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