Last Entry!

Dear friends:

The semester has come to an end and I know you are busy with your final projects. I am waiving the quiz for this week, and I'd like you to pick a contemporary British author and comment on him/her. Make sure that nobody else picks the same writer.

The link is HERE.

New Authors on site March 2010 New Authors on site February 2010 New Authors on site January 2010 New Authors on site December 2009 More news...

Other comments...

1. Political Struggles
2. Mrs. Dalloway on Sparknotes.
3. James Joyce: Ulysses
4.Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984

Please number your posts!

20th C

 

Intro

Political Struggles

Anyone interested in something like THIS?


Yeats Audio Files

Virginia Woolf: A Movie 

Mrs. Dalloway on Sparknotes.

James Joyce: Ulysses


Click here to listen to Elliot's "The Burial of the Dead"


Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984

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Questions for discussion:


1. What is the significance of the image above?  (from NAEL)
2. After listening to the poems and media recreation, how do the readings make you feel?


I will post a different blog for all other comments.

Anti Christian Writers...

Jonathan Swift

Christianity

 The Lady's Dressing Room

 A Description of the Morning


 Also this week: email me your proposal as follows:

• Topic
• Kind of project (paper, acting out a play, reading of poems)
• Justification for your project
• How you plan to do it

For your final project, whatever it may be, I want to see:
1. Theme
2. Content and Philosophical Tendency
3. Relevance of Date and Place
4. Characters and Summary
5. Interpretation and aesthetics

The Restoration: Human Understanding

A Day in London

Legacy and Influence of Locke





A Serious Proposal to the Ladies



Let's talk about the London Fire, ideals and feminism.

18th Century...

If the 18th C sparked so many changes in Britain... does anyone know what was happening in El Salvador during those days? A little shift from literature (or maybe not)


Enemies of War

The Restoration

Intro

Pilgrim's Progress by Bunyan



A song by Dryden

Incantation To Oedipus By John...

Bacon, Hobbes and Milton

Links for this week

Leviathan
Bacon
Bacon: Read the intro, the first 5, then sonnets 10, 36, 107 and 151. http://www.sirbacon.org/Sonnet/sonnets.htm
A response 
See some essay samples here: http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/milton/miltonessay.htm

Milton

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By Wednesday: post on Leviathan
By Friday: Bacon
By Sunday: Paradise Lost

Volpone, Leviathan, Donne... This blog EXPIRES on Wednesday.

1. Who is this guy?

2. Volpone. What do we know? Mosca, everything happens in one day. Then there is a mention of 3 years... what?

The Seventeenth Century

Intro http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/17century/welcome.htm

Civil Wars of Ideas http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/17century/topic_3/welcome.htm

John Milton on Samson http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/17century/topic_3/samson.htm

Listen to music of this century here http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=43:175527



Question:

After reading Milton's Poem on page 445 below On The New Forcers..., why is Milton (the poet, not the teacher!) so upset about the Presbyterians and the Parliament?


Read who the people in the poem were

Let's take a break...

Please take a moment to evaluate the class so far. Do this anonymously: instead of signing it with your name, choose "anonymous." You make this class, so I need your help in identifying your needs. Thank you.

Copy and paste the following, and provide me with your feedback:

1. What I like the best about this class is...

2. What I would change about the course is...

3. I feel that the grading so far...

4. Something else I want to say is...

The Queen and the 16th Century

Queen of the silver screen ... Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I.


Relevant PDF of The Norton Anthology of English Literature p.593,614,909. http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/16century/welcome.htm

The Bible Translation by Tyndale http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/16century/topic_3/tyndale.htm

• Queen Elizabeth:
Bio http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/elizabio.htm
A poem http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/doubt.htm
Famous quotes http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/elizaquotes.htm

• Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene
Spenser: illustrations and cool data: http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg086.htm

• Sir Thomas More: Utopia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(book) Real Excerpt from Utopia: http://www.outlawsandhighwaymen.com/more.htm

Your First Assignment:
Learn more about the Queen... the Queen who never had sex -a myth?

Julian of Norwich

This was Julian's "cell" from which she wrote.




There is a powerful energy in her cell, now church.


What do you know?

Religious English

Week 5 Read the Intro for the 16th Century http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/16century/welcome.htm

The Bible Translation by Tyndale http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/16century/topic_3/tyndale.htm

Queen Elizabeth: Bio http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/elizabio.htm

A poem http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/doubt.htm

Famous quotes http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/elizaquotes.htm

Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene

Spenser: illustrations and cool data: http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg086.htm

Sir Thomas More: Utopia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(book)

Real Excerpt from Utopia: http://www.outlawsandhighwaymen.com/more.htm


Post your thoughts on Biblical English

Canterbury Tales

... just like

Cuentos de Barro

, won't you say? Thirty people walking to Canterburry, drinking, dancing... etc. What's your take?

Beowulf... anglo saxons and anglo normans

Let's begin by talking about your thoughts and ideas on Beowulf. Recuerden que no quiero que lo copien de algun lado de internet... quiero sus comentarios, no los de otras personas que ya lo han hecho.

What's going on with "old English"?

Middle Ages

Let's talk about the middle ages. What do you know? (DON'T GOOGLE IT!) Just tell me what you know off your head. What comes to mind? Gothic everything? Dark? What?

The Persistence of English

What are your thoughts?

Introduce yourself!

My name is Nelson and I work at Binghamton University in New York. To learn more about what I do click here. Let's use this blog as a forum to share ideas and to collaborate with others. Should you have any questions, please post them here as well.