Arts One 2012W, Section LB4
Monster in the Mirror
Lectures: M 12:00-1:50 in IBLC 182.
Seminars: WF 12:30-1:50 in IBLC 157
Tutorials: T 1:00-1:50, 2:00-2:50 and Th 12:00-12:50, 1:00-1:50, 2:00-2:50
Prof. Kevin McNeilly
E-mail: mcneilly@mail.ubc.ca
Twitter: @theRealMcNeilly
Arts One Office: IBLC 372
Arts One Office Hours: T 12:00-1:00, W 2:00-3:00
Department of English Office: Buchanan Tower 401, phone 604.822.4466
Department of English Office Hours: By Appointment
Course Description
". . . the serpent was more crafty that any other [creature] that the Lord God had made" -- Genesis 3:1
"Those who fight with monsters should look to it that they themselves do not become monsters." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Even our concerted defensive efforts do not prevent the harrying of human culture by dark and dangerous forces. The most challenging of these forces, which trouble our dreams and fill our waking heads with lurid fantasies, are often given expression in literature and art through the image of monsters. These monsters -- the strangers who cross our paths, the brutes among us -- pose a standing challenge to complacency with our condition. When, in a flash of horrified recognition, we see ourselves in the alien, the sense of our humanity can even be called into question. The monstrous in our experience tests our sense of what we are. Grappling with it helps us to gain a firmer understanding of ourselves, even if that increased firmness consists in recognition that we are less than fully known to ourselves. It also works as a warning against giving in to our virtually hard-wired infatuation with perfection. The beguiling serpent in Eden, the Cyclops that Odysseus encounters in his journey of self-discovery, Grendel threatening the heroic Beowulf's mead hall, the creature fashioned in Frankenstein's laboratory who is denied love and companionship by his cold creator, the crooked Mr. Hyde dwarfed by Dr. Jekyll's clothing though tailored to his internal measure, Meursault the murderer who proclaims his own innocence: through these, and through other expressions of the monstrous and the sublime in philosophical thought, in factual documents and in fictional works, we shall examine how, through the ages, the monstrous has been our companion, and reflect upon what that companionship might mean.
Required Texts
Term One
- Genesis, NRSV [course pack, handed out at first seminar meeting]
- Homer, Odyssey (Penguin)
- Euripides, Medea, trans. Collier and Machemer (Oxford UP)
- Plato, Republic (Hackett, revised edition)
- Sophocles, Oedipus the King (Penguin)
- Seamus Heaney, trans. Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition (Norton)
- Christopher Columbus, selections from The Four Voyages (Penguin)
- Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince (Hackett)
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest (Oxford UP)
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (Hackett)
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Term Two
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on Inequality (Penguin)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Penguin)
- Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals (Vintage)
- Karl Marx, Manifesto of the Communist Party (Norton)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Norton)
- Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
- Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Oxford UP)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper ( )
- T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (Norton)
- Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (Touchstone / Simon & Schuster)
- Jorge Luis Borges, selected stories
- Hernandez, "The Daisy Dolls" (Handout)
- J.M. Coetzee, Foe (Vintage)
- Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen (DC Comics)
Recommended Texts
- The MLA Handbook, the most recent edition
Grading and Assignments
- Essays (best 10 grades out of 12): 70%
- Attendance and Class Participation: 10%
- Final Examination: 20%
Click here for the outline for the final exam.
Class Schedule: Term One
- The lecturers for The Monster in the Mirror are Jon Beasley-Murray, Robert Crawford, Jill Fellows, Kevin McNeilly and Caroline Williams.
- Please note that I cannot affirm the accuracy or viability of the external material linked to this webpage; these links are provided solely as supplemental information for our class discussions.
- Tuesday September 4
- Imagine UBC meeting in Buch A202
- Wednesday September 5, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar Meeting
- Friday September 7, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar meeting
- Click here for Cookie Monster performing his version of "Share It Maybe."
- Click here for a definition of the term "defamiliarization."
