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– 3-5 pages in length. Times New Roman font (no bigger than 12 point), double spaced, with one-inch margins. – a title that gives an indication of what you are going to discuss. – pages numbered. – a minimum of three quotations, properly cited. – a works cited page. I hope it is obvious that […]
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The assignment is simple: imagine that you are making a text from this class into a modern-day movie (and by modern day, we can say post 1985), aimed at making the text relevant for a contemporary audience. Explain where you would relocate the setting to (and don’t forget to explain why), and suggest casting ideas. […]
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Book Three
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Verse THE Measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and Virgil in Latin; Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter; grac’t indeed since by […]
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Pyramus and Thisbe, he the loveliest youth, and she the most sought after girl, the East held, lived in neighbouring houses, in the towering city of Babylon, that Semiramis is said to have enclosed with walls of brick. Their nearness and their first childhood steps made them acquainted and in time love appeared. They would […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 4th, 2008 4 Comments »
Is due on Thursday. ONE SENTENCE!!! Keep it to one sentence, which will be difficult, but that’s the point. You don’t need to worry about putting in all of your evidence, just explain the overall point of view that you intend to argue.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Andreas Capellanus: The Art of Courtly Love, (btw. 1174-1186) DE ARTE HONESTE AMANDI [The Art of Courtly Love], Book Two: On the Rules of Love Marriage is no real excuse for not loving. He who is not jealous cannot love. No one can be bound by a double love. It is well known that love […]
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Chivalry “Chivalry” comes from the French word chevalier, a “man on horseback.” The Age of Chivalry, as an historical concept, refers to the period in European history between the First Crusade (c. 1100) and the Reformation (c.1500). The concept of the chivalric knight is largely a literary version that grew out of the cycles of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 23rd, 2008 9 Comments »
Post your character analysis here (before next Tuesday’s class, please!). Think about how the author builds on our assumption about social roles to undermine the portrait we are given by the narrator. For example: Prioress/Nun The nun is not really very “nunly.” She’s more concerned with ettiquiette and looking courtly than spritiual issues. She worries […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 17th, 2008 No Comments »
Write 1-2 paragraphs explaining what you think is the common ground between the stories in the Thousand and One Nights. Think about why the Norton editors chose those particular stories, and try to explain what you think their reasoning was. Due 10/20 @7pm.