A survey of English literature from 1660 to the present. Poetry, fiction, drama and intellectual prose by such central writers as Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Bronte, Carlyle, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Woolf, Joyce and Eliot. Credit will not be given for both ENG 262 and ENG 251.
GEP Categories
Humanities
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Each course in the Humanities category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
Explain how Britain’s hopes and concerns as a rising world power are reflected in its literature.
Measure, first paper assignment, second question:
[quote from Gulliver’s Travels, p.172]
In this book, evidently engaged with the idea of exploration and discovery of new lands and peoples, does Gulliver himself represent the modern colonizer? Is he more like those who are colonized by others? Is he both? Choose whatever you think makes the best evidence from any of the 4 voyages to make your case.
Analyze the key role of representation and figurative language in the ways British writers and poets imagined the world within their literature.
Measure: First paper assignment, first question:
Explain, by using whatever evidence in the story you find most persuasive, how Behn consistently represents Oroonoko as always internally divided, torn between differing and often conflicting peoples, races, genders, and cultural values. Does this repeated pattern of divisions in the story help to explain the peculiarly grisly and vivid detail in Behn’s depiction of Oroonoko’s death?
Express literary interpretations in focused, coherent writing that draws upon evidence from class texts.
Measure: second paper assignment follows a draft/revision of draft process; second question
Second Paper Topics.
· Paper due as a draft at the start of class
· Revised paper due at the start of the final exam
· You are to pick only one of these questions and write a well-organized essay about it.
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Option 2. What is the significance of those strange, echoing Marabar caves in the middle of the story in Forster’s A Passage to India? Develop an interpretation of the novel that considers the “Boum” of these caves (heard by Mrs. Moore, Dr. Aziz, and Adela) in relation to the rest of the story that unfolds both in and beyond the caves. Why is this odd sound at the center of the story?
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Each course in the Mathematial Sciences category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to:
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Each course in the Natural Sciences category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to:
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Each course in the Social Sciences category
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guidance that help students to:
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Each course in the Interdisciplinary Perspectives category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
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Each course in the Visual and Performing Arts category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
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Each course in the Health and Exercise Studies category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
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Each course in the Global Knowledge category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to achieve objective #1 plus at least one of objectives 2, 3, and 4:
Please complete at least 1 of the following student objectives.
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Each course in the US Diversity category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to achieve at least 2 of the following
objectives:
Please complete at least 2 of the following student objectives.
a. If seats are restricted, describe the restrictions being applied.
b. Is this restriction listed in the course catalog description for the course?
List all course pre-requisites, co-requisites, and restrictive statements (ex: Jr standing; Chemistry majors only). If none, state none.
Credit will not be given for both ENG 262 and ENG 251.
List any discipline specific background or skills that a student is expected to have prior to taking this course. If none, state none. (ex: ability to analyze historical text; prepare a lesson plan)
Complete the following 3 questions or attach a syllabus that includes this information. If a 400-level or dual level course, a syllabus is required.
Title and author of any required text or publications.
Morillo, John. Broadview Anthology of British Literature/ ENG 262: English LIterature II -- Beyond Britain Course Pack. ($21.95)
Forster, E.M. "A Passage to India." Harcourt Brace, 1984 . $18.40
Major topics to be covered and required readings including laboratory and studio topics.
The British Empire.
West Africa, Surinam (South America).
Aphra Behn, biography; "Oronoko, or the Royal Slave."
Holland, France.
Defoe, Daniel. "The True-Born Englishman."
Scotland, Wales.
Pittis, William. "The True-Born Englishman Answer'd."
Johnathan Swift, biography; "Gulliver's Travels."
Ireland, Japan, Australia.
Alexander Pope, biography; "Windsor-Forest."
Ireland, America, Canada.
Oliver Goldsmith, biography; "The Deserted Village," "The Rising Village."
Written Arguments.
Africa, the Carolinas.
Olaudah Equiano, biography; "Narrative of the Life."
The idea of Empire.
Anna Barbauld, biography; "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven."
Scotland, Turkey.
George Gordon (Lord Byron), biography; "The Giaour, A Turkish Tale."
Africa: Mouth of the Nile River, the Mediterranean Sea.
Felicia Hemans, biography; "Casabianca."
Persia/Iran, India.
Edward Fitzgerald, biography; "The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam."
Ireland.
William Yeats, biography; "The Struggle for Irish Independence," "Easter 1916," "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen."
India, Afghanistan.
Kipling, Rudyard. "The Man Who Would Be King."
E.M. Forster, biography; "A Passage to India."
List any required field trips, out of class activities, and/or guest speakers.
The instructor will teach this class as part of his normal teaching load.