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CLASS #TOPICS / READINGSASSIGNMENTS
1Introduction.
2A Room of One's Own. Chap. 1-3.
3A Room of One's Own. Chap. 4-6.
4Antony and Cleopatra.Assignment of report topics.
5Discussion of the use of other texts in Room, including Antony and Cleopatra and possible reports on some of the following: As You Like It; Aphra Behn's poems and The Rover; Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice; Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre; and poems by Christina Rosetti and Alfred Lord Tennyson.
6Hand in your 5-pp. essay, appraising Woolf's use of another literary text in Room.
7Mrs. Dalloway.
8Mrs. Dalloway.

Possible reports on WWI poets, including Wilfred Owen ("Mental Cases," "Dulce et Decorum est," "Strange Meeting") and selections by Siegfried Sassoon and Rupert Brooke.

Possible reports on Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain pp. 3-23 and skim pp. 60-157; "Living in a War Zone: An Introduction to Virginia Woolf as a War Novelist" by Mark Hussey, and "The Female Victims of War in Mrs. Dalloway" by Masami Usui. (Both in Virginia Woolf and War).
9Cymbeline.

Film screening of Mrs. Dalloway. (One day after Class #9)
10Report on "Virginia Woolf as Shakespeare's Sister: Chapters in a Woman Writer's Autobiography," by Christine Froula (in Women's Re-visions of Shakespeare, Marianne Novy, ed.): pp. 123-142.Mrs. Dalloway and Cymbeline. 2-pp. response essay on some aspect of their relationship.
11Orlando. Chap. 1-3.
12Report on Sir Thomas Browne, "Hydrotaphia."

Reports on Dympna Callaghan, "'Othello was a White Man': properties of race on Shakespeare's stage" (in Alternative Shakespeares vol. 2, ed. Terence Hawkes): pp. 192-215; Barbara Smith "Racism and Women's Studies" "Healing the Great Divide" (in The Truth that never Hurts), and/or Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark.
Orlando and Othello. 2-pp. response essay on some aspect of their relationship.
13Orlando. Chap. 4-6.

Video screening of Orlando.
14Orlando.

Reports on selected poems by Alexander Pope, selected essays by Dr. Johnson.
15To the Lighthouse, "The Window."
16To the Lighthouse, "Time Passes." Selected Shakespeare sonnets.

Report on Eve Sedgwick's Between Men, introduction and discussion of Shakespeare's sonnets.
17To the Lighthouse, "The Lighthouse." 2-pp.  response essay.
18The Winter's Tale and To the Lighthouse.

Reports on Adrienne Rich, "The Domestication of Motherhood" (pp. 110-127), "Mother and Son, Woman and Man" (pp. 186-217), "Motherhood and Daughterhood" (pp. 218-255) Of Woman Born; "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" (pp. 23-75) in Blood, Bread, and Poetry.
19Research day: Work in library.
20The Waves.
21The Waves.

Reports on Keats, selected poems and letters; Coleridge, essays on Shakespeare.

Report on "Writing the Body: Toward an Understanding of l'Écriture féminine,"  by Ann Rosalind Jones (in The New Feminist Criticism, ed. Elaine Showalter): pp. 361-377.
22The Waves.
23Three Guineas.
24Between the Acts.
25Between the Acts. 15 pp. paper due: include a research component, as well as your own analysis.
26Between the Acts. Student paper reports.
27Back to A Room of One's Own. Student paper reports.2-pp. response.
 


 



 








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