| Spring 2012 | ENGL 310.1 | MWF | 1:00 - 1:50 | RH209 |
DavidJ Gorman |
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.
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| Detailed Course Description: In this course, we will be reading just three works, but what works they are! These poems are encyclopedias of poetic themes and techniques that have been used in Western literature for thousands of years. To read them with understanding is to have the foundations for understanding an enormous amount of poetry and other literary writing. And that is not all: these works open the door to the classical world--the strange, surprising, and profound cultures of ancient Greece and Rome on which our own civilization is largely based. Lecture/discussion format.
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| Course Requirements: Weekly reading quizzes; six essays (three short, three longer); final exam
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| Required Texts: Homer, The Iliad (trans. Robert Fagles, Penguin); Homer, The Odyssey (trans. Edward McCrorie, Johns Hopkins UP); Ovid, Metamorphoses (trans. David Raeburn, Penguin); also, Jenny March, The Penguin Book of Classical Myths. |
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