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Arthurian Legend ENG 404 Class Schedule Dr. Tamara O'Callaghan |
| Response Papers | Analysis of The Wasteland | Useful Links |
| Editing Assignment | Research Essay | Bibliography |
Weekly Schedule (Winter/Spring 2006)
| Date | Topics & Major Due Dates | Assigned Reading | Online Resources |
| Jan. 9 | Organization and introduction to course |
Romance of the Rose (video) |
• February
2000 Book of the Month, University of Glasgow Library (discussion
of an early 16th-century printed edition of Le Roman de la Rose) • Roman de la Rose: Digital Surrogates of Medieval Manuscripts • images from a manuscript of Le Roman de la Rose (Getty Museum, California) |
| Jan. 16 | Martin Luther King Day (no class) | ||
| Jan. 23 |
What is romance
as a genre? |
How Culhwch Won Olwen
from The Mabinogion Slides of The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries from the Musée de Cluny (Paris) The Making of a Manuscript (video) |
• Medieval
Romance (Irish Realm website) |
| Jan. 30 |
The Latin King Arthur Tonight, I will get you started on the assignment for T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland. Please read through the poem once for class (and do not worry if you cannot make any sense of it!) and bring it with you to tonight's class. We will also take a quick look at a sample response paper in order to help you with next week's assignment. |
Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History
of the Kings of Britain Gerald of Wales, "The Discovery of the Tomb of Arthur," On the Instruction of a Prince, c. 1223 (Internet Medieval Sourcebook) Nennius, The History of the Britons, c. 8th century (Internet Medieval Sourcebook) T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland |
• Early
References to a Real Arthur (David Nash Ford's Early British
Kingdoms) • The Wasteland (online) |
| Feb. 6 |
The French King Arthur Response Paper #1 due by 5:00 pm on Friday, February 10th. |
Chrétien de Troyes'
Perceval from Arthurian Romances Raymond Lull's The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry (handout) (discussion questions) |
• Perceval
(The Camelot Project) |
| Feb. 13 |
The Grail Quest
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The Quest for the Holy Grail |
• Ancient
Legends of Glastonbury Abbey |
| Feb. 20 |
The German King Arthur
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Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzifal |
Wolfram von Eschenbach and his "Parzifal" |
| Feb. 27 | The English King Arthur Tonight, I will get you started in the editorial project for Malory.
Response Paper #2 due by 5:00 pm on Friday, March 3rd. |
Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur Excerpts from Andreas Capellanus' De amore (Harvard) Chapters 4 & 5 of David Burnley's Courtliness and Literature in Medieval England (handout) (discussion questions) |
Andreas Capellanus: historical background |
| Mar. 6 | March Break (no class) | ||
| Mar. 13 |
The English King Arthur
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Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur |
Calculation of the Ecclesiatical Calendar Calculating the date of Easter with a full list of moveable and fixed holidays Historical Ecclesiastical Calendar |
| Mar. 20 |
The Pre-Raphaelite King Arthur Annotated Passage of Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur due by 5:00 pm on Friday, March 24th. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King (discussion questions) |
The Camelot Project (University of Rochester) The Dent-Beardsley Malory Collection (University of British Columbia) Photo of Alfred Lord Tennyson (c. 1875) The Tennyson Page Cover photo of Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson (1905?) William Morris (biography) The William Morris Society William Morris' painting of Guinevere (1857) William Morris & Kelmscott Press (University of British Columbia) Kelmscott Manor |
| Mar. 27 |
The American King Arthur |
Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (discussion questions) |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Stephen Railton, University of Virginia) |
| Apr. 3 |
Arthurian Epic on Film Response Paper #3 due by 5:00 pm on Friday, April 7th. |
John Boorman's Excalibur (1981) | Kevin J. Harty, Arthurian Film (An Arthurian/Camelot Bibliography Project) |
| Apr. 10 |
Spamalot, or Now for an Arthur Completely Different Analaysis of T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland by 5:00 pm on Friday, April 14th. |
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) |
Kevin J. Harty, Arthurian Film (An Arthurian/Camelot Bibliography Project) |
| Apr. 17 |
A Child's King Arthur? Draft of Research Paper due by 5:00 pm on Friday, April 21st. |
T.H. White's The Once
and Future King (discussion questions) |
T.H.
White Glossary (The Camelot Project, University of Rochester) Review of The Once and Future King (Rebecca Swain, The Green Man Review) |
| Apr. 24 |
A Grail Quest for a Modern Age |
T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland | Exploring The Waste Land Audio of T.S. Eliot reading The Wasteland Audiobook of The Waste Land (LibriVox) -- podcast version available |
| May 1 |
Research Paper due by 6:15 pm. Screening of Arthurian film (class choice). |
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Nota bene: This syllaweb will be revised and updated as the course progresses and especially as I find more useful online material to add. Therefore, do not print off a copy of the syllaweb and assume you have the definitive "final" version. I will try and let you know when I have made changes/additions; however, ultimately, it is your responsibility to consult the syllaweb online and know what readings and other work you need to have prepared for class. Due dates for assignments will only be changed with the agreement of the class.
