Shakespeare and Tragedy http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/tragedy/ Blog-site for English 320 Fall 2008 Andrew Barnaby Department of English University of Vermont (802) 656-4151 Andrew.Barnaby@uvm.edu 2008-12-09T22:33:26-05:00 Aristotle on ethos http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2007/01/aristotle_on_et.html Aristotle: on “ethos” or “character” (a series of statements from the Poetics) "Poetry is more philosophical and more serious than history, for poetry deals more with things in a universal way, but history with each thing for itself. To deal... key concepts abarnaby 2007-01-23T11:32:04-05:00 Course Overview Fall 08 http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2008/09/course_overview.html Download file... syllabus abarnaby 2008-09-02T08:31:22-05:00 Daily reading Fall 2008 http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2008/09/daily_reading_f.html Download file... syllabus abarnaby 2008-09-02T08:32:38-05:00 List of Texts and Films Fall 2008 http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2008/09/list_of_texts_a.html Download file... syllabus abarnaby 2008-09-02T08:33:41-05:00 Course Requirements Fall 2008 http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2008/09/course_requirem.html Download file... syllabus abarnaby 2008-09-02T08:34:26-05:00 Writing Groups / Discussion Teams Fall 2008 http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2008/09/writing_groups.html Download file... discussion abarnaby 2008-09-09T10:33:56-05:00 Greek Tragedy: a theory http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2008/09/greek_tragedy_a.html Download file... resources abarnaby 2008-09-20T14:39:01-05:00 Andrew Barnaby, "Before Oedipus: Hamlet, Freud, and the Dead Father" http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2008/09/andrew_barnaby.html Download file... resources abarnaby 2008-09-30T10:35:15-05:00 Revisiting Watson's "Giving Up the Ghost" (some ideas) http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2008/10/revisiting_wats.html Download file... resources abarnaby 2008-10-21T22:25:24-05:00 Overview of Freud's "Theme of the Three Caskets" http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2008/10/overview_of_fre.html Download file... resources abarnaby 2008-10-21T22:33:55-05:00 Group A: discussion for Oct. 29th http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2008/10/group_a_discuss_2.html This is meant to be very open ... Discuss how you see Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead in terms of tragedy. Note that I'm not saying that you should view the play as a tragedy--maybe it is, maybe it isn't.... discussion abarnaby 2008-10-23T09:08:44-05:00 Phenomenology and Tragedy http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2008/10/phenomenology_a.html Download file... resources abarnaby 2008-10-30T14:31:21-05:00 Group B: discussion of November 5th http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2008/11/do_one_1_can_we.html Do ONE: 1. Can we apply Aristotle's notion of the tragic plot to Memento? If yes, how? Are there ways that Memento resists this interpretive model? (You might want to think especially about how the film ends.) Conversely, is there... discussion abarnaby 2008-11-03T09:21:11-05:00 Group C: discussion for Nov. 12th http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2008/11/group_c_discuss_1.html Do ONE (though you might feel inclined to sort of mix and match them since there's a lot of overlap here): 1. Here are three very broad statements about the relationship between gender and Shakespearean tragedy: A. Madelon Gohlke: “What... discussion abarnaby 2008-11-06T09:19:48-05:00 Sample Final: December 17, 2008 http://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/engs135/archives/2008/12/sample_final_de.html Download file... home abarnaby 2008-12-09T22:33:26-05:00