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ELIT 46BELIT 46B MAJOR BRITISH AUTHORS
Neoclassical to Romantics 1660-1830
Elit 46B Syllabus Winter 2013
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Elit 46B Presentations 2013
Elit 46B Literary Response 2013
Sample Literary Response
Writing in Literature - The OWL (Online Writing Lab) at Purdue University is a great resource to read more about Literary Theory, Writing about Literature, and Close Readings
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/4/17/
How and Why We Read by John Green http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSYw502dJNY&;feature=g-high-u
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WEEK1: Introduction to Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
Guide to Poetry Scansion
Youtube Video of Restoration and Eighteenth Century Overview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLpeUJt7aVE
Video Questions
Neoclassical Literary Traits
Check out some interesting films:
1. The Libertine (2006) - Johnny Depp portrays a no-holds-barred version of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2t2KvVp6sM
2. The Last King: The Power and Passion of Charles II (2004) - A great sense of King Charles personality as well as the historical and cultural challenges of the day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ijT1LBWO4Y&;feature=related
3. Restoration (1995) - Robert Downey Jr. shows the extravagance of King Charles' II court
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqEUgjPQ_Ys&;feature=related
4. To Kill a King (2003) - Interesting dramatization of Cromwell's overthrow of King Charles I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxcs3HnFps8
Satyr on Charles II by The Earl of Rochester - http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/charles2.html
Literary Criticism - Handout on common approaches to analyze literature
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WEEK 2: Dryden and Satire
Intro to Satire
Example of Modern Satire: http://www.keepfearalive.com/
Example of Modern Parody: SNL Commercial http://www.hulu.com/watch/10234/saturday-night-live-annuale
John Dryden Discussion Questions
Dryden Group Presentation
http://prezi.<;wbr>com/qxhe2aaqmgxv/satire-john-<wbr>dryden/?kw=view-qxhe2aaqmgxv&<wbr>rc=ref-13434935
Dryden's Classical Theory of Literature by Edward Pechter - Excellent analysis of Mac Flecknoe (scroll to page 160)
http://books.google.com/books?id=oBUM-OY2TBoC&;printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_vpt_buy#v=onepage&q&f=false
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WEEK 3: Jonathan Swift and Political Allegory
Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels Discussion Questions
The Onion (Great example of Satire) http://www.theonion.com/
The Heroes Journey Steps Joseph Campbell - How much is Gulliver's Travels a classic Hero's Journey?
Perspectives on Gulliver's Travels by K. M. Jan (Interesting analysis of Misogyny, Misanthropy, and Irony in the text)
http://books.google.com/books?id=diLPYfA--XMC
Gullivers Travels (Jack Black 2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTEVf3n6Vpc
Gulliver's Travels: Women as Burdens? by Cory Johnson http://knol.google.com/k/gulliver-s-travels-women-as-burdens#
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WEEK 4: Alexander Pope and the Height of Neo-Classicism
Pope Presentation 2013
Pope Presentation 2012
Rape of the Lock Discussion Questions
The Dunciad (This online version has even more notes to help you understand this challenging text) http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/dunciad4.html
Analysis of Rape of the Lock (Dry buy informative lecture)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ2FpmYfR-M
Picture of Arabella Fermor
Pope on Coffee (From the Paris Review) http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/01/26/the-rape-of-the-lock/
Baroque Music - Clean, crisp, witty like Pope's style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ9qWpa2rIg
Famous Paintings/Drawings of Rape of the Lock http://people.umass.edu/sconstan/pictures.html
Great Extra Credit Mock Heroic Poem
Interesting Articles about Rape of the Lock:
Commodity and Religion in Rape of the Lock by Alex Eric Hernandez
Rape of the Lock: Desire between Couple(t)s - a Counseling Intervention by Dennis Brown
Virgin idols and verbal devices:Pope's Belinda and the Virgin Mary by Corrinne Harol
Critical Essay on Rape of the Lock by Daniel Moran
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WEEK 5 - Aphra Behn - The Rise of the Novel
Oroonoko Discussion Questions
Aphra Behn Impersonation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6juzfsoZWhg
Norton Anthology - Slavery and the Slave Trade in Britain
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/18century/topic_2/welcome.htm
Garden of Eden Painting - 1620
Oroonoko Article #1 Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and the "Blank Spaces" of Colonial Fictions
Oroonoko Article #2 The Narrator in Oroonoko
Oroonoko Article #3 Royalism and Honor in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
Oroonoko Article #4 Trying to Frame the Unframable: Oroonoko as Discourse in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
Oroonoko Article #5 Truth, Wonder, and Exemplarity in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
More Detailed Hero's Journey Steps From Judy Hubbard's Mythology and Folklore Course
