Encountering Antiquity (class notes)
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The Heart in Literature, Philosophy, and Science Studies.
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Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction (1995)
by Derek Attridge.
Brilliant.
Buy it!
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See also
Notes on Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction
by Derek Attridge.
And John Constable's very informative
review of Poetic Rhythm
(in July 2008 at http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/jbcpub/attrev.html)
begins:
"One of the problems with literary criticism in the university is that you
never know if you have been persuaded of the point at issue by fair means or
just bullied into acquiescence by the size of your opponent and their subtle
sense of conversational opportunity.
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Summary of intensive 15-day Encountering Antiquity class:
Day 1;
Day 2;
Day 3;
Day 4;
Day 5;
Day 6;
Day 7;
Day 8;
Day 9;
Day 10.
Day 11;
Day 12;
Day 13;
Day 14;
Day 15;
Other texts are the brilliant
Anne Carson's:
Day 1 (of 15)
Week 1 - Imagining the Origin
Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction
by Derek Attridge:
"The Rhythms of Poetry: A First Approach"
(pp. 1-20).
- A "formal reading"
making comments on an "after Horace" poem
(which turned out to be Heaney's response to 9/11).
- An "ideological reading"
of segments of 300,
where we talked about how what we saw informed or jarred with our view of past and present.
Day 2 (of 15)
Day 3 (of 15)
- Ovid's Metamorphoses: Book 10 (1993) translation by Allen Mandelbaum.
- Page duBois: "Sex" and "Gods"
from Trojan Horses: Saving the Classics from Conservatives (2001).
Day 4 (of 15)
Week 2 - Teaching and Delighting: The Classical Discipline in the Renaissance.
Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction
by Derek Attridge:
"Dancing Language" and "Stress Verse and Strong Stress Verse"
(pp. 21-42).
- Edmund Spenser's
"Ruines of Rome by Bellay",
a translation of a sequence of 32 sonnets plus an Envoy dedicated to Bellay.
- John Donne's "Sapho to Philenis".
Day 5 (of 15)
- Christopher Marlowe: "Hero and Leander".
Day 6 (of 15)
- Horace's Ode II.12 "Spare me the Roman wars": translation by Carolyn Kizer.
- Pindar's "Olympian XI": translation by Frank J. Nisetich.
- Ben Jonson: "To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Noble Pair,
Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison".
- Andrew Marvell: "An Horatian Ode".
- Quiz.
Day 7 (of 15)
Week 3 - Revolutionary Romantics.
Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction
by Derek Attridge:
"Dancing Language" and "Stress Verse and Strong Stress Verse"
(pp. 42-96).
- John Milton: "Lycidas" [deferred from last week].
- Alexander Pope: Iliad.
Day 8 (of 15)
- Alexander Pope: Iliad (continued).
- John Keats: "On First Reading Chapman's Homer".
Day 9 (of 15)
- John Keats: "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles";
"Ode on a Grecian Urn";
"Ode to Psyche";
"Ode on Melancholy";
"Ode to a Nightingale".
- Quiz.
Day 10 (of 15)
Week 4 - Modernism and the Poetics of Ruin.
Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction
by Derek Attridge:
"Syllable Stress Verse: Versatility and Variation"
(pp. 96-146).
- Virginia Woolf: essay "On Not Knowing Greek"
- W.B. Yeats: "Sailing to Byzantium", "Leda and the Swan", and others.
Day 11 (of 15)
- T.S. Eliot: "Notes on the Blank Verse of Christopher Marlowe";
"The Wasteland"; "Four Quartets".
Day 12 (of 15)
- T.S. Eliot: "The Wasteland" (continued).
- Ezra Pound: "The Tradition" (from Literary Essays);
"Canto I"; "Canto IV".
- H.D.: "Fragment 36"; "Fragment 40"; "Fragment 68"; "Helen"
(from Helidora).
Day 13 (of 15)
Week 5 - Antiquity and Post-Modernity.
Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction
by Derek Attridge:
"Major Types of Syllable-Stress Verse"
(pp. 147-166).
- Sylvia Plath: "The Colossus"; "Electra on Azalea Path"; excerpts from
Journals of Sylvia Plath on Freud and psychoanalysis.
- Anne Carson:
The Autobiography of Red: A Novel.
- Quiz.
Day 14 (of 15)
Day 15 (of 15)
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Notes
Copyright
© 2008-2016 by J. Zimmerman,
taken in a UCSC summer school class Encountering Antiquity
designed and taught by Michael Ursell.
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