Introduction to Literature  Spring, 1998,
Kate Liu;  Requirements & Grading Policy
Syllabus & Course Notes
Poetry, Novel, Drama
 
On-Journals: 
(1) Poetry, (2) Novel, (3)Drama
Making your Homepage: 
Group 1, Group 2, Group 3, 
Group 4, Group 5, Group 6
  What do you know about Love? 
  • Traditional Concepts
  • Romantic Passion since 19th-century 
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    Open Discussion
    Syllabus & Course Notes
    Date 
    Text and Period
    the poems with * are for close reading; 
    those with * are for interpretation/genre questions in the final exam
    Genre, Topic and Techniques
    1. 2/24, 2/26         Victorian Dramatic Monologue 
    Browning "My Last Duchess"*  (p. 536)
    Browning "Porphyria's Lover"*  (handout)
    Tennyson "Ulysses"**  (p. 662)
    C. Rossetti  "After Death" * (handout)
    Charlotte Mew "The Farmer's Bride"* (handout)
         		 Poetry 

    Love, Life and Death
    2. 3/3         Romantic Poetry 
    Keats  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" ** (p. 522)
    Byron "She Walks in Beauty"* (handout)
    Shelley "Ozymandias"*
         		 Art , Love and Life,  
     
    3. 3/5, 3/10       18th Century Poems  
    Gray "Ode (On the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes)*  (handout)
    Swift  "A Description of Morning"* (handout)
    "On Stella's Birthday"*
    Pope  "Essay on Criticism" (ll. 337-393)
     "Essay on Man" (Epistile 1, [10] & Epistle 2 [1])
    * The teaching of html file begins in your Word Processing class.    		 18th-century: poetry of sensibility, heroic  couplet;  
    "proper words in proper places"
    4.  3/13, 3/17 
     
     
     
     
     
     

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    		       17th Century Poetry 
    Donne (1572-1631) "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"**  
    Donne "The Flea" * (handout)
    Herbert(1593-1633) "Easter Wings"*  (handout)
    Herrick (1591-1674) "Upon Julia's Clothes"
    Marvell (1621-1678) "To His Coy Mistress"*  (p.592)
         		 metaphysical poetry; metaphysical conceit;  
    love--courtly and religious
    4. 3/20;   
    3/24 (1st hour)    		      16th Century Poetry 
    Shakespeare "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day"* (handout)
    (1564-1616) "That Time of Year"** (p.650) 
    excerpts from his plays: 
    the courting sonnet from Romeo and Juliet*; a soliloquy from Macbeth
    3/24 group homepage report (1) --Poetry* 
    1. Treatments of Emotion in Victorian Dramatic Monologue    		 sonnet, love & life  
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    6. 3/24, 3/27 Anonymous Medieval Poems and Ballads 
     
    lyrics "Western Wind"* (p.511)
    "Now Goes the Sun Under Wood"*  (handout)
    ballads "Sir Patrick Spence" (p. 641)
    "Barbara Allen"** (handout)
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    6. 3/31, 4/2
    Holiday
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     4/7,  Mid-Term (1) ¡@Novel
    7. 4/9, 4/14,  Wuthering Heights (chaps 1-9; pp. 3-76) 
    4/14 group homepage report (2) --Poetry 
  • 2. Life & Love in poems
  • 3. Platonic and Sexual Love  of some 17th century poetry
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    8.  4/16, 4/21 
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    9., 4/23, 4/28 Wuthering Heights (chaps 15-20; pp. 130-176)  
    4/28 group homepage report (3) --Novel 
    4. Emily Bronte  & Wuthering Heights    		 ¡@
    10, 4/30, 5/5 ¡@Wuthering Heights (chaps 21-26; pp. 177-220) ¡@
    11,  5/7, 5/12 ¡@Wuthering Heights (chaps 27-34; pp. 221-82)  
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    12 5/14, 5/19  
    back to top    		 ¡@Wuthering Heights Conclusion 
    5/19 group homepage report (4) --5. Wuthering Heights    		 ¡@
    13. 5/21¡@ ¡@Mid-Term (2) ¡@
    14. 5/26, 5/28¡@ ¡@Streetcar Named Desire Scenes 1-3  ¡@Drama
    15. 6/2, 6/4 ¡@ ¡@Streetcar Named Desire Scenes 4-6 
     6/2 group homepage report (5) --<A Streetcar Named Desire>    		 ¡@
    16. 6/9, 6/11       Streetcar Named Desire Scenes 7-11
    17. 6/16, 6/18 
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      Final Exam
    *The first (and only the first) homepage report can be a process report; in other words, this group can turn in the final product later.

    Requirements and Grading Policy:
    For regular requirements, please see the syllabus of Fall, 1997.
    In addition, this semester, we will have you do homepage on an author, a genre or an issue.  Please see instructions.

    GRADING POLICY  (subject to change):
                    Journal and class participation: 30%
                    2 Midterms-each 20%
                    Final: 30%

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