{"id":15,"date":"2017-11-29T18:31:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T01:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/inklings\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2018-03-27T17:19:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T00:19:34","slug":"syllabus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/inklings\/syllabus\/","title":{"rendered":"Syllabus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>UNIT I: Origin Stories as Points of Orientation ~ Myth, Folklore and the Great War<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Week 1: Introducing the I<\/strong><strong>nklings and Course Content<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>TUES (02-JAN-18)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u00a0 (no classes today)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>THURS (04-JAN-18)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Course Overview and Brief Introduction to the Inklings<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Inklings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>James Parker, \u201cHow J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Revived Modern Myth-Telling,\u201d <em>The Atlantic <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2015\/09\/j-r-r-tolkien-and-c-s-lewis-revived-myth-telling\/399347\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2015\/09\/j-r-r-tolkien-and-c-s-lewis-revived-myth-telling\/399347\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Walter Hooper, \u201cThe Inklings,\u201d in <em> S. Lewis and His Circle: Essays and Memoirs from the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society, <\/em>edited by Roger White, Judith Wolfe, Brendan Wolfe (UBC Library online)<\/li>\n<li>Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski, \u201cOxford\u2019s Influential Inklings,\u201d <em>The Chronicle of Higher Education <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Oxfords-Influential-Inklings\/229967\">https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Oxfords-Influential-Inklings\/229967<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Week 2: Tolkien&#8217;s Reading, Reading Tolkien: Defining &#8220;Myth,&#8221; Fairy-Stories and Anglo-Saxon Origins<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The purpose of this week is to consider the definition of &#8220;myth&#8221; in the context of Tolkien&#8217;s historical and cultural present; the secondary source readings are intended to provide some background on Tolkien&#8217;s contributions to Anglo-Saxon and Medieval scholarship at Oxford. We will then apply some of the concepts that we&#8217;ve learned to one of Tolkien&#8217;s fairy-stories from\u00a0<em>Tales from the Perilous Realm.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TUES (09-JAN-18)\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Laying the Foundations, or a Brief Introduction to Tolkien&#8217;s Scholarship<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>DISC<\/strong><strong>USSION LEADERS<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<strong>~<\/strong> Kathryn (Kate) Ney, Andrew (A.J.) Reimer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>J. R. R. Tolkien, \u201cOn Fairy Stories\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/brainstorm-services.com\/wcu-2004\/fairystories-tolkien.pdf\">http:\/\/brainstorm-services.com\/wcu-2004\/fairystories-tolkien.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li>J. R. R. Tolkien, \u201cBeowulf: the Monsters and the Critics\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jenniferjsnow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/11790039-jrr-tolkien-beowulf-the-monsters-and-the-critics.pdf\">\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jenniferjsnow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/11790039-jrr-tolkien-beowulf-the-monsters-and-the-critics.pdf\">https:\/\/jenniferjsnow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/11790039-jrr-tolkien-beowulf-the-monsters-and-the-critics.pdf\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>J. R. R. Tolkien, \u201cForward to the Second Edition\u201d of <em>The Lord of the Rings\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/172321371\/Tolkien-s-Foreword-to-the-Second-Edition-Lord-of-the-Rings\">https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/172321371\/Tolkien-s-Foreword-to-the-Second-Edition-Lord-of-the-Rings<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Secondary Readings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Verlyn Flieger, \u201cThere would always be a Fairy-Tale: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Folklore Controversy,\u201d in <em>Tolkien the Medievalist, <\/em>edited by Jane Chance (UBC Library online)<\/li>\n<li>Jane Chance, \u201cThe Critic as Monster: Tolkien\u2019s Lectures, Prefaces, and Forward,\u201d\u00a0in <em>Tolkien\u2019s Art: A Mythology for England <\/em>(UBC Library