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Course Syllabus

eng304

Week 1:

Introduction: Monsters in theory and practice

Week 2:

Beowulf (Please read entire text.)

J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Monsters and the Critics" (in NCE, above.)

(Don't neglect the useful appendices in the Norton Critical Edition.)

Week 3: John Gardner's Grendel
Week 4: Grettir's Saga
Week 5: Grettir's Saga

FIRST PAPER (3-5 pp) DUE THIS WEEK

Week 6: selections from The Book of Beasts
Week 7: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Take-home midterm due 26 March.

Week 8: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Week 9: J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit or, There and Back Again
Week 10: J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit or, There and Back Again

SECOND PAPER (3-5 pp) DUE THIS WEEK

Week 11: selections from Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthure (see E. Vinaver's King Arthur and His Knights)
Week 12: selections from Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthure

Take-home final exam due 11 May 1999.

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