ENG 199: Past weeks

• Fri Nov 18: Achebe and Harris essays and Heart of Darkness; writing workshop for creative assignment.
• Wed Nov 16: Heart of Darkness.
• Mon Nov 14: Heart of Darkness.
• Wed, Nov. 9, and Friday, Nov. 11: The Bloody Chamber and Brooke essay with Marjorie Allison.
• Mon, Nov. 7: no class.
• Week 11 (Oct 31 through Nov 4): Prof. Tom Joswick guest instructor. Fairy tales.
• Fri Oct 28: Class cancelled (baby!) A Tempest; Lamming, "A Monster, A Child, A Slave" and Robinson, "Caribbean Caliban."
• Wed Oct 26: Close reading workshop: A Tempest or The Tempest.
• Mon Oct 24: A Tempest.
• Fri, October 21: A little on The Tempest; then writing workshop: concision
• Weds, October 19: The Tempest; Scholes and Klaus as well; please consider what the four modes and three elements are, and how they can be applied to The Tempest.
• Monday, October 17: Familiarizing ourselves with The Tempest
• Friday, October 14: Midterm; evals; close reading and creative assignment due.
• Wednesday, October 12: Stein, Tender Buttons, and Murphy, "Familiar strangers."
• Monday, October 10: no class.
• Friday, October 7: Writing workshop: Williams 5 and 6. Bring your transformative essay!
• Wednesday: Keats poetry: "Isabella," "To Autumn," "On first looking into Chapman’s Homer." Read these and do research to understand them. Write down stanzas or lines you understand as well as any you don't (see handout).
• Monday, October 3: Keats poetry and tropes: Sonnets on page 7, Cat, Stanzas, Song of Myself, others.
• Friday, September 30: Discuss "The Intentional Fallacy" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn."
• Monday, Sept. 26: Discuss creative assignment; discuss Keats’s odes.
• Friday, Sept. 23: Writing workshop: close reading 2, compared to Williams and Gibaldi selections.
• Wednesday, Sept. 21: Group work on Scholes, "Word Games" and "Music" in relation to the sonnets.
• Monday, Sept. 19: Discuss Levin and the sonnets. You should have all the sonnets read by this date.
• Friday, Sept. 16: Discuss Scholes 3, "Word Games," (and Culler) in relation to sonnets, especially 1-30.
• Wednesday, Sept. 14: Writing workshop: close reading 2.
• Monday, Sept. 12: Discuss Shakespeare’s sonnets.
• Friday, Sept. 9: Writing workshop. Read Williams 1 and 2, "Understanding Style" and "Correctness." Skim Gibaldi Ch. 4 and formatting handout.
• Wednesday, Sept. 7: Read Burke's "Four Master Tropes" and Culler Ch. 4, "Language, Meaning, and Interpretation." Turn in Transformation essay.
• No class Monday, Sept. 5.
• Friday, Sept. 1: Bring Gibaldi. Review Section 3.7 "Quotations" carefully. Work on Transformation essay in class.

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