Ancient Literature [still in design phase]
ENG 252 WebBoard (post by Thursday 11:59 pm)
Acibiades Mosaic
from Sparta
about 350 BC
| Professor: Bill McBride | Credit hours: 3 |
| Meeting time: 2:00-3:15 T & R | Meeting place: STV 0229 |
| Office/Hours: Williams 208/T & R: 3:30-4:30pm | Office Phone 438-7998 |
email: Me
It is
the weekly responsibility of each student
1) to have closely read in advance
the work scheduled,
2) prepare an analysis of a
selected passage,
3) present analysis when called
upon either Tuesday or Thursday
other
Links
Documents
Scanned into My Public Folder
(requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
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here if you don't already have Acrobat)
Merriam-Webster Dictionary/Thesaurus
STEPHEN
As a matter of fact it is of no importance whether Benedetto Marcello found it
or made it. The rite is the poet's rest. It may be an old hymn to Demeter or
also illustrate Coela enarrant gloriam Domini. It is susceptible of nodes or
modes as far apart as hyperphrygian and mixolydian and of texts so divergent as
priests haihooping round David's that is Circe's or what am I saying Ceres'
altar and David's tip from the stable to his chief bassoonist about his
almightiness. Mais, nom de nom, that is another pair of trousers. Jetez la
gourme. Faut que jeunesse se passe. (He stops, points at Lynch's cap, smiles,
laughs.) Which side is your knowledge bump?
THE CAP (With saturnine spleen.) Bah! It is because it is. Woman's reason.
Jewgreek is greekjew. Extremes meet. Death is the highest form of life. Bah!
Episode 14 - Oxen Of The Sun
Required Texts
The Holy Bible: King James Version Bible Gateway
-Hebrew Bible: Genesis, Judges, Job
-New
Testament: Mathew, Acts, Romans
Homer. The Odyssey. Robert Fagles, (Translator) Penguin Books
Sophocles.
The Oedipus Cycle:
Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Harvest/HBJ Book
Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translation. Ahmed Ali. Princeton University Press; Bilingual edition
Fa-Digi Sisoko. The Epic of Son-Jara. A West African Tradition. Indiana UP 1992.
Chretien de Troyes. Arthurian Romances. Penguin Classics.
First choice:
Miguel De Cervantes. Don Quixote: The Ormsby Translation, Revised Backgrounds and Sources Criticism. Norton
If Ormsby is unavailable: Don Quijote: A New Translation, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism. Norton.
Dante Alighieri. Vita Nuova Oxford Mark Musa, trans.
-----. The Inferno. Oxford University Press. Sinclair, trans
Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. [1719] Norton.
Voltaire. Candide : or Optimism [1759] Raffel, Trans Yale University Press
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von The Sufferings of Young Werther. [1774] Trans. Morgan. Continuum 1990. ·
Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis : The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. Princeton University Press
Format of Course
Lecture/Seminar/Discussion. All students will
1. Post weekly responses (500 word minimum) to
readings/lectures/discussion via WebBoard;
2. Write 5-7 pp essay on one of the texts.
3. Post Final Research Paper Thesis.
4. Final 10-15 pp Research Essay due end of semester.