online)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THURS (11-JAN-18)\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Applying the Concepts, or Considering Tolkien&#8217;s Fairy-Story Realm in &#8220;Farmer Giles of Ham&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>DISC<\/strong><strong>USSION LEADERS<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<strong>~\u00a0<\/strong>Valen Tam, Daphne de Grandpre<\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>J. R. R. Tolkien, &#8220;Farmer Giles of Ham,&#8221; in\u00a0<em>Tales from the Perilous Realm\u00a0<\/em>(PDF uploaded on Connect and Google Drive), you can also find the audiobook here\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gAYE4rwcoo4\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gAYE4rwcoo4<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Secondary Readings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>J. R. R. Tolkien, &#8220;Leaf by Niggle,&#8221; in\u00a0<em>Tales from the Perilous Realm\u00a0<\/em>(PDF uploaded on Connect and Google Drive in the &#8220;Week 02&#8221; folder),\u00a0 you can also find the audiobook here\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5H7AdiinKWY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5H7AdiinKWY\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>J. R. R. Tolkien, &#8220;Smith of Wootton Major,&#8221;\u00a0in\u00a0<em>Tales from the Perilous Realm\u00a0<\/em>(PDF uploaded on Connect and Google Drive in the &#8220;Week 02&#8221; folder)<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Dickerson, &#8220;The Ecology of Ham, Niggle&#8217;s Parish, and Wootton Major,&#8221; in\u00a0<em>Ents, Elves and Eriador: the Environmental Vision of J. R. R. Tolkien\u00a0<\/em>(UBC Library online)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Week 3: Tolkien&#8217;s <em>Silmarillion<\/em>: Tolkien&#8217;s Cosmology and Comparative Mythologies<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The purpose of this week is to consider Tolkien&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Silmarillion\u00a0<\/em>in comparison with other mythologies; the secondary source readings are intended to provide some background in terms of Tolkien&#8217;s scholarship, as well as his antecedents. We will consider the elements of &#8220;creation-myths&#8221; and &#8220;origin-stories,&#8221; and discuss what these cosmologies might reflect about the political, social, or cultural realities of their creators. Such contexts might include the events of WWI-WWII, an emerging environmental consciousness, as well as the concepts of race, gender, art, and technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TUES (16-JAN-18)\u00a0 \u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Opening with a Bang: Eru Il\u00favatar&#8217;s Creation of Arda, the Valar and Maiar<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>DISC<\/strong><strong>USSION LEADERS<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<strong>~\u00a0<\/strong>Andrew (A. J.) Reimer, John Wragg<\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>J. R. R. Tolkien,\u00a0\u201cAinulindal\u00eb,\u201d \u201cValaquenta,\u201d and \u201cQuenta Silmarillion 1-4\u201d in <em>The Silmarillion<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THURS (18-JAN-18)\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Morgoth,\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>F\u00ebanor\u00a0<\/strong><strong>and the Problem of Good and Evil in Middle-Earth<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>DISC<\/strong><strong>USSION LEADERS<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<strong>~\u00a0<\/strong>Kienan Burrage, Marcy Nelson<\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>J. R. R. Tolkien, \u201cQuenta Simarillion 5-10\u201d in <em>The Silmarillion<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Secondary Readings for this Week:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Course Hand-Out Package: &#8220;Satan, the Silmarillion, and Symphonic Re-Imaginings of Creation Stories,&#8221; uploaded to Connect and Google Drive in the &#8220;Week 03&#8221; folder<\/li>\n<li>Jane Chance,\u00a0\u201cThe Creator of the Simarils: Tolkien\u2019s \u2018Book of Lost Tales,\u201d in <em>Tolkien\u2019s Art: A Mythology for England <\/em>(UBC Library online)<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Dickerson, \u201cVarda, Yavanna, and the Value of Creation,\u201d <em>Ents, Elves and Eriador: the Environmental Vision of J. R. R. Tolkien <\/em>(UBC Library online)<\/li>\n<li>Bradford Lee Eden, \u201cThe \u2018Music of the Spheres\u2019: Relationships between Tolkien\u2019s <em>The Silmarillion <\/em>and Medieval Cosmological and Religious Theory,\u201d in <em>Tolkien the Medievalist, <\/em>edited by Jane Chance (UBC online)<\/li>\n<li>Gergely Nagy, \u201cThe Silmarillion: Tolkien\u2019s Theory of Myth, Text, and Culture,\u201d in\u00a0<em>A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien\u00a0<\/em>(UBC Library