This week you will read a selection of literary works from the Victorian Age to the twentieth century. Student Learning Outcomes Addressed:
· Identify key ideas, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions.
· Analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different literary periods.
Core Competencies Addressed:
· Biographical, historical and literary analysis
Readings: Essay One Instructions, Sample student paper, and rubric.
Start work on Literary Analysis Essay
From British Literature II (Volume II) , Part 2: The Victorian Age
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· Intro: The Victorian Movement in Literature, pages 286-289.
· Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses,” pages 337-338, and 351-353.
· Robert Browning, “The Last Duchess,” pages 429- 430, and 431-433.
· Charles Dickens, from Hardtimes, Chapters 1-4, pages 596-615.
From British Literature II (Volume II) , Part 3: Twentieth Century and Beyond
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· Intro-Modernism and Postmodernism as Literary Movements, pages, 878-885
· Virginia Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own,” Chapter 1, A Room of One’s Own.
· T. S. Eliot, “The Wasteland,” only “The Burial of the Dead,” pages 1086-89
· Samuel Beckett, 1106-1108, follow the link to read Act I of Waiting for Godot.
From A Glossary of Literary Terms
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· Dramatic monologue, pages 96-97
· Stream of consciousness, pages 378-379
· Literature of the Absurd, pages, 1-3
· Existentialism, Existential philosophy, page 180
· “ Stichomythia”
Assignments or Assessments: One Major Assignment. One Journal Assignment. One Discussion board post and responses.
One reading quiz on the readings for this week.
Supporting Documents: