Texts, Readings and Assignments

SPRING 2002

[revised 4/29/02]

Required Texts (available at the Odyssey Bookstore)

Ann Raimes. Keys for Writers: A Brief Handbook. 2nd edition. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, [1999].

Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Translated by Douglas Parmee. New York: Oxford University Press, [1995].

W. A. Mozart, Don Giovanni.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust I & II (Goethe: The Collected Works, Vol. 2), Boston, 1984.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman. New York and London: Penguin Books.

Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita. Translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor. New York: Vintage, [1995].

Tom Stoppard, Arcadia. London and Boston: Faber and Faber, [1993].

Writing Assignments

A short paper ( one page) will be assigned in the first week of classes. There will be four longer papers, ranging in length from three to eight pages; due dates will be announced by the end of the first week of classes.

 

Students will use WebCT and the commenting feature in Microsoft Word to exchange drafts of their papers with other students and the writing mentor and to make and receive comments on those drafts. Instructions for this process are available on the course's WebCT site.

 

 Week of Monday,    
Jan 28 M

John Milton, Paradise Lost, brief excerpts from Satan's speeches.

Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

     
  W  Les Liaisons Dangereuses
  F One Page exercise due in WebCT
 Feb 4 M

Les Liaisons Dangereuses Comments due

Film: Dangerous Liasons, dir. Frears. (1988, English, 120 minutes) 7:00 PM, Gamble Auditorium.

     
  W Les Liaisons Dangereuses Revised exercise due
     
 Feb 11 M

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Film: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, dir. Roger Vadim (1960, French with subtitles, 111 minutes) 7:00 PM, Hooker Auditorium (changed location)

                            
W Les Liaisons Dangereuses Assign 3-page paper
     
 Feb 18 M

Mozart, Don Giovanni

Film: Don Giovanni, dir. Joseph Losey (1978)
Italian with English subtitles, 177 min
Gamble Auditorium (106A Art), 7:00 pm

     
  W  Don Giovanni     Draft due

 

F Comments due
Feb 25 M Don Giovanni
     
  W Don Giovanni Revised paper due
  F  
 Mar 4  M

Goethe, Faust, Part I, first half (approximately)

Talk: "Goethe's Faust"
Elizabeth Krimmer
Department of German, Mount Holyoke College
Hooker Auditorium (Clapp), 7:00 pm.

   
W Goethe, Faust, Part I, complete
  F Third paper draft due
Mar 11 M Faust paper comments due
     
  W Faust Third paper due before spring break.
     
   

Midsemester Break, Saturday March 16-Sunday March 24.
     
Mar 25 M Shaw, Man and Superman
     
  W Man and Superman
     
April 1 M Man and Superman. Lecture: "The New Woman." Amy Martin, Department of English, Mount Holyoke College. 7 PM, Hooker
     
  W Man and Superman
April 8 M

Bulgakov, Master and Margarita

Talk: "The Devil Comes to Moscow"
Peter Scotto
Department of Russian, Mount Holyoke College
Hooker Auditorium (Clapp), 7:00 pm

     
  W  Master and Margarita                                         
     
April 15 M

Master and Margarita Draft of fourth paper due (5 pp)

Film, 7 PM, Hooker, The Gospel according to St. Matthew, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1964), 125 min.

     
  W Master and Margarita Comments due
     
April 22 M Stoppard, Arcadia Revised fourth paper due by 5 PM in box outside 638 Library. Campus tour during class time led by Peter Carini,, head of the MHC Archives; meet in front of Abbey Chapel at 11 AM.
     
  W Arcadia
     
April 29 M Arcadia Lecture, Prof. Mark Peterson, MHC; The Mathematics and Physics of Arcadia." 7 PM, Hooker
     
  W Arcadia
     
  F Draft of fifth paper due (8 pp)
     
May 6 M Comments due
    Fifth paper due before end of examination period
   

Classes End Tuesday, May 7

Reading Days Wednesday, May 8 and Thursday, May 9.

Final Examinations Friday May 10-Thursday May 16 (noon)