Class Detail

A survey and analysis of primary epic: Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, and Exodus. Distribution requirement: Poetry, Pre-1750.

From the Instructor: A historical exploration of the term emotion through the lens of epic poetry. We will use John Milton's English epic, Paradise Lost, as an entry point to study epic as a genre and its capacity as a poetic space to theorize affect and emotion. Milton's roles as an author, reader, and critic of epic offer a unique vantage point from which to study the genre. Paradise Lost is a poem that simultaneously acts as the canonical English epic while defining itself in relation to the epic tradition that came before him. We will be challenging the idea of what makes an epic "heroic" and investigating the affective and emotional legacy of the epic genre. As a class, we will read almost the entirety of Paradise Lost. We will also be reading selections from different epics, including Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.

Days & Times	Room	Instructor	Meeting Dates
TuTh 09:00AM-12:30PM	Remote Instruction	Multer,M.L.	07/25/22 - 08/26/22