- Monday September 10, 12:00-1:50 in IBLC 182
- Odyssey
- Lecture by C. Williams
- Click here for the essay topic sheet for the first essay.
- Wednesday September 12, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Odyssey
- Click here for an interview on translation with Robert Fagles.
- Click here for an obituary for the translator Robert Fagles.
- Click here to access songs recorded in the Balkans by Albert Lord; see his work, The Singer of Tales, in which he investigates the ways in which Homeric epic might have been performed and composed.
- Click here for a wikipedia entry on Albert Lord. This is some general background information on his work, and its connections to the work of Milman Parry.
- Click here for The Homer Multitext, a web-based edition of the Homeric texts that establishes the plural authorship of the poems.
- Click here for "Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past" by Gregory Nagy.
- Click here for The Chicago Homer, a database containing scholarly electronic-text versions of Homer.
- Click here for an Encyclopedia Mythica entry on Polyphemus.
- Click here for an article on the Sirens.
- Click here for "NOSTOS AND THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF 'A RETURN TO THE SAME': FROM HOMER TO SEFERIS" by Marigo Alexopoulou. (This is a Microsoft Word file and may prompt you to download rather than open in a browser.)
- Click here for a definition of kleos.
- Click here for "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Friday September 14, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Odyssey
- Click here for a translation of "Ithaka" by the modern Greek poet C. P. Cavafy.
- Click here for the opening lines of The Odyssey, in Greek. Note the first word, "andra," and the word "polytropon," which means "much-turned" (wily, shifty, well-travelled . . .).
- Monday September 17, 12:00-1:50 in IBLC 182
- Euripides, Medea
- Lecture by C. Williams
- Essay 1 DUE -- please hand it in to me after the lecture.
- Tuesday September 18, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Hannah G.-R., Deanna C., Clifford M., Jeemin R.
- Tuesday September 18, 11:00-11:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Tissene B., Ryan H., Nadia X., Madison C.
- Tuesday September 18, 1:00-1:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Sherry D., Katherine R.-T., Brenna D., Gabrielle R.
- Tuesday September 18, 2:00-2:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Hal S., Jonathan B.-E., Charlotte C., Sarah M.
- Wednesday September 19, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Freddie H. L., Hannah v. D., Riley M., Jelaina H.
- Wednesday September 19, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Medea
- Click here for the Greek text of Medea. (Here is another English translation.)
- Click here for "Euripides and his Tragedies."
- Click here for a page on Michael Collier from the Poetry Foundation (including a link to the text of "A Real Life Drama," which we discussed in class.
- Click here for a profile of Michael Collier from the University of Maryland.
- Click here for the entry on Euripides from the Perseus Encyclopedia.
- Friday September 21,12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Medea
- Monday September 24, 12:00-1:50 in IBLC 182
- Genesis
- Guest Lecture by Robert Daum
- Tuesday September 25, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Hannah G.-R., Deanna C., Clifford M., Jeemin R.
- Tuesday September 25, 11:00-11:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Tissene B., Ryan H., Nadia X., Madison C.
- Tuesday September 25, 1:00-1:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Sherry D., Katherine R.-T., Brenna D., Gabrielle R.
- Tuesday September 25, 2:00-2:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Hal S., Jonathan B.-E., Charlotte C., Sarah M.
- Wednesday September 26, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Freddie H. L., Hannah v. D., Riley M., Jelaina H.
- Wednesday September 26, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Genesis
- Click here for a very clear account of the different textual threads in the bookj of Genesis, by Dr. L. Kip Wheeler of Carson-Newman College.
- Click here for "Text and Spirit," a lecture by Geoffrey Hartman, which addresses the collisions (as the title suggests) of spiritual and literary values, in part in the book of Genesis.
- Click here for an interview with Harold Bloom, who is probably one of the best-known literary critics in North America; part of the interview concerns his text The Book of J, which relates to our discussion of the two authors of the first chapters of the book of Genesis.
- Friday September 28, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Genesis
- Essay One Marked and Returned
- Monday October 1, 12:00-1:50 in IBLC 182
- Republic
- Lecture by R. Crawford
- Essay Two Due
- Click here for the essay topic sheet for the second essay.
