http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/ 2007-05-02T08:31:30-05:00 http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/02/extra_topic_for.html Can Roman Polanski's Chinatown be read as an existential tragedy and / or a Nietzschean tragedy?... assignments abarnaby 2007-02-22T12:27:51-05:00 http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/02/blog_5_response.html Stoppard's lines are often very funny, but many (whether funny or not) have special meaning when viewed from the end of the play. Here's one exchange (p. 66): Guil: You're obviously a man who knows his way around. Player: I've... home abarnaby 2007-02-22T16:05:39-05:00 http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/02/blog_6_response.html Download file... home abarnaby 2007-02-27T11:54:12-05:00 http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/03/revised_syllabu_1.html 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... syllabus abarnaby 2007-03-20T11:25:53-05:00 http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/03/question_for_ma_2.html Do ONE: 1. Take a detail (scene, situation, character, piece of dialogue, begining, ending, whatever) from Scotland, P.A. and discuss how it alters Macbeth in some way (adding, deleting, changing emphasis, etc.). Besides just describing the change, see if you... discussion abarnaby 2007-03-27T15:46:10-05:00 http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/03/question_for_ap.html Since Professor Pereboom (from Philosophy) will be giving a presentation on Tuesday (about Girard's weird, and controversial, Violence and the Sacred--two e-reserve readings for Tuesday), there won't be a formal discussion question. This would be a good opportunity to reflect... discussion abarnaby 2007-03-30T14:18:17-05:00 http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/questions_for_a.html First, a note on the reading / viewing for Thursday and Tuesday (this is a repeat of what I sent as an email message ... sorry for duplication). A reminder that I will be away from campus all day Thursday,... discussion abarnaby 2007-04-03T16:17:12-05:00 http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/questions_for_a_1.html a reminder: We won't start King Lear until next Tuesday (April 17th); we'll finish up Angel Heart this Thursday, especially in relation to Rene Girard's theory of the "surrogate" or "sacrificial victim" (whose relevance to Angel Heart just started to... discussion abarnaby 2007-04-11T08:46:46-05:00 http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/due_dates_for_s.html As I said in class the other day, I want to get you thinking about your final assignments and how these are related to the discussion questions you've been doing. The Course Guidelines explain that you have at least one... discussion abarnaby 2007-04-12T13:22:42-05:00 http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/question_for_ap_1.html We'll be starting King Lear. The syllabus I handed out would (for April 12th) have told you to read up through Act 3 scene 3 (III.iii) of the play. But in the edition I ordered (the Oxford edition), the editor... discussion abarnaby 2007-04-16T10:10:21-05:00 http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/question_for_ap_2.html Do ONE: 1. I mentioned in class today (Tuesday) that productions of King Lear from about 1660 to 1810 or so were based on an adaptation of the play (written by Nahum Tate) rather than on Shakespeare's original. Among the... discussion abarnaby 2007-04-17T16:34:24-05:00 http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/questions_for_a_2.html First off, a quick clarification on what we'll be covering next week. Things from that revised syllabus that we WON'T be doing: 1. I had listed a film screening of Peter Brook's King Lear for Monday evening; but, as I... discussion abarnaby 2007-04-20T14:30:55-05:00 http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/discussion_ques_2.html Download file... discussion abarnaby 2007-04-20T16:14:14-05:00 http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/discussion_ques_3.html This is the last discussion question ... the collection of all your responses is due on the last day of class (along with the extended reflection on one of the responses OR the preface/cover letter to the collection as a... discussion abarnaby 2007-04-25T06:33:22-05:00 http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/05/study_guide_for_1.html Exam time / date: 3:30-6:30, FRIDAY May 4th (in our regular classroom) Review session: 10am-11:30, Thursday, May 3rd (LAFAYETTE 302) * The exam will be open book (no notes / notebooks ... though, clearly, you can write in your books)... assignments abarnaby 2007-05-02T08:31:30-05:00