(July 1)
Here’s a run down of the plan for this course, what will be covered and when. Look out for the course notes for this week; I’ll be posting them in the next few days.
Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales (W2 to W5)
(Focusing on The General Prologue, the Knight’s Tale, and the Pardoner’s Tale)
Shakespeare – Plays (W6 to W10)
(Focusing on King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth)
Milton – Paradise Lost (W11 to W13)
19th Century Literature (W14 to W19)
Poetry and Prose
(including the Romantics, Gothic Literature, plus George Eliot and Thomas Hardy)
20th Century Literature (W20 to W24)
Poetry and Prose
(Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, and T.S. Eliot)
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Assignment 1: Read the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (available online and I’ll post a link in the next few days).
Assignment 2: Read up on the notes (posting in the next few days) on how to read literature and prepare essays.
