Introduction to Western Literature--Fall, 1999

Tentative Syllabus

LAST UPDATE: December 22, 1999


 
Wk/

Date

Period & Genre

Author/text

Techniques/

Theme

09/21

09/23

Classes Canceled due to the 9/21 Quake
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09/28
Holiday
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09/30

Introduction: Elements of Fiction

Holst, Spencer ¡§The Zebra Story Teller¡¨ (2)

*Hemingway 

Plot,

Point of View, Characterization, Setting, Symbols/Imagery, Theme

10/05

10/07

Bierce, Ambrose ¡§An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge¡¨(80-86)

Poe, Edgar Allan ¡§The Cask of Amontillado¡¨& Video

Plot,

Hallucination,

3rd person point of view

1st person point of view, irony

10/12

10/14

*Willer Cather ¡§Paul's Case¡¨ (xerox)

Lessing, Doris ¡§Our Friend Judith¡¨(134-146)

Tan, Amy ¡§A Pair of Tickets¡¨

*Jackson, Shirley ¡§The Lottery¡¨ (xerox)

Guest Lecture

Setting, Symbol

Characterization

10/19
No class or a make-up class for the Quake
10/21
Exam. 1: on Fiction
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10/26

10/28

Drama: The First Approach
Checkhov ¡§The Man in A Case¡¨ (xerox)

Wesserstein The Man in A Case (xerox)

*History of Drama

Elements of Drama

From Page to Stage

11/02

11/04

George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion ACT1
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11/09

11/11

George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion
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11/16

11/18

George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion
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11/23
George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion
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11/25
Video: My Fair Lady
11/30
Review on Drama
12/02
Exam. 2: on Drama
12/07

12/09

Poetry I: First Approach (597,603, 609-11)

¡XSpeaker & Tone

William Carlos Williams ¡§This is Just to Say¡¨ (979)

Koch ¡§Variations¡K¡¨ (853)

Brooks, Gwendolyn ¡§We Real Cool¡¨ (654)

*Hayden, Robert ¡§Those Winter Sundays¡¨ (634)

*Piercy, Marge ¡§Barbie Doll¡¨ (620-23)

*Pastan, Linda ¡§love poem¡¨ (623-24)

Reading, Responding &

Writing about Poetry

Family, Youth experiences,

Love

12/14

12/16

Poetry II: Denotation & Connotation 1 

Wordsworth ¡§I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud¡¨ (xerox)

Herrick, Robert ¡§Delight in Disorder¡¨(704)

Shakespeare ¡§That Time of the Year¡K¡¨ (713)

Burns, Robert ¡§A Red, Red Rose¡¨ (718)

Winters, Yvor ¡§At the San Francisco Airport¡¨ (699-701)

*Wilbur ¡§A Simile for Her Smile¡¨ (xerox)

*T. Roethke ¡§My Papa's Waltz¡¨ (1948, p.603)

Diction, and word order

Figurative

Language¡XMetaphor,

Simile

12/21

12/23

Poetry III: Figurative Language 2¡XImagery Symbolism (726-7), Irony 

Pound, Ezra ¡§In a Station of the Metro¡¨ (xerox)

Chasin, Helen ¡§The Word Plum¡¨ (739-40)

Olds ¡§Lenigrad Cemetery, Winter of 1941¡¨ (726-7)

Blake, William ¡§The Sick Rose¡¨ (732)

* ¡§War is Kind¡¨ (xerox)

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Imagery

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Irony

12/28

12/30

Poetry IV: Situation, Sounds & Sense

Donne, John ¡§The Flea¡¨ (660, 664)

*Milton ¡§On the Late Massacre in Piedmont" (667-9)?

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor ¡§Metrical Feet¡¨ (745-7)

Cope, Emily ¡§Emily Dicknson¡¨ (747)

Shakespeare ¡§Lullaby¡¨ (xerox)

*Anonymous ¡§There Was a Young Lady of Riga¡¨

Situation

Sounds & Sense

01/04

01/06

Poetry V: Poetic Form (Internal & External Structures (758, 782-5)

Cummings, E. E. ¡§l(a¡¨ (805)

*Nemerov ¡§The Goose Fish¡¨ (761-3) or 

Whitman ¡§When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer¡¨

Shakespeare ¡§That time of the year¡K¡¨

*Constable, Henry ¡§My lady's presence makes the roses red"(786-8)

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Open form

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Sonnet

01/11

01/13

Faulkner, William ¡§A Rose for Emily¡¨ (429¡X439)
Critical Context
01/18
Wrap

Approaching the Whole Poem (807-809)

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01/20
Final Exam.: On Poetry & Review Fiction?
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