Course Syllabus--Fall 2006

Eng 241: Survey of the Literature of England

Professor: D. F. Felluga
Office Hours: M, W, F 1:30-2:20
HEAV 430; telephone: 43770
E-mail: felluga@purdue.edu

Classes:
241 = M, W, F 12:30-1:20; HEAV 101
241H = M, W, F 2:30-3:20; HEAV 101

Required Texts (at University Bookstore):
Norton Anthology of British Literature
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (packaged with the Norton Anthology)
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (Dover Edition)

Course Description

Can poetry survive in our modern age? What are the generic parameters of poetry as a form of expression? What debt do we owe to the poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? In the course of responding to such questions, this class will come to understand the development of literature through the last two centuries. The class will also seek to understand and appreciate three novels and a novella; the emphasis, however, will be on poetry: in fact, the prose works are in many ways about the ideals of Romantic poetry.  

In this web site, you'll find a number of things that will aid you through this course, including chronologies, a sample 'A' paper, and a course Web page that includes definitions of terms that we will discuss over the course of the semester.   The Guide to Terms can be found at the following URL :

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~felluga/eng241/guide241.html

 


WEEK ONE:

whatever is, is right


WEEK TWO:

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting

Monday, August 28


WEEK THREE:

Beware! Beware! / His flashing eyes, his floating hair!

Monday, September 4: Labor Day


WEEK FOUR:

Thou has a voice, great Mountain, to repeal/Large codes of fraud and woe


WEEK FIVE:

feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes


WEEK SIX:

I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper


WEEK SEVEN:

I am Heathcliff!


WEEK EIGHT:

I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!


WEEK NINE:

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield

Monday, October 16


WEEK TEN:

This world's no blot for us


WEEK ELEVEN:

this is living art


WEEK TWELVE:

A sonnet is a moment's monument


WEEK THIRTEEN:

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold


WEEK FOURTEEN:
THANKSGIVING BREAK (November 20-24; class canceled November 20)
We have had enough of action, and of motion we


WEEK FIFTEEN:

"the changes take place inside, you know"


WEEK SIXTEEN:

One could almost write a whole chapter on [Okonkwo]. Perhaps not a whole chapter but a reasonable paragraph at any rate

 

 Course Policies

Guide to Terms

Introductory Guide to Critical Theory




Last Revised: November 7, 2006

Paintings courtesy of
Carol L. Gerten

Morris prints courtesy of
The William Morris Gallery