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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.
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| Jan 28 |
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John Milton, Paradise Lost, brief excerpts from Satan's
speeches.
Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses |
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One Page exercise due in WebCT |
| Feb 4 |
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses Comments due
Film: Dangerous Liasons, dir. Frears. (1988,
English, 120 minutes) 7:00 PM, Gamble Auditorium.
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses Revised
exercise due |
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| Feb 11 |
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Film: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, dir. Roger Vadim (1960,
French with subtitles, 111 minutes) 7:00 PM, Hooker
Auditorium (changed location)
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses Assign 3-page
paper |
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| Feb 18 |
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Mozart, Don Giovanni
Film: Don Giovanni, dir. Joseph Losey (1978)
Italian with English subtitles, 177 min
Gamble Auditorium (106A Art), 7:00 pm
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Don Giovanni Draft
due |
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Comments due |
| Feb 25 |
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Don Giovanni |
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Don Giovanni Revised paper due |
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| Mar 4 |
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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.
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Goethe, Faust, Part I, complete |
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Third paper draft due |
| Mar 11 |
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Faust paper comments due |
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Faust Third paper due before spring break. |
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Midsemester Break, Saturday March 16-Sunday March 24.
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| Mar 25 |
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Shaw, Man and Superman |
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Man and Superman |
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| April 1 |
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Man and Superman. Lecture:
"The New Woman." Amy Martin, Department of English,
Mount Holyoke College. 7 PM, Hooker |
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Man and Superman |
| April 8 |
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Bulgakov, Master and Margarita
Talk: "The Devil Comes to Moscow"
Peter Scotto
Department of Russian, Mount Holyoke College
Hooker Auditorium (Clapp), 7:00 pm
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Master and Margarita |
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| April 15 |
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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.
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Master and Margarita Comments due |
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| April 22 |
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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. |
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Arcadia |
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| April 29 |
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Arcadia Lecture,
Prof. Mark Peterson, MHC; The Mathematics and Physics of Arcadia."
7 PM, Hooker |
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Arcadia |
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Draft of fifth paper due (8 pp) |
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| May 6 |
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Comments due |
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Fifth paper due before end of examination period |
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Classes End Tuesday, May 7
Reading Days Wednesday, May 8 and Thursday,
May 9.
Final Examinations Friday May 10-Thursday
May 16 (noon)
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