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English 120: Introduction to British Literature, Medieval through Eighteenth Century Instructor: Kevin Chovanec TTh 2:00-3:15pm, Office Hours: TTh 12:30-2 and by appointment Course website: http://engl120fall16.web.unc.edu/ Course Description: This course surveys English literature from the early middle ages through the first half of the eighteenth century. While covering multiple centuries, we will become familiar with some of the most influential authors, movements, and literary forms, and we’ll trace the development and adaptation of popular genres. As an introductory literature course, English 120 will present the tools of literary criticism and hone our skill at discussing and writing about literature. I also aim to present foreign (because archaic) ways of thinking and to help students sympathetically inhabit the worldviews of the many writers on our syllabus – not to accept them uncritically, but to fully credit their complexity and recognize how they might both challenge and shape our own modern thought. We therefore will supplement a traditional essay with creative and performative assignments designed to encourage analytical thought. The question of the cultural place of literature – that is, what is literature supposed to do? And how have past thinkers and writers conceived of their literature? – will guide us through this incredibly diverse collection of the most esteemed writing in the history of English letters. Course Goals: At the end of this course, students should be able to do the following:

Recognize the major authors and movements of the English canon through 1750

Critically analyze (or “close read”) poetic and dramatic texts

Write a traditional literary analysis paper

Think pluralistically about literary and cultural history Required Texts: Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th Edition, Volume 1 Course Assignments: Assignment One: weekly reading responses or Genius annotations, as assigned (10 percent) Assignment Two: In utramque partem dialogue (1-2pp) (10 percent) Assignment Three: Sonnet and 1-2 page Analysis (10 percent) Assignment Four, part 1: 5-6 page analytical argument draft (15 percent) Assignment Four, part 2: 7-9 page analytical essay, with two scholarly sources. (20 percent) Midterm (15 percent) Final Exam (20 percent)

Guidelines for Assignments: All assignments should be prepared according to the following specifications before being submitted electronically:

12 point font, Times New Roman

Double-spaced

1” margins Note: It is crucial to turn in your work by the deadline. After each day that an assignment is not turned in, the final grade of your project will be diminished by half a letter grade Course Policies and Resources:

Plagiarism and the Honor Code:

As a member of the UNC-Chapel Hill community, one of the leading research institutions in the country, you are required to adhere to the university’s Honor Code. Part of the Honor Code (Section II.B.1) identifies plagiarism as an unacceptable violation that will not be tolerated. Plagiarism ranges in severity from purchasing a paper off the internet to improperly citing a quotation, and thus all cases will be

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addressed individually. If any instructor suspects a student of plagiarism, he or she will hold a conference with the student. The most common course of action after a confirmed incident of plagiarism is to submit the student’s name and infraction to the Honor Court. For more information on the honor code and the honor court system, visit the following website: http://honor.unc.edu/.

Writing Center:

The University Writing Center is available for all students who want or need to work on their writing. The Writing Center provides free, ungraded, one-on-one conferences with trained teachers. You can meet in person with a tutor, or utilize their online tutoring service. If you would like to talk with someone about a particular piece of writing or writing problems, follow this link to make an appointment: http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/writing.html. Go early and often, particularly if you're not getting the results you want in this class. To access the center’s main webpage, use the following address: <http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb>.

Attendance policy:

Students should attend every class. We will cover almost 1000 years of literature, which means we will have to move fast. Missing class will therefore inevitably effect your performance on exams and papers. Please note, also, that the university prescribes a failing grade to any student who misses more than two weeks of classes (5, for our TTh course).

Electronics policy:

Since we will occasionally use technology to help us approach the literature in new ways, laptops are permitted. You can take notes, read electronic versions of the texts, etc. Laptops, however, are to be used for class work only. That means no chatting, web surfing, facebooking, or e-mail checking during class. This goes for cellphone use in class, too. Always keep a backup copy of your assignments in case your computer crashes or your files become corrupted. You can simply email your files to yourself, use a flash drive to save them, and/or save them on google drive or dropbox. Students with Disabilities: In compliance with UNC policy and federal law, qualified students with disabilities are eligible to receive “reasonable accommodations to ensure equal access to education opportunities, programs, and activities” (http://www.unc.edu/depts/lds/faculty-policies.html). If you anticipate such accommodations, please notify me as soon as possible so that appropriate arrangements can be made. Additionally, you may seek out student support services at the Department of Disability Services (DDS) (http://disabilityservices.unc.edu/) and through the Learning Center (http://learningcenter.unc.edu/).