online)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Week 4: Tolkien&#8217;s <em>Silmarillion<\/em>: Romance, Mortality and Inter-textuality in Tolkien&#8217;s Mythos<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The purpose of this week is to consider Tolkien&#8217;s attitudes towards fate (<em>wyrd, cyninges dom<\/em>) and mortality, and to contemplate how the comparative fates of the Elves (Vanyar, Noldor, Teleri, Sindar), the Dwarvish clans of Nogrod and Belegost, as well as the fate of Men, the Second People, might have been informed by Tolkien&#8217;s experiences in war and his attitudes towards racial difference. In light of this week&#8217;s guest lecture in the English Department on &#8220;Race, White Supremacy and the Middle Ages,&#8221; as led by Dr. Adam Miyashiro <em>(not required to attend, but recommended)<\/em>, I\u00a0have also\u00a0suggested some\u00a0articles specifically on Tolkien&#8217;s &#8220;anthropology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TUES (23-JAN-18)\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Betrayal, Balrogs and the Wars of Beleriand: Fate, Race and Mortality<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>DISC<\/strong><strong>USSION LEADERS<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<strong>~\u00a0<\/strong>Louis Renard, Jameson Thomas<\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>J. R. R. Tolkien, \u201cQuenta Silmarillion 11-16\u201d in <em>The Silmarillion<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Secondary Reading:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Richard J. Whitt, &#8220;Germanic Fate and Doom in J. R. R. Tolkien&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Silmarillion,<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0<em>Mythlore\u00a0<\/em>29, no. 1-2 (UBC Library online)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THURS (25-JAN-18)\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Beren and L\u00fathien &#8211; Sacrifice, Resurrection and the Stolen Silmaril<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>DISC<\/strong><strong>USSION LEADERS<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<strong>~\u00a0<\/strong>Justin Carless, John Wragg<\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>J. R. R. Tolkien, \u201cQuenta Simarillion 17-20\u201d in <em>The Silmarillion<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Secondary Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Richard C. West, \u201cReal-World Myth in a Secondary World: Mythological Aspects in the Story of Beren and L\u00fathien,\u201d in <em>Tolkien the Medievalist, <\/em>edited by Jane Chance (UBC Library online)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>FRIDAY JANUARY 26:<\/strong> Check out the two guest lectures being offered by the UBC English Department. Discussion to follow, should anyone be interested and available to attend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Secondary Readings, on Race and Tolkien&#8217;s Anthropology:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rebecca Brackman, &#8220;Dwarves are not Heroes: Anti-Semitism and the Dwarves in J. R. R. Tolkien&#8217;s Writing,&#8221; <em>Mythlore <\/em>(UBC Library online)<\/li>\n<li>Christine Chism, \u201cMiddle-Earth, the Middle Ages, and the Aryan Nation: Myth and History in World War II,\u201d in <em>Tolkien the Medievalist, <\/em>edited by Jane Chance (UBC online)<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Evans, \u201cThe Anthropology of Arda: Creation, Theology and the Race of Men,\u201d in <em>Tolkien the Medievalist, <\/em>edited by Jane Chance (UBC online)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>12:00 &#8211; 1:00 PM BUCH TOW 599<\/strong> Dr. Hilary Eklund, &#8220;Swamped: Wetlands and Mobility in the Early Modern Atlantic,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oecologies.com\/conferences-colloquia\/\">https:\/\/oecologies.com\/conferences-colloquia\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>3:00 &#8211; 4:30 PM BUCH TOW 599<\/strong>\u00a0Dr. Adam Miyashiro,\u00a0&#8220;Race, White Supremacy and the Middle Ages,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/154024552047118\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/154024552047118\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Week 5: Tolkien&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Silmarillion:\u00a0<\/em>Decline, Ruin and the Rings of Power<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This week we will conclude our discussion of <em>The Silmarillion <\/em>and consider it in in the context of Tolkien&#8217;s legendarium. We will continue our discussion of doom, death, fate (<em>wyrd, cyninges dom<\/em>) and mortality, in conjunction with mankind&#8217;s capacity to control or change fate; specifically, we will be discussing the Turn episode, the power of naming, and the &#8220;call of the west.