Dr.
Kyle Grimes
Office
hours:
Tues, 2:00-3:00 or by appt. Website: http://courses.uab.edu
Email:
kgrimes@uab.edu, but for course related communications,
please use the website.
Textbook:
The
Longman Anthology of English Literature 2 (I've
ordered the split edition to make it easier to tote, but the single volume
version will work as well.)
Course
Requirements:
There
will be two exams, a mid-term and a final. The mid-term exam will be made
up primarily of "long-answer ID questions"; the final will have both an
ID and an essay section.
The
out-of-class writing assignments for EH 222 will consist of two critical
essays of about 750-1000 words apiece. One of these essays will be due
on March 13; the second will be due on the last day of class. Topics for
these papers will be provided, but students who wish to develop their own
topics may do so, provided they clear these topics with the professor.
Note
too that the final grade will be based in part on your participation in
and contributions to the general class discussion. This grade takes into
consideration both in class and online discussions. For the online section
you can assume that one or two meaningful postings (a question, commentary,
contribution to some ongoing discussion, etc.) per week will amply satisfy
this requirement. More frequent posts are of course welcome.
Grading:
The
various assignments are weighted as follows:
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paper
#1
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200
pts.
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20%
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paper
#2
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200
pts.
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20%
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Mid
Term Exam
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150
pts.
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15%
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Final
Exam
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250
pts.
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25%
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Discussion
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100
pts.
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10%
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Online
Participation
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100
pts.
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10%
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As you can see, I've assigned a certain number of points to each piece of graded work. At the end of the quarter, I'll simply add up your total points and assign your final grade according to the following scale: 1,000-900 points = A; 899-800 = B; 799-700 = C; 699-600 = D; and 599-0 = F.
Police
Matters:
•We
have a lot of literary ground to cover in this course. Nonetheless, I expect
you to come to class prepared to take part in the discussion of the day's
readings. Also, I expect written assignments to be neatly typed, proofread,
and turned in on time.
•I
have not imposed an attendance policy as such, but be aware that the mid-term
and final exams will have ID sections based on material covered in class.
If you miss classes, you will hurt your chances on the exams.
•As
always, plagiarism on any work turned in for this course is grounds for
failure.
Some
suggestions for studying:
People
who have not taken many literature classes are sometimes puzzled about
how to study. Literature classes tend to emphasize matters of interpretation
rather than the clearer rights and wrongs of other fields of study. As
a result, it's not always easy to know exactly what it is one needs to
learn and when one has learned it. The following suggestions may help to
make your studying more effective.
Recognize
that a quick read through the works on the syllabus will probably not be
enough for a really thorough understanding of the material. Read slowly,
ask questions, underline, take notes, reread.
•Look
up any words you don't know, and try to figure out exactly how the writer
is using them.
•Use
a reading journal to jot down any questions that pop up while you are reading.
Then try to answer them. Alternatively, take a small relatively self-contained
section of a poem or novel that you feel you understand and write a paragraph
in your own words explaining the meaning or significance of that passage.
•If
you are really puzzled by a passage in a poem, stop and work out the basic
grammar-what's the subject of the sentence? the verb? etc. This
can really help you sort out the difficult spots.
•Make
use of my office hours and chat room hours to ask questions about what
you've been reading. Don't feel like you are imposing; after all, that's
what office hours are for. Likewise, I am easy to reach via email, using
the course website.
•Make
use of the discussion boards on the website. I will occasionally post study
questions on the boards; use them to help guide your reading, and don't
hesitate to post your own questions or comments as well. Such discussions
often provide some of the most intelligent, interesting, and helpful material
for understanding and enjoying the literature.
SYLLABUS,
EH 222 Spring 2003
All
works can be found in The
Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume
2. Please read them carefully before coming
to class. I will try to post study questions on the "discussion" page of
the course website. You will likely find it helpful to consult these questions
as you prepare for each class.
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Jan
7:
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Introduction
to the course and to the Romantic Period. (See Longman
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intro
to the period).
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Jan
9:
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from The
Rights of Man and the Revolution Controversy-Burke, 67-76,
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Wollstonecraft,
77-84, and Paine, 84-90; More, Village
Politics, 100-07.
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Jan
14:
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Blake; Songs
of Innocence and of Experience, 118-35.
(esp. Chimney
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Sweeper,
The Divine Image; The Garden of Love; London).
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Jan
16:
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Blake,
continued.
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Jan
21:
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Coleridge; The
Eolian Harp, This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison, 522-26.
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Jan
23:
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Wordsworth,
from the Lyrical
Ballads, 336-62,
(esp. Simon
Lee, We are
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Seven,
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, and
the
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"Preface").
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Jan
28:
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Wordsworth:
I wandered
lonely as a cloud; Ode, Intimations of
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Immortality, 453-60.
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Jan
30:
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Coleridge: Rime
of the Ancient Mariner, 526-42.
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Feb
4:
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Byron: Manfred, 603-38
(Virtual Class-See website).
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Feb
6:
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Manfred (cont.).
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Feb
11:
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Keats: The
Eve of St. Agnes, 865-75.
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Feb
13:
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Keats: Ode
to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Um, To Autumn, 879-83,
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886.
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Feb
18:
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Byron: Don
Juan, canto
I, 667-717; mid-term review
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Feb
20:
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Mid-term
exam
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Feb
25:
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Introduction
to The Victorian Age, 1008-31.
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Arnold: Dover
Beach, The Buried Life, 1551-55.
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Feb
27:
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Elizabeth
Barrett Browning: Aurora
Leigh, from
books 1 and 2, 1112-28.
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Mar
4:
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Tennyson:
Ulysses,
11150-51, Locksley Hall, 11156-61.
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Mar
6:
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Robert
Browning: My Last Duchess, 1311-12, Fra Lippo Lippi, 1328-36.
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Mar
11:
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Ruskin:
from The Stones of Venice, 1476-85;
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background:
"Perspectives: The Industrial Landscape," 1047-73.
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Mar
13:
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Christina
Rossetti: 1611-30, (esp. After Death, Cobwebs, Goblin Market)
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First
Paper Due
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Mar
18
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Hopkins:
1677-89, (esp. God's Grandeur, The Windhover, Pied Beauty)
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Mar
20
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Hardy:
2154-66, (esp. Hap, The Darkling Thrush, The Convergence of the
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Twain)
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Mar
25
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Intro
to The Twentieth Century, 1990-2014.
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Eliot:
The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, 2344-54.
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Mar
27
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Mansfield:
The
Daughters of the Late Colonel, 2611-24.
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Apr
1
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Spring
Break
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Apr
3
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Spring
Break
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Apr
8
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Speeches
on Irish Independence, 2232-42
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Yeats:
Easter
1916, 2242-51
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Apr
10
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Yeats:
The
Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium 2251-54.
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Apr
15
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Joyce:
The
Dead, 2284-311.
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Apr
17
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World
War II and the End of Empire, 2698-99
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Churchill
speeches, 2699-707.
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Monty
Python, 2734-37
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Orwell:
Politics and the English Language, 2737-46.
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Apr
22
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Larkin:
poems, 2804-08.
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Apr
24
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Review
and final exam prep.
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Second
Paper Due.
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Apr
29
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Final
Exam, 4:15 - 6:45
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