Office: Carney 371, 617-552-3758.
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 1–2, Friday, 3–4, and by appointment.
E-mail: gross@bc.edu
Course Home Page: http://fmwww.bc.edu/Gross/HP133
Reading List
- Auden, W.H., Selected Poems, Knopf.
- Beckett, Samuel, Waiting for Godot, Grove.
- Eliot, T.S., The Waste Land, Dover.
- Faulkner, William, Light in August, Vintage.
- Joyce, James, Dubliners, Dover.
- Kafka, Franz, Metamorphosis and Other Stories, Dover.
- Kuhn, Thomas, Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University of Chicago Press.
- O’Neill, Eugene, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Yale University Press.
- Orwell, George, Homage to Catalonia, Harcourt.
- Pynchon, Thomas, The Crying of Lot 49, Harper Collins.
- Ward, Candace (editor), World War One British Poets, Dover.
- Woolf, Virginia, A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas, Oxford World’s Classics.
- Yeats, William Butler, Easter, 1916, and other poems, Dover.
Note: In addition to the reading list above, the following three films are on reserve at the O’Neill Media Center:
- “The General,” E473.55.P69 1995.
- “Safety Last,” PN1997.S225 1990.
- “Grand Illusion,” PN1993.5.F7 G73 1999.
Tentative Schedule
We will read the books in the following order: Joyce, World War One poets, Eliot, Faulkner, Kafka, Woolf, Yeats, O’Neill, Beckett, Orwell, Kuhn, Auden, Pynchon. We will watch the two silent comedies in October, and the third film in November. We also will spend some time talking about classical and popular music of the time period, and more time talking about Modernism in the visual arts.
Grading
Your grade is determined by the following three components:
- Attendance and class participation will count for 40% of your grade. Each absence will decrease your grade by 5%, and consistent tardiness will also hurt your grade.
- Essays account for 30% of your grade.
- The final examination, on Wednesday, December 13, at 9 A.M., will account for the remainder of your grade.
Written Work
You are responsible for a total of 20 pages of written material, which is due by December 1. You may divide up those pages in any way that you wish: 10 two-page papers, a five-page paper and a fifteen-page paper, or a twenty-page paper are all possibilities. The requirements are:
- You may not submit more than one paper per week.
- You must either submit one paper before November 1, or else commit to writing a single twenty-page paper.
- If you choose to write a single twenty-page paper, you must discuss your topic with me by November 1.
- If you choose to write about Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions, we should discuss your paper before you submit it.
- If you fail to get basic facts correct (e.g., the name of the text you are writing about or the names of the characters in the text), your grade will not be good.
Academic Integrity
You should familiarize yourself with the University regulations about Academic Integrity, which are available at http://www.bc.edu/integrity
Miscellaneous
I will not be able to hold class on Monday, October 2, because of a Jewish holiday. We will reschedule that class either to Friday, September 29, or else to Friday, October 6.
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