課程介紹
This course surveys some of the major debates and developments in English poetry. It gives students the opportunity to explore seminal texts of poetry criticism such as Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Poetics as well as a range of poems, short and long ones, written in multiple forms from classical antiquity to the seventeenth-century. Poets studied in this course include Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Petrarch, William Shakespeare, and Milton. In reading and discussing a selected work, we will pay particular attention to its author, contexts and formal features. Above all, we will consider the ways in which poets engaged with important issues of their times that still matter to us.
教科書:
Selected texts will be made available in a course pack
教學進度:
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Week 1: Introduction (9/9)
Classical Poetry and Criticism (Week 2-3) Week 2: (9/16) Homer’s The Odyssey: Book 23 (II. 1-290) Ovid’s Heroides: Letter I (Penelope to Ulysses) Week 3: (9/23) Virgil’s Aeneid: Book IV (The Death of Dido) Week 4 (9/30) Virgil’s Aeneid: Book VI (The Kingdom of the Dead) Week 5 (10/7) Ovid’s Heroides, Letter VII (Dido); Dante’s Canto IV and V Week 6 (10/14) Plato’s Republic 2-3 and 10 Aristotle’s Poetics Week 7 (10/21) Plato’s Republic 2-3 and 10 Aristotle’s Poetics Week 8 (10/28) Group Presentations Week 9 (11/4) Mid-Term Week 10 (11/11) Shakespeare’s In Love (Film) Week 11 (11/18) The Italian and English Sonnets: Petrarch, Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard Week 12 (11/25) Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Soliloquy (Hamlet) Week 13 (12/2) Milton’s Paradise Lost: Book 1 Week 14 (12/9) Milton’s Paradise Lost: Book 2 Week 15 (12/16) Milton’s Paradise Lost: Book 4 Week 16 (12/23) Milton’s Paradise Lost: Book 8 Week 17 (12/30) Group Presentations Week 18 (1/6) Final |
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25% Oral and Writing Tasks (group presentations 20%; Oral presentation 5%)
10% attendance (attendance 10%) 65% exams (25% Midterm, 30% Final; quizzes 10%) Bonus Assignment: 5% Individual Presentation: Talk about a poem that fascinates you in a 5- minute talk. In it, you should recite the poem, briefly introduce its author and context as well as explain its appeal to you. Group Presentation: 2 group presentation on any topic of the team's choice in week 8 and 17. Writing Tasks: You should submit a 500-word essay based on your oral presentation |
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| Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website | ||||
| Study guides and reading questions sheets will be available via I-Learning BBC Podcasts: Plato’s Republic: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vwn6h Aristotle’s Poetics: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xw210 Virgil’s Aeneid: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9c1 Shakespeare’s Sonnets: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00547gy Milton’s Paradise Lost: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548bg |
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