English 10A-1 - Winter, 2012

Literatures in English I: to 1700

Class Information

Instructor: Levin, Richard A.
CRN: 32467
Time: MWF 1:10-2:00
Location: 227 Olson

Description

Introduction to upper division courses through a study of major writers and representative literary forms from Chaucer’s time to the end of the 17th century. The course is designed to help you gain a sense of historical change and to develop the ability to read and write in depth about the literature studied.

Grading

Assignments: three essays (each about 5 pages in length) and a final examination; several shorter essays and reading quizzes.

Texts

Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume B: The Sixteenth Century and the Early Seventeenth Century, 8th ed
Shakespeare’s Hamlet, ed. Sylvan Barnet (Signet edition)
Oroonoko, Aphra Behn, ed. Joanna Lipking (Norton Critical Edition)
A Reader that will include Chaucer’s “General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales” and the “Wife of Bath’s Prologue”