Section | Semester | Instructor | Time | Location | Course Areas |
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1 | Fall 2021 | Goodman, Kevis
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MW 12-1 + one hour of discussion | 3 Physics Building |
This course offers an introduction to English literary history from the late fourteenth to the later seventeenth centuries. Three long epics or epic-romances—Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, and John Milton’s Paradise Lost—will be our main texts, but we will also look at selected shorter Renaissance lyrics. In addition to the historical and formal issues specific to each poem, topics for discussion will include: changes within the English language; tensions between experience and received authorities (literary, religious, or political); poets’ readings of their predecessors; challenges to didacticism posed by playful literary form; competing ideas about gender; shifting definitions of place and personhood; and quests of various kinds. Along the way, we will probe the uses and implications of a range of literary genres, modes, and forms (epic, romance, lyric, allegory, irony, and others).
We will be using these specific editions of our three main texts. Shorter works will be available in a Course Reader (electronic and hard copies will be available).
102 | Zodrow, Kristin
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Friday 12-1 | 122 Wheeler |
103 | Zodrow, Kristin
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Friday 10-11 | 122 Wheeler |
105 | Funderburg, Katie
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Thursday 11-12 | 233 Dwinelle |
106 | Funderburg, Katie
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Thursday 1-2 | 55 Evans |
fall, 2022 |
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45A/1 |
spring, 2022 |
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45A/1 |
spring, 2021 |
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45A/1 |
fall, 2020 |
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45A/1 |
spring, 2020 |
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45A/1 |