&#8221; The purpose of this week is to close our unit on Tolkien&#8217;s mythos, and to offer any final insights or parallels with <em>The Lord of the Rings <\/em>texts more generally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TUES (30-JAN-18)\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>DISC<\/strong><strong>USSION LEADERS<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<strong>~\u00a0<\/strong>Louis Renard, Jameson Thomas<\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>J. R. R. Tolkien, \u201cQuenta Silmarillion 21-24\u201d in <em>The Silmarillion<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Secondary Reading:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><em>(no secondary readings for this day)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>THURS (1-FEB-18)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>DISC<\/strong><strong>USSION LEADERS<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<strong>~\u00a0<\/strong>Justin Carless, Valen Tam<\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>J. R. R. Tolkien,\u00a0\u201cAkallab\u00eath,\u201d and \u201cOf the Rings of Power and the Third Age\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Secondary Reading: <\/strong><em>(no secondary readings for this day; bring relevant selections from LOTR if so inclined)<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Week 6: Inklings and the Arthurian Legend: Myth as History in Roger Lancelyn Green&#8217;s <em>Arthur and his Knights<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The purpose of this week is to consider the relationship between myth and history, particularly as it pertains to British and German nation-building during the early twentieth century; although Roger Lancelyn Green&#8217;s retelling of the Arthurian canon will prompt our discussion, I invite you to contemplate ways in which medieval icons and histories have similarly informed ideologies and propaganda up to the present day. Dr. Echard will be providing us with some examples, through which we can make these connections and think more critically about the material we study as Arts students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TUES (06-FEB-18)\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Myth, Magic and Historical Fact: Meditating on\u00a0Green&#8217;s\u00a0Tales and the Arthurian Legend\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>DISC<\/strong><strong>USSION LEADERS<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><strong>~\u00a0<\/strong>Daphne de Grandpre, Kathryn Ney<\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Selections from Roger Lancelyn Green&#8217;s <em>King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table <\/em>(PDF on Connect)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Secondary Reading:\u00a0<\/strong><em>(no secondary readings for this day)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THURS (08-FEB-18)\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>GUEST LECTURE BY DR. Si\u00e2n Echard<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>UNIT II: Creation Myths and Origin Stories ~ Morality, Christianity and Righteous War<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Week 7: Lewis&#8217;s Criticism, Critiquing Lewis-Myth, Creation, and Theology\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The purpose of this week is to contextualize Lewis&#8217;s work amidst his own experiences during the First War, and his response to the Second; we will consider how his texts can be seen as Modernist or revisionist, and yet are also rooted in the wisdom of tradition. Dr. Byassee will be providing us with some of this background, as we start to make connections between Lewis&#8217;s theology and his fantasy literature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TUES (13-FEB-18)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0A Brief Introduction to Lewis&#8217;s Theology &#8211; A Meditation on Myth, Faith, and Story<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>DISC<\/strong><strong>USSION LEADERS<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><strong>~\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Justin Carless, Kathryn Ney<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>C.S. Lewis, \u201cMyth Become Fact,\u201d in <em>God in the Dock<\/em>, and Chapter V: Myth, from <em>An Experiment in Criticism<\/em> (PDF on Connect)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Secondary Reading:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alister McGrath, \u201cC. S. Lewis, Defender of the Faith,\u201d in C. S. Lewis and His Circle: Essays and Memoirs from the Oxford C. S. Lewis Society, edited by Roger White, Judith Wolfe, and Brendan Wolfe (PDF on Connect, UBC Library online)<\/li>\n<li>Walter F. Hartt, \u201cGodly Influences: the Theology of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis,\u201d <em>Studies in the Literary Imagination <\/em>(PDF on Connect, UBC Library online)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THURS (15-FEB-18)\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">GUEST LECTURE BY DR. Jason Byassee, Vancouver School of Theology<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Week 8: READING WEEK; <em>The LORD OF THE RINGS <\/em>FILM TRIOLOGY SCREENING <em>rescheduled for Saturday, March 5 12:30 &#8211; late<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Week 9: Lewis&#8217;s Theological Writings on Ethics, Evils and Demons\u00a0&#8211; <em>Mere Christianity<\/em> and <em>Screwtape Letters\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The purpose of this week is to consider the theological and historical valences of Lewis&#8217;s work, as it was produced during WWII. I invite you to consider how his Christianity\u00a0is expressed in\u00a0the <em>Narnia <\/em>texts, and to be open to his views even if you disagree with his position. Consider how Lewis&#8217;s description of the disinterested versus egoistic reader can be analogous to the self-reflecting versus self-aggrandizing Christian, as well as the ways in which stories convey, reveal, or indeed prepare us to face the moral, spiritual or natural truths about humanity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TUES (27-FEB-18)\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>DISC<\/strong><strong>USSION LEADERS<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><strong>~\u00a0<\/strong>General discussion, as led by the Student Facilitator<\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>C.S. Lewis, <em>Mere Christianity; <\/em>Chapters \u201cXIV. Checkmate\u201d and \u201cXV. The Beginning\u201d in <em>Surprised by Joy<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Secondary Reading:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><em>(no secondary readings for this day)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>THURS (1-MAR-18)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>DISC<\/strong><strong>USSION LEADERS<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><strong>~\u00a0<\/strong>Marcy Nelson and John Wragg<\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>C. S. Lewis, <em>The Screwtape Letters<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Secondary Reading:<\/strong><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (no secondary readings for this day)<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Week 10: Lewis&#8217;s Theological Writings on Modernity, Technology and Righteous War &#8211; <em>The Great Divorce <\/em>and Selections from\u00a0<em>Chronicles of Narnia<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>TUES (6-MAR-18)\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #993366; text-decoration: underline;\">INKLING INVESTIGATION PROJECTS<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Presentation Schedule<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Burrage, Kienan ~ Adam Fox, <em>Plato for Pleasure <\/em>(1945)<\/li>\n<li>Carless, Justin ~ Charles Williams,\u00a0<em>The Place of the Lion\u00a0<\/em>(1933)<\/li>\n<li>De Grandpre, Daphne ~ Nevill Henry Kendal Coghill, <em>general contributions <\/em>(1945-1988)<\/li>\n<li>Nelson, Marcy ~ Owen Barfield, <em>The Silver Trumpet <\/em>(1925)<\/li>\n<li>Ney, Kathryn ~ Dorothy Sayers, <em>Gaudy Night <\/em>(1935)<\/li>\n<li>Renard, Louis ~ Owen Barfield and &#8220;the Great War&#8221; with Lewis<em>\u00a0<\/em>(1925 &#8211; 1930)<\/li>\n<li>Wragg, John ~ Charles Williams, <em>War in Heaven <\/em>(1930)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Secondary Reading:\u00a0<\/strong>Although there are no secondary readings for this week, you might want to take the time to familiarize yourselves with the other Inklings or works which are being presented on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THURS (8-MAR-18)\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Inkling Investigation Wrap-Up and Discussion of Lewis&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Great Divorce\u00a0<\/em>(1945)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Reading:\u00a0<\/strong>C. S. Lewis,\u00a0<em>The Great Divorce\u00a0<\/em>(PDF available online)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/barnardsvilleumc.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/ebook-lewis-c-s-the-great-divorce.pdf\/\">https:\/\/barnardsvilleumc.