English 45A
Literature in English: Through Milton
| Section | Semester | Instructor | Time | Location | Course Areas |
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| 1 | Fall 2012 | Landreth, David
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MW 2-3 + discussion sections F 2-3 | 213 Wheeler |
Book List
Chaucer, Geoffrey: Canterbury Tales; Donne, John: Complete Poems; Marlowe, Christopher: Doctor Faustus; Milton, John: Paradise Lost; Spenser, Edmund: Edmund Spenser's Poetry
Description
This class introduces students to the production of poetic narrative in English through the close study of major works in that tradition: the Canterbury Tales, The Faerie Queene, Doctor Faustus, Donne's lyrics, and Paradise Lost. Each of these texts reflects differently on the ambition of poetry to encompass the range of a culture’s experience. We will focus particularly on the relationships of different genres to different kinds of knowledge, to see how different ways of expressing things make possible new things to express, as English culture and English poetry transform each other from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries.
Please note that this class will first meet on Monday, August 27; discussion sections will not start being held until Friday, August 31.
Discussion Sections
| 101 | Weiner, Joshua J
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F 2-3 | 174 Barrows |
| 102 | Wyatt, Gabriella
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F 2-3 | 136 Barrows |
Other Recent Sections of This Course
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spring, 2022 |
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fall, 2021 |
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spring, 2021 |
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