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English 377

Course Time:

Dr. Jennifer Shaddock

English Dept.

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Introductions, syllabus

Gender & Sexuality
Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893), George Bernard Shaw, (Norton 1810-1856)

The Great War
"The Great War: Confronting the Modern" (handout)
Rupert Brooke: "The Soldier" (Norton 2050)
Siegfried Sassoon: "They," "The Rear-Guard," "The General," "Glory Women," (2055-2057)
Isaac Rosenberg: "Louse Hunting," "Dead Man's Dump" (2063-2064)

Wilfred Owen: "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "Miners," "Dulce Et Decorum Est," "Disabled," (2066-2071)

Pity of War: Wilfred Owen's Poetry (video, 58 min)

"The Conclusion" from The Renaissance (1873), Walter Pater (1642)
"Modern Fiction (1925)," Virginia Woolf (2148-53)
"Professions for Women (1942)," Virginia Woolf (2114-18)
Begin Mrs. Dalloway (1925), Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway

The Ghost Road (1995), Pat Barker

The Ghost Road

The Ghost Road

The Ghost Road

The Irish Question

"The Dead (1914)," James Joyce (2240-2268)

The Dead, dir. John Huston (1987), (video, 82 min.)

Finish video and discussion of "The Dead"; Begin William Butler Yeats: "Easter 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic" (handout); "Easter 1916" (2014); "Leda and the Swan" (2110); "The Second Coming" (2106)

Yeats: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (2092); "Adam's Curse" (2097); "No Second Troy" (2098); "Sailing to Byzantium" (2109); "Byzantium" (2115)

Spring Break

Endgame (1958), Samuel Beckett (2472); (video, 96 min.)

Discussion of Endgame

Empire and the Empire Speaks Back

Heart of Darkness (1899), Joseph Conrad (1957)

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness; "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1975), Chinua Achebe (2035-2040)

Season of Migration (1969), Tayeb Salih
Orientialism, (video, 40 min.); preface to "Identity and its Discontents" Women and the Nation," Deniz Kandiyoti (handout)

Season of Migration

Season of Migration

Cloud Nine (1979), Caryl Churchill

English Festival (attendance during class period required)

Cloud Nine

Workshop on Final Research Essays

Final Research Essay Due

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