Good Luck to your finals!
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Reading list
Okay, so here's what I have notes on (thus stuff we covered in class, not the assignments themselves). Anything that doesn't have more specifics means either I didn't have anything marked (though I usually say so) or it was the whole thing.
Authors on the final in RED
Assorted Victorians:
Dover Beach
Invictus
Recessional
The White Man's Burden
Tennyson:
The Lady of Shalott (read all from parts 1-4)
Ulysses
Tears, Idle Tears
Charge of the Light Brigade
In Memoriam A.H.H. (read parts 2, 5, 7, 27, 54-56)
Dickens (all Hard Times, obviously):
Chap. 1 - all
Chap. 2 - to top of pg. 8
Chap. 3 - First paragraph, top of 12 to "flower act," last paragraph on 13, halfway through pg. 14 ("Thomas, though I have the fact before me") to end of chapter.
Chap. 5 - up to and including rhyme on pg. 22
Chap. 11 - From top of 58 ("very well") to paragraph about Mrs. Sparsit's eyebrows, halfway down pg. 59 ("I ha' coom") to top of pg. 61 ("Tis just a muddle").
(We then discussed but did not read Book Two, Chapter Four)
Page 222 (last page of book).
George Eliot (all Middlemarch - we read pages out of order, so I present them as we read them according to my notes):
Page 3 (prelude)
Pg. 54 ("But at present this caution") to top of 55.
Pg. 123 - From start of chapter to "spiritual poverty."
Pg. 124 - Second paragraph ("Not that this" to "wadded with stupidity").
Pg. 61 - Second paragraph (short one about converging lives)
Pg. 135 - Last paragraph of chapter
Pp. 379-382 - ("You look very ill" to "a thorough inclination still subsisting" on next page; "Bulstrode felt himself helpless" on 380 to "That was the bear fact" halfway down 382)
Pg. 462 - Last two paragraohs, starting with "'God help you, Harriet!'"
Pg. 464 - "It was eight o'clock" to end of chapter.
Pg. 510 - (It appears I didn't mark this one :/ )
Pg. 514 - Last paragraph at bottom to end of book on next page.
End Victorians.
Begin 20th Century Authors.
(read poems by Hardy, Pund, Owen, Auden, Bennet, Walcott, and Boland that were just to ease us into new era, not for exam)
Joseph Conrad (all from Heart of Darkness)
Pg. 1891 - First two paragraphs
Pg. 1892 - From top ("We looked at the venerable stream") to end of paragraph on next page ("spectral illumination of moonshine"). Continued from there next class to pg. 1894, first paragraph (end with "and offer a sacrifice to").
Pg. 1894 - last paragraph, plus first on page 1895.
Pg. 1896 - Last paragraph (not marked in my book, but aparently we discussed the knitters and "sepulcheral city")
Pg. 1902 - Little paragraph in the middle ("I didn't want any more loitering")
Pg. 1908 - Top of page ("'Tell me, pray'") to halfway down ("also recommended you")
Pg. 1909 - Paragraph starting at bottom of previous page to "He was silent for a while" towards the bottom.
Pg. 1916 - Second paragraph, ending with "Truth stripped of its cloak of time."
Pg. 1941 - Death of Kurtz, from halfway down at "One evening coming in" to "The horror! The horror!"
Pg. 1947 - I don't have any other notation, but we discussed "the lie" and may well have read the whole page.
Yeats: (I must have been knitting that day, because my notes are sparse!)
The Stolen Child
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
When You are Old
Who Goes with Fergus?
The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland
Easter 1916 (Note: This poem begins his "middle period")
The Wild Swans at Coole
The Second Coming
Sailing to Byzantium
The Circus Animals' Desertion
Virginia Woolf: (Note: beginnings of modernism)
Pg. 2088 (From Modern Fiction, found in the Norton) - From bottom at "If we fasten, then," through most of 2089 to "little other than custom wouldhave us believe it."
From Mrs Dalloway:
Pp. 3-4
Pp. 8-9 - Halfway down at "She would not say" to lines at botom of 9.
Pg. 14 - First full paragraph (on the car attracting attention)
Pg. 16 - Third paragraph (on the car)
Pg. 86 - Full long paragraph
Pg. 88 - Last paragraph to "they had been married five years" on next page.
Pp. 99-101 - From "To his patients" to "was denied to his patients."
Pg. 121 - Last paragraph to last full paragraph on next page ("how, every instant . . .")
Pg. 126 - Paragraph starting halfway down that ends at top of next page.
Pg. 139 - Last full paragraph ("Going and coming" to "fear no more.")
Pg. 149 - "Holmes was coming upstrairs" to "bursting the door open."
Pp. 184-186 - Top at "What business" to "from the little room" 3/4 down 186.
T. S. Eliot:
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Hollow Men
Tradition and the Individual Talent: pg. 2320 (halfway down at "Tradition is a matter" to end of paragrapgh), pg. 2321 (halfway at "He must be quite aware" to "the Magdalenian draftsmen."), pg. 2322 (paragraph on analogy "of the catalyst"), pg. 2324 (halfway at "It is not in his personal emotions" to end of section.)
The Waste Land:
Part I
Part II - From "My nerves are bad tonight" on 2299 to end of part II on 2300.
