Département des littératures Chargé de cours : Bruce Gilchrist
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Département des littératures Chargé de cours : Bruce Gilchrist
Département des littératures Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines Chargé de cours : Bruce Gilchrist Session : Hiver 2014 ANG-2401 — Victorian Poetry Course Description This course offers a critical survey of the major English poets in the Victorian era (1830-1900); its emphasis will be on the long narrative poems that stud this period of creative verse and on breadth of theme and form. The first half of the course tracks the two great poems of the age: Tennyson’s long elegy in A-B-B-A quatrains on the loss of his intimate friend and future brother-in-law, In Memoriam: A.H.H.; and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh, a ‘novel-in-blank-verse’ tracing the education, marriage affairs, and artistic development of a young female poet as she travels from Italy to Britain to France. The second half of the course offers a miscellany: Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue about a wayward Italian monk/painter, Fra Lippo Lippi; Edward FitzGerald’s influential translation of a famous Persian wisdompoem; Christina Rossetti’s allegorical verse for children (& adults), The Prince’s Progress; the amusing nonsense and ‘mirror’ poems in Lewis Carroll’s Alice sequel, Through the Looking Glass; George Meredith’s sonnet cycle on the devastation of a failed marriage, Modern Love; and Houseman’s evocation of countryside childhood sacrificed to grown-up war, A Shropshire Lad. Care has been taken to schedule the significantly longer readings in the first half; the average reading length drops to a quite manageable 400 lines per week in the second half, ie. to under 2 hours reading per week. Evaluation Each student will be asked, twice, to give a 10 minute oral presentation to the class on a date and topic of her choice, one per each half of the course; the presentation should speak to a major theme in the poems, to their form and style, analyze a particular poem or long passage, or should offer pertinent external context. [10% + 10%] There will be two short essay assignments, each 1500-1750 words. The essays should be direct assessments of the poems or should introduce historical or theoretical frames of interpretation. Though topics will be given in advance, each student may develop her own (with my approval). Papers must be written in proofread English; secondary sources are welcome but not required and must be used transparently to good effect. [30% + 30%] Last, there is a very strong participation component; as reading aloud and around-the-room discussion will be given priority over lecture, please be generous and constructive in class. It will aid your experience of the class immeasurably and bring these poems to life. [10% attendance and preparation; 10% quality of discussion] There is no final examination. [*Note: if the number of students enrolled is greater than 18, the evaluation will switch from in-class presentations to short tests, the assigned essays will be shorter, 1250-1500 words, and participation will be reduced to 10%.] Quality of Language + Plagiarism Notice Quality of English will be one of the factors in evaluating work. Lectures and group discussions are held in English. During the tests no bilingual dictionaries are permitted; students will have access to a class set of unilingual English dictionaries. For rules concerning plagiarism see Plagiat/Règlement des études www.lit.ulaval.ca/index.php?id=493 • Plagiat / voir Règlement des études de l’Université Laval http://www.lit.ulaval.ca/index.php?id=493 • L’usage de la nouvelle orthographe est permis à condition que l’étudiant l’ait dûment signalé dans son travail, sans quoi les graphies jusque-là considérées comme incorrectes seront pénalisées. Échelle de conversion de notes Excellent : Très bon : Bon : A+ = 94-100 B+ = 82-84 C+ = 72-74 A = 89-93 B = 78-81 C = 68-71 A– = 85-88 B– = 75-77 C– = 65-67 Passable : Insuffisant : D+ = 61-64 E = 0-54 D = 55-60 Page 1 de 2 Required Texts (to be purchased at La Maison Anglaise) Alfred, Lord Tennyson Elizabeth Barrett Browning Edward FitzGerald Lewis Carroll Selected Poems Aurora Leigh Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam Alice’s Adventures...Through… Penguin Classics Oxford Classics Oxford Classics Penguin Classics 01404 24431 01995 52339 01995 80502 01414 39761 $ 17 $ 13 $ 10 $ 10 Total cost (estimated) $ 50 Chargé de cours: Bruce Gilchrist Schedule [email protected] [email protected] Mercredi 15:30-18:20 Bureau: 5275 Jeudi: 17:15-18:15 Introduction Matthew Arnold “Dover Beach” 1851* 37 lines Jan. 22 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Matthew Arnold “The Lotos Eaters” “The Scholar Gipsy” 1832 1853* 170 lines 250 lines Jan. 29 Alfred, Lord Tennyson In Memoriam, A.H.H. 1849 1400 lines Fév. 5 Alfred, Lord Tennyson In Memoriam, A.H.H. 1849 1500 lines Fév. 12 Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh [I-III] 1850 Fév. 19 Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh [IV-VI] 1850 Fév. 26 Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh [VII-IX] 1850 Mars 5 Semaine de Lecture Mars 12 Robert Browning “Fra Lippo Lippi” Short Essay One Due (30%) 1855* 392 lines Mars 19 Edward FitzGerald Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam 1859+ 404 lines Mars 26 Christina Rossetti “The Prince’s Progress” 1866* 534 lines Avril 2 Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass 1871 Avril 9 George Meredith from Modern Love 1862* ≅ 320 lines Avril 16 A.E. Houseman from A Shropshire Lad 1896* ≅ 320 lines Avril 23 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Thomas Hardy “Ulysses” “The Darkling Thrush” “Channel Firing” 1833 1900* 1914* 70 lines 32 lines 36 lines Jan. 15 Koninck 3E Short Essay Two Due (30%) Course Evaluation *poems sent by .pdf p. 2 de 2