Course Materials
Introduction
- π Historical Context (The Norton Anthology of English Literature)
- π Excerpt from George Eliot's Middlemarch
- π Excerpt from James Joyce's Ulysses
- π Thomas Hardy, "The Darkling Thrush"
- π Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"
- π Slide Deck
Thomas Hardy
- π "On the Western Circuit"
- π Handout
- π Discussion Questions
Supplements
- π "Hap"
- πΌ "The Day After the Fair" (1986)
James Joyce
Critical Commentary
- π Margot Norris, "The Perils of Eveline"
Supplements
Assignments - βοΈ Assignment 2: "The Boarding House"
T. S. Eliot
Supplements
- π William Shakespeare, Speech: βTo be, or not to be, that is the questionβ
- π Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses"
- π William Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
- π Wikipedia: Dramatic monologue
Katherine Mansfield
- π "The Garden Party"
- πΌ PBS TV Adaptation (1973)
Assignments
World War I Poets
- π Brooke, "The Soldier"; Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est"
- π Edward Thomas, "Adlestrop"
- π Siegfried Sassoon, "Glory of Women"
Supplements
- π Sophie Okonedo reads "The Soldier"
- π Kenneth Branagh reads "Dulce et Decorum Est"
- π Richard Burton reads "Adlestrop"
- π Someone reading "Glory of Women"
- πΌ Movie: Benediction about Siegfried Sassoon
- π Slide Deck
Samuel Beckett
- π Waiting for Godot
- π§ Study Guide: Cliffs Notes with summaries
- π Notes
- π Discussion Questions
- π The Theater of the Absurd
Critical Commentary
- π Martin Esslin, "The Absurdity of the Absurd"
- π Ruby Cohn, "En attendant Godot"
Supplements
- πΌ Steve Martin & Robin Williams in a 1986 production
- πΌ Zero Mostel and Burgess Meredith 1961 version
- πΌ Waiting for Godot (2001, dir. Michael Lindsay-Hogg)
- πΌ San Quentin Workshop 1988 version
- π Columbia Masterworks Recording with the first American actors (1950s)
Tradition and its Discontents
- π Philip Larkin, "Church Going"
- π Seamus Heaney, "Digging"
- π "Church Going" Handout
Supplements
- π Philip Larkin reads "Church Going"
- π Seamus Heaney reads "Digging"
- π Dylan Thomas, "Fern Hill"
- π Allen Ginsberg, "A Supermarket in California"
Assignments
Violence and Complicity
- π Thom Gunn, "Black Jackets"
- π Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange - Chapter 1
- π Handout
Critical Commentary
- Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy - excerpt
- Phil Cohen, "Subcultural Conflict and Working-Class Community"
Supplements
- π Nadsat Glossary (the language of the droogs in A Clockwork Orange)
- πΌ A Clockwork Orange (1971, dir. Stanley Kubrick) - Opening scene
- π Wikipedia entry on the Mods and Rockers
- πΌ Video about the Mods and Rockers
Extra
- π Seamus Heaney, "Punishment"
- π Seamus Heaney reads "Punishment"
- π Wikipedia entry on The Tollund Man
- π BBC News reports on IRA violence against women
Hybridity and Postcoloniality
- π Kureishi, "My Son the Fanatic"
Assignments