Prof. Lisa B. Hughes
Armstrong 238 Office Hrs: MW 1-3
Prof. Barry Sarchett
Armstrong 242 Office Hours WTH 1-3
TEXTS: (available from College Bookstore):
Vergil, Eclogues Penguin
Longus, Daphnis and Chloe Penguin
Shakespeare, As You Like It Oxford
Cather, My Antonia Mariner
Gifford, Pastoral Routledge
Stoppard, Arcadia Faber and Faber
FILMS (on reserve):
Brokeback Mountain Ang Lee, 2006
Big Business Abrahams, 1997
Woodstock Wadleigh, 1969
An Arcadian Maid D. W. Griffith, 190
E-RESERVES http://coloradocollege.docutek.com/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=463
COURSE DESCRIPTION: As a preparation for advanced work in English, Comparative Literature, and Southwest Studies, this course is a seminar style study of the elusive genre called The Pastoral. Though taught in English, the course will look at, and compare, Pastoral texts from a variety of linguistic traditions, as well as different genres and historical perspectives. Primary texts will be heavily supplemented by theoretical texts, which will frame all of our readings and discussions. The course is designed to promote sophisticated textual work, greater perception of literary issues, and clarity of writing.
CLASS MEETINGS:
We meet daily from 10 AM -12:15 PM. If you should ever be absent, you will write a two page response paper to the reading you missed.
GRADING AND REQUIREMENTS:
Attendance and participation are required. Please come to class with the reading already done, and with at least one question to ask of the group, or a meaningful observation. Always bring your text with you. Every absence beyond two will have a severe negative impact upon your grade. Your grade will be assigned roughly according to the following breakdown:
Class participation 15%
First Paper 25%
Oral Report 20%
Seminar Paper 40%
SCHEDULE OF CLASSES: subject to modification. You are responsible for completing all of this reading before class. Being unprepared will be considered the same thing as being absent.
M Intro
1 PM Film: Brokeback Mountain (in Armstrong 11)
Princeton Encyclopedia entry on “Pastoral”
T Gifford, chs 1-2
Theocritus Idyls 1, 6, 10 (course packet)
Proulx “Brokeback Mountain”
W Vergil’s Eclogues
Martindale, “Green Politics: the ‘Eclogues’” REPORT
R Longus Daphnis and Chloe
Alpers, “Pastoral Narration” REPORT
F NO CLASS: READ AND WRITE
M Longus Daphnis and Chloe PAPER DUE (4-5 pages)
T Renaissance Poetry (23rd Psalm, Marlowe, Rawleigh, Milton)
Alpers, “What is Pastoral?” REPORT
W Shakespeare, As You Like It
“Retreat and Return” Gifford, ch. 3&4 REPORT(S)
R Shakespeare, As You Like It
F Romantic Poetry
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Clare
Williams, chapters from “”The Country and the City” REPORT
M Cather, My Antonia
Ortner, “Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?” REPORT
T Cather, My Antonia
An Arcadian Maid (view it on Monday)
Marx, “Pastoralism in America” REPORT
W O’Connor, “Good Country People”, Woodstock, Big Business
R Stoppard, Arcadia
(watch the opening act online) http://www.theatre.ubc.ca/media/video_arcadia.htm
Gifford, ch. 5 REPORT
F Stoppard, Arcadia
Seminar Papers Due (10-15 pages), copies for everybody
M SEMINAR
T SEMINAR
W SEMINAR
PASTORAL I POD
GOIN’ UP IN THE COUNTRY Canned Heat
BIG YELLOW TAXI Joni Mitchell
GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME Eddie Arnold
WOODSTOCK Crosby, Stills, Nash, that other guy, who hates the south.
6TH SYMPHONY “Pastoral” Beethoven
GREEN ACRES THEME Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor
SHEPHERD AND THE ROCK Schubert
SHEEP Pink Floyd
AFTERNOON OF A FAUN Debussy
DAPHNIS AND CHLOE Ravel
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Led Zeppelin
(ANYTHING BY COUNTRY JOE AND THE FISH)
A FEW ELECTRONIC ARTICLES
Study of history of the Daphnis Myth
http://www.jstor.org/view/00730688/ap020010/02a00100/0
Video killed the Radio Star. Agreed. But did the Renaissance pervert Pastoral?
Wordsworth’s Pastoral for the Econ Major
Nietzsche and the Pastoral Metaphor http://www.jstor.org/view/00104124/ap010085/01a00020/0?currentResult=00104124%2bap010085%2b01a00020%2b0%2cEF07&searchUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fsearch%2FBasicResults%3Fhp%3D25%26si%3D1%26Query%3Dpastoral%2Bromanticism
Marlowe’s famous “Passionate Shepherd to his Love” Was his Love a Boy?
(not that there’s anything wrong with it)
http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/pastor03.htm
The Brothel as Arcadian Space?
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr1199/rcfr8b.htm