DATES
January 5-March 10

2016

In class today

|| NB (Note well): Satire is aggressive. Sometimes a genre, sometimes an attitude, sometimes a mode, SATIRE IS INHERENTLY OFFENSIVE. The works we read may offend you. Let's talk about that.

Supporting Materials

Description of the English Major

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Tuesday, Jan. 5
"The Birth and Origin of the Pope"
Cranach on the Papacy

Introduction: What is satire?

Robert C. Elliott, "Satire," Britannica Online Encyclopedia

Satire and the body: Satire's use of the body is a crucial element of the course. Look up embody in the OED (Oxford English Dictionary).


Critical methods: We will make an effort to historicize the satires we read, and we will examine them as part of a literary historical tradition (these two methods sometimes overlap). And we will use "Gender" as an analytic category.
What is gender (noun) or gender (verb)?
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Start exploring Lefkowitz & Fant, Women's Life in Greece and Rome (on the Diotima site).

A look at our course web site

The Devil Playing Martin Luther

Some trash talk about women from the recent past, along with defenses. We will use RL commentary to speculate about how far particular performances or texts can be said to represent cultural values.
Doonesbury

Thursday, Jan. 7

Prometheus and Pandora

Hesiod's Theogony, Myths and Meaning

Satire VI

Ancient History Source Book: Juvenal, Satire VI

Study Questions: Juvenal
Further Juvenal SQ by Students
\\ WHATwould you like to ask?

"I didn't come from your rib. You came from my vagina."

Tuesday, Jan. 12

Juvenal, Satire VI, line 82 to line 345: "what altar does not attract its Clodius in drag?"

If your last name begins with "F" to "M," write a message board entry on this section of Juvenal or about one of the topics below.
Lefkowitz and Fant, Women's Life in Greece and Rome (Diotima).
Women's "Legal Status in the Roman World,"
"Men's Opinions."
"Philosophers on the Role of Women"

Sample draft of Paper #1

Ancient Rome, life in (c. 100 AD/CE)

Map of Roman Empire c. 100 CE

Messalina

Juvenal: Ancient Sexuality and Gender

Juvenal, Satire VI -to end of poem.
Conversation on the Message board: 
If your last name begins with "N" to "Z," imagine that Satire VI is not mainly about marriage or about women.  What is it about?  And why are women and marriage good vehicles?  Draw at least some examples for your reasoning from the last part of the poem.

Start reading J. Scott, "Preface to the Revised Edition" of Gender and the Politics of History and "Some More Reflections on Gender and Politics."

Alexis de Tocqueville, "How Americans Understand the Equality of the Sexes"

For Joan Scott essays, please see email.

Due: Bring to class a draft of your paper on Juvenal. Peer reading in class.

Discussion of J. Scott, "Preface to the Revised Edition" of Gender and the Politics of History and "Some More Reflections on Gender and Politics."

Please print out the Scott materials and bring them to class.

In-class writing CONTEST

What do you think? "Free to Be Mean: Does This Student Satire Cross the Line"?

Juvenal VI. Youtube

Juvenal entry Encyclopedia. com

Men Going Their Own Way Forum: Satire VI
Guide to Juvenal VI

SQ for Joan Scott material

Some dates that will help you think about Juvenal

Continue discussion of Scott

Suzanne Dixon, The Roman Family: "Roman Family Relations and the Law" and "Marriage." See email.

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Paper #1 due: 3-page paper, with 1-page commentary.

"The Men's Tribune," a very useful anti-feminist, pro-male site

Continued discussion of the Scott and Dixon.

Discussion of paper topics

ascetic (OED)

Introduction to Women Defamed and Women Defended.  "The Book of the Wiles of Women" (130-135); The Lamentatons of Matheolus (177-197).

Preface, and 3 articles from Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage. From Plautus to Chaucer: "Preface";
Elizabeth A. Clark, “Dissuading from Marriage: Jerome and the Asceticization of Satire”;
Barbara Feichtinger, “Change and Continuity in Pagan and Christian (Invective) Thought on Women and Marriage from Antiquity to the Middle Ages”;
P. G. Walsh, “Antifeminism in the High Middle Ages”

[Ovid, Remedia Amoris]

Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage. From Plautus to Chaucer

Further from Limbauth

Limbaugh: Our Culture Has Been "Chickified" By Women Taking The Same Career Paths As Men

Limbaugh Dismisses Gender Pay Arguments As "Tripe": "We Don't Get It" But "We're Not Single Women [Who] Hate Men"

Continue working on the articles above--in order to think about annotated bibliographies.

Sample of short annotations on Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale.
Augustan Satire: bibliography with short annotations

Sample annotated bibliography entry
|| Notes leading to annotation

Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Wife of Bath's Prologue" (198-222).
Jerome, Against Jovinianus, Book I. 
(Book II - Link in case you want to read further)

StudyQuestions: Wife of Bath and Christine de Pizan

17th & 18th c.: John Oldham, "Satyr Upon a Woman, Who by her Falshood and Scorn was the Death of my Friend" (1678). This edition is in 1710. For interesting comparison see edition of 1770: Satire upon...

Annotated Bibliography DUE: in class and on your Paper Thoughts forum

DISCUSSION OF TOPICS FOR PAPER #2.
Post a "writing-thoughts" entry on the message board. IDEALLY, you would post your topic and your tentative claim, but TOPIC and first thoughts are enough.

Study Questions: Oldham

DNB entry: Oldham See also link to DNB archive.

Robert Gould, Love Given O're (1682) from Satires on Women.  Introduction to Satires on Women. Questions: Gould
DNB entry: Gould. See also link to DNB Archive.

Sign-up sheet for Writer-Peer-Instructor conferences.

SIGN UP early to get the best times.

You must make a decision about a paper topic by today's class session.

Questions: Ames
DNB entry: Ames

DNB entry: Fige (or Fyge)Richard Ames, The Folly of Love (1691)
Recommended: Sarah Fige, The Female Advocate" (1687) from Satires on Women.

Jonathan Swift,  "The Lady's Dressing Room"(1730). Lady Mary Wortley Montague, "The Reasons that Induced Dr S to write a Poem called 'The Lady's Dressing Room'" (1732-4 ). 
See also Mary Evelyn, "Mundis Muliebris: or, The Ladies Dressing-Room Unlock'd" (1690).
See also Mundus foppensis: or, the fop display'd Being the ladies vindication, in answer to a late pamphlet, entituled, Mundus muliebris: or, the ladies dressing-room unlock'd, &c. In burlesque. Together with a short supplement to the fop-dictionary: compos'd for the use of the town-beaus, 1691.

Everyone: Please read and respond to items on the annotated bibliographies of 2 other students.

DNB entry: Swift

Last day to sign up for conferences on Paper #2.

The Lady's Dressing Room - interpretation || Youtube

Another interpretation || Youtube

Drafts of Paper #2 due.  By Sunday (Feb.28 ), e-mail your comments to the writers of the papers you read. Bring copies of these e-mails to peer conferences on Tuesday, Mar. 1.

Further discussion of Lady's Dressing Room poems
Let's also look at "A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed" (see Links page).

P E E R---R E A D I N G

G U I D E L I N E S

Writer-Peer-Instructor conference schedule

No regular class session & no regular office hours

No regular class session & no regular office hours

Eve Ensler bio: Americans who tell the truth

May 14, 2012 in the Huffington Post

Eve Ensler

Final papers due. 12-15 pages plus 1 to 2-page commentary.

|| CHECKLIST

Review the checklist before turning in your paper.