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William Franklin
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Course Description: Study of selected masterpieces of world literature from the ancient world through the Renaissance; reports and essays. We'll meet once a week to discuss and debate and ponder. The rest of the course is online.
Office Phone: 940-498-6240
Office Hours: By appointment, online or face-to-face as needed.
Lawall, et al. Norton Anthology of World Literature, 2nd ed., (Set Vol A/Vol B/Vol C), Norton, 2004 ISBN#0-393-92453-x
Requirements:
Course Units:
· Unit One: The Most Ancient Texts
· Unit Two: The Greek Narratives
· Unit Three: Canonical, Extracanonical, and Heretical Texts of Early Christianity
· Unit Four: The Medieval British Metanarrative
· Unit Five: The Spanish Inquisition and Other Burning Issues
· Unit Six: El Mundo Hispanico
Maeshowe, the Sacred Marriage, and Pre-literate Age Symbolism
For this discussion, we are particularly interested in symbolism in an age from which nothing survives in writing. All we have are images and forms in the stone works they left behind. But we can identify symbolic elements in the images and forms, and we can interpret them on the basis of what we know about similar images and forms in more modern times.
Go to the Maeshowe website at: www.maeshowe.co.uk. Click on the "About Maeshowe" link. Read the information carefully and look at all the pictures, particularly the bottom picture. Then investigate the other links within this website, following them as your interest inclines you. Take notes and be ready to cite the source of anything you use in your posts.
Once you've read enough to feel comfortable, read the posts I've written and join the discussion.