- Tuesday October 2, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Hannah G.-R., Deanna C., Clifford M., Jeemin R.
- Tuesday October 2, 11:00-11:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Tissene B., Ryan H., Nadia X., Madison C.
- Tuesday October 2, 1:00-1:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Sherry D., Katherine R.-T., Brenna D., Gabrielle R.
- Tuesday October 2, 2:00-2:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Hal S., Jonathan B.-E., Charlotte C., Sarah M.
- Wednesday October 3, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Freddie H. L., Hannah v. D., Riley M., Jelaina H.
- Wednesday October 3, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Republic
- Click here for "Plato & Affirmative Action," a letter from the philosopher Martha Nussbaum in The New York Review of Books.
- Friday October 5, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Republic
- Monday October 8
- THANKSGIVING -- NO LECTURE
- Tuesday October 9, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Hannah G.-R., Deanna C., Clifford M., Jeemin R.
- Tuesday October 9, 11:00-11:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Tissene B., Ryan H., Nadia X., Madison C.
- Tuesday October 9, 1:00-1:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Sherry D., Katherine R.-T., Brenna D., Gabrielle R.
- Tuesday October 9, 2:00-2:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Hal S., Jonathan B.-E., Charlotte C., Sarah M.
- Tuesday October 9, 5:00-7:00 in IBLC 261
- Plato, Republic
- Lecture by J. Fellows in IBLC 261
- Wednesday October 3, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Freddie H. L., Hannah v. D., Riley M., Jelaina H.
- Wednesday October 10, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Republic
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- Friday October 12, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Republic
- Essay Two Marked and Returned
- Monday October 15, 12:00-1:50 in IBLC 182
- Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
- Lecture by C. Williams
- Essay Three Due
- Tuesday October 16, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Hannah G.-R., Deanna C., Clifford M., Jeemin R.
- Tuesday October 16, 11:00-11:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Tissene B., Ryan H., Nadia X., Madison C.
- Tuesday October 16, 1:00-1:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Sherry D., Katherine R.-T., Brenna D., Gabrielle R.
- Tuesday October 16, 2:00-2:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Hal S., Jonathan B.-E., Charlotte C., Sarah M.
- Wednesday October 17, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Freddie H. L., Hannah v. D., Riley M., Jelaina H.
- Wednesday October 17, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Oedipus Rex
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- Friday October 19, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Oedipus Rex
- Monday October 22, 12:00-1:50 in IBLC 182
- Beowulf
- Lecture by K. McNeilly
- Tuesday October 23, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Hannah G.-R., Deanna C., Clifford M., Jeemin R.
- Tuesday October 23, 11:00-11:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Tissene B., Ryan H., Nadia X., Madison C.
- Tuesday October 23, 1:00-1:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Sherry D., Katherine R.-T., Brenna D., Gabrielle R.
- Tuesday October 23, 2:00-2:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Hal S., Jonathan B.-E., Charlotte C., Sarah M.
- Wednesday October 24, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Freddie H. L., Hannah v. D., Riley M., Jelaina H.
- Wednesday October 24, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Beowulf
- Click here for a hypertext version of Beowulf from McMaster University.
- Click here for an image of the first page of the Beowulf manuscript.
- Click here for a guide to Electronic Beowulf.
- Click here for an untranslated complete electronic version of Beowulf in its original language.
- Click here for sample pages from a graphic novel version of Beowulf.
- Click here for a brief biography of Seamus Heaney from the Nobel Prize site.
- Click here for "seamusheaney.org".
- Click here for audio excerpts from interviews with Seamus Heaney for BBC Radio 4.
- Click here for a biography of Seamus Heaney.
- Click here for a streaming video of Seamus Heaney reading at MIT in 2002.
- Click here for "The Seamus Heaney Portal."
- Click here for a page on Heaney from the "Internet Poetry Archive."
- Click here for Heaney reading parts of his translation of Beowulf
- Click here for a page on Heaney from The Academy of American Poets.
