http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/ Copyright 2007 Wed, 02 May 2007 08:31:30 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Can Roman Polanski's Chinatown be read as an existential tragedy and / or a Nietzschean tragedy?... http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/02/extra_topic_for.html http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/02/extra_topic_for.html assignments Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:27:51 -0500 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... http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/02/blog_5_response.html http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/02/blog_5_response.html home Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:05:39 -0500 Download file... http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/02/blog_6_response.html http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/02/blog_6_response.html home Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:54:12 -0500 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... http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/03/revised_syllabu_1.html http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/03/revised_syllabu_1.html syllabus Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:25:53 -0500 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... http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/03/question_for_ma_2.html http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/03/question_for_ma_2.html discussion Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:46:10 -0500 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... http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/03/question_for_ap.html http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/03/question_for_ap.html discussion Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:18:17 -0500 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,... http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/questions_for_a.html http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/questions_for_a.html discussion Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:17:12 -0500 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... http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/questions_for_a_1.html http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/questions_for_a_1.html discussion Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:46:46 -0500 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... http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/due_dates_for_s.html http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/due_dates_for_s.html discussion Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:22:42 -0500 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... http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/question_for_ap_1.html http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/question_for_ap_1.html discussion Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:10:21 -0500 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... http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/question_for_ap_2.html http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/question_for_ap_2.html discussion Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:34:24 -0500 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... http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/questions_for_a_2.html http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/questions_for_a_2.html discussion Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:30:55 -0500 Download file... http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/discussion_ques_2.html http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/discussion_ques_2.html discussion Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:14:14 -0500 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... http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/discussion_ques_3.html http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/04/discussion_ques_3.html discussion Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:33:22 -0500 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)... http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/05/study_guide_for_1.html http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/05/study_guide_for_1.html assignments Wed, 02 May 2007 08:31:30 -0500