English 3333-2 Dynamic Traditions, Italy Spring 2022 Syllabus

ENGL 3333-2 Dynamic Traditions, Italy Spring 2022

Tim Morris

1600-1720 MW, 119 Trimble Hall

Tim Morris office hours: 1000-1100 weekdays, 420 Carlisle Hall

tmorris@uta.edu

office mailbox 203 Carlisle Hall

mailing address Box 19035, UTA 76019

Required texts:

Books to buy:

Amara Lakhous, Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, trans. Goldstein
Paperback: Europa Editions
ISBN-13: 978-1933372617

Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed, trans. Penman
Paperback: Penguin Classics
ISBN-13: 978-0-140-44274-8

Michela Murgia, Accabadora, trans. Mazzarella
Paperback: Counterpoint
ISBN-13: 978-1619020504

The texts, new on paper, cost $13.99, $15.99, and $15.95 respectively for a pre-tax total of $45.93. Used or electronic copies would of course be much cheaper; feel free to use them as long as you get the same translations as in the list above.

Mon 7 Feb: L introductions; Italy; Italian

Wed 9 Feb: L medieval

Mon 14 Feb: NO CLASS MEETING (5 point bonus for all)

Wed 16 Feb: D Dante's Inferno: Cantos 1 through 5, Cantos 10, 15, 26

Mon 21 Feb: D Petrarch, sonnets

Wed 23 Feb: NO CLASS MEETING (5 point bonus for all)

Mon 28 Feb: D Boccaccio, Decameron: Day 1, Novel 1

Wed 2 March: L early modern

Mon 7 March: D Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, Canto I

Wed 9 March: Midterm 1

Mon 21 March: L Romanticism

Wed 23 March: D Manzoni, The Betrothed, chapters 1-10, pages 25-210

Mon 28 March: L realism

Wed 30 March: D Manzoni, The Betrothed, chapters 11-30, pages 211-563

Mon 4 April: D Manzoni, The Betrothed, chapters 31-38, pages 564-720

Wed 6 April: D Verga, "Cavalleria Rusticana"

Mon 11 April: D Mascagni, Cavalleria Rusticana

Wed 13 April: D Mascagni, Cavalleria Rusticana

Mon 18 April: L modernism

Wed 20 April: D Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

Mon 25 April: D Murgia, Accabadora (first half, chapters 1-10, pages 1-91)

Wed 27 April: D Murgia, Accabadora (second half, chapters 11-17, pages 93-174)

Mon 2 May: D Lakhous, Clash of Civilizations

Wed 4 May: Midterm 2 CANCELLED (see below for bonus); I had inadvertently scheduled this for Student Study Day

syllabus: The effective version of the syllabus is always at http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/courses/3333sp22/3333mainsp22.html. If you are looking at a print or .pdf version, please make sure to consult the online version for updates.

grading:

(30) five points for attending each of 6 L meetings
(75) five points for each of 15 D meetings, including closed-book card-and-question exercises at the start of every indicated class meeting. Please do the day's reading before you come to class. I'll pass out notecards. On the front, summarize the reading briefly; on the back, ask a pressing critical question that occurred to you while you were reading, along the lines of interpretive techniques you studied or are studying in ENGL 3350. You must also be present for class discussion, and lead that discussion when assigned, to earn that day's credit
(40) twenty points for the first midterm; twenty points bonus for cancelled second midterm
50 points just for being on the roll. This bonus should make it possible for you to excel even if COVID or any other contingency prevents you from attending the occasional meeting
(10) 5 points bonus for the skipped classes on Mon. 14 Feb & Wed. 23 Feb

Most grades will be all-or-nothing, though partial credit is possible. There will be no make-up work. You must attend and participate in class on the given day to get credit for that day's work.

Final grades will be on the standard scale, expressed as a percentage of the 200 possible points in the course (below 60, F; 60-69, D; 70-79, C; 80-89, B; 90-100, A).

Attendance: At The University of Texas at Arlington, taking attendance is not required. Rather, each faculty member is free to develop his or her own methods of evaluating students' academic performance, which includes establishing course-specific policies on attendance. As the instructor of this section, I give credit for attendance according to the grading rules above. Success in this course will be impossible without regular attendance.