Anatomies
of Change
Winter Quarter 2004-05
| Week 1 | Tu. Jan 4 | Introduction: Persistence and Change |
| Th. Jan 6 | Myth and History in Epic Form : Gilgamesh, Introduction (pp. xi-xxii), Tablets I-VI (pp. 3-52) |
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| From Epic to Romance | ||
| Week 2 | Mo. Jan 10 | Star Trek episode showing: 7 p.m., 200-002 |
| Tu. Jan 11 | Reading for the Symbols: Reality Check- Gilgamesh, Tablets VII-XI (pp. 53-95) | |
| Th. Jan 13 | Modern Myth: Star Trek Next Generation: Darmok | |
| From Myth to Polis | ||
| Week 3 | Tu. Jan 18 | Time Teaches All Things - Aeschylus, Oresteia (“Agamemnon” and “The Libation Bearers”) |
| Th. Jan 20 | Gods and Humans: Myth, History, and Justice - Aeschylus, Oresteia (“The Eumenides”) | |
| From Tragedy to Irony: Identity Crisis | ||
| Week 4 | Tu. Jan 25 | Detective Stories: The Myth of Identity - Sophocles, Oedipus |
| Th. Jan 27 | Who Was I? - Beckett, Krapp’s Last Tape | |
| From Identity to Narrative | ||
| Week 5 | Mo. Jan 31 | The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly showing 7 p.m., 200-002 |
| Tu. Feb 1 | Oedipus and Aristotle: The Myth of Heroes - Aristotle, Poetics (sel.): for key concepts of plot (the necessary and probable), reversal (peripety), recognition (anagnorisis), character | |
| Th. Feb 3 | Aristotle Everywhere - Sergio Leone’s The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | |
| Paper 1: due Thurs. February 3 at 11 a.m. | ||
| Tragedy to Dialectic | ||
| Week 6 | Tu. Feb 8 | Antigone’s Dilemma, Creon’s Curse - Sophocles, Antigone |
| Th. Feb 10 | The Colonialist Dilemma- Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horsesman | |
| Ancient to Modern: Difficult Women | ||
| Week 7 | Tu. Feb 15 | Representing Trouble- Euripides, Medea |
| Th. Feb 17 | Guest Lecturer, Cherrie Moraga: The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Media | |
| Dionysus to the ’60s | ||
| Week 8 | Tu. Feb 22 | Dionysus in ’69 - Euripides, Bacchae |
| Th. Feb 24 | The Rites of Performance - Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy sections 1, 2 & 7-12 | |
| From Form to Fragment | ||
| Week 9 | Tu. March 1 | Postmodernism, Change and Chance - If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, Introduction and odd pages: 3-145 (assuming you do not read Greek) |
| Th. March 3 | Guest Lecturer: Diane Frank ; Merce Cunningham dance DVD | |
| Paper 2: due Thurs. March 3 at 11 a.m. | ||
| Myth—History: The Return | ||
| Week 10 | Tu. Mar 8 | Myth and Lyric History - N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain |
| Th. Mar 10 | Review | |
| Fr. Mar 11 | Cunningham performance | |
| Exam Week | Exam Week | |
| Week 11 | Mo. Mar 14 | Final Exam 3:30-6:30 p.m. (location TBA) |