ENG 234: Sex, War, and Plague
A comparison of the Pre- and Post-Modern
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Anglo-Saxon Riddle Quiz
Final Paper Instructions and Prompts
Grading Rubric for Video Projects
Sample Close Reading: The Pardoner’s Tale
The Pardoner’s Tale Quiz
Thesis Traps
Prelim Exam #1
Quiz #3
Dispatches Quiz
Disease and Medicine
Chaucer, The Pardoner’s Tale
Plague Documents
John Updike, “The City”
Frankenstein, Chapters 3-5
Zombie film trailers
Navigating Patchwork Girl
Comment Assignment:
Patchwork Girl
Medieval Paramedics
Comment Assignment: CFAM Exhibition
Sex
Entertainment Weekly covers
Fifty Shades of Grey
Holy Maidenhood
SNL Parody of
Fifty Shades of Grey
Critical Responses to
Fifty Shades of Grey
David Foster Wallace, “Big Red Son”
PBS Documentary, “American Porn”
Chuck Klosterman, “Porn”
Disease of Virgins
“Teaching Good Sex”
“Abstinence Education”
Johnson, “Pornography Drives Technology”
The Book of Margery Kempe
Robert Coover, “The Babysitter”
Trailer for
The Babysitter
(1995)
Torture
Peter Damian Letters
Anglo-Saxon Riddles
Medieval Saints’ Lives
Norwich Heresy Trials
The Torturer’s Apprentice
Neomedievalism, Neoconservatism and the War on Terror
Abu Ghraib Prison Photographs
War
Beowulf (Poem)
Chaucer, To His Scribe Adam
“Ride of the Valkyries” scene from
Apocalypse Now
Tim Page’s Vietnam War Photography
Vietnam Glossary and Map
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
Alive Day
Course Projects
Nostalgia Projects
Trailer Project: Group 1
Trailer Project: Group 2
Trailer Project: Group 3
Trailer Project: Group 4
David Foster Wallace, “Big Red Son”
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DF Wallace Big Red Son
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