Kelli McBride
ENG 2433 & HUM 2433: World Literature I
THE EPIC
Fall 2007
Okemah Class - 5 Saturdays 8am - 5pm
Beginning August 18, 2007
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Tentative Class Schedule
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8/18 Week 1: Introduction & The Epic |
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Introduction to Class Syllabus Overview Pre-Test |
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The Epic |
handout | |
| Video: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (excerpts) (>60 minutes) | ||
| The Invention of Writing & the Earliest Literature | 3-6 | |
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Gilgamesh |
Introduction and All Books | 10-41 |
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Ancient Greece & the Formation of the Western Mind |
105-11 | |
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Iliad |
Video: In Search of the Trojan War (60 minutes) |
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| Homer | 114-19 | |
| VIDEO: Troy (162 minutes) | ||
| Read Book: 1 | 120-36 | |
| Book 16 | 166-77 | |
| Book 18 (lines 1-414) | 177-86 | |
| Book 22 | 192-205 | |
| Book 24 | 205-25 | |
| Read Spark Notes Summary of Books 6, 8, 9, 18 | ||
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Odyssey |
Introduction |
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| Video: The Odyssey (180 minutes) | ||
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Read Book 1 |
225-36 | |
| Book 2 | 236-46 | |
| Book 3 (lines 80-354) | 248-54 | |
| Book 4 (lines 246-305) | 264-65 | |
| Book 5 (lines 203-515) | 283-89 | |
| Book 9 and 10 | 319-47 | |
| Book 11 (lines 438-604) | 357-61 | |
| Book 12 (lines 120-61; 242-419; 444-536) | 366-76 | |
| Book 13 (lines 350-414; 435-44; 464-511) | 376-88 | |
| Book 18 | 447-58 | |
| Book 19 (1-420) | 458-68 | |
| Book 21 | 483-94 | |
| Book 22 | 494-507 | |
| Book 23 (lines 1-313; 354-380) | 507-16 | |
| Read Spark Notes Summary of Books 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 23, 24 | ||
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8/25 Week 2: The Epic, continued |
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| Continue The Odyssey | ||
| The Roman Empire | 1041-43 | |
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The Aeneid |
Virgil | 1052-54 |
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Aeneid (read all summaries between books in our text) Book 1 Book 2 (lines 305 to end) Book 4 (lines 1-170; 215-526; 571-634; 704-846; 872-904) Book 6 (lines 232-264; 521-540; 619-632; 661-79; 770 to end) Book 8 Book 12 |
1055-63 1070-85 1085-1105
1112-25
1125-29 1129-34 |
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The Formation of a Western Literature |
1621-23 | |
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Beowulf |
Video: Beowulf and the Anglo-Saxons (64 minutes) |
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| Introduction | 1626-31 | |
| Video: Beowulf (20 minutes) | ||
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Read: lines 1-862 924-1061 1161-2424 2510-2915 3000-to end |
1632-50 1652-55 1659-86 1688-96 1698-1702 |
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| TAKE HOME EXAM ON EPIC LITERATURE | Due 9/1 | |
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9/1 Week 3: Tragedy |
Handout |
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Ancient Greece |
Aeschylus Sophocles Video Oedipus (90 minutes) Oedipus the King Euripides Medea |
533-37 612-16
617-58 693-94 695-725 |
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Golden Age of Japanese Culture |
2143-45 |
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Japan |
No Drama Buddhism Atsumori |
2342-49 handout 2350-61 |
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The Renaissance in Europe |
2465-72 |
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England |
Shakespeare Video: Othello (123 minutes) Othello |
2821-28
2919-96 |
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TAKE HOME EXAM ON TRAGEDY |
Due 9/8 | |
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9/8 Week 4: Miscellaneous Fiction & Non-Fiction |
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India's Heroic Age |
880-86 |
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| Bhagavad Gita | Introduction | 1010-13 |
| All | 1014-28 | |
| The Rise of Islam & Islamic Literature | 1419-23 | |
| 1001 Nights |
Introduction |
1566-68 |
| Video: Arabian Nights (clips: 90 minutes) | ||
| Prologue | 1569-76 | |
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The Tale of the Ox & the Donkey |
1576-77 | |
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The Tale of the Merchant & His Wife |
1577-79 | |
| The Tale of the King's Son and the She-Ghoul | 1600-10 | |
| The Tale of the Enchanted King | 1610-18 | |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Pearl Poet | 1991-2044 |
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9/15 Week 5: Miscellaneous Fiction |
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| Canterbury Tales | Chaucer | 2044-2118 |
| The Prince |
Machiavelli from The Prince |
2517-19 2521-2533 |
| Don Quixote |
Miguel Cervantes Video: Man of La Mancha (129 minutes) |
2671-2782 |
| Old Testament |
Joseph and Job |
66-92 |
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Greek & Roman Poetry |
Sappho Catullus |
530-533 1046-51 |
| Study break to prepare for Post-Test | ||
| Reading Journals Due | ||
| Post-Test | ||
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