Authors on the final in RED
Assorted Victorians:
Dover Beach
Invictus
Recessional
The White Man's Burden
Tennyson:
The Lady of Shalott (read all from parts 1-4)
Ulysses
Tears, Idle Tears
Charge of the Light Brigade
In Memoriam A.H.H. (read parts 2, 5, 7, 27, 54-56)
Dickens (all Hard Times, obviously):
Chap. 1 - all
Chap. 2 - to top of pg. 8
Chap. 3 - First paragraph, top of 12 to "flower act," last paragraph on 13, halfway through pg. 14 ("Thomas, though I have the fact before me") to end of chapter.
Chap. 5 - up to and including rhyme on pg. 22
Chap. 11 - From top of 58 ("very well") to paragraph about Mrs. Sparsit's eyebrows, halfway down pg. 59 ("I ha' coom") to top of pg. 61 ("Tis just a muddle").
(We then discussed but did not read Book Two, Chapter Four)
Page 222 (last page of book).
George Eliot (all Middlemarch - we read pages out of order, so I present them as we read them according to my notes):
Page 3 (prelude)
Pg. 54 ("But at present this caution") to top of 55.
Pg. 123 - From start of chapter to "spiritual poverty."
Pg. 124 - Second paragraph ("Not that this" to "wadded with stupidity").
Pg. 61 - Second paragraph (short one about converging lives)
Pg. 135 - Last paragraph of chapter
Pp. 379-382 - ("You look very ill" to "a thorough inclination still subsisting" on next page; "Bulstrode felt himself helpless" on 380 to "That was the bear fact" halfway down 382)
Pg. 462 - Last two paragraohs, starting with "'God help you, Harriet!'"
Pg. 464 - "It was eight o'clock" to end of chapter.
Pg. 510 - (It appears I didn't mark this one :/ )
Pg. 514 - Last paragraph at bottom to end of book on next page.
End Victorians.
Begin 20th Century Authors.
(read poems by Hardy, Pund, Owen, Auden, Bennet, Walcott, and Boland that were just to ease us into new era, not for exam)
Joseph Conrad (all from Heart of Darkness)
Pg. 1891 - First two paragraphs
Pg. 1892 - From top ("We looked at the venerable stream") to end of paragraph on next page ("spectral illumination of moonshine"). Continued from there next class to pg. 1894, first paragraph (end with "and offer a sacrifice to").
Pg. 1894 - last paragraph, plus first on page 1895.
Pg. 1896 - Last paragraph (not marked in my book, but aparently we discussed the knitters and "sepulcheral city")
Pg. 1902 - Little paragraph in the middle ("I didn't want any more loitering")
Pg. 1908 - Top of page ("'Tell me, pray'") to halfway down ("also recommended you")
Pg. 1909 - Paragraph starting at bottom of previous page to "He was silent for a while" towards the bottom.
Pg. 1916 - Second paragraph, ending with "Truth stripped of its cloak of time."
Pg. 1941 - Death of Kurtz, from halfway down at "One evening coming in" to "The horror! The horror!"
Pg. 1947 - I don't have any other notation, but we discussed "the lie" and may well have read the whole page.
Yeats: (I must have been knitting that day, because my notes are sparse!)
The Stolen Child
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
When You are Old
Who Goes with Fergus?
The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland
Easter 1916 (Note: This poem begins his "middle period")
The Wild Swans at Coole
The Second Coming
Sailing to Byzantium
The Circus Animals' Desertion
Virginia Woolf: (Note: beginnings of modernism)
Pg. 2088 (From Modern Fiction, found in the Norton) - From bottom at "If we fasten, then," through most of 2089 to "little other than custom wouldhave us believe it."
From Mrs Dalloway:
Pp. 3-4
Pp. 8-9 - Halfway down at "She would not say" to lines at botom of 9.
Pg. 14 - First full paragraph (on the car attracting attention)
Pg. 16 - Third paragraph (on the car)
Pg. 86 - Full long paragraph
Pg. 88 - Last paragraph to "they had been married five years" on next page.
Pp. 99-101 - From "To his patients" to "was denied to his patients."
Pg. 121 - Last paragraph to last full paragraph on next page ("how, every instant . . .")
Pg. 126 - Paragraph starting halfway down that ends at top of next page.
Pg. 139 - Last full paragraph ("Going and coming" to "fear no more.")
Pg. 149 - "Holmes was coming upstrairs" to "bursting the door open."
Pp. 184-186 - Top at "What business" to "from the little room" 3/4 down 186.
T. S. Eliot:
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Hollow Men
Tradition and the Individual Talent: pg. 2320 (halfway down at "Tradition is a matter" to end of paragrapgh), pg. 2321 (halfway at "He must be quite aware" to "the Magdalenian draftsmen."), pg. 2322 (paragraph on analogy "of the catalyst"), pg. 2324 (halfway at "It is not in his personal emotions" to end of section.)
The Waste Land:
Part I
Part II - From "My nerves are bad tonight" on 2299 to end of part II on 2300.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Question on In Memoriam A.H.H
Hi everyone,
I'm wondering does anyone know what's the significance of In Momoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Tennyson? The only point I wrote down is "In Memoriam stanza: four line iambic tetrameter." I'm wondering what are the other points that I missed out?
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
FRIDAY STUDY GROUP For those not locked in their room...
This Friday at Noon, in a study room. Who is game? I know Brooke is.
Monday, May 11, 2009
MONDAY 2nd Floor Admissions Room 208 usually makes a good place to study.
I will be there at 1:00pm preparing for the English Final.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Question...
Does any of you know how we are going to be test on the novels? Are we going to be test on the whole novel or only the passages we went through in class?
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