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1/17/2018 W Introduction; groups questionnaires

Norton Anthology World Lit (NAWL) 123-134

Quiz Guide

HUMANISM
1/22/2018 M

The Renaissance

NAWL 135-161 Rabelais and humanism

Quiz guide

1/24/2018 W

Quiz on NAWL 135-161

Machiavelli, Rabelais

Biopic

Carnivalesque

Grotesque Body

Heteroglossia

Clothing of Theleme

Media

Renaissance Travel and Trade

  • NAWL 165-167; Sonnets: Petrarch 62 (p. 169); 333 (p.171); de la Vega 23 (173); labe 18 (174); Shakespeare 135 (180);
 
1/29/2018 M

Groups formed

Petrarchan and Shakespearean Sonnets

With your group, do the assigned activity.

Film: The Medici

NAWL Montaigne, essays (selected) 342-345; 353-362; The Wonderful year

Quiz guide

1/31/2018 W

The Essay: Montaigne; The Wonderful Year (selections)

NAWL Life of Lazrillo de Tormes 302-342

Quiz guide

ENCOUNTERS WITH ISLAM/ "MOORS"
2/5/2018 M

Groups assigned; bring second half of group questionnaire next Monday, February 12 to complete with gruop

The Picaresque novel

This changed everything: Part 1 (start at 3:22)

NAWL Encounters with Islam 3-11; Orientalism

  • Quiz guide (includes links to films for Wednesday)
2/7/2018 W

Encounters with Islam

Guest Lecture: Robert Clines, Professor of History

Read Othello Act 1 (Listen to audio! on Blackboard! Reading is on Blackboard too)

Homework:

Look for metaphors (tenor and vehicle) in Act 1 of Othello and fill out this worksheet

 
2/12/2018 M

Discussion of Groups, Presentations, and Paper Topics (Othello)

Othello Act 1

  • Zeffirelli's Opera version
  • Words: soul, heaven, hell, damned, faith, Moore, handerchief, honest, whore/strumpet, love, monster, hate, devil, jealous

Imagery: black, white, military, animal (avoid), cannibalism, ocean, witchcraft, prostitution, clothing, travel (exotic), poison, nature, art, plants, monstrous birth

Play scenes

Othello Act 2
2/14/2018 W

Othello Act 2

  • 2.1.220-310 relay
  • 2.3.245 (film 1:03.18)

 

 

Othello Act 3 -4
 
2/19/2018 M

Othello 3-4

  • 3.3.90-end globe 1.18.20 (Parker 48.58)
  • 3.4 pass the handkerchief; read and watch lines 32 (Othello enters) to 98 (Othello exits)
  • 4.1 Globe version 2: 9:00
  • 4:2,3

 

Othello Act 5

On Blackboard

Finish watching the play (acts 4 and 5) using the globe production part 2 or the Trevor Nunn production or the Parker version. Engage in a real conversation about the play and the film(s) with some of your classmates, using one of these three prompts as a starting place (answer by replying):

  1. Some argue that by turning savage at the end, Othello confirms the worst racial stereotypes.  Others say that Iago destroys him by exploiting what we find noblest in human beings—their ability to love passionately, their trust in others, and their idealism.  Which do you believe? Support your argument with the text. How does either the Parker or the globe film support your answer?
  2. In 4.3, Emilia challenges the double standard of expecting chastity and fidelity of women only. How is that double standard and the fear of female infidelity a destructive force in Shakespeare’s plays, not only for women but for men? Are the men and women in this play (and the sexual roles they play) shaped by other forces such as gender, class, colonialism and race, and/or nationality? Support your argument with the text and, possibly, the film(s). 
  3. Othello’s mysterious background (Egyptian, Asian, Moorish, Spanish, Muslim, Christian convert, victim of Muslim pirates, etc.) makes him an amalgamation of 17th century British notions about empire, notions fed by a belief in racial superiority over those they colonized. To what extent do you see Othello as a product of colonialism (or, as Said say, "Orientalism"? Does he confirm those stereotypes or confound them—or both? Does the film you watched shape your sense of him? Why or why not?


