World Literature Two • Spring 2021
World Literature Two
Spring 2021
Material for Exam 1.3
World Literature Two • Spring 2021
How We Became Modern
CRN 13600 • ENGL 2112 • Section AA
Mo., We., Fr. • 8:00 am Sharp - 8:50 am
Classroom: IAB 1020, Statesboro Campus
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Message #1.A (1/11/2021): Course Syllabus
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Important Dates
¶ Mo., Jan. 11 • First day of class
¶ Th., Jan. 14 • Drop/add period ends
¶ Mo., Jan. 18 • Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday: no class
¶ Fr., Feb. 12 • Exam 1.3
¶ Mo., Mar. 8 • Last day to drop class without academic penalty
¶ Mo., Mar. 15 - Fr., Mar. 19 • Spring Break 2021: no classes
¶ Fr., Mar. 26 • Exam 2.3
¶ Fr., Apr. 30 • Final day of class
¶ Mo., May 3 (7:30 am - 9:30 am) • Exam 3.3
Grading
¶ 28.5% for Write Now homework exercises (19 exercises worth up to 1.5% each)
¶ 22.5% for Exam 1.3
¶ 24.5% for Exam 2.3
¶ 24.5% for Exam 3.3
Each exam contains at least 50 multiple-choice questions, closely based on the lecture notes provided via this webpage
Relationship between lecture material and the course’s three exams —
Emergency Provision
Should the university suspend live classroom instruction due to an emergency, such as a hurricane or a Covid-19 spike, this course will continue, transitioning immediately to a fully online scenario • Lectures will be delivered online, and no changes will be made to the schedule • Write Now (i.e. homework) deadlines and examinations will stay the same as articulated on the first day of the semester
World Literature Two • Fall 2020
Material for Exam 1.3
Mo., Jan. 11 through Fr., Feb. 12
CRN 13600 • ENGL 2112 • Section AA
Mo., We., Fr. • 8:00 am Sharp - 8:50 am
Classroom: IAB 1020, Statesboro Campus
Write Now homework exercises are due online before 11:30 pm (Eastern time) on selected Tuesdays and Thursdays. Late submissions are not possible. Failure to submit a given exercise prior to the deadline results in a grade of zero for the exercise.
Week 1
READ
No mandatory texts for this week as we ease into the new semester
LECTURE
Over three lectures, we cover Introduction 1.2 and Introduction 2.2 • Use the forgoing written notes (Introduction 1.2 and Introduction 2.2) as your PRIMARY means of absorbing the lecture content and preparing for Exam 1.3 • You should also experience the lectures as audio files, which follow immediately below
WRITE NOW (HOMEWORK)
No Write Now (written homework) exercise due in Week 1
OPTIONAL EXTRA
Week 3
READ \ WATCH
Our mandatory texts for this week are Phase One of Voltaire’s Candide; or, Optimism (1759) and Phase Two of Voltaire’s Candide; or Optimism, plus the short School of Life video-biography about Voltaire • Voltaire was the pen-name adopted by François-Marie Arouet
LECTURE
Over three classroom sessions, we cover the lecture material called Voltaire 1.4 and the lecture material called Voltaire 2.4 • Use the forgoing written notes (Voltaire 1.4 and Voltaire 2.4) as your PRIMARY means of absorbing the lecture content and preparing for Exam 1.3 • You should also experience the lectures as audio files, which follow immediately below
WRITE NOW (HOMEWORK)
Two Write Now exercises due (online delivery) during Week 2: Voltaire WN 1.4 (about Phase One of Voltaire’s Candide) before 11:30 pm on Tu., Jan. 26; and Voltaire WN 2.4 (about Phase Two of Voltaire’s Candide) before 11:30 pm on Th., Jan. 28 • Delivery window closes at the time and date indicated; no late work accepted • You can download and print the questions via the blue links (below); you need to answer and submit the questions on the Top Hat interface associated with this course
Week 4
READ \ LISTEN
