# Classes ### Fall, 2007 [### English 10a. Major British Writers I ](/class/english-10a-major-british-writers-i-0) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2007 [### English 201. Images, Idolatry and Iconoclasm, 1350-1600: Graduate Seminar ](/class/english-201-images-idolatry-and-iconoclasm-1350-1600-graduate-seminar-0) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2007 ### Fall, 2008 [### English 10a. Major British Writers I ](/class/english-10a-major-british-writers-i) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2008 A chance to read from four rich periods: Anglo-Saxon literature (unrivaled in the Europe of its time for power and sophistication); Anglo-Norman writing (Tristan and Isolde); the late fourteenth-century (where Chaucer’s is not the only exceptionally rewarding oeuvre); and... [### English 201. Images, Idolatry and Iconoclasm, 1350-1600: Graduate Seminar ](/class/english-201-images-idolatry-and-iconoclasm-1350-1600-graduate-seminar-1) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2008 ### Spring, 2008 [### Literature and Arts A-11. Arthurian Literature: Epic versus Romance ](/class/literature-and-arts-11-arthurian-literature-epic-versus-romance-0) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2008 A permanent fault-line runs throughout Western literature, between epic and romance. Epic contests territory, while romance discovers the self. Epic focuses on charismatic leaders, represents the rise and fall of societies, and depicts war across a realistic geography... ### Fall, 2009 [### English 201. Images, Idolatry and Iconoclasm, 1350-1600: Graduate Seminar ](/class/english-201-images-idolatry-and-iconoclasm-1350-1600-graduate-seminar) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2009 Images find a very direct way into the depths of the psyche; they provoke both love and fear. Through literary texts, we examine the function of images from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, in both erotic and religious traditions. [### English 41. Arrivals: Culture Wars 700-1700 ](/class/english-41-arrivals-culture-wars-700-1700) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2009 Across the period 700-1700 the shapes of British culture were absorbed from different centers of Western Europe. These cultural forms are conflicted among themselves, and conflicted across time. This course will delineate theprincipal cultural forces (e.g. religious... ### Spring, 2009 [### Literature and Arts A-11. Arthurian Literature: Epic versus Romance ](/class/literature-and-arts-11-arthurian-literature-epic-versus-romance) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2009 A permanent fault-line runs throughout Western literature, between epic and romance. Epic contests territory, while romance discovers the self. Epic focuses on charismatic leaders, represents the rise and fall of societies, and depicts war across a realistic geography... [### Culture and Belief 18. Enlightenments and their Literary Discontents ](/class/culture-and-belief-18-enlightenments-and-their-literary-discontents) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2009 What is the function of literary texts in moments, from Plato to the Russian Revolution, that promise total, enlightened societal transformation? A hypothesis: literary texts do not participate easily in the new order. Literary texts are more divided in their sympathies... ### Fall, 2010 [### English 41. Arrivals ](/class/english-41-arrivals-0) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2010 Across the period 700-1700 the shapes of British culture were absorbed from different centers of Western Europe. These cultural forms are conflicted among themselves, and conflicted across time. This course will delineate the principal cultural forces (e.g. religious... ### Fall, 2011 [### English 41: Arrivals ](/class/english-41-arrivals) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2011 Across the period 700-1700 the shapes of British culture were absorbed from different centers of Western Europe. These cultural forms are conflicted among themselves, and conflicted across time. This course will delineate the principal cultural forces (e.g. religious... ### Spring, 2011 [### Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 42. Literature and Revolution: Great Books in Moments of Cultural Transformation ](/class/aesthetic-and-interpretive-understanding-42-literature-and-revolution-great-books-moments-0) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2011 What is the function of literary texts in moments, from Plato to the Russian Revolution, that promise total, enlightened societal transformation? Each week, this course will focus on two texts related to selected “revolutionary” moments, one philosophical and one literary... - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page") ![Hardyng Cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum3746/files/jamessimpson/files/johnhardyngcover_02.jpg) [Can be found here ](http://www.amazon.com/John-Hardyng-Chronicle-British-Lansdowne/dp/1580442137/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1461358073&sr=1-1&keywords=Hardyng%27s%20Chronicle%3A%20Edited%20from%20British%20Library%20MS%20Lansdowne%20204) ![Reynard, border](/sites/g/files/omnuum3746/files/jamessimpson/files/reynard_the_fox_with_border_02.jpg) [Can be found here](http://www.amazon.com/Reynard-Fox-Translation-James-Simpson/dp/0871407361/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1461358001&sr=1-1&keywords=reynard%20the%20fox) ![Under the Hammer](/sites/g/files/omnuum3746/files/2024-10/under_the_hammer.jpg) [Can be found here ](http://www.amazon.com/Under-Hammer-Iconoclasm-Anglo-American-Literature/dp/0199591652/) ![Burning to read](/sites/g/files/omnuum3746/files/2024-10/burning_to_read_cover.jpg) [Can be found here](http://www.amazon.com/Burning-Read-Fundamentalism-Reformation-Opponents/dp/0674046129/) ![sciences_and_the_self_in_medieval_poetry](/sites/g/files/omnuum3746/files/2024-10/sciences_and_the_self_in_medieval_poetry.jpg) [Can be found here](http://www.amazon.com/Sciences-Self-Medieval-Poetry-Anticlaudianus/dp/0521021111) ![Rreform and cultural revolution](/sites/g/files/omnuum3746/files/2024-10/reform_and_cultural_revolution.png) [Can be found here](http://www.amazon.com/The-Oxford-English-Literary-History/dp/0199265534) ![Plowman cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum3746/files/2024-10/piers_plowman_cover.jpg) [Can be found here ](http://www.amazon.com/Piers-Plowman-Introduction-revised-Medieval/dp/0859898032/) ![cultural reformations](/sites/g/files/omnuum3746/files/2024-10/cultural_reformations.jpg) [Can be found here](http://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Reformations-Renaissance-Twenty-First-Approaches/dp/0199212481) ![reform_and_cultural_revolution_0.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum3746/files/reform_and_cultural_revolution_0.png) [Can be found here](http://www.amazon.com/Norton-Anthology-English-Literature-Middle/dp/0393927172)