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English 201: Western World Literature
Fall 1999
301 Coulter 9:30 - 11:00 TR
Mary Adams, Instructor (x3930)
E-mail madams (at) wcu.edu
Day Date Topic Reading (DUE on this date)
Volume: Page		 Links
M 6/4/01 Introduction   Voice of the Shuttle Humanities Page
T 6/5/01 Homer's Odyssey (books 10-11) Read online summary of whole; I. 232-263 Homer's Iliad & Odyssey
  • Greek Pantheon
  • Images of the Trojan War
  • Who was Homer?
  • Mycanea, home of Agamemnon
  • Trojan War--Summary from Iliad 
  • Map of Trojan War
  • TextSUMMARY AND LINKS
  • Odyssey Timeline
  • Pictorial rendition of the Odyssey
  • Summary of Odyssey with Map
  • Homer's Iliad & Odyssey 
  • Images of Homer
  • Odysseus in the Underworld (pics)
  • The Historical Homer
  • Archeological LInks
  • Summary & Background of the Odyssey 
  • More Odyssey Background 
  • Odysseus's travels
  • General Odyssey links
  • Gradesaver Study Guide
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    W 6/6/01 Euripedes: Medea I. 443-481
    TH 6/7/01 Aristophanes: Lysistrata I. 481-513
    F 6/8/01 Job 1; 9-10; 31; 38-41 729-30; 736-738; 747-752
    M 6/11/01 Plato: Republic

    Paul: Corinthians I

    		 534-9; 

    776-82
    T 6/12/01 Virgil: Aeneid 4,6 Read Summary online; I. 607-642
  • Roman Propaganda I: Stoicism
  • Roman Propaganda II: Virgil's description of history
  • Roman Propaganda III: Augustus as Pater Patriae
  • Sparknotes Summary
  • Greek vs. Roman Deities
  • Aeneas & Dido in Cave
  • Aeneas in the Underworld
  • Myths of Death: Trips to the Underworld
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  • Maps (including underworld--Many compare Odyssey and Aeneid)
  • Clickable Empire Map
  • Into the Roman World (Resources on ancient Rome)
  • Virgil.org
  • Aeneid frequently asked questions
  • Aeneid Text as the Roman Read it
  • Prophets and Sybils:Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling
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    W 6/13/01 Ovid: Metamorphosis I. 642-674
    TH 6/14/01 Descent of Innana

    Gospel of Mary

    Pizan: Book of the City of Ladies

    		 I. 787-96

    I. 878-82

    I. 1360-70
    F 6/15/01 Augustine: Confessions I.12-II I. 910-18; handout (XIII)
    M 6/18/01 Dante: Inferno I. 960-1000
    T 6/19/01 Dante: Inferno
    This class will be via the class newsgroup. Download the questions here.

    Intro to PowerPoint

    		 I. 1000-1048  
    W 6/20/01 Dante (Conclusion)    
    TH 6/21/01 Rowlandson: 1-2;14-end

    Jacobs 1,6-7,13

    		 II.254-60; 270-82

    II. 963-1000 (selections only)

    		 volume II
    F 6/22/01 Coleridge: Rime of the Ancient Mariner 1. 890-1975 volume II
    M 6/25/01 Molina: Love Rogue of SevilleOnline questions "" ""  Volume I
    T 6/26/01 Online questions"" "" II. 906-922 Volume I
    W 6/27/01 Schlegel: "Mythology"

    Darwin: "Origin"

    		 II. 1316-18

    II. 1318-22

    		  volume II continues
    TH 6/28/01 Blake: "Marriage"

    Nietzsche: "Thus Spake..."

    		 II. 876-886

    II. 1337-1344
    William Blake
  • William Blake Online ( a really cool site)
  • Blake Site at Union College
  • Blake Archive (index & tour)
  • Blake page with good introduction
  • As a Man Is: An online book about Blake
  • illustrated Songs of Innocence & Experience (index and quick slide show)
  • Blake's paintings
  • Another exhibit 
  • Blake's Proverbs of Hell (illustrated w. his paintings)
  • a short bio and a timeline
  • William Blake's relevance to the modern world (a freshman's project)

    • An album which uses the Marriage as lyrics    		 Nietsche: 
  • Perspectives of Nietzsche: an overview
  • Another overview (c/o Dominique)
  • Nietzsche Society
  • a timeline
  • The Nietzsche Channel (looks like the Twilight Zone)
  • The Nietzsche Center (high graphics site)
  • USC's Nietzsche Page (slow)
  • an interesting overview with an mystical agenda
  • Study guide for Thus Spake Zarathrustra
  • Hear Strauss's popular musical rendition and read about it
  • Nietzsche influence
  • Thus Spake Maximus: An article reading Gladiator as a Nietzschean movie
  • Nietzsche & Religion
  • For Comedy: the Nietzsche aphorism generator

    • Nietzsche's Astrological portrait (c/o Dominique)

    Encyclopedia entries

  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry
  • Encyclopedia for English literature (bio and entry on English literary influence)
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    F 6/29/01 Wolstonecraft "Vindication"


    Modernism:
    Woolf: "A Room of One's Own"

    		II. 526-9

    II. 1573-82
    Wollstonecraft 
    (mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley who wrote Frankenstein)
  • An overview/ bio
  • Another one
  • overview of Vindication issues
  • Another bio linked to the text

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    About.com's

  • Wolstonecraft page and links
  • Women's sufferage overview and timeline
  • other social reform movements
  • history of marriage & divorce
  • Women writers
  • Women and work
  • Women's history month facts
    		•  Woolf
  • A bio
  • Woolf on Women and Fiction (an online course)
  • Woolf society
  • Some great Woolf links
  • Outline of A Room of One's Own
  • Room Study Questions
  • More study questions
  • Woolf photos
  • Interactive Modernism timeline
  • Interactive Woolf Chronology
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    M 7/2/01 Kafka: "Metamorphosis" II. 1585-1614
    T 7/3/01 Garcia-Marquez: "Very Old..." II. 1863-1869
    W 7/4/01 Rilke: Sonnets to Orpheus

    Rich, "I Dreamed..."

    		 II. 1525-8;

    II. 1872

    		  
    TH 7/5/01 Review    
    F 7/6/01 Final