Our mandatory texts for this week are Phase Three of Voltaire’s Candide; or, Optimism (1759) and Phase Four of Voltaire’s Candide; or, Optimism, plus the episode about Voltaire’s Candide from the BBC Radio 4 program In Our Time • Phase Four is a short, Voltaire-focused essay, written by Adam Gopnik and first published in The New Yorker magazine in 2005 (essentially as a review of several books by and about Voltaire) • From 2012, the radio discussion is moderated by Melvin Bragg and features three scholars: David Wootton (Anniversary Professor of History, University of York); Nicholas Cronk (Professor of French Literature and Director of the Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford); and Caroline Warman (Lecturer in French and Fellow of Jesus College, University of Oxford)
LECTURE
Over three classroom sessions, we cover the lecture material called Voltaire 3.4 and the lecture material called Voltaire 4.4 • Use the forgoing written notes (Voltaire 3.4 and Voltaire 4.4) as your PRIMARY means of absorbing the lecture content and preparing for Exam 1.3 • You should also experience the lectures as audio files, which will follow immediately below
WRITE NOW (HOMEWORK)
Two Write Now exercises due (online delivery) during Week 3: Voltaire WN 3.4 (about Phase Three of Voltaire’s Candide) before 11:30 pm on Tu., Feb. 2; and Voltaire WN 4.4 (about Phase Four of Voltaire’s Candide, plus BBC radio discussion) before 11:30 pm on Th., Feb. 4 • Delivery window closes at the time and date indicated; no late work accepted • You can download and print the questions via the blue links (below); you need to answer and submit the questions on the Top Hat interface associated with this course
Week 2
READ
Our mandatory text for this week (shortened because of MLK Dat) is Matsuo Bashō’s Narrow Road to the Deep North (c. 1694; first published posthumously in 1702) • In the original Japanese, it is known as Oku no Hosomichi
LECTURE
Over two classroom sessions, we cover the lecture material called Bashō • Use the forgoing written notes (Bashō) as your PRIMARY means of absorbing the lecture content and preparing for Exam 1.3 • You should also experience the lectures as audio files, which follow immediately below
WRITE NOW (HOMEWORK)
One Write Now exercise due (online delivery) during Week 4: Bashō WN before 11:30 pm on Th., Jan. 21 • Delivery window closes at the time and date indicated; no late work accepted • You can download and print the questions via the blue link (below); you need to answer and submit the questions on the Top Hat interface associated with this course
Week 5
Concludes with Exam 1.3
READ
Our mandatory texts for this week are Phase One of Part 4 of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726) and Phase Two of Part 4 of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels • The text is also known as Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts by Lemuel Gulliver • The fourth and final part is titled A Voyage to the Land of the Houyhnhnms, and it claims to cover the period between September 7, 1710, and December 5, 1715
LECTURE
Over two classroom sessions, we cover the lecture material called Swift 1.2 and Swift 2.2 • Use the forgoing written notes (Swift 1.2 and Swift 2.2) as your PRIMARY means of absorbing the lecture content and preparing for Exam 1.3 • You should also experience the lectures as audio files, which follow immediately below
WRITE NOW (HOMEWORK)
Two Write Now exercises due (online delivery) during Week 5: Swift WN 1.2 before 11:30 pm on Tu., Feb. 9; and Swift WN 2.2 before 11:30 pm on Th., Feb. 11 • Delivery window closes at the time and date indicated; no late work accepted • You can download and print the questions via the blue links (below); you need to answer and submit the questions on the Top Hat interface associated with this course
Exam 1.3 scheduled for Fr., Feb. 12,from 8:00 am to 9:55 am
Exam covers: (1) Introductory Lecture Material (written version) • (2) Voltaire Lecture Material (written version) • (3) Bashō Lecture Material (written version) • (4) Swift Lecture Material (written version)
