Kelli McBride
ENG 2433 & HUM 2433: World Literature I
THE EPIC
Fall 2007
Okemah Class - 5 Saturdays 8am - 5pm
Beginning August 18, 2007
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Tentative Class Schedule
8/18 Week 1: Introduction & The Epic
Introduction to Class; Syllabus Overview; Pre-Test
The Epichandout
Video: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (excerpts) (>60 minutes)
The Invention of Writing & the Earliest Literature3-6
Gilgamesh
Introduction and All Books10-41
Ancient Greece & the Formation of the Western Mind105-11
Iliad
Video: In Search of the Trojan War (60 minutes)
Homer114-19
VIDEO: Troy(162 minutes)
Read Book: 1120-36
Book 16166-77
Book 18 (lines 1-414)177-86
Book 22192-205
Book 24205-25
Read Spark Notes Summary of Books 6, 8, 9, 18 (links to web pages on class web site)
Odyssey
Introduction
Video: The Odyssey (180 minutes)
Read Book 1225-36
Book 2236-46
Book 3 (lines 80-354)248-54
Book 4 (lines 246-305)264-65
Book 5 (lines 203-515)283-89
Book 9 and 10319-47
Book 11 (lines 438-604)357-61
Book 12 (lines 120-61; 242-419; 444-536)366-76
Book 13 (lines 350-414; 435-44; 464-511)376-88
Book 18447-58
Book 19 (1-420)458-68
Book 21483-94
Book 22494-507
Book 23 (lines 1-313; 354-380)507-16
Read Spark Notes Summary of Books 3, 4, 5, 6,7, 8,11, 12, 13, 14,16, 17,19, 20,23, 24 (links to web pages on class web site)
8/25 Week 2: The Epic, continued
Continue The Odyssey
The Roman Empire1041-43
TheAeneid
Virgil1052-54
Aeneid(read all summaries between books in our text)
Book 11055-63
Book 2 (lines 305 to end) 1070-85
Book 4 (lines 1-170; 215-526; 571-634; 704-846; 872-904) 1085-1105
Book 6 (lines 232-264; 521-540; 619-632; 661-79; 770 to end) 1112-25
Book 81125-29
Book 121129-34
The Formation of a Western Literature1621-23
Beowulf
Video: Beowulf and the Anglo-Saxons (64 minutes)
Introduction1626-31
Video: Beowulf (20 minutes)
Read: lines 1-8621632-50
Lines924-10611652-55
Lines 1161-24241659-86
Lines 2510-29151688-96
Lines 3000-to end1698-1702
TAKE HOME EXAM ON EPIC LITERATUREDue 9/1
9/1 Week 3: TragedyHandout
Ancient Greece
Aeschylus533-37
Sophocles612-16
Video Oedipus (90 minutes)
Oedipus the King617-58
Euripides693-94
Medea695-725
Golden Age of Japanese Culture2143-45
Japan
No Drama2342-49
Buddhismhandout
Atsumori2350-61
The Renaissance in Europe2465-72
England
Shakespeare2821-28
Video: Othello (123 minutes)
Othello2919-96
TAKE HOME EXAM ON TRAGEDYDue 9/8
9/8 Week 4: Miscellaneous Fiction & Non-Fiction
India's Heroic Age880-86
Bhagavad Gita
Introduction1010-13
All1014-28
The Rise of Islam & Islamic Literature 1419-23
1001 Nights
Introduction1566-68
Video: Arabian Nights (clips: 90 minutes)
Prologue1569-76
The Tale of the Ox & the Donkey1576-77
The Tale of the Merchant & His Wife1577-79
The Tale of the King's Son and the She-Ghoul1600-10
The Tale of the Enchanted King1610-18
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Pearl Poet and Text1991-2044
9/15 Week 5: Miscellaneous Fiction
Canterbury Tales
Chaucer and Tales2044-2118
The Prince
Machiavelli2517-19
from The Prince2521-2533
Don Quixote
Miguel Cervantes and Chapters2671-2782
Video: Man of La Mancha (129 minutes)
Old Testament
Joseph and Job66-92
Greek & Roman Poetry
Sappho530-533
Catullus1046-51
Study break to prepare for Post-Test
Reading Journals Due
Post-Test