- Click here for "Violence and Vernacular in Seamus Heaneys Beowulf" by Thomas McGuire. (Please note that, since this essay is a part of Project Muse, you must be logged on from a UBC address to access it. The University Library licences this database.)
- Friday October 26, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Beowulf
- Essay Three Marked and Returned
- Monday October 29, 12:00-1:50 in IBLC 182
- Columbus, selections from The Four Voyages
- Lecture by J. Beasley-Murray
- Essay Four Due
- Tuesday October 30, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Hannah G.-R., Deanna C., Clifford M., Jeemin R.
- Tuesday October 30, 11:00-11:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Tissene B., Ryan H., Nadia X., Madison C.
- Tuesday October 30, 1:00-1:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Sherry D., Katherine R.-T., Brenna D., Gabrielle R.
- Tuesday October 30, 2:00-2:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Hal S., Jonathan B.-E., Charlotte C., Sarah M.
- Wednesday October 31, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Freddie H. L., Hannah v. D., Riley M., Jelaina H.
- Wednesday October 31, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of The Four Voyages
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- Friday November 2, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of The Four Voyages
- Monday November 5, 12:00-1:50 in IBLC 182
- The Prince
- Lecture by R. Crawford
- Tuesday November 6, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Hannah G.-R., Deanna C., Clifford M., Jeemin R.
- Tuesday November 6, 11:00-11:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Tissene B., Ryan H., Nadia X., Madison C.
- Tuesday November 6, 1:00-1:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Sherry D., Katherine R.-T., Brenna D., Gabrielle R.
- Tuesday November 6, 2:00-2:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Hal S., Jonathan B.-E., Charlotte C., Sarah M.
- Wednesday November 7, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Freddie H. L., Hannah v. D., Riley M., Jelaina H.
- Wednesday November 7, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of The Prince
- Friday November 9, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of The Prince and The Tempest
- Essay Four Marked and Returned
- Monday November 12
- HOLIDAY in lieu of REMEMBRANCE DAY -- NO LECTURE
- Tuesday November 6, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Hannah G.-R., Deanna C., Clifford M., Jeemin R.
- Tuesday November 6, 11:00-11:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Tissene B., Ryan H., Nadia X., Madison C.
- Tuesday November 6, 1:00-1:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Sherry D., Katherine R.-T., Brenna D., Gabrielle R.
- Tuesday November 6, 2:00-2:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Hal S., Jonathan B.-E., Charlotte C., Sarah M.
- Tuesday November 13, 5:00-7:00 in CHEM D200
- The Tempest
- Lecture by R. Crawford in CHEM D200
- Essay 5 due
- Wednesday November 14, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Freddie H. L., Hannah v. D., Riley M., Jelaina H.
- Wednesday November 14, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of The Tempest
- Click here for "for better for verse," an interactive guide to English prosody from the University of Virginia.
- Click here for "National and Colonial Education in Shakespeare's The Tempest" by Allen Carey-Webb.
- Click here for "Gazing at the Borders of The Tempest: Shakespeare, Greenblatt and de Certeau" by Jurgen Pieters.
- Click here for a summary of The Tempest.
- Click here for "Stormy Weather: Misreading the Postcolonial Tempest" by Peter Hulme.
- Friday November 16, 9:30-10:50 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of The Tempest and Robinson Crusoe
- Monday November 19, 12:00-1:50 in IBLC 182
- Robinson Crusoe
- Lecture by J. Beasley-Murray
- Tuesday November 6, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Hannah G.-R., Deanna C., Clifford M., Jeemin R.
- Tuesday November 6, 11:00-11:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Tissene B., Ryan H., Nadia X., Madison C.
- Tuesday November 6, 1:00-1:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Sherry D., Katherine R.-T., Brenna D., Gabrielle R.
- Tuesday November 6, 2:00-2:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Hal S., Jonathan B.-E., Charlotte C., Sarah M.
- Wednesday November 7, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 372
- Tutorial: Freddie H. L., Hannah v. D., Riley M., Jelaina H.
