Major events within the scenes of King Lear
When Lear asks Cordelia to match her sisters sweet words, she replies with the words "Nothing, my lord" (Line
89). Incredulous (amazed), Lear tells his daughter, "Nothing will come of nothing:" asking her to
The story of Martha and Mary (Luke 10:38-42)
King James version
38. Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a
certain woman named Martha, received him into her house.
39. And she had a sister called Mary, which also
QUEST, JOURNEY, TRAVEL, AND PILGRIMAGE
Where do you start? What kinds of points of origin are there?
this life (contra eternity)
polarities: center vs. periphery, court/city vs. nature/wilderness/pastoral (y
INTRODUCTION TO THE RENAISSANCE
THE CENTRALIZED NATION-STATE, MOBILE INDIVIDUAL:
1. Undercutting of feudalism (segmented political order) by central authority
2. New bureaucrats to serve new national monarch
3. The English Reformation; evap
PRE-MODERN TIME STRUCTURES (European perspective)
1. Secular calendars:
A. Numerical dates: 1564, 15th century, the Eighties, etc. Calendrical variations.
B. the translatio imperii: Troy > Rome > European nations > New World; also readable as cyclicality
E316K Literary Analysis Diagnostic 1
1. Paraphrase (2 points): In your own words, give an accurate and complete summary of the
factual content of the passage. What situation is being described here? What action or actions (if
any) take place in
Edmund Scene 3 Act 4
This courtesy, forbid thee, shall the duke
Instantly know, and of that letter too.
This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me
That which my father losesno less than all.
The younger rises when the old doth fall.
Thou thinkst t
Choose a short passage from this weeks text. Write 100 words of first response observation, analysis,
interrogation, exploration, etc. about it and then pose a general discussion question based on it for the
section. Some account of why the question matte
Passages and issues: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Green Knight's invasion:
greenness enters the cold winter setting; woodwose, green man (pre-Christian);
simultaneously beautiful and ugly/frightening
haughtiness/insult/mockery aggressively anti-
"Christ in the House of
Martha and Mary"
A. S. Byatt
Cooks are notoriously irascible. The new young woman, Dolores, was worse than most,
Concepcin thought. Worse and better, that was. She had an extraordinary fine nose for
savours and spices, and
KING LEAR: SHORT LECTURE #1
(1) Roles and bonds
society constituted by organizing network of roles and bonds
roles: identities that are specified by bonds; eg father, king, daughter, subject
bonds: constitutive relational links between people in roles:
E316K: British Lit (spring 2014)
E316K: Masterworks of British Literature
-Spring 2014: TT 11-1230 (GAR 0.102)
Parlin 316, 471-8794
Unique (section) numbers: 35555/35560/35570/35580
Hours: TT 8-915 and b