INTRODUCTION TO English LITERATURE, Fall, 1998
Short Story
Poetry
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Online     Discussion     &  Journal
 Fall, 1998  Kate Liu, 
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OBJECTIVES:
LITERARY APPRECIATION, ANALYSIS,  KNOWLEDGE + SELF-UNDERSTANDING

 
 A. Reading  English poetry, short story ( or novel) and play  to 
  • learn different literary genres and their components ; 
  • understand how literary techniques work aesthetically and

    •      thematically , and
  •  increase our abilities in appreciating and analyzing literature, 

    •     our knowledge in English literatures and their developments, 
        as well as our understanding of ourselves and society.    		 B.  As a web-assisted course, this course offers
    1. vivid materials on the web to assist our reading of literature,
    2. spaces for interactions among us,
    3. guidance for  exploring the literary worlds on the web.
    * Please read the general instructions on how to use the web 
        materials.
     
    TENTATIVE SYLLABUS
                 The poets with an asterisk(*) have more than one texts on this reading list.
    * -texts to be covered in the final
    wk/
    Date    		 period & genre
    author/text    		 techniques/
    themes
     1
    9/22
    9/24
    		 Introduction; short story 
  • post-war 

    • Shirley Jackson,"The Lottery" (1948) p. 335
  • 3rd- person point of view 
  • scapegoat/self & society
  • characterization
    		•
    2
    9/29 
    10/1
    		 John Updike, "A & P"(1962) p. 79
  • 1st-p. point of view
  • characterization
    		•
    3
    10/6
    10/8
  • modern

    • J. Joyce, "Araby" p. 271* 
  • 1st-p.point of view
  • imagery & symbol
    		•
    4
    10/13
    10/15
  • turn-of-the-century

    • Willer Cather, "Paul's Case" (1904) p.256* 
  • 3rd-p. point of view; 
  • imagery & symbol
    		•
    5
    10/20
    10/22
    		 C. P. Gilman, "Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) p. 245
  • symbol 
  • diary form
    		•
    6.1
    10/27
    		  Mid-term (1): short story back to the top
    6.2-7.1
    10/29
    11/3
     
  • Poetry: from contemporary backwards to Romantic poems
  • First  Approach
  • Poetry I: Lyric and Tone
    • L. Lee "I Ask my Mother to  Sing" (1986, p. 518)
    R. Hayden "Those Winter Sundays" (1962 p. 692)
    T. Roethke "My Papa's Waltz" (1948 p. 603)
    L.  Hugh* "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1921 p. 761)* 
    G. Brooks "We Real Cool" (1960  p. 534) 
         		 identity and family/community
    7.2-8.1
    11/5
    11/10
  • Poetry II: Denotation and Connotation 1: Irony 

    •                     and Figurative Language --Metaphor, Simile, etc. 
    A. Rich "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" (1951 p. 620)* 
    S. Plath "Metaphors" (1960  p. 555)
    Richard Wilbur "A Simile for her Smile" (1950 p. 556)
    E. Dickenson* "I'm Nobody!  Who are you?" (1861? p. 530)
    E. Dickenson* "I Heard a fly buzz--when I died"(1862  p. 740)
         		 identity and gender
    8.2
    11/12
    		 Holiday
    9
    11/17
    11/19
  • Poetry III: Denotation and Connotation 2: 

    •                     Figurative Language-- Imagery and Symbolism
    L Hughes "Harlem" (1951 502)
    W. Stevens  "Disillusionment of Ten o'clock" ?
    T. Hardy "Neutral Tones"
    Z. Pound "In a Station of the Metro" (1916 p. 677)
    R.. Frost "Mending Wall" (1914 p. 748)* 
     
  •  society
    		•
    10
    11/24
    11/26
  • Poetry IV: Sound and Sense
    • E. Bishop "One Art"* 
    W. C. Williams "The Dance" ( 1944 p. 604)
    Wallace Steven  "Anecdote of the Jar"
    W. H. Auden "Musee des Beaux Arts" (1938, p. 686)
    Robert Herrick  "Upon Julia's Clothes"
     
  •  poetry & arts
    		•
    11 
    12/1
    12/3
  • Poetry V: Poetic Form
    • W. Whitman* "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"  (1865 p. 614)* 
    "
    		 "A Noiseless Patient  Spider" (1862-63  p. 521)
    Dylan Thomas "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" (1952 p. 605 )* 
    T. Hardy "The Convergence of the Twain" (1912 p 667) 
    Wordsworth* "The World is Too Much with Us" (1807 p. 655)
     
  • poetry, life & the modern world
    		•
    12.1
    12/8
    		 Holiday
    12.2
    12/10
     
    		   Mid-term (2) : Poetry                              back to the top
    13
    12/15, 12/17
    		 Drama 
    "The Man in a Case" (1950) p.980
  •  Comedy
    		•
    14
    12/22
    12/24
    		 George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion*   
    15
    12/29
    12/31
     
    		 George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion  
    16
    1/5
    1/7
    		 George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion  
    17
    1/12
    1/14
    		 George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion  
    18 
    1/19
    FINAL EXAM
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    TEXTBOOKS¡G 
    1. An Introduction to Literature.   Barnet, Berman, Burto & Cain.  Longman, 1997. 
    2. The Harper Handbook to Literature.  Northrop Frye et al.  NY: Harper & Row, 1997. 
    3. Pygmalion

      4.  Prices: (1. 660-- 561 )+ (2. 320 --272) + (3. 50--43) 876  -- 870
    REQUIREMENTS:
    1. Attendance: Attendance is required.  6 unexcused absences will constitute reason for failing this course.  Grades will be lowered after the third absence.  Three lates equal one absence. 
    2. Class Participation: Finish the assigned reading and be prepared to asked questions and discuss in class.  Extra credits will be given to those active participants. 
    3. Journal: one entry a week on the assigned reading, among which 3 have to be written on-line.  Responses to other students' journal will be given credit to. 

      4. (The purpose of keeping a journal is to make you read more actively, and think more about what you have read.  In the journal, write down  
      a. what you think about the assigned reading 
      b. any question you have about it 
      c. your experience of visiting relevant web sites--at least one entry .  ) 
    4. Study group: form a group of five to six by yourselves and meet once a week outside of class to discuss and answer the questions given about the assigned reading. 
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  • Journal and class participation: 20% 
  • 2 Midterms-each 25% 
  • Final: 30% 
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