- Wednesday November 21, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Robinson Crusoe
- Friday November 23, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- In-Class Essay
- Essay 5 marked and returned
- Monday November 26, 12:00-1:50 in IBLC 182
- Hobbes, Leviathan
- Lecture by R. Crawford
- Wednesday November 28, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Leviathan and Robinson Crusoe
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- Friday, November 30, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Leviathan
- In-Class Essay marked and returned
Class Schedule: Term Two
- Wednesday January 2, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar Discussion
- Review and discussion of term one
- Friday January 4, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar Discussion
- Monday January 7, 12:00-1:50
- Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality
- Lecture by R. Crawford in IBLC 182
- Wednesday January 9, 12:30-1:50 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Rousseau
- Click here for an overview of Rousseau from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Click here for the entry on Rousseau from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Click here for a biographical overview of Rousseau.
- Click here for an electronic text version of the Discourse on Inequality. (The translation is unspecified.)
- Click here for a translation of Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality Among Men (1754).
- Friday January 11, 12:30-1:50 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Rousseau
- Monday January 14, 12:00-1:50
- Shelley, Frankenstein
- Lecture by K. McNeilly in IBLC 182
- Wednesday January 16, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Gabrielle, Hannah G.-R., Jeemin, Ryan
- Wednesday January 16, 11:00-11:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Jonathan, Nadia, Brenna, Deanna
- Wednesday January 16, 12:30-1:50, in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Frankenstein
- Essay 7 DUE in class
- Click here for the topic sheet for the essay.
- Click here for Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" (1818): A Summary of Modern Criticism.
- Click here for an e-book version of the novel.
- Click here for a set of links and related materials on Shelley and Frankenstein.
- Click here for an audio version of the novel.
- Thursday January 17, 10:00-10:50 in Scarfe 1023
- Tutorial: Katherine, Hannah V., Cliff, Sarah
- Thursday January 17, 11:00-11:50 in Scarfe 1023
- Tutorial: Riley, Jelaina, Madison, Charlotte
- Friday January 18, 9:00-9:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Hal, Sherry, Freddie, Tissene
- Friday January 18, 9:30-10:50 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Frankenstein
- Click here for an entry on Mary Wollstonecraft from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Click here for "Frankenstein: The Mother, the Daughter, and the Monster" by Paul Youngquist.
- Click here for "Narratives of Seduction and the Seductions of Narrative: The Frame Structure of Frankenstein" by Beth Newman.
- Click here for "Framing the Frame: Embedded Narratives, Enabling Texts, and Frankenstein" by Gregory OĠDea.
- Monday January 21, 12:00-1:50 in IBLC 182
- Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals
- Lecture by J. Fellows
- Wednesday January 23, 10:00-10:50 in in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Gabrielle, Hannah G.-R., Jeemin, Ryan
- Wednesday January 23, 11:00-11:50 in in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Jonathan, Nadia, Brenna, Deanna
- Wednesday January 23, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Nietzsche
- Click here for an entry on Nietzsche from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Click here for an e-text version of On the Genealogy of Morals.
- Click here for a translation of the essay "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History" by Michel Foucault.
- Click here for Nietzsche's Genealogy Revisited," an article by David Owen from the Journal of Nietzsche Studies.
- Click here for "Genealogy: Nietzsche, Deleuze and Foucault," an undergraduate essay by Lino Molina.
- Click here for a pdf version of the text (translator unspecified).
- Click here for "On the Significance of Genealogy in Nietzsche's Critique of Morality" by Carsten Korfmacher.
- Thursday January 24, 10:00-10:50 in Scarfe 1023
- Tutorial: Katherine, Hannah V., Cliff, Sarah
- Thursday January 24, 11:00-11:50 in Scarfe 1023
- Tutorial: Riley, Jelaina, Madison, Charlotte
- Friday January 25, 9:00-9:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Hal, Sherry, Freddie, Tissene
- Friday January 25, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Nietzsche
- Essay 7 marked and returned
- Click here for a entry, from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, on Karl Jaspers, from whose book on Nietzsche I read a passage in class.
