ENGL 362.101
Dante, Chaucer & Cervantes

 

NOTE: This is representative of the syllabi for this course. It is not necessarily the syllabus being used in any one semester.

 

 

Objectives                                                                   

•      To develop critical habits for thinking, reading, discussing and writing.

•      To consider literature in the context of specific historical settings.

•      To explore in depth the evolution of narrative assumptions and practices in stories from three distinctive cultures.

•      To consider the pilgrimage as an informing principle of narrative.

 

Course Requirements                                                           

•      Class participation demonstrating attention to the interests and needs of classmates including regular attendance, responsiveness of preparation of reading assignments, including weekly response to readings and contributions to class discussions.

•      One paper (5 to 7 pp.) exploring a question raised by your class preparation and participation.                   

•      Two examinations                                                                        

 

Course Grades

Grades will be the average of class participation, weekly response to readings), the paper, and the two examinations. Students with two or fewer absences will receive a grade for participation at least equal to the average of their written work. Students with more than three absences will receive failing grades for class participation.

Outline of Readings

 

I. Dante

WEEK 1          Intro: approaches, stories, settings, authors

WEEK 2          Inferno, I - XI

WEEK 3          Inferno, XII - XXIII

WEEK 4          Inferno, XXV - XXXIV

WEEK 5          Purgatorio, I - XIX

WEEK 6          Purgatorio, X - XXIV

WEEK 7          Purgatorio, XXV - XXXIII

WEEK 8          Paradiso, I - XIV

WEEK 9          Paradiso, XV - XXIV

WEEK 10        Paradiso, XXV - XXXIII

 

II. Chaucer

WEEK 11        Troilus & Criseyde, I, 1 - 62

Exam on Dante

WEEK 12        Troilus & Criseyde, I - III

WEEK 13        Troilus & Criseyde, IV & V

 

III. Cervantes

WEEK 14        Don Quixote, I - XIV

WEEK 15        Don Quixote, Selections

WEEK 16        Final Exam

 

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