Fall 2000 
TTh 12:30-1:45
247 Millett 
Henry Limouze

email: henry.limouze@wright.edu 

Required Text: Abrams, M. H., and Stephen Greenblatt, eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7^th ed. New York: Norton, 2000. Vol. 1.

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Note: all readings are listed by page number from the Norton Anthology, vol. 1. In each case, whether or not it is clearly specified, you are responsible for reading the editor’s introductory material for each work and writer, along with the specific assigned texts.

9/14 Introduction to the course; discussion of syllabus; rules, etc. "Anglo-Saxon
England," (23-26); "Wanderer" "Wife's Lament" and "Battle of Maldon"(99-109); handouts

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9/19 Introduction, "The Middle Ages" (1-22); Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (156-210); Skim: "Legendary Histories of Britain" (115-126)

9/21 Sir Gawain (concluded); Langland, Piers Plowman, excerpt (317-322)

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9/26 Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, General Prologue (210-235); Skim: "Middle English Lyrics" (349-355)

9/28 General Prologue, continued

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Page from a 14th century Psalter, showing "drolleries."  
At the bottom is a plowman

10/10 Midterm Examination I

10/12 "Mystery Plays" (379-380); "Noah's Flood" (381-391); "Second Shepherd's Play" (391-419); "Everyman" (445-467)

10/17 Introduction: "The Sixteenth Century" (469-498); Marlowe, Dr. Faustus (990-1025)

10/19 Marlowe, Dr. Faustus, continued

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10/24 Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (1043-1105)

10/26 Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, continued

The Globe Theater

10/31 Midterm Examination II

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11/7 Elizabethan Sonneteers: Sidney (916-933); Spenser (863-878)

11/9 Shakespeare, Sonnets (1026-1043)

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11/14 Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book I: Introduction to Spenser (614-616); introduction to FQ (622-624); Spenser's Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh (624-627); Canto 1 to Canto 7 (628-710)

11/16 FQ, Book I: Canto 8 to Canto 12 (710-772)

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11/21 FQ, II, The Bower of Blisse (772-783); III, The Garden of Adonis (826-839)

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Midterm Examination 1 (October 10) 25% of grade 
Midterm Examination 2 (October 31) 25% of grade
Final Examination (November 28) 30% of grade
Class participation and discussion group (4^th hour project) 20% of grade

I have created an electronic discussion group for this class. To use it, you must have an email address (though not necessarily a WSU email address) and be able to send and receive email. Initially, the discussion group is set up with your WSU email address (you have one, whether you know it or not). All messages sent to the distribution list will go to all members of the class. If you would prefer to use another email address instead of or along with your WSU address, you need to let me know. I will add that new address to the list. If you want to use your WSU email account and need assistance or instructions on how to access it, please see the CATS help desk in the library basement (775-4827).

This discussion group accounts for nearly all your writing in this class. It is also serves as the equivalent for the fourth, unmet hour for this class. Use the discussion group to converse with your classmates about the reading and discussion, to respond to my questions, to note relationships among readings, to raise your own questions or concerns, to argue points we can't always get to in class, or to alert the rest of us to an interesting find in your outside reading. Each week I will post some questions (four to eight, usually) on the readings for that week; feel free to respond to any of my questions. Or quote a passage from one of the week's readings and frame your own discussion around it.

In order to receive a grade of C for discussion group participation you will need to make FOUR substantive postings, either raising and following up on an issue for discussion or responding in depth to an ongoing discussion. A grade of B requires SIX substantive postings, while a grade of A requires EIGHT substantive postings. Do not put your participation off until the end of the quarter. I will count no more than two entries in each of the final three weeks of the course, so if you want an A for the discussion group section of the course, you will need to post at least two substantive messages during weeks one through seven. Start early and post often!

Although I have not specifically listed "Attendance" among the requirements for this course, it can count in a negative way. This TTh class meets only 20 times during this quarter--if you miss only two classes, you miss 10% of the course. Therefore, I will enforce the following policy on attendance:

One to three absences  --  No penalty
Four to six absences  --  Final grade drops one letter grade 
Seven or more absences  --  F for course

Academic honesty is likewise essential to the fair and successful conduct of class, and dishonesty will be punished. Dishonesty includes various kinds of cheating, "plagiarism" (defined as the use of the words or ideas of another as if they were your own), and copying the work of another student in a test. Penalties for academic dishonesty can be severe; in most cases the work will receive a grade of zero.

INSTRUCTOR Henry Limouze
Email: henry.limouze@wright.edu
Office: 126 Allyn
Hours:  Mondays and Fridays 12-2
             Tuesdays and Thursdays 2-4 and by appointment

Phone: 775-2093 (my desk); 775-3136 (office)

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