- Click here for "Wishes of the Heart: Walter Kaufmann, Karl Jaspers, and Disposition in Nietzsche Scholarship" by DAVID PICKUS.
- Click here for "Nietzsche & Germany" by Stefan Sorgner.
- Click here for a study guide to Nietzsche with annotated bibliography from the New York Public Library.
- Monday January 28, 12:00-1:50 in IBLC 182
- Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr, Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Lecture by C. Williams in IBLC 182
- Wednesday January 30, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Gabrielle, Hannah G.-R., Jeemin, Ryan
- Wednesday January 30, 11:00-11:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Jonathan, Nadia, Brenna, Deanna
- Wednesday January 30, 9:30-10:50 in IBLC 156
- Seminar discussion of Stevenson
- Essay 8 DUE in class
- Click here for "Voices from the Depths: Reading 'Love' in Luce Irigaray's 'Marine Lover'" by Joanne Faulkner. (This was the text on Nietzsche and interiors/exteriors that I read at the beginning of class.)
- Click here for a review of Elaine Showalter's book Sexual Anarchy, which was mentioned in Caroline's lecture.
- Click here for John Singer Sargeant's portrait of "Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife" (1885).
- Click here for the Robert Louis Stevenson Website.
- Click here for the webpage for Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, whose books The Epistemology of the Closet and Between Men I mentioned in class.
- Thursday January 31, 10:00-10:50 in Scarfe 1023
- Tutorial: Katherine, Hannah V., Cliff, Sarah
- Thursday January 31, 11:00-11:50 in Scarfe 1023
- Tutorial: Riley, Jelaina, Madison, Charlotte
- Friday February 1, 9:00-9:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Hal, Sherry, Freddie, Tissene
- Friday February 1, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Stevenson
- I have photocopies of "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman to hand out in class.
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- Monday February 4, 12:00-1:50 in IBLC 182
- Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
- Lecture by J. Fellows
- Wednesday February 6, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Gabrielle, Hannah G.-R., Jeemin, Ryan
- Wednesday February 6, 11:00-11:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Jonathan, Nadia, Brenna, Deanna
- Wednesday February 6, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Freud
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- Thursday February 7, 10:00-10:50 in Scarfe 1023
- Tutorial: Katherine, Hannah V., Cliff, Sarah
- Thursday February 7, 11:00-11:50 in Scarfe 1023
- Tutorial: Riley, Jelaina, Madison, Charlotte
- Friday February 8, 9:00-9:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Hal, Sherry, Freddie, Tissene
- Friday February 8, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Freud
- Essay 8 marked and returned.
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- Monday February 11
- BC Family Day HOLIDAY, University Closed -- NO LECTURE
- Tuesday February 12, 5:00-7:00, in IBLC 261
- Eliot, The Waste Land
- Lecture by K. McNeilly in IBLC 261
- Wednesday February 13, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Gabrielle, Hannah G.-R., Jeemin, Ryan
- Wednesday February 13, 11:00-11:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Jonathan, Nadia, Brenna, Deanna
- Wednesday February 13, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Eliot
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- Thursday February 14, 10:00-10:50 in Scarfe 1023
- Tutorial: Katherine, Hannah V., Cliff, Sarah
- Thursday February 14, 11:00-11:50 in Scarfe 1023
- Tutorial: Riley, Jelaina, Madison, Charlotte
- Friday February 15, 9:00-9:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Hal, Sherry, Freddie, Tissene
- Friday February 15, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion on Eliot
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- February 18-22
- READING WEEK -- NO CLASSES
- Monday February 25, 12:00-1:50 in IBLC 182
- Kafka, The Metamorphosis and Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
- Lecture by J. Fellows
- Wednesday February 26, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Gabrielle, Hannah G.-R., Jeemin, Ryan