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WEEK 6 Midterm
Midterm Checklist of Points 46B
46B Midterm Preview
Sample Miderm Questions 2013
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WEEK 7 - Romanticism and William Blake
BBC Video - Overview of Romantics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeHRKmr36hI
William Blake Discussion Questions
Norton Anthology Online: Lots of Great Background and Context for Romanticism http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/romantic/welcome.htm
Romantic Literary Traits
Romantic Theory:
Natural Supernaturalism by M.H. Abrams http://books.google.com/books?id=-ygCZmrJ2E4C&;printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
The Mirror and the Lamp by M.H. Abrams http://books.google.com/books?id=SSOGjRMvIGYC&;source=gbs_book_other_versions
Introduction to Romantic Philosophy and Literature: Interesting comparison between John Locke's Empiricism (basis of Neoclassical thought) and Emmanuel Kant's Idealism (basis of Romanticism) http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~dougt/rom.htm
Emmanuel Kant and Romanticism: http://www.philosopher.org.uk/rom.htm
Online Etchings of Songs of Innocence and Experience: http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=songsie
Allen Ginsberg reciting Songs of Innocence and Experience http://www.archive.org/details/naropa_allen_ginsberg_performing
Romantic Painting:
1. Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People- French Revolution
2. Wanderer Above the Sea and Fog by Caspar David Friedrich - Isolation and Individual
3. The Cornfield by John Constable 1826 - Landscape painting
Romantic Music
1. Frederic Chopin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-4Bv5Ng0w
2. Felix Mendelssohn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_uA_W1wB5A&;feature=related
Interesting Articles:
Chimney Sweeper Article The Language of Speakers in Songs of Innocence and Experience
Critical Essay on The Lamb 1 by Bryan Aubrey
An Overview of The Typer by Derek Furr
Blake's Tyger as Miltonic Beast by Paul Miner
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WEEK 8 - The Lake Poets: William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge
Norton Anthology Online - Romantic Landscape http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/romantic/topic_1/welcome.htm
Lyrical Ballads Discussion Questions
Wordsworth/Coleridge Group Presentation Powerpoint
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMu615i8tE8 Video of Coleridge/Wordsworth Poetry discussion
Interesting Articles:
Simone Lee Article
Speaker as Questioner in Lyrical Ballads
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WEEK 9 - Later Romantics - George Gordon, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley
Byron and Shelley Discusion Questions
Norton Anthology Online: Romantic Orientalism http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/romantic/topic_4/welcome.htm
Norton Anthology Online: The Satanic and Byronic Hero http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/romantic/topic_5/welcome.htm
The Byronic Hero by Peter L. Thorslev http://books.google.com/books/about/Byronic_Hero_Types_and_Proto.html?id=xS3sqPSvALEC
Interesting Films and Documentaries:
The Scandalous Adventure of Lord Byron (with Rupert Everett) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05IqFWTV7Qs
Byron (2003 with Johnny Lee Miller) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYFWOUk_I1k
Don Juan de Marco (Johnny Depp 1994) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AteQZ7q6rtA
She walks in beauty sung to Isaac Nathan's music http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/douglass/music/SheWalks.mp3
Interesting Articles:
The Byronic Hero by Etienne J. Sarfelli
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WEEK 10 and 11 - The Gothic and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
The Gothic: Norton Online http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/romantic/topic_2/welcome.htm
Robert Walpole's Stawberry Hill - Picture of Gothic Architecture
Frankenstein Discussion questions 2013
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) directed by Kenneth Branaugh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg17y6iz7Xs
Frankenstein Film Questions - Extra Credit Option
Mary Shelley Comic http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=56%3E
Literary Criticism:
Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Myth, and Her Monsters by Anne K. Mellor http://books.google.com/books?id=DuELAQOPUp8C&;
Madwoman in the Attic by Sara Gilbert and Susan Gubar http://books.google.com/books?id=d0XzQ4QMNb0C&;
The Surprising Effects of Sympathy: Marivaus, Diderot, Roussea, and Mary Shelley http://books.google.com/books?id=jt98k85KfGkC&;
The Noble Savage in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Milton Milhauser
The Deceptive Other: Mary Shelley's Critique of Orientalism in Frankenstein http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Articles/lew.html
Frankenstein, Racial Science, and the Yellow Peril by Anne K. Mellor (Click on book then scroll down to page 173) http://books.google.com/books?id=KsBUEj5USVsC&;pg
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WEEK 12 Final Exam
Final Exam Preview
Final Exam Checklist of Points
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