Advanced Placement Literature and Composition
Fall 2012-13
Assignment
Introduction
Sidney: Defence of Poesy (pages 108-40) (on website)
James: Art of Fiction (on website)
M.H. Abrams: Orientation (on website)
4-Sep Yvor Winters: Preliminary Problems (on website)
5-Sep Rene Wellek: Mode of Existence of the Literary Work (on website)
6-Sep Sigmund Freud: Creative Writing; Northrop Frye: Archetypes of Literature
(on website)
7-Sep John M. Ellis: The Diversity of Literature (on website)
Beowulf Intro - line 1007 (in Norton )
lines 1008-2199
lines 2200-end
Niles "Reconceiving Beowulf: Poetry as Social Praxis" (on website)
Geoffrey Chaucer: Norton Introduction (pages 165-70); The General
Prologue
18-Sep
19-Sep
20-Sep
21-Sep
Geoffrey Chaucer: Summary of The Knight's Tale ; The Miller's Tale
Geoffrey Chaucer: Prologue to The Wife of Bath's Tale
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Wife of Bath's Tale
Norton The Sixteenth Century (pages 319-45)
1-Oct
2-Oct
3-Oct
4-Oct
5-Oct
Spenser: II.vi
Spenser: II.vii
Spenser: II.viii
Spenser: II.xi
Spenser: II.x
Edmund Spenser
24-Sep Norton Edmund Spenser (pages 365-70); Faerie Queene Book II, canto i (on
website)
25-Sep Spenser: II.ii
26-Sep Spenser: II.iii
27-Sep Spenser: II.iv
28-Sep Spenser: II.v
Anglo-Saxon - Chaucer
10-Sep
11-Sep
12-Sep
13-Sep
14-Sep
Literary Theory
Date
28-Aug
29-Aug
30-Aug
31-Aug
8-Oct Spenser: II.xi-xii
9-Oct Shakespeare: Sonnets 3, 12, 15, 18, 19, 20, 23, 29 (in Norton)
10-Oct Shakespeare: Sonnets 30, 33, 55, 60, 62, 65, 71, 73
11-Oct Shakespeare: Sonnets 80, 85, 87, 93, 94, 97, 105, 106
12-Oct Shakespeare: Sonnets 116, 129, 130, 135, 138, 144, 146, 147, 152
Shakespeare / 17th Century
Advanced Placement Literature and Composition
Fall 2012-13
Shakespeare: Hamlet
Shakespeare: Hamlet
Shakespeare: Hamlet
Shakespeare: Hamlet
Shakespeare: Hamlet
Act 1, scenes 1-3
Act 1, scenes 4-5
Act 2, scene 1
Act 2, scene 2
Act 3
22-Oct
23-Oct
24-Oct
25-Oct
26-Oct
Shakespeare: Hamlet Act 4
Shakespeare: Hamlet Act 5
Harvey Birenbaum essay (on website)
Marjorie Garber essay (on website)
Marvell "Coy Mistress," "Horatian Ode"; Donne Elegy 16, Holy Sonnets 1, 10,
14
29-Oct
30-Oct
31-Oct
1-Nov
2-Nov
Donne - "Flea," "Sun Rising," Meditations (excerpts)
Final Exams Periods 1 and 2
Final Exams Periods 3 and 4
John Milton: Paradise Lost Books I-II
Milton: Paradise Lost Book III
Milton: Paradise Lost
Milton: Paradise Lost
Milton: Paradise Lost
Milton: Paradise Lost
Milton: Paradise Lost
Book IV
Book V
Book VI
Book VII
Book VIII
13-Nov
14-Nov
15-Nov
16-Nov
Milton: Paradise Lost
Milton: Paradise Lost
Milton: Paradise Lost
Milton: Paradise Lost
Book IX
Book X
Book XI
Book XII
Milton
5-Nov
6-Nov
7-Nov
8-Nov
9-Nov
Shakespeare / 17th Century
15-Oct
16-Oct
17-Oct
18-Oct
19-Oct
Thanksgiving Break
Romantics
Victorians
26-Nov Wordsworth: "Ode:Intimations on Immortality"; Coleridge: "Lime-Tree
Bower"; Shelley: "Ozymandias" and "Ode to the West Wind"; Keats: "Ode to
a Nightingale" (all in Norton)
27-Nov Tennyson: "Ulysses"; Browning: "My Last Duchess"; Hopkins: "God's
Grandeur" and "The Windhover" (all in Norton)
Advanced Placement Literature and Composition
Fall 2012-13
28-Nov T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land I-II
29-Nov T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land III-V
30-Nov Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness first half of Part I
Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Conrad: Heart of Darkness
finish Part I
first half of Part II
finish Part II
first half of Part III
finish Part III
Modernism
3-Dec
4-Dec
5-Dec
6-Dec
7-Dec
10-Dec Ian Watt essay (on website)
11-Dec Baker and Johnson essays (on website)
12-Dec William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury : first third of Quentin's
monologue
13-Dec William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury : second third of Quentin's
monologue
14-Dec William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury : finish Quentin's monologue
William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
first half of Chapter 4
finish Chapter 4
Winter Break
William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!
Chapters 5-6
first half of Chapter 7
finish Chapter 7
first half of Chapter 8
finish Chapter 8
14-Jan
15-Jan
16-Jan
17-Jan
18-Jan
William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom! Chapter 9
Criticism TBA
Criticism TBA
Criticism TBA
Criticism TBA
22-Jan
23-Jan
24-Jan
25-Jan
Cumulative Review
Cumulative Review
Final Exams Periods 1 and 2
Final Exams Periods 3 and 4
Finals
7-Jan
8-Jan
9-Jan
10-Jan
11-Jan
William Faulkner
17-Dec
18-Dec
19-Dec
20-Dec
21-Dec
Advanced Placement Literature and Composition
Fall 2012-13
Advanced Placement Literature and Composition
Fall 2012-13
Advanced Placement Literature and Composition
Fall 2012-13