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| Fall 2011 | ENGL 310.00H1 | MWF | 9:00 - 9:50 | RH 201 | Stephen Franklin | |
Title: LITERARY CLASSICSCourse Description: Selected works, from ancient to modern, such as Plato's Symposium, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Montaigne's's Essays, Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, and Camus's The Plague, read in translation and with attention to theme, technique, genre, and context.PRQ: | ||||||
| Detailed Course Description:We will read 12 literary classics (in their entirety or selections) from Sumerian/Babylonian, Greek, and Roman antiquity focusing 1) on their histories and their formal and thematic similarities and differences and 2) how the cultural, historical mythic, religious, philosophical, political, social, personal, and psychological dimensions of each work have informed western heritage and remain relevant for our own lives | ||||||
| Course Requirements:1) Regular attendance and class participation; 2) Three (3) out-of-class essays; 3) Occasional in-class response papers; 4) Additional extra credit work as agreed upon. The three papers (and any extra credit) are worth 50 percent of the final grade. Attendance is worth 25 percent of the final grade. Participation and response papers are worth 25 percent of the final grade. | ||||||
| Required Texts: Required Texts:Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh; Homer, Iliad and Odyssey; Aeschylus, The Oresteia Trilogy (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and Eumenides); Sophocles, The Theban Plays (Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus); Euripides, The Bacchae and The Trojan Women; Virgil, Aeneid | ||||||
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