Kelli McBride
ENG 2433 & HUM 2433: World Literature I
THE EPIC
Fall 2007
Okemah Class - 5 Saturdays 8am - 5pm
Beginning August 18, 2007
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Tentative Class Schedule
8/18 Week 1: Introduction & The Epic
Introduction to Class; Syllabus Overview; Pre-Test
The Epic
handout
Video: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (excerpts) (>60 minutes)
The Invention of Writing & the Earliest Literature
3-6
Gilgamesh
Introduction and All Books
Ancient Greece & the Formation of the Western Mind
10-41
105-11
Iliad
Video: In Search of the Trojan War (60 minutes)
Homer
114-19
VIDEO: Troy (162 minutes)
Read Book: 1
120-36
Book 16
166-77
Book 18 (lines 1-414)
177-86
Book 22
192-205
Book 24
205-25
Read Spark Notes Summary of Books 6, 8, 9, 18 (links to web pages on
class web site)
Odyssey
Introduction
Video: The Odyssey (180 minutes)
Read Book 1
225-36
Book 2
236-46
Book 3 (lines 80-354)
248-54
Book 4 (lines 246-305)
264-65
Book 5 (lines 203-515)
283-89
Book 9 and 10
319-47
Book 11 (lines 438-604)
357-61
Book 12 (lines 120-61; 242-419; 444-536)
366-76
Book 13 (lines 350-414; 435-44; 464-511)
376-88
Book 18
447-58
Book 19 (1-420)
458-68
Book 21
483-94
Book 22
494-507
Book 23 (lines 1-313; 354-380)
507-16
Read Spark Notes Summary of Books 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16,
17, 19, 20, 23, 24 (links to web pages on class web site)
8/25 Week 2: The Epic, continued
Continue The Odyssey
The Roman Empire
1041-43
The Aeneid
Virgil
1052-54
Aeneid (read all summaries between books in our text)
Book 1
1055-63
Book 2 (lines 305 to end)
1070-85
Book 4 (lines 1-170; 215-526; 571-634; 704-846; 872-904)
1085-1105
Book 6 (lines 232-264; 521-540; 619-632; 661-79; 770 to end) 1112-25
Book 8
1125-29
Book 12
1129-34
The Formation of a Western Literature
1621-23
Beowulf
Video: Beowulf and the Anglo-Saxons (64 minutes)
Introduction
Video: Beowulf (20 minutes)
Read: lines 1-862
Lines 924-1061
Lines 1161-2424
Lines 2510-2915
Lines 3000-to end
1626-31
1632-50
1652-55
1659-86
1688-96
1698-1702
TAKE HOME EXAM ON EPIC LITERATURE
Due 9/1
9/1 Week 3: Tragedy
Handout
Ancient Greece
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Video Oedipus (90 minutes)
Oedipus the King
Euripides
Medea
Golden Age of Japanese Culture
Japan
No Drama
Buddhism
Atsumori
The Renaissance in Europe
England
Shakespeare
Video: Othello (123 minutes)
Othello
TAKE HOME EXAM ON TRAGEDY
533-37
612-16
617-58
693-94
695-725
2143-45
2342-49
handout
2350-61
2465-72
2821-28
2919-96
Due 9/8
9/8 Week 4: Miscellaneous Fiction & Non-Fiction
India's Heroic Age
880-86
Bhagavad Gita
Introduction
All
The Rise of Islam & Islamic Literature
1010-13
1014-28
1419-23
1001 Nights
Introduction
Video: Arabian Nights (clips: 90 minutes)
Prologue
The Tale of the Ox & the Donkey
The Tale of the Merchant & His Wife
The Tale of the King's Son and the She-Ghoul
The Tale of the Enchanted King
1566-68
1569-76
1576-77
1577-79
1600-10
1610-18
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Pearl Poet and Text
1991-2044
9/15 Week 5: Miscellaneous Fiction
Canterbury Tales
Chaucer and Tales
2044-2118
The Prince
Machiavelli
from The Prince
2517-19
2521-2533
Don Quixote
Miguel Cervantes and Chapters
Video: Man of La Mancha (129 minutes)
2671-2782
Old Testament
Joseph and Job
66-92
Greek & Roman Poetry
Sappho
Catullus
530-533
1046-51
Study break to prepare for Post-Test
Reading Journals Due
Post-Test