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GREAT WORKS IN DIALOGUE: UNDERSTANDING THE SELF (GWD06)
Spring 2003-2004

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Date

Topics and Readings for Class

Study Questions and Other
Resources

3/29

Lectures:

Introduction to course (Cheri),
Socrates and Plato (Cheri)

Reading:

Republic: Books 1-3

Republic questions

4/5

Lecture:

The Idea of the Polis (Edward)

Reading:

Republic: Books 4-7

 

4/12

Lecture:

No lecture tonight; go direct to discussion

Reading:

Republic: Books 8-10

 

4/19

Lecture:

The Revolution of Romantic Poetry (Cheri)

Reading:

Portable Romantic Poets, pp. 165-203
(selected poems of Wordsworth)

Romantic Poetry questions

4/26

Lecture:

No lecture tonight; go direct to discussion

Reading:

Portable Romantic Poets, pp. 130-164
(selected poems of Coleridge)

 

5/3

Lecture:

Keats: Artifice and Nature (Edward)

Reading:

Portable Romantic Poets, pp. 377-418
(selected poems of Keats)

 

5/10

Lecture:

Lecture: The Art of Toni Morrison (Cheri)

Reading:

Beloved, pp. 3-106

Beloved questions

5/17

No Class Meeting

 

5/24

Lecture:

Echoes of the Past (Edward)

Reading:

Beloved, pp. 107-194

 

5/31

Memorial Day - No Class Meeting  

6/7

Lecture:

No lecture tonight; go direct to discussion

Reading:

Beloved, pp. 195-260
Evaluation; reception

 

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