jueves, 11 de agosto de 2016

Programa Literatura III 2017 1

Seventeenth Century Literature

The course attempts to give an overview of the broad spectrum of literature produced throughout this conflictive period. The selection of works intends to widen our perception of what is normally understood as literature and to engage the students in a dialogue with other fields of knowledge that intersect with the poetical production of the period at several points. 

1.     Introduction (August 11th):
The Seventeenth Century: problems of periodization and general context.

2.     The Monarchy of Wit (August 18th and 25th):
John Donne and conceited poetry
Poems from Song and Sonnets
From An Anatomy of the World, “First Anniversary”

Poems from Holy Sonnets
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditations IV and XVII

3.     The Development of Prose and Science (September 1st and 8th):
Francis Bacon, from Essays.
Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, “Democritus to the Reader”.


4.     Jacobean Theatre (September 15, 22 and 29)
Ben Jonson,  From Epigrams, “To Donne”, “To Shakespeare”, “Ode to Himself”, The Masque of Blackness.
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi.

5.     The English Civil War (October 6):
From Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Works, “Preface”.
From William Prynne, Histriomatix, “Prologue”.
From Abeizer Coppe, A Fiery Flying Roll, “Preface” .

6.     Richard Crashaw  (October 13), “On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord”, “The Flaming Heart”.
Richard Lovelace (October 20), “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars”, “The Grasshopper”, “To Althea from Prison”, “Love Made in the First Age. To Chloris”

7.     (October 27):
Katherine Philips, “A Married State”, “Upon the Double Murder of King Charles” “Friendship’s Mystery”, “To My Dearest Lucasia”, “Upon the graving of her Name upon a Tree in Barnelmas”, “On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips”.
Margaret Cavendish, excerpts from The Blazing World.

8.     Andrew Marvell (October 27 and November 3).
“The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn”, “To His Coy Mistress”, “The Mower Against Gardens”, “Damon the Mower”, “The Mower to the Glowworms”,
“The Mower’s Song”, “The Garden”, “An Horatian Ode”, “Upon Appleton House”.

9.     John Milton (November 10, 17 and 24).
“L’Allegro”, “Il Penseroso”, “Lycidas”, From Pardise Lost, Books I-IV, VII-VIII, XI.


The course will be graded with a final exam at the end of the semester.
Extra credits will be given for attendance and engagement in the discussion.  





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