2/21/2018 W

Othello 5

 

This changed everything: Part 2

(Blackboard): Galileo's Telescope 13-42

Quiz guide

MATH AND SCIENCE
2/26/2018 M

Galileo's Telescope 13-42

Lecture: Art of Renaissance Science (also on Youtube)

Presentation 1: Sultan and the Organ

Galileo's Telescope 43-82

Quiz guide

2/28/2018 W

Galileo's Telescope 43-82

 

Working thesis for paper due (we will work on this in class; bring your "metaphor sheet" that you worked on with Othello)

Galileo's Telescope (84-102)

Quiz guide

 
3/5/2018 M SPRING BREAK
3/7/2018 W SPRING BREAK
3/9/2018 F SPRING BREAK
3/12/2018 M

Working thesis for paper due (we will work on this in class; bring your "metaphor sheet" that you worked on with Othello)

Galileo's Telescope

Galileo's Telescope (103-154)
3/14/2018 W

Poetry and Science; Bacon and the scientific method

Presentation 2: Galileo's Muse (Poetry) 67-95

Galileo's Telescope (155-180)

Do Blackboard discussion of Galileo's Muse through 180; get Working thesis to me by Wednesday (tonight).

 
3/19/2018 M

Discussion of Working theses

Galileo's Telescope

Presentation 3: Galileo's Muse (Music) 149-197

Galileo's Telescope (181-226)
3/21/2018 W Lecture: Professor Will Peebles Galileo's Telescope (227-248)
 
3/26/2018 M

Discussion of thesis and imagery support; schedule group ppt presentations in my office

Finish Galileo's Telescope In Motion

Lecture: Professor Sloan Despeaux, Professor of Mathematics

Read Renaissance Art, 1-52

 

 

3/28/2018 W NO CLASS
MATH, SCIENCE, AND ART
4/2/2018 M Presentation: Galileo's Muse (Painting): 93-149 NAWL Teresa of Avila 757-761; John Donne Holy Sonnets 768-70; Herbert The Windows; John Knox, Monstruous Regiment of Women (or read PDF on Blackboard) (excerpts)
4/4/2018 W

Intro to Renaissance Art and John Donne

 

Beware the Cat (See Blackboard)

Read about half of Beward the Cat and do the secret quiz assignment I assigned in class.

AND RELIGION
4/9/2018 M

Beware the Cat

Topsell's animals

Presentation 4: Galileo's Muse (Architecture) 197-136

Presentation 5: Renaissance Art (53-80)

Merchant of Venice (Act 1)
4/11/2018 W

 

Merchant of Venice Act 1

 

Read Merchant of Venice Act 2
 
4/16/2018 M

Merchant of Venice 2 First Draft of Paper due

  • Riddles: 2.1, 2.7 (Morocco), 2.9 (Aragon), 3.2 (Bassanio)
  • Lorenzo and Jessica 2.6
  • Shylock 3.1

Imagery Patterns:

  • Self knowledge and division (“two headed Janus”)
  • Ocean/storm/voyage/navigation/ “sandy hour glass” /
  • Religion, heresy, and conversion (as metaphors)
  • Money, venture, and investment
  • East (spices, exotic things)/ islands
  • Acting and stage-related things
  • Speech, words, and silence/
  • language (native and foreign)/ quibbles/ riddles/legal language
  • Games (archery, hazard)
  • Animals (especially unclean animals like dogs

Context/ Links

 

Presentation 6: Renaissance Art (81-105)

Read Merchant of Venice Act 3

4/18/2018 W

Merchant of Venice 3

  • 3.2 (Bassanio and Portia)
  • Shylock 3.1

Context/ Links

 

 

Read: Merchant of Venice Act 4-5
 
4/23/2018 M

Merchant of Venice 4-5

 

 

Read NAWL 517-519; selections 520-35, 542-47; 549-59, 566-71; Masque of Blackness
4/25/2018 W

Second Draft of Paper due (with at least one primary external source and one seconary external source)

Travel Narratives: Popol Vuh, Christopher Columbus,Cortes, Las Casas; Masque of Blackness

 

 
 
4/30/2018 M

Knight 29:45

Context--Reflexivity

Spectacle

LAST DAY OF CLASS

Homework: Respond to the most recent discussion board on Blackboard in the Content/Discussion Assignments (Renaissance: Final Reflections)
5/2/2018 W

 

 

 
Dr. Mary Adams, instructor
last updated 30-apr-18