| Fall Term 2008 |
| September |
9 |
Introduction to the
course |
|
Historical Forms and Classic
Texts |
| |
16 |
Juvenal, Horace, Aesop
(Ancient Humour, Moral tales) |
Juvenal,
Satire II [ Peter Green Translation in course Kit]
Read any four
Aesop's Fables: http://www.AesopFables.com/
Read: Part 1
(first seven poems) Horace Odes Translated by Franklin
P. Adams http://www.theotherpages.org/
poems/books/adams/something01.html |
| |
23 |
Jonathan Swift |
"A
Modest Proposal" (Social good, Poverty; Welfare mothers)
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/
nonfiction_u/swiftj_modest/modest_ch1.html |
| |
30 |
no classes |
Rosh Hashanah (no Tuesday or Wednesday tutorials, but there will be Thursday tutorials. |
| October |
7 |
Northrop Frye |
The Nature of Satire (in course kit)
No Thursday tutorials this week |
| |
14 |
Alexander Pope |
"The Rape of the Lock" (A mock-epic about hair) http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/263.html |
| |
|
Social Pretences and Moral Relativism |
| Essay Due in Tutorials |
21 |
Lewis Carroll |
Alice in Wonderland (Silly adults, Precocious children) |
| |
28 |
George Orwell |
Animal Farm
(Marxism, Revolution gone wrong, Mob psychology, Pigs are only human) |
| November |
4 |
Oscar Wilde |
The Importance of Being Earnest
(Class; education, an age of surfaces; Satire disguised as nonsense) |
| February |
3 |
Joe Orton |
"Loot" and "What the Butler Saw"
from The Complete Plays
(Rude Farce) |
| |
10 |
Kurt Vonnegut |
Mother Night
(Guilt, treachery, the delusion of identity) |
| Essay Due in Lecture |
17 |
Evelyn Waugh |
The Loved One (California v. Europe, cosmetic culture)
We do have tutorials on the 17th (Tues.) and the 19th (Thurs), but not 18th (Wed. – this is a make-up day for Monday’s class)
Classes for Fall term end on Thursday Feb. 19th and then we break for exams until Wednesday March 4th (we do have tutorials on March 4th and 5th) |
| Winter Term 2009 - Tutorials begin on Wednesday March 4th |
| |
Colonialism and Imitation |
| March |
10 |
Said, Bhabha, Ball & Rushdie |
Edward Said, excerpt from Orientalism [in course kit]
Homi K. Bhabha, excerpt from “Signs Taken for Wonders” [in course kit]
John Clement Ball. Introduction to Satire and the Postcolonial Novel [in course kit]
East, West (focus on "The Prophet's Hair," "At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers," "The Harmony of the Spheres," and "Chekov and Zulu") |
|
17 |
Umberto
Eco |
"Industry
and Repression in a Po Valley Society"
(Savage anthropology)
[in Course Kit] |
|
The Grotesque |
| |
24 |
Mikhail Bakhtin |
"The Grotesque
Image of the Body and Its Sources"
(The up-side-down and exaggerated body) |
| |
31 |
François Rabelais |
Gargantua (Selections) [in course kit] |
| April |
7 |
Nikolai Gogol |
"The Nose" [in course kit]
(The absurdity of the normal) |
| |
14 |
Peter Carey |
The Fat
Man in History |
| |
|
Postmodern Parody |
|
| Proposals Due |
21 |
Linda Hutcheon |
"The
Politics of Parody"
[in Course Kit] |
| |
28 |
Angela Carter |
The
Bloody Chamber
(Rude Fairy
tales) |
| May |
5 |
Umberto Eco |
Travels in Hyperreality [in course kit]
(infinite replication) |
| Essays Due in Tutorials |
12 |
Tom Stoppard |
Travesties
(The Importance of not being earnest) |
| |
19 |
Exam Review
(exam - May 30th 12-2 in ACW 206) |
Please note that there are no tutorials on Wednesday May 20th or Thursday May 21st because they are make-up days for Monday classes and Friday classes respectively. |
