ENGL 195B/001 Explorations in World Literature: Educating the Imagination Professor Tom Willard Office: Modern Languages 445G Phone: (520) 621-1154; Hours: Mondays 2:00-3:00 and by appointment Class meets:Wednesdays, 2:00-2:50, in Modern Languages 303 What is the role of the imagination in the creation and reading of literary works? How can readers develop their imaginative potential? We will address these questions, and many others, while reading an essay on literary education and a small group of poems. For comparison, we will discuss selected works in other art forms, including painting, music, and film. You will write four 1-page essays and will revise one. This seminar is open to anyone who likes to read poetry, but is designed especially for prospective teachers of English. Text (available at the ASUA Bookstore): Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination. Recommended: a good English dictionary. Poems (available at the class web site): William Shakespeare, "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet"; Wallace Stevens, "The Motive for Metaphor"; W.B. Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium"; William Blake, "The Sick Rose"; Marcel Proust, "Giants in Time"; James Joyce, "riverrun"; Dylan Thomas, "Altarwise by owl-light"; St. John Perse, from "Anabase" (trans. T.S. Eliot); The story of Babel (King James Version); Robert Graves, "To Juan at the Winter Solstice"; Jay Macpherson, "Anagogic Man." Requirements: 4 one-page response papers on assigned readings. You may skip one bi-weekly assignment, but must revise one response. All responses should be limited to one page single-spaced type (no smaller than 12 point, please), written for a "general" reader who has the poem on hand, and carefully proofed. They may, but need not, respond to remarks in The Educated Imagination. Syllabus of Readings Aug. 22. Introduction. What is the imagination? Aug. 29. Read Frye, chapter 1. Excerpt: A Midsummer Night’s Dream in online reading packet Sep. 5. Read Stevens. First response paper Sep. 12. Read Frye, chapter 2. Excerpt: Goldberg Variations Sep. 19. Read Yeats; read about Learner-Centered Education. Second response paper Sep. 26. Read Frye, chapter 3. Excerpt: Educating Rita Oct. 3. Read Blake. Third response paper. Please schedule an appointment. Oct. 10. Read Frye, chapter 4. (NB: Oct. 12 is the last day to withdraw) Oct. 17. Read Joyce. Fourth response paper Oct. 24. Read Frye, chapter 5. Excerpt from CBC Ideas Oct. 31. Read Thomas. Fifth response paper Nov. 7. Read Frye, chapter 6. In class: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel Nov. 14. Read Perse; Genesis 11. Revised response paper due Nov. 21. Read Graves. Please schedule an appointment. Nov. 28. Read Macpherson Dec. 5. Review, evaluation Links Study Guide for The Educated Imagination Texts Discussed in The Educated Imagination Passages from How Proust Can Change Your Life How Literature Can Change Your Life Sample responses by class members

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