Introduction to English Literature (35576-01)

Spring 2018

Chankil Park(ckpark@ewha.ac.kr, 316 Humanities Bd., Office Hour: Tue 14:00-15:00, Tel: 02-3277-2160)

Class: 204 Hakwan, Tue 12:30-13:45, Fri 14:00-15:15

Course Description: This is an introduction to British and American Literature. Students will read a selection of literary works in English to learn basic skills of literary studies. Students are required to read the designated texts beforehand for each class. This section is for the freshmen in the Division of English Language and Literature only. This class will be conducted in English.

Text: The Norton Introduction to Literature(Portable Twelfth Edition, 2017) by Kelly J. Mays. Other secondary materials will be provided at the Ewha Cyber Campus and the Website http://armytage.net

Evaluation: Midterm exam 35%, Final exam 35%, Two Quizzes 10%, Two Short Papers 10%, Class participation and Attendance 10%.

Attendance: If you fail to attend 10 classes or more, you will automatically get F. Being late for class two times will count one absence. But there will be no penalty in points regarding absence or being late for the class.

Tentative Reading Schedule

March

2 General Introduction

6 What is Literature? What does it do?(3)

9 What Are the Genres of Literature? Why Read, Why Study Literature?(7-10)

13 Plot: James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”(66)

16 Continued

23 Continued

27 Narration and Point of View: Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado”(115)

30 Continued

April

3 Character: William Faulkner: “A Rose for Emily”(308)

6 English Department Annual Gathering at Go-Sa-Ri Training Center

10 Continued; Quiz I

13 Setting: Amy Tan "A Pair of Ticket”(186)

17 Continued

18-20 No Class: Midterm Exams for Core Courses

24 Symbol and Figurative Language: Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Birth-Mark"(219)

27 Continued; First Paper due

May

1 Midterm Exam

4 Defining Poetry(477), Poetic Subgenres and Kinds(481)

8 Responding to Poetry(492)

11 Speaker: Robert Browning, “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” (511)

15 Margaret Atwood, "Death of a Young Son by Drowning"(515)

18 Situation and Setting: Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” (528)

25 Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"(530)

29 Tone: W. D. Snodgradd, "Leaving the Motel"(547)

June

1 W. H. Auden, "Stop all the colcks, cut off the telephone"(556): Quiz II

5 Language: Word Choice and Order: Theodore Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz"(569)

8 William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow"(574)

12 Picturing: Visual Imagery and Figures of Speech: William Shakespeare, "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"(580)

15 Emily Dickinson, “Because I could not stop for Death—"(583)

19 Final Exam: Second Paper due