ENGL 2122/Fall 2021/Schedule

From Gerald R. Lucas

This schedule represents the ideal outline for our study this semester. Yet, like all best-laid plans, we may not be able to keep up with our agenda. Please be flexible and try to look and read ahead whenever possible.

We will do our best to stick by this schedule, but I will inform you verbally, via an email, and/or a literal change to the schedule below whenever there is a deviation. Getting these updates is solely your responsibility. Therefore, this schedule is tentative and subject to change contingent upon the needs of the students and the professor, and dictated by time and other constraints which may affect the course. For face-to-face classes, this schedule reflects only an overview of the assigned reading and other major course assignments. It may not indicate specific class session assignments or activities. Specific in-class assignments may not be reflected on the schedule.

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Each week of this class has its own unit or lesson corresponding to a literary movement. Each week is divided into daily work that contain readings (with the occasional reading quiz) and writing. Each week concludes with a test on the materials covered. The following is a general overview of the schedule.

Daily Work

As this is a session course and time is limited, here’s how I recommend your proceed: work every day. Put aside at least an hour on every class day, and

  1. Read the primary texts (these are assigned below in individual class days) taking notes as you do, maybe highlighting passages that speak to you in some way;
  2. Take the reading quiz if there is one assigned;
  3. Read some secondary texts: i.e., do some research on at least one of the texts, being sure you understand the major themes, symbols, etc.;
  4. Take the short-answer quiz if there is one assigned;
  5. Write a response (see Writing) on what you think about the text(s), supporting it with evidence from both the primary and secondary texts. I give some suggestions below for potential responses, but these are really up to you. You should write a minimum of two posts per lesson (or week).[1] A day is set aside each week for your responses.

The idea here is that you engage with the course materials in a consistent way. Not all of it will speak to you, and that’s fine. However, you must actively engage the materials and show that engagement in your weekly work.

Schedule

Date Assignment
The Romantic Period
6 October
Friedrich, Two Men Contemplating the Moon
Introduction to Romanticism
  • Romanticism: Revolt of the Spirit
  • Editor’s Introduction, pp. 3–30[2]
  • Take Period Introduction Quiz
  • Respond: Based on your reading, identify the five most important characteristics that define the Romantic Age. Who are the major figures? Major works? What should readers look for in the work?
7 October
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William Blake
8 October
Ashford, Tintern Abbey
William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge
11 October Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • from A Vindication on the Rights of Women
  • Take Reading Quizzes
12 October Dorothy Wordsworth
13 October George Gordon, Lord Byron
14 October Percy Bysshe Shelley
15 October
Joseph Severn, Portrait of John Keats
John Keats
18 October Elizabeth Barrett Browning
19 October Write Your Response
The Victorian Period
20 October Introduction to Victorian Literature
  • Editor’s Introduction, pp. 527–551[3]
  • Take Period Introduction Quiz
  • Respond: Based on your reading, identify the five most important characteristics that define the Victorian Age. Who are the major figures? Major works? What should readers look for in the work?
21 October
Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • “God’s Grandeur” (Take Short-Answer Quiz)
  • “The Windhover”
22 October Robert Browning
Matthew Arnold
Christina Rossetti
25 October Oscar Wilde
  • The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Take Reading Quiz
26 October Write Your Response
The Twentieth and Twentieth-First Centuries
27 October Introduction to the Twentieth and Twentieth-First Centuries
  • Editor’s Introduction, pp. 1015–1042[4]
  • Take Period Introduction Quiz
  • Respond: Based on your reading, identify the five most important characteristics that define the the turn of the century’s trends in literature. Who are the major figures? Major works? What should readers look for in works of this period?
28 October Rudyard Kipling
  • “The Man Who Would Be King”
29 October E. M. Forster
James Joyce
  • “Araby”
  • Take Reading Quiz
1 November Rupert Brooke Siegfried Sassoon Wilfred Owen
  • “Anthem for a Doomed Youth”
  • Dulce Et Decorum Est” (Take Short-Answer Quiz)
  • “Apologia Pro Poemate Meo”
2 November Write Your Response
Modernism
3 November[5]
Hulewicz, Leda and the Swan (1928)
William Butler Yeats
4 November T. S. Eliot
5 November[6] W. H. Auden Dylan Thomas
8 November Virginia Woolf
  • “A Room of One’s Own”
9 November Write Your Response
World War II / Postmodernism
10 November Philip Larkin Seamus Heany
11 November Nadine Gordimer
  • “The Moment before the Gun Went Off”
12 November Katherine Mansfield
  • “The Garden Party”
  • Take Reading Quiz
15 November Salman Rushdie
  • “The Prophet’s Hair”
  • Take Reading Quiz
29 November Ishiguro
  • The Remains of the Day
  • Take Short-Answer Quiz
30 November Write Your Response; Short Lit Crit Response due



notes

  1. Remember, minimums will earn you the minimum passing grade.
  2. See D2L for an overview of the period.
  3. See D2L for an overview of the period.
  4. See D2L for an overview of the period.
  5. Midterm grades due.
  6. Withdrawal deadline.
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