HUM 2450.B01/B02 Assignments
07/19-07/23/04 (Week 4)
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for MONDAY July 19
-- online notes for this section, "Defining 'America'" available now!
-- Pohl Ch.4 185-194
Online reading:
-- Washington Irving, "Rip Van
Winkle" and "The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow" [both 1819]. (CAVEAT: do not depend on either the Walt
Disney animated or Tim Burton live-action versions. They vary widely from
Irving's original tales.) In these famous tales, the United States' first
successful and internationally-acclaimed writer, Washington Irving, creates moody
scenes collected out of New England's immigrant past. Irving approaches the
folklore and customs of early Dutch-English colonial settlements, and places them
on a par with Aesop, the Grimm Brothers, and Francois Perrault. A wonderful
window into the early 19th-Century's attempt to see the distinctiveness of
"America." As you read, ask yourself: what idea of "America" does Irving give
in his tales? What view does this 19th-Century writer have of his country's early
past?
for TUESDAY July 20
-- online notes for this section, "Defining 'America' Part 2" available now!
-- Pohl Ch.3 130-171, Ch.4 185-194
Online readings:
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, first chapter of Nature [1849]. In this first chapter of Nature, Emerson encapsulates much of the Transcendentalist view toward the possible relationship between the human and natural worlds, focusing on the emotions, intuition, and the child-like.
--also, a few choice quotations from Emerson to sample his thinking.
--Henry David Thoreau, the final chapter of Walden, [1854] wherein Thoreau picks up much of Emerson's thought from another text ("Self-Reliance") and writes about trying to put them into practice. (This site is particularly nice for the hyper-notes it offers within the text.)
--also, a few choice quotations from Thoreau.
--Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven" [1845]. In this famous poem, Poe conveys much that fascinated the late American Romantic and Transcendentalist mind: the emoitions, intuition, the individual, and the often darker powers of nature and the imagination.
for WEDNESDAY July 21
--Continue with notes and readings listed for TUESDAY:
-- online notes for this section, "Defining 'America' Part 2" available now!
-- Pohl Ch.3 130-171, Ch.4 185-194
Online readings:
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, first chapter of Nature [1849]. In this first chapter of Nature, Emerson encapsulates much of the Transcendentalist view toward the possible relationship between the human and natural worlds, focusing on the emotions, intuition, and the child-like.
--also, a few choice quotations from Emerson to sample his thinking.
--Henry David Thoreau, the final chapter of Walden, [1854] wherein Thoreau picks up much of Emerson's thought from another text ("Self-Reliance") and writes about trying to put them into practice. (This site is particularly nice for the hyper-notes it offers within the text.)
--also, a few choice quotations from Thoreau.
--Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven" [1845]. In this famous poem, Poe conveys much that fascinated the late American Romantic and Transcendentalist mind: the emoitions, intuition, the individual, and the often darker powers of nature and the imagination.
for THURSDAY July 22
--new section; BE SURE TO READ
Course notes for this section available online now!
-- Pohl Ch.3 171-174, 258-260, 263-66
for FRIDAY July 23
--TBA: stand by for updates
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