Week 1:
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Week 2:
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Week 3:
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Week 4:
| Day 1: |
The Arthurian Handbook 257-64;
Essay by Alice Grellner, "Two Films that Sparkle: The Sword in the
Stone and Camelot" (in Cinema Arthuriana, ed. Kevin J.
Harty [New York: Garland, 1991], pp. 71-81).
Elisabeth Brewer's analysis of T. H. White's The Book of Merlyn
(from her T.H. White's The Once and Future King [Cambridge, UK:
D. S. Brewer; New York: Boydell and Brewer, 1993], pp. 150-164).
Discussion of the films The Sword in the Stone
and Camelot, WHICH MUST BE SCREENED BEFORE
CLASS TIME!!
PRESENTATIONS 1-3: The Sword in the Stone; Camelot; T.
H. White's The Book Of Merlyn : The Unpublished Conclusion to The
Once And Future King.
PAPER ONE DUE. |
| Day 2: |
The Arthurian Handbook 128-33, 137-8,
171-5: Dante, Inferno, canto V: Paola and Francesca (handout).
John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur
and His Noble Knights vi-xiv (Author's Dedication and Introduction);
77-96 ("The Wedding of King Arthur"); 207-293 ("The Noble Tale of Sir Lancelot
of the Lake"); Writer's Block (Appendix: 296-364).
PRESENTATION 4: Fatal Kisse(r)s (illustrations). |
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Week 5:
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Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelites I.
Discussion of the film First Knight,
WHICH MUST BE SCREENED BEFORE CLASS TIME!!
The Arthurian Handbook 157-64, 217-48.
Tennyson's The Idylls of the King 19-20
("Dedication"); 301-2 ("To the Queen"); 21-35 ("The Coming of Arthur");
168-205 ("Lancelot and Elaine").
Essay by Jacqueline Jenkins, "The Aging of the King: Arthur and America
in First Knight" (in King Arthur's Modern Return, ed. Debra
N. Mancoff [New York: Garland, 1998], pp. 199-212).
PRESENTATIONS 5-6: Victorian Sensibilities (historical background);
First
Knight. |
| Day 2: |
The Idylls of the King 248-68 ("The
Last Tournament"); 269-87 ("Guinevere"); 288-300 ("The Passing of Arthur").
William Morris, "The Defence of Guenevere" (handout).
PRESENTATION 7: Visions of Guinevere (illustrations). |
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Week 6:
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Week 7:
| Day 1: |
Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and
His Noble Knights 3-47 ("Merlin"); 99-123 ("The Death of
Merlin"); Tennyson, The Idylls of the King
142-67( "Merlin and Vivien").
Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and
His Noble Knights 109-123 ("Morgan le Fay").
PRESENTATIONS 10-11: Magic and Seduction: the Femme Fatale in
literature; Illustrating the Femme Fatale. |
| Day 2: |
Discussion of the film Excalibur,
WHICH MUST BE SCREENED BY CLASS TIME!!
Essay by Norris J. Lacy, "Mythopoeia in Excalibur" (in
Cinema
Arthuriana, ed. Kevin J. Harty [New York: Garland, 1991], pp. 121-134).
Start reading Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists
of Avalon!!
PRESENTATION 12: on Boorman's film Excalibur (suggested topic:
his depiction of Morgan).
PAPER TWO DUE. |
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Week 8:
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Week 9:
| Day 1: |
The Mists of Avalon 453-651. |
| Day 2: |
The Mists of Avalon 655-876.
Essay by Linda K. Hughes, "The Pleasure Lies in Power: The Status of
the Lie in Malory and Bradley" (in The Arthurian Yearbook 2 [1992]:
99-112).
(*possibly, presentation[s] on The Mists of Avalon). |
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Week 10:
| Day 1: |
Discussion of the film Monty Python's Holy
Grail, WHICH MUST BE SCREENED BY CLASS TIME!!
Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and
His Noble Knights 127-203 (for a flavor of Malorian Grail-quest
adventures).
Tennyson, The Idylls of the King 206-230
("The Holy Grail," revisited).
Essays by Mark Burde ("Monty Python's Medieval Masterpiece," in The
Arthurian Yearbook 3 [1993]: 3-20) and David D. Day ("Monty Python
and the Medieval Other," in Cinema Arthuriana, ed. Kevin J. Harty
[New York: Garland, 1991], pp. 83-92).
PRESENTATION 13: Monty Python's Holy Grail. |
| Day 2: |
Capstone (Readings TBA).
PRESENTATIONS 14-15 (possibly more): other Arthuriana. |
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FINAL EXAM
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