Exam Words
INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL & SOME VOLTAIRE MATERIAL
periodization ••• 1650: first year of Enlightenment ••• Long Eighteenth Century = Enlightenment = Age of Reason (or Rationality) = Scientific Revolution = Neoclassical (or Neo-Augustan) Age ••• empiricism ••• scientific method developed by Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle ••• Boyle used phrase “the new philosophy” to refer to science, as it underwent revolutionary change during the Enlightenment ••• Enlightenment women: Boyle’s sister was the scientist Katherine Jones; Voltaire practiced “science and sex” with the mathematician Émilie du Châtelet (who helped spread Isaac Newton’s theories across Continental Europe) ••• Newton: gravity; motion; calculus ••• Gottfried Leibniz: calculus; theodicy or philosophical optimism (which responds to writings by Pierre Bayle); supreme monad ••• In Candide, Voltaire bases Pangloss (“all tongue”; “all words”) on Leibniz ••• Pangloss argues that enjoying chocolate and cochineal is “sufficient reason” for enduring syphilis (“great pox”), a disease he acquires from Paquette, the maid who later becomes a prostitute, pimped in Venice by a member of the Theatine religious order ••• Newtonian mechanics versus Cartesian mechanics (René Descartes) ••• Descartes pronounced, Cogito, ergo sum (“I think; therefore, I am”) ••• polymath; philosophe ••• picaresque genre of literature; peripatetic; didactic ••• preceptor imparts or teaches his episteme (i.e. worldview) ••• republic of letters; invisible college ••• Royal Society (1660) ••• Thomas Hobbes; Leviathan; Commonwealth ••• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (of Geneva); The Social Contract ••• Francis Hutcheson: inalienable rights ••• Denis Diderot and Jean d’Alembert’s Encylopédie ••• Growing up, King Louis XIV of France (“sun king”) experienced The Fronde (series of civil wars); on the throne, he persecuted Huguenots ••• So-called three kingdoms: England (Anglican); Scotland (Presbyterian); Ireland (Roman Catholic) ••• King Frederick II (“the great”) of Prussia: palace called Sans-souci in Potsdam; participated in Seven Years’ War (rape as weapon; cf. Bosnian Wars; Rwandan Genocide) ••• Know: author of On the Natural Varieties of Mankind; his terms for black race and white race
MORE VOLTAIRE MATERIAL
Anabaptists (privilege Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount, related in St. Matthew’s Gospel) ••• Jesuits: Ignatius Loyola; education charism; reductions; Cunegund’s unnamed (gay?) brother ••• Auto-da-fé in response to All Saints’ Day undersea earthquake (“Lisbon earthquake”) and triple tsunami ••• Old Woman perhaps based on Lucrezia Borgia ••• Manichaeism; St. Augustine of Hippo; Confessions; City of God ••• Cacambo; humanism; miscegenation ••• Voltaire’s mansions: Les Délices (Geneva); Ferney (model farm; theater; Huguenot-employing watch factory) ••• Benjamin Franklin’s grandson ••• Candide (“honest”): sister son; insufficient quarterings ••• écrassez l’infâme ••• fictional Oreillons; simianization; Thomas Nast ••• Dutch sugar colony of Suriname ••• El Dorado: maybe Peru; first-mover advantage; Rousseau’s Émile (influential text about education) ••• Admiral John Byng; failure to do “his utmost” ••• Venice episode: Pococuranté; ennui ••• Constantinople episode: Sufi; regular Turkish farmer ••• Voltaire’s campaigns in support of middle-aged merchant Calas (accused of murdering son) and young nobleman La Barre (torso burned along with copy of Voltaire’s Dictionnaire philosophique)
BASHO MATERIAL
