LITERATURE HUMANITIES
SPRING 2001

 

HAM 407, TR 4:10-6:00
Instr. Göran Blix
e-mail:gmb21

Literature Humanities (Spring 2002)

HAM 407, TR 4:10-6:00

Instr. Göran Blix

e-mail: gmb21

 

Reading Assignment

Books/ Pages

N.B.

 

 

 

 

Jan. 22 & 24

 

 

 

Tuesday

Virgil, Aeneid

Bk. 1-3

 

Thursday

Virgil, Aeneid

Bk. 4-6

 

 

 

 

 

Jan. 29 & 31

 

 

 

Tuesday

Virgil, Aeneid

Bk. 7-9

 

Thursday

Virgil, Aeneid

Bk. 10-12

 

 

 

 

 

Feb. 5 & 7

 

 

 

Tuesday

Augustine, Confessions

Bk. 1-7

 

Thursday

Augustine, Confessions

Bk. 8-13

 

 

 

 

 

Feb. 12 & 14

 

 

 

Tuesday

Dante, Inferno

Canto 1-17

 

Thursday

Dante, Inferno

Canto 18-34

 

 

 

 

 

Feb. 19 & 21

 

 

 

 

 

Screening: Monday Feb. 18 (exact time to be announced)

Film: Bergman’s Seventh Seal

Tuesday

Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Women

Bergman, The Seventh Seal

Bk. I: 1-11, 14, 16, 27, 33-36, 46;

Thursday

Boccaccio, Decameron

Prologue (1-3); Day I: Intro (4-23) & novellas 1,2,3; Day II: 7,8,9; Day III: 1, 10; Day IV: Intro (284-291) & 1,2,5 

 

 

 

 

Feb. 26 & 28

 

 

 

Tuesday

Boccaccio, Decameron

Day V: 4,10; Day VI: complete; Day VII: 2,6,8,9; Day VIII: 7; Day IX: 6, 10; Day X: 5,10; Epilogue (798-802)  

Film: Pasolini’s Decameron

Thursday

Montaigne, Essays

To the Reader (23), On Idleness (26-28), On the Power of the Imagination (36-48), On Cannibals (105-119), On Democritus & Heraclitus (130-33), On Repentance (235-50)

 

 

--6p paper due Monday Mar. 4

Paper 1

 

 

 

 

Mar. 5 & 7

 

 

 

Tuesday

Montaigne, Essays

On Experience (343-406) 

Thursday

Shakespeare, King Lear

Acts I-III

 

 

 

 

 

Mar. 12 & 14

 

 

 

Tuesday

Shakespeare, King Lear

Acts IV-V

 

Thursday

Midterm

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mar. 18-22

Spring Break

 

 

 

 

Mar. 26 & 28

 

 

 

Tuesday

Cervantes, Don Quixote

Part I: pp. 25-181, 199-214, 418-461 

Thursday

Cervantes, Don Quixote

Part II: pp. 467-492, 514-38, 562-70, 580-7, 607-624, 726-772, 926-940 

 

 

 

 

Apr. 2 & 4

 

 

 

Tuesday

Voltaire, Candide

Screening: Monday Apr. 4 (time to be specified)

Film: Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon

Thursday

Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Vol. I & Vol. II: Ch. 1-11 (1-149)

 

 

 

 

 

Apr. 9 & 11

 

 

 

Tuesday

Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Vol. II: Ch. 12-19 & Vol. III (149-298) 

Thursday

Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  Part I-II

 

 

 

 

Apr. 16 & 18

 

 

 

Tuesday

Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

Part III-IV

 

Thursday*

Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

Part V-VI & Epilogue

 

 

 

 

 

Apr. 23 & 25

 

 

 

Tuesday

Woolf, To the Lighthouse

The Window

 

Thursday

Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Time Passes & The Lighthouse

 

 

 

 

 

Apr. 30 & 2

 

 

 

Tuesday

Calvino, Invisible Cities

 

 

Thursday

Calvino, Invisible Cities

 

 

 

 

--8p paper due Thursday May 2

Paper 2

May 10

 

 

 

Friday

Final Exam

Time: 12:30-3:30