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					By student request: click for the "big board" British Literature time line notes. (NEW) (Links updated 4-07-2010)
	CLICK HERE FOR MY NEW PAGES ON THE DA VINCI CODE...(THEY PROMISE TO BE A DIFFERENT READ)				"HAMLET AND THE DAEMONS" (an on line E book) by RAYMOND NIGHAN, Ph.D.

	BRITISH LITERATURE AND AP ENGLISH...
				THE BRITISH LITERATURE COURSE HAS BEEN INTEGRATED WITH MY HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY CLASS (USING JOSTEIN GAARDER'S SOPHIE'S WORLD) SEE ALSO ON LINE AN EXCELLENT HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY COURSE BY GARTH KEMERLING INCLUDING TIME LINES, STUDY GUIDES, DICTIONARIES, AND LINKS TO PRIMARY SOURCES
		BRITISH LITERATURE: How to study for BRITISH LITERATURE Suggestions for taking tests successfully MAKE-UP POLICIES EXPLORE MY OTHER PAGES: SHAKESPEARE WORLD LITERATURE THE PHILOSOPHY OF STAR TREK GOTHIC HORROR TOLKIEN SEMINAR
						Click on the picture to find primary sources on line.
		AP ENGLISH: COURSE SYLLABUS & GUIDELINES FOR TEST PREPARATION

		THE MIMETIC, PRAGMATIC AND EXPRESSIVE THEORIES
			An Introduction to the Study of Literature The Mimetic, Pragmatic, and Expressive Theories A Study Guide for the Critical Perspectives of Frye
			SOPHIE'S WORLD: READ CHAPTERS I TO 5: THE ORIGINS OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE PRE-SOCRATICS.

			CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHY AND DRAMATIC CRITICISM
					Excerpts from the Poetics of Aristotle with Commentary Themes & Motifs in Oedipus--A Chronological Perspective (Updated: July,2005) Excerpts from The Birth of Tragedy by Nietzsche Notes on the Presocratic philosophers (pdf)
		AN INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHY
					SOPHIE'S WORLD: READ CHAPTERS 6 TO 13: THE GOLDEN AGE OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY: PLATO AND ARISTOTLE.
		A COMMENTARY ON PLATO'S DIVIDED LINE THEORY BY MS. JENNIFER PELLETIER (pdf)

			THE ANGLO SAXON PERIOD
					Anglo-Saxon Literature & VERSIFICATION ANGLO-SAXON POETRY: THE WANDERER, THE SEAFARER AND THE WIFE'S LAMENT Beowulf and the Mythological Tradition Two epics: Beowulf and Star Wars, A Comparison STUDENT PAPERS A Discussion of Anglo-Saxon Lyric Poetry by Colleen Klees Grendel and Beowulf: Illuminating the Relationship Between Nihilistic and Christian Archetypes by Mary Francis Fitzsimmons The Dynamic between Change and The Immutable by Jessica Shaffer
	SOPHIE'S WORLD: READ CHAPTER 14--THE TRANSITION FROM A PAGAN TO A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE

		THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
				Introduction to Philosophy and Medieval Philosophy--THE REPUBLIC, THE TIMAEUS, and the ARISTOTLE -AQUINAS Synthesis Click here for questions discussing the nature of the good and evil from a philosophical perspective An Overview of Medieval Sociology: What Chaucer would have known Notes on The Canterbury Tales The Profession of Pardoner: What Chaucer knew The Wife from Bath: A feminist study guide Outline for the History of Tragedy Boethius and Fortune Classical Influences on drama: Thyestes
	STUDENT PAPER The Wife and the Pardoner: Revolutionizing The Sexuality of the Middle Ages by Stephaine McCully
				SOPHIE'S WORLD: READ CHAPTER 15--THE MIDDLE AGES

			THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
		Seventeenth Century Intellectual and Social Background Donne's Meditations, Johnson and Eliot's Criticism Jurassic Park and the Scientific Revolution Donne's View of Poetry Milton's Beliefs
		SOPHIE'S WORLD: READ CHAPTERS 19 TO 23: SPINOZA, LOCKE, HUME AND BERKELEY--BRITISH EMPIRICISM

		THE NEO-CLASSICAL PERIOD
				Eighteenth Century Philosophy Classical Influences on the Neo-Classical Period: Plato, Aristotle and Horace The Papacy and "A Modest Proposal" & the Apology of Pope John Paul II "Rape of the Lock" By Pope with Links to Web Research An Allusion to Ovid in the "Rape of the Lock" Discussion Questions for Book IV of Gulliver's Travels Addison's satiric SPECTATOR The Enlightenment, The Federalist Papers and Star Trek Voyager READINGS FOR THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CLICK HERE TO FIND ON LINE COPIES OF: Essay on Man by Alexander Pope (Read Epistle I &II) Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: (Prose satirical essay) Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope(Mock epic)
	SOPHIE'S WORLD: READ CHAPTERS 24 AND 25: ROMANTICISM AND KANT. NOTE THAT KANT WILL PREFIGURE THE ROMANTICS, ESPECIALLY COLERIDGE.

		THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (The Gothic Horror Course has its own site: Click here)
		JUNG'S ARCHETYPES AND THEIR LITERARY IMPLICATIONS			Introduction to the Romantic Period / Links to Primary Sources Rousseau and the French Revolution The Romantic Period, Creativity, Dream Psychology Wordsworth Coleridge: Life, Addiction, and Literary Theories Coleridge and "The Ancient Mariner" Byron and the Byronic Hero Assignment Allusions and motifs in Manfred Shelley's "Defense of Poetry" Keats' Letters and Poetry
	Poets' Corner Click here for Kelsey Sullivan's Imitations of Intimations: An Ode to Romanticism
			SOPHIE'S WORLD: REVIEW CHAPTER 25 (KANT), AND READ CHAPTERS 26 AND 27: ROMANTICISM AND HEGEL.

				THE VICTORIAN PERIOD
			Mill, Bentham and Victorian Culture Huxley, Arnold and the kind of education you should pursue after high school
			SOPHIE'S WORLD: READ CHAPTERS 29 TO 31: MARX, DARWIN AND FREUD.
	A Perspective on Happiness by Chiara Tanzi (QuickTime Player)

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