Syllabus for Class 01
Introduction to English Literature(35576-01)
Spring 2015
Chankil Park(ckpark@ewha.ac.kr, 316 Humanities Bd., Office Hour: Tue
14:00-15:00, Tel: 02-3277-2160)
Class: 208 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 Eleventh Edition, 2014) 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%.
Tentative Reading Schedule
March
3 Introduction
I: What is Literature?(p.1)
6 Continued
10 Introduction
II: Why Study Literature?(p.10)
13 Continued
17 Plot:
James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”(p.73)
20 Continued
24 Point
of View: Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado”(p.107)
27 Continued
31 Character:
William Faulkner: “Rose for Emily”(p.298)
April
3 No Class (Kosari Camp of English
Department)
7 Continued
10 Setting:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”(p.307)
14 Continued
17 Symbolism:
James Joyce, “Araby”(p.321)
20-22 No Class: Midterm Exams for General
Education Classes
24 Continued
28 Q & A I(in Korean), The First Paper
due
May
1 Midterm Exam
8 Speaker:
Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”(p.667); William Wordsworth, “She Dwelt among
the Untrodden Ways”(p.491)
12 Setting: John Donne, “The Flea”(p.504); T.S.
Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”(p.679)
15 Tone:
William Blake, “London”(p.535); Seamus Heaney, “Mid-Term Break”(p.687)
19 Language:
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”(p.558); Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz”(p.552);
22 Figures of Speech: Emily Dickinson, “Because I could not
stop for Death—“(p.566); John Keats, “To Autumn”(p.695)
26 Rhyme and Meter: Anonymous, “Sir
Patrick Spens”(p.608); William Wordsworth, “I wandered lonely as a cloud”(p.459)
June
2 Forms: Edmund Spenser,
the first stanza of “Faerie Queene” (the text will be provided at
armytage.net); Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias”(p.710)
5 Review
9 Q & A II (in Korean), The Second
Paper due.
12 Final Exam.
Syllabus for Class 05
Introduction to English Literature(35576-05)
Spring 2015
Chankil Park(ckpark@ewha.ac.kr, 316 Humanities Bd., Office Hour: Wed
14:00-15:00, Tel: 02-3277-2160)
Class: 208 Hakwan,
Wed 15:30-16:45, Fri 12:30-13:45
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 students in the Division
of English Language and Literature who are in their second, third, or fourth
year. This class will be conducted in
English.
Text: The Norton Introduction to Literature(Portable Eleventh Edition, 2014) 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%.
Tentative Reading Schedule
March
4 Introduction
I: What is Literature?(p.1)
6 Continued
11 Introduction
II: Why Study Literature?(p.10)
13 Continued
18 Plot:
James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”(p.73)
20 Continued
25 Point of View: Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Cask of Amontillado”(p.107)
27 Continued
April
1 Character: William Faulkner: “Rose for
Emily”(p.298)
3 No
Class: Kosari Camp of English Department
8 Continued
10 Setting:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”(p.307)
15 Continued
17 Symbolism: James Joyce, “Araby”(p.321)
20-22 No
Class: Midterm Exams for General Education Classes
24 Continued
29 Q & A I(in Korean)
May
1 Midterm Exam
6 Introduction III: What is Poetry?
8 Speaker: Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”(p.667); William Wordsworth, “She
Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways”(p.491)
13 Setting: John Donne, “The Flea”(p.504);
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”(p.679)
15 Tone: William Blake, “London”(p.535);
Seamus Heaney, “Mid-Term Break”(p.687)
20 Language: Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied
Beauty”(p.558); Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz”(p.552);
22 Figures of Speech: Emily Dickinson, “Because I could not stop for Death—“(p.566); John Keats, “To Autumn”(p.695)
27 Rhyme and Meter: Anonymous, “Sir Patrick Spens”(p.608); William
Wordsworth, “I wandered lonely as a cloud”(p.459)
June
3 Forms: Edmund Spenser, the first stanza of “Faerie Queene”
(the text will be provided at armytage.net); Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias”(p.710)
5 Review
10 Q & A II (in Korean)
12 Final Exam.
