NEO-CLASSICISM AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT
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Out of This Western World Literature:
Schedule for Readings, Requirements, and Activities
Joel Peckham
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NEO-CLASSICISM AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Wednesday, August 29
Review of Syllabus: Course Requirements
Presentation Sign-up
On Reading--Formal Features
Monday September 3
"Seventeenth Century Enlightenment Thought," WEBDOC
"The 18th Century," WEBDOC
The Philosophes
"Micromegas," Voltaire HANDOUT
Wednesday, September 5
Gulliver's Travels, Preface through Part I
Jonathon Swift "The Case of England," WEBDOC
Monday, September 10
No Class
Wednesday, September 12
Gulliver's Travels, Part II, A Voyage to Brobdingnag
Jonathon Swift
Monday, September 17
Gulliver's Travels, Part III, A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, and Japari
Jonathon Swift "The Scientific Revolution," WEBDOC
Supplementary Reading: Gulliver's Travels, Baron's Booknotes
Wenesday, September 19
Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
Jonathon Swift
Monday, September 24
"Romanticism" Paul Brian WEBDOC
Faust, prologue through scene 4, Goethe
Barons Booknotes
Wednesday, September 26
Faust, Handouts, Goethe
Monday, October 1
Frankenstein,preface through chapter 9, Mary Shelley
"Prometheus," Byron HANDOUT
"Kublah Khan," Coleridge HANDOUT
Supplementary Reading: Frankenstein, Pink Monkey Notes
Wednesday, October 3
MID-TERM QUIZZAM
Frankenstein,chapter 9 through chapter 16, Mary Shelley
"Fall of the House of Usher," E.A Poe HANDOUT
Monday, October 8
No Class
Wednesday, October 10
No Class
Monday, October 15
Frankenstein, finish, Mary Shelley
Wednesday, October 17
"The Horla," Guy de Maupassant HANDOUT
Selection From War of the Worlds
"The Star," H.G. Wells HANDOUT
Monday, October 22
Modernism / Postmodernism Handout
"Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," T.S. Eliot Webdoc
"The Second Coming," W.B. Yeats Webdoc
"World War I"
"With Our Soldiers at the Front," Sherwood Eddy
Wednesday, October 24
"Pickman's Model,"
"The Vault,"
"Supernatural Horror," H.P Lovecraft HANDOUTS
Monday, October 29
We, Introduction through Record 7 Yevgeny Zamyatin
"Tsarist Russia During the War" Trotsky
Literary Paper Rough Draft or Literary Paper Prompt due
Wednesday, October 31
We, Record 8 through Record 19 Yevgeny Zamyatin
Monday, November 5
We, Record 20 through Record 28 Yevgeny Zamyatin
Wednesday, November 7
We, Record 28 through the end Yevgeny Zamyatin
Monday, November 12
OTSP, Chapters 1-7 C.S. Lewis
The baptized imagination: C. S. Lewis's fictional apologetics
Wednesday, November 14
OTSP, Chapters 8-13 C.S. Lewis
Monday, November 19
OTSP, finish C.S. Lewis
Wednesday, November 21
Ursela LeGuinn and Raymond Bradbury Selections TBA
"The Invasion Has Begun," Corliss HANDOUT
Last Day for Revisions
Monday, November 26
Stephen King and Ann Rice Selections TBA
Selections From Danse Macabre
Wednesday, November 28
Magic Realism Selections TBA
Monday, Dec 3
Magic Realism Selections TBA
BONUS READING
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Cask of Amontillado E.A. Poe (American Romantic)
