revised syllabus for rest of year

Posted on March 20, 2007

Macbeth Unit

3/20 Macbeth I-III.iv; also Cultural Controversies (Free Will, pp. 115-31)
Electronic reserve: “Religion and Shakespearean Tragedy” (Huston Diehl, in Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy)

3/22 Macbeth III.v-end; also Janet Adelman, “Escaping the Matrix: the Construction of Masculinity in Macbeth” (Norton Macbeth, 293-315)
* Professor Schnell will be leading this class.

3/27 Macbeth (continue)
Stephen Booth, King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition, and Tragedy (Part II)

3/28 screening of Billy Morrissette’s Scotland, P.A. 6:30 pm, Media-Resources Projection Room

3/29 Billy Morrissette, Scotland, P.A.
Norton Macbeth: Peter Holland, “‘Stands Scotland Where It Did?’: The Location of Macbeth on Film” (357-80)

4/3 Guest Lecturer: Derk Pereboom, on Rene Girard’s Violence and the Sacred
Electronic reserve: “Oedipus and the Surrogate Victim”; “Sacrificial Crisis”

4/5 We won’t have class this day because I will be representing the faculty union in a case before the Vermont Labor Relations Board; so instead, during regular class time—and a bit beyond: screening of Angel Heart: 2-4 pm Media-Resources Projection Room; whether or not I need to schedule another screening time will depend on how many students cannot stay for the full screening on 4/5

4/10 Alan Parker, Angel Heart (our only day on film)
Electronic reserve: “Gods, the Dead, the Sacred, and Sacrificial Substitution” (from Girard’s Violence and the Sacred)

King Lear Unit

4/12 King Lear I-III.iii

4/17 King Lear III.iv-V
Stephen Booth, King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition, and Tragedy (Part I)

4/19 King Lear (continue)
Electronic reserve: “Avoidance of Love: A Reading of King Lear” (from Stanley Cavell’s Disowning Knowledge; read intro to essay and section I, pp. 39-81; we’ll read section II for next day)

4/23 new screening date for King Lear: 4/23 6:30 pm Media-Resources Projection Room

4/24 Peter Brook, King Lear
Electronic Reserve: “Avoidance of Love: A Reading of King Lear” (from Stanley Cavell’s Disowning Knowledge; read section II, pp. 81-123)

4/25 screening of Adrian Lyne’s Jacob’s Ladder 6:30 pm, Media-Resources Projection Room

4/26 Adrian Lyne, Jacob’s Ladder

5/1 Tragedy: last thoughts
due date for Collection of responses to discussion questions, with reflection or cover letter

Review session: Thursday, May 3rd (10 am)
Final Exam: Friday, May 4th (3:30-6:30 pm); you can choose to write a final reflection instead of doing the exam (see Course Guidelines for more details)