- Wednesday February 26, 11:00-11:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Jonathan, Nadia, Brenna, Deanna
- Wednesday February 27, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Kafka and Gilman
- Thursday February 28, 10:00-10:50 in Scarfe 1023
- Tutorial: Katherine, Hannah V., Cliff, Sarah
- Thursday February 28, 11:00-11:50 in Scarfe 1023
- Tutorial: Riley, Jelaina, Madison, Charlotte
- Friday March 1, 9:00-9:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Hal, Sherry, Freddie, Tissene
- Friday March 1, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Kafka and Gilman
- Monday March 4, 12:00-1:50 in IBLC 182
- Borges, selected stories, and Hernandez, "The Daisy Dolls"
- Lecture by J. Beasley-Murray
- Wednesday March 6, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Gabrielle, Hannah G.-R., Jeemin, Ryan
- Wednesday March 6, 11:00-11:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Jonathan, Nadia, Brenna, Deanna
- Wednesday March 6, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Borges and Hernandez
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- Thursday March 7, 10:00-10:50 in Scarfe 1023
- Tutorial: Katherine, Hannah V., Cliff, Sarah
- Thursday March 7, 11:00-11:50 in Scarfe 1023
- Tutorial: Riley, Jelaina, Madison, Charlotte
- Friday March 8, 9:00-9:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Hal, Sherry, Freddie, Tissene
- Friday March 8, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Borges and Hernandez
- Monday March 11, 12:00-1:50
- Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
- Lecture by C. Williams in IBLC 182
- Wednesday March 13, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Gabrielle, Hannah G.-R., Jeemin, Ryan
- Wednesday March 13, 11:00-11:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Jonathan, Nadia, Brenna, Deanna
- Wednesday March 13, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Levi
- Thursday March 14, 10:00-10:50 in Scarfe 1023
- Tutorial: Katherine, Hannah V., Cliff, Sarah
- Thursday March 14, 11:00-11:50 in Scarfe 1023
- Tutorial: Riley, Jelaina, Madison, Charlotte
- Friday March 15, 9:00-9:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Hal, Sherry, Freddie, Tissene
- Friday March 15, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Levi
- Monday March 18, 12:00-1:50 in IBLC 182
- Coetzee, Foe
- Lecture by J. Beasley-Murray
- Wednesday March 20, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Gabrielle, Hannah G.-R., Jeemin, Ryan
- Wednesday March 20, 11:00-11:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Jonathan, Nadia, Brenna, Deanna
- Wednesday March 20, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Coetzee
- Thursday March 21, 10:00-10:50 in Scarfe 1023
- Tutorial: Katherine, Hannah V., Cliff, Sarah
- Thursday March 21, 11:00-11:50 in Scarfe 1023
- Tutorial: Riley, Jelaina, Madison, Charlotte
- Friday March 22, 9:00-9:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Hal, Sherry, Freddie, Tissene
- Friday March 22, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Coetzee
- Monday March 25, 12:00-1:50 in IBLC 182
- Moore and Gibbons, Watchmen
- Lecture by K. McNeilly
- Wednesday March 27, 10:00-10:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Gabrielle, Hannah G.-R., Jeemin, Ryan
- Wednesday March 27, 11:00-11:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room)
- Tutorial: Jonathan, Nadia, Brenna, Deanna
- Wednesday March 27, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Watchmen
- Thursday March 28, 10:00-10:50 in Scarfe 1023
- Tutorial: Katherine, Hannah V., Cliff, Sarah
- Thursday March 28, 11:00-11:50 in Scarfe 1023
- Tutorial: Riley, Jelaina, Madison, Charlotte
- Friday March 29, 9:00-9:50 in IBLC 381 (the Sandspit room) This tutorial needs to be rescheduled.
- Tutorial: Hal, Sherry, Freddie, Tissene
- Friday March 29
- GOOD FRIDAY -- NO CLASSES
- Monday April 1
- EASTER MONDAY -- NO CLASSES
- Tuesday April 2 4:00-6:00 in TBA
- Review panel with all five lecturers
- Please come prepared to ask a question about any material on the course syllabus.
- Wednesday April 3, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion of Watchmen
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- Friday April 5, 12:30-2:00 in IBLC 157
- Seminar discussion, review