Narrow Road by Bashō (“banana”) ••• Tokugawa family: capital at Edo (i.e. Tokyo); mausoleum at Nikkō ••• Over several generations, Tokugawa/Edo dynasty united Japanese microstates, developing bureaucratic administration that de-emphasized samurai or warrior tradition (as exemplified by such figures as Motoharu Sato and Izumi no Saburo) ••• autarky ••• Toyota Way ••• litotes ••• Sora Nikki = Sora’s travel diary ••• Know significance of certain places: Matsushima (bay with islands); Taketuma (pine with twin trunks); each of the three mountains collectively known as Dewa (Haguro, Gassan, Yudono) ••• Bashō’s reason for invoking idea of a hand with a sixth finger ••• Among mountain people, syncretic (i.e. hybrid) religion: fire worship + Zen Buddhism ••• In Narrow Road, most episodes presented in haibun style: prose exposition, followed by verse summary ••• When one poet adds a verse to another poet’s preexisting verse, the result is a renga or linked-verse poem ••• Chinese-influenced writing system: kanji ••• nostalgia (nostos + algos); Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise
SWIFT MATERIAL
Jonathan Swift: member (along with Alexander Pope and other writers) of conservative (or Tory) Scriblerus Club; dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin (denomination: Church of Ireland) ••• St. Patrick’s Hospital ••• employment by William Temple of Moor Park (in England); role of Queen Anne in Swift’s career ••• pioneering journal: The Tatler ••• Lemuel (“belonging to God”) Gulliver’s profession: surgeon ••• Know: Houyhnhnms’ ideal family configuration; frequency of their government assemblies ••• dapple-gray master horse versus sorrel nag; stone horses ••• orthography; philology (linguistics); etymology ••• Gaeilge word craic ••• eugenics ••• transubstantiation ••• repletion; salt ••• Horatian versus Juvenalian satire ••• Know: what Houyhnhnms regard death as being; characteristic feature/s of particularly libidinous Yahoos ••• Yahoos as commentary on simianization of Irish by English colonial regime ••• use of yahoo a suffix ••• flax; linen; rooftree ••• economy = oikos + nemein ••• Know: text (by Swift) in which Ancient Bee and Modern Spider appear; text (by Swift) that advocates breeding Irish children for food ••• Drapier’s Letters ••• Lilliput; Brobdingnag ••• Berkeley (perception); Boyle (scientific empiricism); Burke (political conservatism); Hutcheson (“inalienable rights”) ••• Know: what Gulliver identifies as “most honorable” profession in Europe; what a carabine is
Material for Exam 2.3
World Literature Two • Spring 2021
Material for Exam 2.3
Mo., Feb. 15 through Fr., Mar. 26
CRN 13600 • ENGL 2112 • Section AA
Mo., We., Fr. • 8:00 am Sharp - 8:50 am
Classroom: IAB 1020, Statesboro Campus
Write Now homework exercises are due online before 11:30 pm (Eastern time) on selected Tuesdays and Thursdays. Late submissions are not possible. Failure to submit a given exercise prior to the deadline results in a grade of zero for the exercise.
Week 6
READ
Our mandatory texts for this week are Phase One of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust, Part One (1808) and Phase Two of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust, Part One
LECTURE
Over three classroom sessions, we cover the lecture material called Goethe 1.4 and the lecture material called Goethe 2.4 • Use the forgoing written notes (Goethe 1.4 and Goethe 2.4) as your PRIMARY means of absorbing the lecture content and preparing for Exam 2.3 • You should also experience the lectures as audio files, which follow immediately below
WRITE NOW (HOMEWORK)
Two Write Now exercises due (online delivery) during Week 6: Goethe WN 1.3 before 11:30 pm on Tu., Feb. 16; and Goethe WN 2.3 before 11:30 pm on Th., Feb. 18 • Delivery window closes at the time and date indicated; no late work accepted
Week 7
READ
Our mandatory text for this week is Phase Three of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust, Part One (1808)
LECTURE
