Eric Alan Weinstein - Important Message--The Great Poem Series: Unbinding Prometheus MOOC My fellow course participants, Im sure, like me, you are anxiously awaiting the opening of our course. However, in order to give you the best possible experience, we have taken the decision to put back the opening of the course by a few days. This will allow us to fix some minor issues, and allow our videos to render at a very high degree of definition. I do apologise for this short delay, but I hope you will agree it will ultimately be worthwhile. We will now begin our course at 11PM EST Tuesday the 6th of January/ 4 AM GMT Wednesday 7th of January. So, what happens on Wednesday, 7 January? At that time, if you click on the following link: https://openlearning/courses/percyshelley-unbindingprometheus you will be able to enter the Unbinding Prometheus site. Once you are inside, you will see the Unbinding Prometheus home page. Click the links at the left of every page and youll be able to explore our course. I think you will be impressed with what the OpenLearning platform can do. We will open the MOOC with a considerable amount of video, audio and written material. We will then add to this every few days. What you add to the discussion forums, of course---that is the real heart of our course! I am including with this email an updated list of useful links to help you prepare for our course. While you absolutely do not need to read everything on the list, do make sure you look particularly at the following five texts, as we will be reading them during week one: *Percy Shelleys England In 1819 * Lord Byrons poem Prometheus * Percy Shelleys A Defence of Poetry and his Introduction to Prometheus Unbound * Mary Shelleys Note on Prometheus Unbound. We have a truly remarkable course to share with you. Thank you so much for agreeing to participate in it with us. With best wishes from the University of Pennsylvania, ERIC ALAN WEINSTEIN & The Unbinding Prometheus Team ***LINKS*** A mostly quite good Wikipedia entry on Shelleys Prometheus Unbound. However, beware! We shall be challenging some of its assertions in our MOOC: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_Unbound_%28Shelley%29 England in 1819, by Percy Shelley poetryfoundation.org/poem/174385 Prometheus, a poem by Lord Byron (George Gordon),which we shall read and discuss in week one: poetryfoundation.org/poem/173099 Percy Shelleys A Defence of Poetry, which we shall read and discuss in week one: gutenberg.org/files/5428/5428-h/5428-h.htm#link2H_4_0010 Some Political and Historical Contexts for Percy Shelleys life and work: victorianweb.org/previctorian/shelley/historyov.html A pretty good 20 page biography of Shelley: poetryfoundation.org/bio/percy-bysshe-shelley Well-written brief background and summary of Prometheus Unbound from Omar Miranda: nyurrg.org/2013/09/23/shelleys-prometheus-unbound-the-essential-background/ A good brief piece on Romanticism and the Sublime: knarf.english.upenn.edu/Contexts/sublime.html Percy Shelleys Preface to Prometheus Unbound, which we shall read and discuss in week one: knarf.english.upenn.edu/PShelley/prompref.html Mary Shelleys Note on Prometheus Unbound, which we shall read and discuss in week one: https://sites.google/site/theunbindingprometheusproject/home/pedagogy/mary-shelley-s-note A fine article on Mary Shelleys Notes and Prefaces to Shelleys Poems: knarf.english.upenn.edu/Articles/fleck.html An essay on Shelleys Prometheus Unbound and Opera Buffa: rc.umd.edu/praxis/opera/quillin/quillin.html The full text of Prometheus Unbound, which we shall begin reading in week two. Stuart Currans online text of Prometheus Unbound at UPenn: knarf.english.upenn.edu/PShelley/promtp.html
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 17:25:14 +0000
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