Scott Simpkins

     "...l'homme qui médite est un animal dépravé."

                                              - J.-J. Rousseau, Discours sur l'origine de l'inégalité

 

 

 Professor, Department of English, UNT

 Lecturer, Cyber Semiotic Institute / Semiotic Institute Online

 Leader, Simpkins Research Group

 		   

 

 

Office:

       Auditorium Building, 205
    
               
 

Office Phone:

       940.369.8954
       
               
 

Email:

       scotts@unt.edu    
               
 

Fax:

      940.565.4355
(to "Atten: Scott Simpkins")
 		     

             
        Other Links:      
          Semioticon
      
          Semiotic Review of Books
      
          Literary Semiotics: A Critical Approach
  

 

  
 

Fall '09

Classes:

            
          Readings:    
  3911
            
 

       Th         

3:30-6:20

 Matthews Hall 102 

      
Week Ten:

- Matthew Lewis, The Monk

- Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee
On-going semester projects:

- Bram Stoker, Dracula

 - Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market" illustrated version from Playboy

  ARCHIVE:

Week One:

- Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"

Week Two:

- Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"

- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Zastrozzi (handout)

- Mary Shelley, "Transformation" (handout)

For Week Three:

- William Godwin, Caleb Williams

Week Four:

- Mary Shelley, "Transformation" (handout)

 - William Godwin, Caleb Williams

Week Five:

 - William Godwin, Caleb Williams

 - M. Wollstonecraft, Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (handout)

Week Six:

 - M. Wollstonecraft, Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (handout)

 - Charlotte Dacre, Zofloya

Week Seven:

 - Charlotte Dacre, Zofloya

- Matthew Lewis, The Monk

Week Nine:

- Matthew Lewis, The Monk

- Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee
  
 

 

            
 

5100

            
 

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6-8:20

Aud Bldg 218

 

      
Week Nine:

- Matthew Lewis, The Monk

- Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee

- Byron, "The Corsair" and "Lara"


On-going semester projects:

- Bram Stoker, Dracula

 - Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market" illustrated version from Playboy





 ARCHIVE:

Week Two*:

- Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"

*of the semester, but Week One for the class itself

Week Three:

- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Zastrozzi (handout)

- Mary Shelley, "Transformation" (handout)

Week Four:

- Mary Shelley, "Transformation" (handout)

 - William Godwin, Caleb Williams

Week Five:

 - William Godwin, Caleb Williams

 - M. Wollstonecraft, Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (handout)


 - M. Wollstonecraft, Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (handout)

Week Six:

 - M. Wollstonecraft, Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (handout)

 - Charlotte Dacre, Zofloya

Week Seven:

 - Charlotte Dacre, Zofloya

- Matthew Lewis, The Monk

Week Eight:

- Matthew Lewis, The Monk

- Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee