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English A10. Professor Garry Leonard. Fall 2023.

leonardgarry@hotmail.com
Facebook site for A10 (optional):
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. Oscar Wilde

. Joseph Conrad

James Joyce
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. Virginia Woolf

Note:
is a poem by TS Eliot that will be available
online, along with any other poems listed on the syllabus.
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is a movie, available on youtube, directed by

Charlie Chaplin
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LECTURE AND READING SCHEDULE:

PART I: “The Sea of Faith Was Once, Too, at the Full”: Art,
Reality, Identity, and the Loss of Transcendental
Certitude

1. W, September 6: Introduction.
. Poems: “The Second Coming”; “Dover
Beach”

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2. W, September 13: .

(continued)
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3. W, September 20: .
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4. W, September 27: (these stories: The
Sisters, An Encounter, Araby, Eveline, Two Gallants, The
Boarding House,)
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5. W, October 4: (continued) A little Cloud,

Counterparts, Clay, A Painful Case, The Dead

[M I D T E R M: take-home essay, posted in Assignments

Wednesday Oct. 4 at 5pm, due back on Assignments Friday,
October 8, 11:59pm]

Wed. O c t. 11
READING WEEK

PART II. “I Will Show You Fear in a Handful of Dust”:

Modernity, Trauma, and the Search for What’s Sacred
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6. W, October 18:
7. W, October 25:

8. W, November 1: and the War Poets

9. W, November 8: Mrs. Dalloway (continued)

10. W, November 15: The Last Laugh, 1924

11. W, November 22:

12. W, November 29:

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JOURNALS DUE: December 10------------by email

(leonardgarry@hotmail.com)
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45%: Mid-Term
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10%: Two Journal entries, 300 words each----

45% Final Exam

(see Quercus under “course materials” for further description of all three of these assignments)

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