Over three classroom sessions, we cover the lecture material called Goethe 3.4 and the lecture material called Goethe 4.4 • Use the forgoing written notes (Goethe 3.4 and Goethe 4.4) as your PRIMARY means of absorbing the lecture content and preparing for Exam 2.3 • You should also experience the lectures as audio files, which follow immediately below
WRITE NOW (HOMEWORK)
One Write Now exercise due (online delivery) during Week 7: Goethe WN 3.3 before 11:30 pm on Tu., Feb. 23 • Delivery window closes at the time and date indicated; no late work accepted
Week 8
READ
Our mandatory text for this week is Alfred de Musset’s You Never Can Tell (1836)
LECTURE
Over three classroom sessions, we cover the lecture material called Musset 1.2 and the lecture material called Musset 2.2 • Use the forgoing written notes (Musset 1.2 and Musset 2.2) as your PRIMARY means of absorbing the lecture content and preparing for Exam 2.3 • You should also experience the lectures as audio files, which follow immediately below
WRITE NOW (HOMEWORK)
One Write Now exercises due (online delivery) during Week 8: Musset WN before 11:30 pm on Tu., Mar. 2 • Delivery window closes at the time and date indicated; no late work accepted
Week 9
READ
Our mandatory text for this week is a selection of anti-slavery polemics from the 1840s, written by Frederick Douglass and his hero Daniel O’Connell
LECTURE
Over three classroom sessions, we cover the lecture material called Douglass & O’Connell 1.2 and the lecture material called Douglass & O’Connell 2.2 • Use the forgoing written notes (Douglass & O’Connell 1.2 and Douglass & O’Connell 2.2) as your PRIMARY means of absorbing the lecture content and preparing for Exam 2.3 • You should also experience the lectures as audio files, which follow immediately below
WRITE NOW (HOMEWORK)
One Write Now exercises due (online delivery) during Week 9: Douglass & O’Connell WN before 11:30 pm on Tu., Mar. 9 • Delivery window closes at the time and date indicated; no late work accepted
Week 10
Concludes with Exam 2.3
READ
Our mandatory text for this week is Anthony Trollope’s “The Telegraph Girl” (1877)
LECTURE
Over two classroom sessions, we cover the lecture material called Trollope • Use the forgoing written notes (Trollope) as your PRIMARY means of absorbing the lecture content and preparing for Exam 2.3 • You should also experience the lectures as audio files, which follow immediately below
WRITE NOW (HOMEWORK)
One Write Now exercises due (online delivery) during Week 10: Trollope WN before 11:30 pm on Tu., Mar. 23 • Delivery window closes at the time and date indicated; no late work accepted
Exam 2.3 scheduled for Fr. Mar 26, from 8:00 am to 9:55 am
Exam covers: (1) Goethe Lecture Material (written version) • (2) Musset Lecture Material (written version) • (3) Douglass & O’Connell (written version) • (4) Trollope (written version)
Exam Words
GOETHE MATERIAL
Sentiment = feelings \ sympathy = acknowledging another person’s feelings \ fraternity = taking collective action due to sympathy ••• Key example of fraternity: worldwide anti-slavery campaign, one of whose emblems was the medallion produced by the industrial potter Josiah Wedgwood (“Am I not a man and a brother?”) ••• Goethe’s early best-seller: epistolary novel Sorrows of Young Werther, instance of Strum und Drang (“storm and stress”) phenomenon ••• love triangle: yellow waistcoat; copycat suicides ••• Affectivity: the Passions; the Sublime (awe); the Volk ••• Volkstum = “folkdom” (e.g., fertility ritual of dancing around linden tree) ••• Goethe’s Faust, Part One posits a moral stance for young German men in light of the possibility of a unitary German, accelerated by the defeat of Napoleon (a fact confirmed by the Congress of Vienna) ••• “Prelude on Stage”: Comedian insists that “farce” and other non-serious content necessary to engage intended audience ••• Archangels Michael (warrior; appears in Biblical books of Daniel and Revelation), Gabriel (messenger), Raphael (healer) ••• God (in Faust, Part One) asserts that if a human “strives” s/he