BARNUM - ROMANTICISM AND REVOLUTIONS - READING SCHEDULE - SPRING - 2015


TAKE HOME FINAL DUE BY MAY 21, 2015

READINGS SHOULD BE COMPLETED BY THE DUE DATE INDICATED

Week: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17


 WEEK

 ASSIGNMENT

 ACTIVITY

WEEK 1
January 21 - 23

READ
Shelley, M. - Frankenstein
Bullfinch - Prometheus and Pandora
Shelley, P. - from Prometheus Unbound
| Author's Preface | Act I "Prometheus' Curse"

Readings for Reality
Argumentative Paper -What is the Nature of Reality
Due February 9

Introduction to Romanticism and Revolution
View - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Group Discussion Guide

 


WEEK 2
Jan. 26 -Jan. 30
READ
Blake - The Lamb,(See the poem as originally printed by Blake at the The Blake Archive)and The Tyger, (See the poem as originally printed by Blake at the The Blake Archive) and from America a Prophecy. (See the poem as originally printed by Blake at the The Blake Archive)
Byron Prometheus
Commentary Guide for February 5

Lecture/Discussions - Frankenstein:
A Myth for the American Century
QUIZ 1- January 31

 

WEEK 3
February 2 - 6
READ
Wordsworth - The World Is Too Much With Us
Coleridge - Kubla Kahn
Shelley - To a Skylark

Keats - La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Goethe - Prometheus

Lecture/Discussions - Romanticism: Romantic Poets
COMMENTARY DUE - February 5

 

WEEK 4
February 9 - 13
READ
de Gouge - from A Declaration of the Rights of Women
Wollstonecraft - from A Vindication of Women's Rights
William Godwin - Of the Equality of Mankind
Mill - from On Liberty and
On the Subjection of Women

Lecture/Discussions - Philosophy and the Rights of Women
Discussion Guide
ARGUMENTATIVE PAPER DUE - February 9
QUIZ 2- February 12


WEEK 5
February 17 - 20

READ AND VIEW
John Ruskin
Quotes from John Ruskin

The Pre-Raphaelites

Lecture/Discussions - From The Romantics to the Victorians


WEEK 6
Februrary 23 - 26

READ
Fiero: 50-60
Alfred Tennyson - Ulysses
Mathew Arnold - Dover Beach
Commentary Guide for March 5

Victorian Background
View - The French Lieutenant's Woman
Group Discussion Guide

QUIZ 3 - February 26


WEEK 7
March 2 - 6
READ
Greer - Impact of the Machine (Handout)
Darwin - from Descent of Man
Marx and Engels - from Communist Manifesto
Lecture/Discussions - Revolutions in Philosophy, Science and Social Thought
COMMENTARY DUE - March 5
WEEK 8
March 9 - 13
READ
Fiero: 27-35, 60-69
Freud - from Civilization and Its Discontents
Lecture/Discussions - Evolution as Revolution: Darwin, Marx, and Engels and World War I and The Russian Revolution
QUIZ 4 - March 12
WEEK 9
March 16 - 20
READ
T.S. Elliot - The Hollow Men
Tennyson - Charge of the Light Brigade
Jarrell - Death of the Ball Turrett Gunner
Reed- The Naming of Parts
Denise Levertov - Tenebrae
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Commentary Guide for April 10

Lecture/Discussions - War, Colonialism and Revolution

 

 


WEEK 10
March 23 - 27

  View - Apocalypse Now
Group Discussion Guide
QUIZ 5 - March 26

Spring Break
March 30 - April 3

   
WEEK 11
April 6 -10
READ
Fiero - 70-91
Sartre - The Wall
Camus - Myth of Sisyphus

Existential Philosophy
COMMENTARY DUE - April 10


WEEK 12
April 13 - 17

READ
Protest Lyrics
Commentary Guide for April 27

Lecture/Discussions - Existential Philosophy and Voices of LIberation


WEEK 13
April 20 - 24
READ
Fiero - 93-100, 138-139
N. Scott Momaday - Flight on the Wind
Soyinka - Telephone Conversation
Woolfe - If Shakespeare Had a Sister
Churchill - Goons, G-men, AIM

View - Thunderheart
QUIZ 6 - April 21

 


WEEK 14
April 27 - May 1

Commentary Guide for May 13

Thunderheart
Group Discussion Guide
Lecture/Discussions - Protest and Popular Music
COMMENTARY DUE - April 27

WEEK 15
May 4 -8
READ
Fiero - 100-103, 130-138
e. e. cummings - anyone lived in a pretty how town
John Berryman - Life friends, is boring
Gwendolyn Brooks - The Bean Eaters
Gwendolyn Brooks - We Real Cool
Adrienne Rich - Two Songs
Gail Goodwin - A Sorrowful Woman
Harlan Ellison - Repent Harlequin Cried The Tick Tock Man
Nikki Giovanni - Nikki-Rosa

Twentieth Century Poetry
Lecture/Discussions - Racism and Feminism
QUIZ 7 - May 8

 

 


WEEK 16
May 11 - 15
READ
Fiero - 5-23, 35-47, 80-88, 141-166
Flannery O’Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find
View - Gandhi
Group Discussion Guide
COMMENTARY DUE - May 13
QUIZ 8 - May 15

WEEK 17
May 18 - 22

Lecture/Discussions - Violence and Non-Violence
TAKE HOME EXAM - DUE - May 22
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