Eng. 709. Renaissance Languages. Spring 1998 Tues. 12-3:00 Rebecca Bushnell 116 Bennett Hall Office tel: 898-8220 Office Hours: T/TH 9:30-10:30, Wed. 1-2:00 e-mail: bushnell@dept.english.upenn.edu listserver: bushnell709@english Books/Texts: At Penn Book Center: Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination Sidney, The Defence of Poetry (also available on the Web) Jonson, Bartholomew Fair (Nebraska) Donne. Complete Poems Bacon, Francis, Francis Bacon (Oxford) Webster, Duchess of Malfi Parkinson, Paradisi in Sole (Dover) Essential bulk pack to be purchased at the Campus Copy Center; other texts will be made available for your own photocopying or on the Web Written assignments: a. Preparation of a bibliography of contemporaneous texts printed in England in any of the basic areas of "language" covered here: from 1500-1620: put more simply, a bibliography of marriage manuals, or anatomy textbooks, or educational treatises, poetics, anti- theatricalism, or another related subject of your choosing. Let me know as soon as possible which area you want to claim for your own. These will be distributed to the whole class for their reference. Various sources to aid you in these research: The Short Title Catalog -- list of books published in English from 1475-1640; individual bibliographies in these fields); the reference librarian in Van. . The bibliography should be organized in chronological fashion: indicating date, STC number, name of author (if known) (or pseudonym); place of publication b. OED exercise: exercise in working with on-line OED. Due: c. An oral presentation at the "conference period": on a subject of your choosing: Ideally, you would trace the uses of one of the languages studied in this course in a text we did not read in this class. In order to extend our corporate knowledge. I will of course, consult with each of regarding your choice of topic in March, if not earlier. This oral presentation will, undoubtably, be connected to assignment 3; d. An essay of approx 15 pp. page length. As the finished product of your "conference" paper. Class assignments: Jan. 12: Introduction Theories of Language Jan. 19: Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge; read (at least) Part I, Introduction; Part II, sections 1-4; Part III, 3-5; Part IV, section 1; Part V (Conclusion); and "The Discourse on Language"; selection from Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (on the web, or see me for a photocopy) Jan. 26: M. M. Bahktin, The Dialogic Imagination; read (at least) the introduction and "Discourse in the Novel"; and J.G. A Pocock "The concept of a language and the metier d'historien," in The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe ( in bulk pack); and selection from early modern English "dictionaries" (in bulk pack) Poetics and Language Feb. 3. Joachim Du Bellay, Defense and Illustration of the French Language (in bulk pack);Sir Philip Sidney, The Defense of Poesy; and Samuel Daniel, "A Defense of Ryme" in bulk pack); recommended, Helgerson, Forms of Nationhood, pp. 1-40 (in Furness); Graham Castor, Pleiade Poetics (in Rosengarten Reserve) Renaissance Languages Feb. 10: Language of Education: Desiderius Erasmus, "On the education of children" and "On good manners for boys" (in Erasmus Reader); Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, Book 1 (photocopy available)); Recommended: Richard Halpern, The Poetics of Primitive Accumulation, Chap. 1; Rebecca Bushnell, A Culture of Teaching (both in Furness) Feb. 17. Language of the Body: Thomas Vicary, A profitable Treatise of the Anatomie of mans body (in bulk pack); section from Helkiah Crooke (photocopy to come and on the Web); recommended: Thomas Laquer, Making Sex, Chapter 3 ("New Science, One Flesh") (In Rosengarthen); and Gail Paster, The Body Embarrassed (in Furness) Feb. 24. Language of the Family: William Whately, A Bride-Bush: or, A Direction for Married Persons (sections in bulk pack); Tilney, Brief and Pleasant Discourse of Duties in Marriage" (text available for photocopy); recommended, Susan Amussen, "Gender, Family and Social Order, 1560-1725," in Fletcher and Stevenson, ed., Order and Disorder in Early Modern England (Furness) March 3: Language of Nature: Sections from Bacon, Advancement of Learning; Parkinson, A Garden of Pleasant Flowers (Paradisi in sole)(pp. 1-25); recommended, Steven Shapin, The Scientific Revolution (in Furness); Keith Thomas, Man and the Natural World (in Rosengarten). OED exercise due. March 10: Break March 17: Language of the Theater: Philip Stubbes, An Anatomy of Abuses (text available for photocopy); Stephen Gosson, Plays Confuted(on the Web or available to photocopy); recommended, Jonas Barish, The Antitheatrical Prejudice, Chap. 4 (in Furness) Renaissance Fictions March 24. Webster, The Duchess of Malfi; Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress," "The Mower Against The Gardens," "The Garden" (photocopies). Bibliography due. March 31. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair: "To Penshurst," "Inviting a Friend to Supper: (photocopies) April 7: Selected poems of Donne: "Song and Sonnets"; "The First Anniversary" April 14. Reports April 21. Reports