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English 360
Images of Love in European Literature |
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English 360
Images of Love in European Literature
Fall 1998
T-Th, 3:00-4:20
Hoover 205 |
Professor Wendy Furman
Office: Hoover 211
Phone: 907-4809 (office)
693-1809 (home)
Office Hours: M,W, 10-12;
F, 10-11; T,Th, 4:30-5
Email:
wfurman@whittier.edu
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Required Texts:
Andreas Capellanus. The Art of Courtly Love,
trans. John Jay Parry. New York: Columbia UP,
1990.
Milan Kundera. The Unbearable Lightness of
Being. New York: Penguin, 1984.
Roger S. Loomis and Laura Hibbard Loomis, eds.
Medieval Romances. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1957.
Plato. The Symposium, trans. Walter Hamilton.
New York: Penguin, 1951.
William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet, ed. John
E. Hankins. New York: Penguin, 1970.
Virgil. The Aeneid, trans. Allen Mandelbaum. New
York: Bantam, 1961.
You also will be responsible for buying and
reading an anthology of shorter materials (cost
$8.00--payable by check by September 17; after
that
date, cost goes up to $10.00).
Required Work:
1. Reading assignments to be completed before
the dates for which they are assigned (i.e. in
time for class discussion).
2. Prompt and regular attendance at all class
sessions (including at least two evening films).
3. Three short response papers (about 2 pages
each).
Note: Late papers will be accepted, but will be
marked down one half grade for each class day
after the due date.
5. One longer paper (8 - 10 pages), based on
materials beyond those presented in the course.
6. A comprehensive final exam (identification
and essay).
Grading Factors:
1. Attendance, preparation and discussion 25
2. Short papers 30
3. Longer paper 20
4. Final exam
25
100%
Grading Options:
1. A - F
2. Credit/No Credit (non-majors only)
Manuscript Style:
Papers are to be typed double-space in a
12-point font, and printed on a letter-quality
printer. They should be handed in on separate
sheets of 8 1/2 X 11 bond paper stapled in the
upper left-hand corner. Margins should be one
inch; paragraphs are to be indented five spaces.
Spaces should not be skipped between paragraphs.
Notes and bibliography must follow the MLA
Handbook, copies of which are available in both
the library and the bookstore.
Always keep hard-copies of all your work.
Documents can get lost--both from my desk and
from your disk, whether hard or floppy. Should
this occur, I will expect you to be able to
produce a copy immediately; otherwise, I will be
forced to count the paper as late beginning with
the day of your failure to do so. (See above for
general policy on late papers.)
The Schedule:
Note: All readings not listed separately as
class texts are to be found in the class
anthology (CA).
I. Love in Biblical and Classical Literature
Sept. 10 General introduction to the course. Botticelli's Primavera, Titian's
Sacred and
Profane
Love, and Galway Kinnell's "Call Across
the Valley of Not Knowing," CA 4 - 7.
15 Love as Strong as Death: The Biblical Song of
Songs (8th - 3rd Century B.C.E.), CA 10 - 20.
Performance and discussion.
17 Love as a sickness; love as a game: Greek
poets--Sappho
(c. 590 B.C.E.), Anacreon (c. 500 B.C.E.), and
Theocritus (275 B.C.E.),
CA 22 - 30.
22 Love as the road to absolute Beauty: Plato's
Symposium (c. 350 B.C.E.). Also see CA 31.
24 Love as social contract and aesthetic
pleasure: Roman poets-- Catullus (84 - 54 B.C.E.);
Horace (65 - 8 B.C.E.); and Ovid
(43 B.C.E.- 17 C.E.), CA 32-50.
29 Love as fatal madness: The
Aeneid of Virgil
(70 - 19 B.C.E.),
Books I - IV and Book VI, pp. 147 - 48.
Oct. 1 Love as "mortality's eclipse": the late
Roman lyric, CA 52-57.
Response paper # 1 due.
II: Love in Medieval Literature
Oct. 6 The Art of Courtly Love (1): Troubadours
and Trouvères
(France, twelfth century C.E.), CA 59-73; 76,
78.
8 The Art of Courtly Love (2): Andreas Capellanus (c. 1175).
13 The Courtly Romance: Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan and Isolt (Loomis and
Loomis,
pp. 88 - 232).
15 Tristan and Isolt. Also see CA 74.
20 La dolce stil nuovo: Dante Alighieri
(1265 - 1321) and his circle (Italy, late
thirteenth
century), CA 80 - 89.
22 Gothic Synthesis: Dante's
Paradiso, CA 90 - 96.
Response paper # 2 due.
III: Love in the Literature of the Renaissance
Oct. 27 Wasted Days: Francesco Petrarch
(1304 - 1375) and the sonnets of renunciation
(Italy,
fourteenth century), CA 97 - 100.
29 Petrarchanism with an "other" voice: Gaspara
Stampa, CA 103 - 108.
Nov. 3 Romantic Love--the Platonic strain: Castiglione's The Courtier (selections from Book
IV),
CA 109 - 22. Also review Plato's Symposium,
and come prepared to discuss the ways in
which
Castiglione has borrowed from, and revised, that
foundational
text.
5 Romantic Love--the Ovidian strain: Marlowe's
Hero and Leander (England, late sixteenth
century), CA 124 - 137.
10 The Sonnet (1)--Struggle: Wyatt and Surrey;
Sidney; Shakespeare; Greville (England,
1540's - 1590's), CA 136 - 50.
12 The Sonnet (2)--Synthesis: Spenser's Amoretti
and Epithalamion,
CA 152 - 67.
17 The Poetry of Marriage: Milton's "Haile
Wedded Love" (from Paradise Lost, Book IV) and
"Late Espoused
Saint" (Sonnet XXIII),
CA 168 - 71.
7:30 p.m.: Viewing of at least one film version
of Romeo and Juliet.
(Location T.B.A.).
19 Renaissance love tragedy:
Romeo and Juliet.
Discussion of
film version(s) in the context of Shakespeare's
text. Response paper # 3 due.
24 Romeo and Juliet. Also review the Aeneid and
Tristan and
Isolt and come prepared to
discuss how
Shakespeare draws on, and revises, their
fundamental assumptions about
love.
Proposal for
final paper due.
26 Thanksgiving.
Dec. 1 The poetry of seduction (profane and
sacred): Donne, Herbert, Herrick, Marvell, and
others (England, early seventeenth century),
CA 173 - 89. Review earlier lyrics in the
course
to assess possible
influences.
IV (epilogue): Love in Twentieth Century
Literature and Film
Dec. 3 Milan Kundera,
The Unbearable Lightness
of Being.
8 The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
7:30 p.m.: Film--Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire
(Location T.B.A.).
10 Last day of class.
The Unbearable Lightness
of Being.
Final paper due. Review for final.
Dec. 18 (Friday): Final Examination,
10:30-12:30. Make a note of this now
and make your holiday travel plans accordingly!
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