideas of courtly love with  ideas and images in these poems.  Renaissance 212; Renaissance 264; Petrarchan conceit 42 Sonnet 290; Sonnet cycle 291; Sonnet sequence 291 Christian humanism 117

TH2-6Fairie Queene Book I, Canto 1; Pastoral: Raleigh and Marlowe.(Paper # 1 due) Utopia 327; Allegory 5 Pastoral 202; Allusion 9 Archaism 12; Spenserian stanza 296

T2-11Shakespeare 1 HENRY IV (Acts 1,2 and 3) Chronicle Plays 36; Chronicles 37 Comic Relief41

TH2-13Shakespeare 1 HENRY IV (Acts 4 and 5) Alazon 297; Blank verse 24 Tragic hero 320

T2-18Early Seventeenth Century: Drayton, Donne, Marvell, Jonson, Herbert, Lanyer Donne – “The Flea” “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” Holy Sonnets # 10, and # 14 Drayton—Sonne # 61 Marvell – “To His Coy Mistress”“The Garden” Jonson – “Inviting a Friend to Supper” “Song: To Celia” “To the Memory of Shakespeare” Herbert – “Alter” “Pulley” “Love # 3” Lanyer – “Eve’s Apology” Metaphysical poets 158; Metaphysical conceit 42 Cavalier poets 213; Carpe diem 31

TH2-20Milton, “Lycidas” and Paradise Lost Books I Trickster 7; Pastoral elegy 72 Epic 76

T2-25Paradise Lost Books 3,4,9, and 12 Tragic hero 320 Ptolemaic Universe 266; Baroque 20

TH2-27Paradise Lost Continued

T3-4**** Mid-Term Exam ****

TH3-6 Intro to Restoration and the 18th Century; Dryden, "Why Should a Foolish Marriage Vow," "Whilst Alexis Lay Pressed," "MacFlecknoe," The Excerpts from the essays; Lady Montague. Neoclassical and Romantic 174 Wit 330; Restoration 213; Restoration comedy 39 Satire 275; Irony 134 Art Slide Show

T3-11 Pope, Rape of the Lock; Swift, "A Modest Proposal" and “A Description of a City Shower” Optional Reading: Fanny Burney pages 1302-1303; and Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary 1253-1254 Neoclassic Period 213 Zeugma 272; Vers de société 140 Mock epic 27; Neoclassic 174; Decorum 61

TH3-13Aphra Behn; Olaudah Equiano “The Middle Passage”1292; Samuel Johnson, “A Brief to Free a Slave” Novel 75; Narrative 173 Enlightenment190; Great Chain of Being 112

T3-18Spring break, no classes

TH3-20 Spring break, no classes

T3-25 Intro Romanticism: Blake, Selected Songs and Marriage of Heaven and Hell Myth 170; Romantic Period215; Romantic 177 Symbol 311; Lyric 146 Sublime 308

TH3-27 Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (skim), shorter poems (1427-1431), "Tintern Abbey" (1432),"Immortality Ode" (1479) Ballad 18 Ode 190

T4-1Coleridge “Kubla Khan,” “Christabel,” The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Gothic 110, 111 Fancy and Imagination 87

TH4-3 Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "La Belle Dame"; Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind," "Hymm to Intellectual Beauty" and "Mont Blanc." Negative Capability 174; Synesthesia 315 Art Slides Objective and subjective 196

T4-8Introduction of Victorian Period; E. B. Browning “Sonnets from the Portuguese”; Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott," “Lotus Eaters,” "Ulysses," “The Passing of Arthur” Victorianism 329 Victorian Period 215

TH4-10Browning "My Last Duchess," "Porphyria's Lover," "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's"; Arnold, "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse," "Dover Beach" Dramatic Monologue 70

T4-15 Wilde page 2176 Preface to Picture of Dorian Gray; and Hopkins “Spring and Fall” “Pied Beauty” “Windhover” “No worse, There is None”; Christina Rosetti “Goblin Market” and Pre-Raphaelites (Paper # 2 due) Art for art's sake 3; Aestheticism 3 Sprungrhythm 164; Pre-Raphaelites 243 Web Lecture:First take a quiz; Click here and then follow the yellow brick road.

