Identify key ideas, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions

This week you will read a selection of literary works from the Victorian Age to the twentieth century. Student Learning Outcomes Addressed:

· Identify key ideas, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions.

· Analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different literary periods.

Core Competencies Addressed:

· Biographical, historical and literary analysis

Readings: Essay One Instructions, Sample student paper, and rubric.

Start work on Literary Analysis Essay

From British Literature II (Volume II) , Part 2: The Victorian Age

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· Intro: The Victorian Movement in Literature, pages 286-289.

· Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses,” pages 337-338, and 351-353.

· Robert Browning, “The Last Duchess,” pages 429- 430, and 431-433.

· Charles Dickens, from Hardtimes, Chapters 1-4, pages 596-615.

From British Literature II (Volume II) , Part 3: Twentieth Century and Beyond

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· Intro-Modernism and Postmodernism as Literary Movements, pages, 878-885

· Virginia Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own,” Chapter 1, A Room of One’s Own.

· T. S. Eliot, “The Wasteland,” only “The Burial of the Dead,” pages 1086-89

· Samuel Beckett, 1106-1108, follow the link to read Act I of Waiting for Godot.

From A Glossary of Literary Terms

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· Dramatic monologue, pages 96-97

· Stream of consciousness, pages 378-379

· Literature of the Absurd, pages, 1-3

· Existentialism, Existential philosophy, page 180

· “ Stichomythia”

Assignments or Assessments: One Major Assignment. One Journal Assignment. One Discussion board post and responses.

One reading quiz on the readings for this week.

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