inevitably “errs” ••• parallels between Goethr’s Faust and Biblical book of Job ••• Sources for Goethe’s character Heinrich Faust: historical Johann Georg Faust (who practiced necromancy); Christopher Marlowe’s play The Tragical History of … Doctor Faustus ••• Nostradamus (macrocosm) ••• Geist der Erde = earth spirit ••• Wagner = Faust’s famulus ••• Easter bells precipitate happy childhood memories in Faust ••• Drudenfuss (“devil’s foot”): pentagram ••• Opening of St. John’s Gospel: “In the beginning was the Word” (Faust replaces “the Word” with “the Act”) ••• Faust’s pact with Mephistopheles: “Stay a while! You are so lovely” ••• Auerbach’s Cellar, near University of Leipzig in German state of Saxony ••• Frosch chooses Rhenish; Bander chooses Champagne; Siebel chooses Tokay ••• Zauberspiegel (magic mirror) in Witch’s Kitchen evokes portion of biblical book, St. Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians ••• Johann Tischbein ••• confessional: Foucault ••• ideal place: locus amoenus ••• deception: Sophist ••• Franz Schubert ••• Lied ••• virginity: flower ••• chaff ••• Mater Dolorosa ••• Brocken specter ••• female archetypes: Baubo (vagina goddess); Lilith (Genesis, Chapter 1) ••• Oberon: A Walpurgis Night’s Dream
MUSSET MATERIAL
Genre of You Never Can Tell: dramatic proverb; often featured a priest or other figure of religious and moral authority ••• Genres evoked in play: folktale (e.g., “Little Red Riding Hood”); pastoral (from Classical Greek and Roman literature) ••• Musset: “a Child of this World”; affair with George Sand ••• Henry James on Musset: “great deal of life to make a little art” ••• play first appeared in an 1836 edition of magazine Revue des Deux Mondes ••• initial stage performance not until 1845: the Springtime of the Peoples 9or Nations) ••• poker versus whist ••• influence upon Valentin of Henry Fielding’s epistolary novel Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady, which features unsavory male character Lovelace ••• uncle Van Buck: emigrated from Antwerp, Belgium; resident alien in Paris ••• progression as cloth merchant: from gingham to paisley ••• fashion-related terms to know: sartorial; dandy; Beau Brummell; color of instructor’s item of clothing remembered by Valentin ••• Parisian pleasure garden that opened in Paris during Musset’s lifetime ••• with respect to Cecile, know: (1) how we described her in-between status as an aristocrat who identifies with the Volk; (2) the type of soup the audience would have expected her to offer Valentin; (3) the heavenly body with which she identifies
DOUGLASS & O’CONNELL MATERIAL
British statesman who deemed O’Connell the “greatest popular leader” ever ••• Irish political philosopher who coined the term “inalienable rights” ••• two-word terms: (1) what the Irish call the potato famine that devastated their country in the 1840s; (2) what the contemporary media called O’Connell’s large-scale rallies; (3) Dublin building in which O’Connell delivered the Cincinnati Address ••• diaspora ••• Lynn ••• official (three-word) name of the Quakers ••• significance in O’Connell’s speech of Jamaica ••• significance in Douglass’s speech (or speeches) of: Cambria; Madison Washington ••• religious denomination Douglass targeted in his Belfast speech
TROLLOPE MATERIAL
meaning of: (1) Lucy; (2) Sophy; (3) Abraham ••• General Post Office, St. Martins-le-Grand, London ••• know: employment benefits provided by the Telegraph Office to the “girls” it employs (e.g., doctor services) ••• sterling system of money: number of pennies (pence) in a shilling; number of shillings in a pound ••• significance of locations: (1) district where Lucy and Sophy (and Abraham) live in London; (2) seaside town to which Sophy relocates; (3) district where Lucy and Abraham settle at end of story ••• cenacle ••• Emily Faithful’s printing enterprise ••• Alec Murray’s racial identity (“Celt” versus “Saxon”) ••• Sophy’s diagnosis
