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Today’s Agenda. Explain homework for next class. Reminder about previous class Gulliver & perspective Swift looking at humanity “darkly” “with sharp and horrible eyes.” Return to “The Lady’s Dressing Room” 2589-93 What examples of evidence are discovered in the dressing room?
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Today’s Agenda • Explain homework for next class. • Reminder about previous class • Gulliver & perspective • Swift looking at humanity “darkly” “with sharp and horrible eyes.” • Return to “The Lady’s Dressing Room” 2589-93 • What examples of evidence are discovered in the dressing room? • Go over the passage on 2345-47. (handout)—what’s noteworthy? • Provide context for Swift. (PowerPoint) • Literary, intellectual, economic, political, religious, biographical. • Underscore Swift’s position and perspective. • Go over the quotes by Terry Eagleton (handout). • If time, begin going over Ch 1-4 of Part 4 of GT.
Homework for next class • Read Gulliver’s Travels: Part 4, Chapters 5-8 (pp. 2431-46). • Quiz next class • On pages 2301-03 & 2323-24, (headnotes on Swift and GT) • the PowerPoint slides of context for GT, • and two questions are on GT, Part 4, Chapters 1-4. • Do the Reading Response for GT; choose one. • See the online instructions. Turn it in at the midterm. • Check out the class website. • Instructions for Essay 1 are up, but we haven’t really read GT yet and that essay isn’t due until the fifth week.