| Week I | ||
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6/9
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Introduction
to course; introduction to literary traditions and influences;
Introduction to Homer and The Odyssey. Ezra Pound on close reading [PDF] Samuel Johnson on literary antiquity [PDF] |
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6/12
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The
Odyssey: Books I-III George Chapman, 1616 Alexander Pope, 1715 Samuel Butler, 1900 S H Butcher and A Lang, 1909 Richmond Lattimore, 1961 Robert Fitzgerald, 1961 "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," John Keats |
Quiz Comments on Quiz |
| Week II | ||
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6/16
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The
Odyssey: Books IV - IX Information literacy session. |
Quiz Meet in library. |
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6/19
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The
Odyssey: Books X - XV |
Quiz |
| Week III | ||
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6/23
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The
Odyssey: Books XVI - XX Presentations on articles |
Quiz Proposal |
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6/26
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The
Odyssey: Books XXI - XXIV Presentations on articles |
Quiz |
| Week IV | |
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6/30
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The Odyssey, A Play. Derek Walcott | Essay |
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7/3
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Walcott
(cont.) Dante's Inferno, Book XXVI Tennyson's "Ulysses" |
Working Bibliography |
| Week V | ||
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7/7
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Troilus
and Cressida. William Shakespeare |
Quiz |
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7/10
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| Week VI | ||
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7/14
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Cold
Mountain. Charles Frazier. |
Quiz |
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7/17
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| Week VII | ||
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7/21
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Meadowlands.
Louise Gluck. |
Essay |
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7/24
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Panel: David, Stephanie, Marianne, Ashley |
Panel 1 |
| Week VIII | ||
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7/28
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The
Penelopiad. Margaret Atwood. Panel: Tim, Jill, Lori, Chrissy |
Quiz Panel 2 |
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7/31
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Final
Papers due Panel: Maggie, Linda, Emily, Joe. |
Final Paper Panel 3 |