Storytelling and Literature(38041-01)

Fall 2019

Chankil Park(ckpark@ewha.ac.kr, 316 Humanities Bd., Office Hour: by appointment, Tel: 02-3277-2160)

Class: 206 Hakwan, Tue 15:30-16:45/ Thur 12:30-13:45               

Course Description: This course explores the various forms of storytelling written or performed in English Literature.  Analyzing the various ways in which the art of storytelling has been adopted in the tradition of English Literature, we will mainly focus on three characters from the mythological tales and legends which British writers have kept retelling or remaking time and again in the long history of English Literature: Arthur, Faust, and Pygmalion. Some film adaptations of the stories in question will also be discussed along with the literary texts based on the same materials.

Text: A coursepack will be made available at the Copy Centre at the beginning of the semester. Other materials will be provided at my website(www.armytage.net). Unless otherwise specified, supplemental reading materials and/or handouts will be posted online prior to class.  Visit our cyber campus regularly for announcements and/or course materials.

Evaluation: Attendance 10%, Class Participation 10%, Presentations 20(Performance 10, Script 10)%, Exams 60%

Attendance and Tardiness: Failing to attend the class 10 times or more will automatically result in F. Being late more than 10 minutes will count as a late attendance and two late attendances will count as one absence.

Tentative Schedule

September

3     General Introduction: Arthur, Faust, Pygmalion

5     Sources for King Arthur Stories: Geoffrey of Monmouth, “The Early Days of Arthur”(pp.50-53, pp.61-62)

10      Wace, from Le Roman de Brut; Layamon, Brut

17   Introduction on Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur

19    Reading a part of the original text from Norton Anthology I(p.448-451)

24   Film Viewing I: Excalibur(1981)

26   continued

October

1     Lecture I and Discussion on the film

8    Presentations I

10   Presentation continued and Q & A

15    Exam I

17   Introduction and Scene 3 of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus

17-1  Continued: Scene 5(1- 145)

24    Continued: Scene 5(146-346)

29   Continued: Scene 12

31   Film Viewing II: Doctor Faustus at the Globe Theatre

November

5      Continued.

7      Lecture II and Discussion on the film

12      Presentations II

14     Presentation continued and Q & A

19     Exam II

21    Sources for Pygmalion Stories: Ovid, from Metamorphoses ll. 287-360

26      Bernard Shaw, Act I of Pygmalion

28         Continued: Act IV of Pygmalion

December

3        Film Viewing III: My Fair Lady

5      Continued

10     Lecture III and Discussion

12     Presentations III and Q & A

17    Review

19    Exam III.

*Makeup Class: October 17

*Reading Schedule is only tentative and some changes can take place also in the list of literary texts, which will be announced at the first class.