Material for Exam 3.3
World Literature Two • Spring 2021
Material for Exam 3.3
Mo., Mar. 29 through Mo., May 3
CRN 13600 • ENGL 2112 • Section AA
Mo., We., Fr. • 8:00 am Sharp - 8:50 am
Classroom: IAB 1020, Statesboro Campus
Week 11
READ
Our mandatory texts for this week are Phase One of James Joyce’s “The Dead” (written in 1907; first published in 1914) and Phase Two of James Joyce’s “The Dead”
LECTURE
Over three classroom sessions, we cover the lecture material called Joyce 1.2 (opens as a PDF) and Joyce 2.2 (opens as a PDF) • Use the forgoing written notes (Joyce 1.2 and Joyce 2.2) as your PRIMARY means of absorbing the lecture content and preparing for Exam 3.3 • You should also experience the lectures as audio files, which will follow immediately below
WRITE NOW (HOMEWORK)
Two Write Now exercises due (online delivery) during Week 11: Joyce WN 1.2 before 11:30 pm on Tu., Mar. 30; and Joyce WN 2.2 before 11:30 pm on Th., Apr. 1 • Delivery window closes at the time and date indicated; no late work accepted
Week 12
READ
Our mandatory text for this week is W. Somerset Maugham’s “P & O” (1926)
LECTURE
Over three classroom sessions, we cover the lecture material called Maugham (opens as PDF) • Use the forgoing written notes (Maugham) as your PRIMARY means of absorbing the lecture content and preparing for Exam 2.3 • You should also experience the lectures as audio files, which follow immediately below
WRITE NOW (HOMEWORK)
One Write Now exercise due (online delivery) during Week 12: Maugham WN before 11:30 pm on Tu., Apr. 6 • Delivery window closes at the time and date indicated; no late work accepted
Week 13
READ
Our mandatory text for this week is P.G. Wodehouse’s “The Custody of the Pumpkin” (1935 re-writing of 1924 original)
LECTURE
Over three classroom sessions, we cover the lecture material called Wodehouse (opens as PDF). • Use the forgoing written notes (Wodehouse) as your PRIMARY means of absorbing the lecture content and preparing for Exam 2.3 • You should also experience the lectures as audio files, which follow immediately below
WRITE NOW (HOMEWORK)
One Write Now exercise due (online delivery) during Week 13: Wodehouse WN before 11:30 pm on Tu., Apr. 13 • Delivery window closes at the time and date indicated; no late work accepted
Week 14
READ
Our mandatory text for this week is Maeve Brennan’s “The Servants’ Dance” (1954)
LECTURE
Over three classroom sessions, we cover the lecture material called Brennan (opens as PDF) • Use the forgoing written notes (Brennan) as your PRIMARY means of absorbing the lecture content and preparing for Exam 2.3 • You should also experience the lectures as audio files, which follow immediately below
WRITE NOW (HOMEWORK)
One Write Now exercise due (online delivery) during Week 14: Brennan WN before 11:30 pm on Tu., Apr. 20 • Delivery window closes at the time and date indicated; no late work accepted
Week 15
READ
Our mandatory text for this week is Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Once in a Lifetime” (2006)
LECTURE
Over three classroom sessions, we cover the lecture material called Lahiri (opens as PDF) • • Use the forgoing written notes (Lahiri) as your PRIMARY means of absorbing the lecture content and preparing for Exam 2.3 • You should also experience the lectures as audio files, which follow immediately below
WRITE NOW (HOMEWORK)
One Write Now exercise due (online delivery) during Week 15: Lahiri WN before 11:30 pm on Tu., Dec. 1 • Delivery window closes at the time and date indicated; no late work acceptedLahiri WN
Exam 3.3 scheduled for Mo. May 3, from 7:30 am to 9:30 am
Exam covers: (1) Joyce Lecture Material (written version) • (2) Maugham Lecture Material (written version) • (3) Wodehouse Lecture Material (written version) • (4) Brennan Lecture Material (written version) • (5) Lahiri Lecture Material (written version)
