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=[]British Literature =

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Heroes and monsters, knights and wizards, kings and assassins - this class has got it all! Over the course of this semester, we will be taking a thousand-year journey, following the evolution of British Literature from its beginnings in the Anglo-Saxon Middle Ages through Shakespeare's Renaissance. The course will also trace the evolution of our language from this - ða com of more under misthleoþum Grendel gongan, godes yrre bær -to this - Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more - to this - Mamma Dukes is in the kitchen flippin trippin cause spray caps is missin and I left without permission.

Wow! What a ride!

Along the way, we'll attempt to tackle the following ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

-What is the relationship between place and literature?

-How does literature shape or reflect society (values, beliefs, institutions)?

-How do changes in language shape and reflect society?

-What is the relationship of the writer and the reader to tradition?

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