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?