Happy Top Ten Tuesday!
I think about this a lot because I do teach classes! But instead of my more hum-drum reading lists for English Composition, which you can find here, here are the reading lists for imaginary classes I'd like to teach:
Early Modern British Literature
(Note: would not necessarily teach in this order)
1. King Lear by William Shakespeare
2. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
3. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
4. Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe
5. Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
6. Comus by John Milton
7. Penshurst and other poems by Ben Jonson
8. Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum by Aemilia Lanyer
9. The Poems of Katherine Philips
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10. Assaulted and Pursued Chastity by Margaret Cavendish
Extras: The Sonnets, selected poems from John Donne, selections from The Jew of Malta and The Duchess of Malfi, selected poems and speeches from Elizabeth I
Utopian and Dystopian Literature
(partially stolen from a class I took in graduate school; I thought more about order here)
1. Utopia by Thomas More
2. The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
3. The Giver by Lois Lowry
4. Animal Farm by George Orwell
5. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
6. Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
7. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
8. Dawn by Octavia Butler
9. The Female Man by Joanna Russ
10. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Extra: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Beast Below" episode from Dr. Who, "Sultana's Dream" by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
I think about this a lot because I do teach classes! But instead of my more hum-drum reading lists for English Composition, which you can find here, here are the reading lists for imaginary classes I'd like to teach:
Early Modern British Literature
(Note: would not necessarily teach in this order)
1. King Lear by William Shakespeare
2. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
3. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
4. Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe
5. Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
6. Comus by John Milton
7. Penshurst and other poems by Ben Jonson
8. Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum by Aemilia Lanyer
9. The Poems of Katherine Philips
(No Image Available)
10. Assaulted and Pursued Chastity by Margaret Cavendish
Extras: The Sonnets, selected poems from John Donne, selections from The Jew of Malta and The Duchess of Malfi, selected poems and speeches from Elizabeth I
Utopian and Dystopian Literature
(partially stolen from a class I took in graduate school; I thought more about order here)
1. Utopia by Thomas More
2. The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
3. The Giver by Lois Lowry
4. Animal Farm by George Orwell
5. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
6. Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
7. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
8. Dawn by Octavia Butler
9. The Female Man by Joanna Russ
10. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Extra: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Beast Below" episode from Dr. Who, "Sultana's Dream" by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
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