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/ebook-lewis-c-s-the-great-divorce.pdf\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Remaining Presentations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reimer, Andrew Joel ~ C. S. Lewis, <em>The Great Divorce <\/em>(1945)<\/li>\n<li>Tam, Valen ~ Colin Hardie,\u00a0<em>general contributions\u00a0<\/em>(1928 &#8211; 1973)<\/li>\n<li>Thomas, Jameson ~ J. R. R. Tolkien, <em>A Secret Vice <\/em>(1931)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">UNIT III: Modernism, Cultural Crisis, and a Revision of Traditional Roots<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Week 11: Modernity, Destruction, and Post-War Ghost-Towns<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>TUES (13-MAR-18)\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>DISC<\/strong><strong>USSION LEADERS<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<strong>~\u00a0<\/strong>Kienan Burrage\u00a0<em>et all<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charles Williams, <em>All Hallow\u2019s Eve, <\/em>Chapters I-III \u201cThe New Life,\u201d \u201cThe Beetles,\u201d \u201cClerk Simon\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Secondary Reading:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul Fiddes, \u201cCharles Williams and the Problem of Evil,\u201d in <em>C. S. Lewis and His Circle: Essays and Memoirs from the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society, <\/em>edited by Roger White, Judith Wolfe, Brendan Wolfe (UBC Library online)<\/li>\n<li><b><\/b>Ashley Marshall, \u201cReframing Charles Williams: Modernist Doubt and the Crisis of World War in \u2018All Hallows\u2019 Eve,\u2019\u201d <em>Journal of Modern Literature <\/em>(UBC Library online)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THURS (15-MAR-18)\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Guest Lecture by Dr. Carol Zaleski on C.S. Lewis, Romanticism and Theology, Smith College<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>NOTE THAT <em>INKLING INVESTIGATION REPORTS ARE DUE to the Faculty Sponsor for Marking<\/em> TODAY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Week 12: Urbanity, Nature, Spectres and Sacrifice<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>TUES (20-MAR-18)\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>DISC<\/strong><strong>USSION LEADERS<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<strong>~\u00a0<\/strong>General discussion, as led by the Student Facilitator<\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charles Williams, <em>All Hallow\u2019s Eve, <\/em>Chapters IV-V \u201cThe Dream,\u201d \u201cThe Hall by Holborn\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>THURS (22-MAR-18)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>DISC<\/strong><strong>USSION LEADERS<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<strong>~\u00a0<\/strong>General discussion, as led by the Student Facilitator<\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charles Williams, <em>All Hallow\u2019s Eve, <\/em>Chapters V-VI \u201cThe Wise Water,\u201d \u201cThe Magical Sacrifice\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Secondary Reading:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> <em>(no secondary reading for this day)<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Week 13: Modernity, Magic, and Machines<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>TUES (27-MAR-18) <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>DISC<\/strong><strong>USSION LEADERS<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<strong>~\u00a0<\/strong>General discussion, as led by the Student Facilitator<\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Williams, <em>All Hallow\u2019s Eve, <\/em>Chapters VIII-X \u201cThe Magical Creation,\u201d \u201cTelephone Conversations,\u201d and \u201cThe Acts of the City\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Secondary Reading:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><em>(no secondary reading for this day)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">THURS (29-MAR-18)\u00a0 <b><u>Making Connections: Inklings, Modernity, Barfield\/ W. H. Auden<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Reading:\u00a0<\/strong>Owen Barfield, selections from\u00a0<em>Poetic Diction\u00a0<\/em>(on Connect, see Week 13 folder)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Secondary Readings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Michel Piret, \u201cW. H. Auden and the Inklings,\u201d C. S. Lewis and His Circle: Essays and Memoirs from the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society, edited by Roger White, Judith Wolfe, Brendan Wolfe<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Owen Barfield, \u201cLewis and\/or Barfield,\u201d in\u00a0<i>C. S. Lewis and His Circle: Essays and Memoirs from the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society,\u00a0<\/i>edited by Roger White, Judith Wolfe, Brendan Wolfe (UBC Library online)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Week 14: There and Back Again ~ Peer Reviews and an Expected Party<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>TUES (3-APR-18)<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>RESEARCH PAPER \u2013 Peer Editing Session<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Peer Editors for Research Paper Draft Review Session<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kienan Burrage and Valen Tam<\/li>\n<li>Justin Carless and Daphne de Grandpre<\/li>\n<li>Jameson Thomas and Marcy Nelson<\/li>\n<li>A. J. 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