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Course Calendar: Part One: pre-Norman Invasion Week One: Anglo-Saxon Religious Lyric and Epic T, 8/23: Course Intro; The Dream of the Rood; Caedmon’s Hymn Th, 8/25: Beowulf Part Two: Anglo-Norman Literature Week Two: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight T, 8/30: Finish Beowulf; Gawain Part 1&2 Th,9/1 : Part 3&4 Week Three: Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales T, 9/6: Summary of The Knight’s Tale (http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/canttales/knight/ktsum.html); The Miller’s Prologue Th, 9/8: The Miller’s Tale Week Four: Chaucer continued T, 9/13: The Wife of Bath (Prologue and Tale) Th, 9/15: The Wife of Bath Part Three: The “Drab Age” and the “Golden Age”: The Sixteenth Century Week Five: Early-Mid Sixteenth Century Lyric T, 9/20: John Skelton, “Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale,” and “With Lullay, Lullay, like a Chile”; Sir Thomas Wyatt, “Whoso List to Hunt,” “I find no peace,” “What vaileth truth?,” “Mine own John Poins” Th, 9/22: Henry Howard, “Alas! So all things now do hold their peace,” “Th’Assyrians’ king,” and “Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest;” Elizabeth I, Verses Written with a Diamond and reply to Raleigh. Week Six: Edmund Spenser T, 9/27: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, Book 1, Canto 1 & Canto 2, stanzas 1-12; Canto 3 & Canto 4, stanzas 1-37; Th, 9/29: Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 1, Canto 9&10; Amoretti, sonnets 1, 34, 37 [In utramque partem Assignment Due] Week Seven: Sidney and Sonnets T, 10/4: Sir Philip Sidney, The Defense of Poesy, excerpts; Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, 1, 5, 6, 9, 15, 27, 28, 45, 71, 72 Th, 10/6: Samuel Daniel, Delia, 9,32, 33; Michael Drayton, Idea, 6, 50, 61; William Shakespeare, Sonnets, 1, 12, 23, 55, 116; Lady Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, 1, 16, 25. Part Four: English Renaissance Theater Week Eight: Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus T, 10/11: Acts 1&2 [Sonnet Assignment Due] Th, 10/13: Act 3 & 4 Week Nine: Midterm and Faustus TBD: Optional Review Session T, 10/18: Finish Faustus; Midterm exam Th, 10/20: No Class – Fall Break

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Week Ten: Shakespeare’s Richard II (http://shakespeare.mit.edu/richardii/full.html) T, 10/25: Acts 1,2,&3 W, 10/27: Acts 4&5 [Draft Thesis Due for Assignment Four] Part Five: Late English Renaissance and the Civil War: The Seventeenth Century Week Eleven: Donne, Jonson, and Herrick – English Lyric T, 11/1: John Donne, “The Flea,” “The Sun Rising,” The Canonization,” A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” “The Ecstasy,” and “The Relic” Th, 11/3: Ben Jonson, “To John Donne,” “Inviting a Friend to Supper,” “To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison”; Robert Herrick, “The Argument of His Book,” “Delight in Disorder,” “Corinna’s Going A-Maying” TBD: Outside-of-class, optional writing-workshop one Week Twelve: Religious Lyric T, 11/8: John Donne, Holy Sonnets, 5,7,9,13,14,18; George Herbert, “Affliction (1),” “The Windows” “Man,” “Jordan (2)” Th, 11/10: Hebert, “The Collar,” “The Flower,” “The Forerunners;” Henry Vaughan, “Regeneration,” “The Retreat,” “They are All Gone into the World of Light;” Richard Crashaw, “To the Infant Martyrs,” “On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord” [Assignment Four, part 1 Due] Week Thirteen: Milton, Cavendish, and the English Civil War T, 11/15: John Milton, “To the Lord General Cromwell,” Paradise Lost, Book 1, 2&4 Th, 11/17: Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World Part Six: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century Week Thirteen: The Restoration – Dryden T, 11/22: Andrew Marvell, “The Coronet,” “Bermudas,” “To His Coy Mistress,” “A Horatian Ode,”

“The Garden;” John Dryden, “Mac Flecknoe;” Th, 11/24: No Class -- Thanksgiving Week Fourteen: Rise of the Novel T 11/29: Aphra Behn, Oroonoko Th, 12/1: Oroonoko [Assignment Four, part 2 Due] Week Fifteen: Augustan Age – Swift and Pope T, 12/6: Jonatahan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Book 4; Alexander Pope, “An Essay on Criticism” TBD: Optional Final Exam Review Final Exam: Saturday, December 10, 2016, 12:00 PM