TH4-17 Intro to Modern Period; Hardy, "Hap," "The Darkling Thrush," "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?”; Yeats "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "Easter 1916" "The Second Coming," "Sailing to Byzantium," "Leda and the Swan," "Byzantium"; Lawrence, "Snake." Edwardian Period 216; Modern Period 216 Celtic Revival 32; Realism and Naturalism 260

T4-22 Eliot, The Waste Land; Joyce “Proteus” Summary of Waste Land Summary of Proteus Cartoon of Ulysses Modernism Links Picasso Modernism 167; Objective correlative 197 Dissociation of sensibility 67; Epiphany 80; Stream of Consciousness

TH4-24Last Day of Class: .Thomas "The Fuse"; Auden "Musse de Beaux Arts"; Larkin "Aubade"; Heaney “Digging” “Skunk”, Walcott from Omeros Absurd 1 Postcolonial 236; Modernism and Postmodernism 167

FINALTuesday, May 6th, 11:00-1:00

 

Learning Outcomes: ·Students will develop the ability to recognize and identify significant achievements in British literature. ·Students will understand the relevant social, historical, and aesthetic contexts of these literary works. ·Students will appreciate the implications of theoretical and critical approaches to such literature. ·Students will develop enhanced cultural awareness and analytical skills. ·Students will demonstrate their command of academic English and of the tenets of sound composition by means of thesis-driven analytical prose.

Relationship of course goals to program goals: This course fulfills the Area C.2 requirement in the core for all students. This course fulfills the Area C (Humanities/Arts) Learning Outcomes: qTo develop the ability to recognize and identify achievements in literary, fine and performing arts; qTo have an appreciation of the nature and achievements of the arts and humanities; and qTo develop the ability to apply, understand, and appreciate the application of aesthetics criteria to “real world circumstances. This course fulfills an Area F requirement for English majors (all tracks) in the core. This course fulfills one of the core-level language arts requirements for Middle Grades Education majors.  This course contributes to the program goal of equipping students with a foundation in literary history and the issues surrounding literary study in contemporary culture. This course broadens students' desire and ability to take pleasure in their encounter with literature.

Additional Course Specifications: nThe course will cover British literary history from Old English to contemporary texts. nThe course will include significant canonical figures, including Chaucer and Shakespeare, and significant literary movements with emphasis on texts which have been influential in the construction of subsequent literature. All syllabi should include major figures for each literary period. nThe course will include a diversity of genres, with attention to the notable achievements within each literary period (e.g. medieval romance, Renaissance drama, 17th century poetry, 18th century satire, Romantic poetry, Victorian fiction, modern poetry/fiction).  nMLA style documentation should be emphasized and required on the out of class essays.

 
 

EVALUATION AND GRADING PROCEDURES: The students' understanding and achievement of the learning objectives will be measured by three objective exams, two out-of-class essays, daily quizzes and in-class discussion.

Participation: The in-class discussion and quizzes will measure the students' daily effort and working comprehension of the material and ability to manipulate that comprehension in extemporaneous discussion.  A special in-class student group presentation is required for this class, the details of which are found here.Group Presentation on Literary History

Objective Exams: The objective exams will measure the students' ability to read and analyze quotations from the literature covered in the course and their ability to formulate paragraph-sized responses to general questions on material covered in class. To prepare for these exams, you should during class mark (in your book or otherwise) all passages that we go over (either by reading the passage or merely referring to it).You should also take clear notes on background materials and on the general themes and interpretations of passages and works. For more information on taking these exams, how to prepare for them, and how to write them, go to this web page.

Out of class essays: The essays will measure the students' ability to develop a much more extended and detailed reading of a piece of literature. Each out of class essay will consist of a two to three-page typed essay (one-inch margins, 12 pt font) that allows the student to respond to a selection or selections of literature in a personal and analytical fashion. For topics and advice on writing this essay, including a sample essay, go to this web page. (This web site is designed largely for a world literature class; the British literature part is still in progress.)

 

CLASS POLICIES

Attendance: You are expected to read the selections carefully, repeatedly and lovingly before coming to class each day. Just because you miss a day or the class does not meet does not excuse you from the reading. The reading is the most important part of the course. Since this class meets only twice a week, attendance is all the more important. Attendance should be understood as more than merely occupying space in a passive manner; rather, it should be understand as a productive act. In fact, it should be considered a production in the way that creating a paper or report is considered as a production. In order to get full credit, your presence must be known, and it must be known as that of a prepared student working to make the class an event of learning, of intellectual and artistic exchange.

Late Work: Generally, my policy for unexcused late work is that it loses a letter grade for every day it is late. There are, of course, extenuating circumstances, but these need to be made and made well. All make-up work for absences must be arranged prior to class date for said work.

Plagiarism: Intentional plagiarism, that is, the conscious adoption of someone else's writing or ideas as your own, is a profanation of everything I hold important. If a student is clearly guilty of this, the result will be an F for the class and a report to the disciplinary officials of the University.

GRADES: 30% Mid-term exam 35% Final exam 10% Essay number one 15% Essay number two 10%Participation (Quizzes, Attendance, Presentations)