English Literature Plus(38041-01)

Fall 2022

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

Class: 462 Posco Building, Tue 12:30-13:45/ Fri 14:00-15:15. Classes, in principle, will be held in the classroom as a normal, face-to-face class. But three classes(Oct. 28, Nov. 4, Nov. 25) have to be taught online due to the entrance exam schedule.

Course Description: This course explores the various forms of mythological 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 the three episodes from mythological tales and legends which British writers have kept retelling or remaking time and again in the long history of English Literature: Orpheus, Venus and Adonis, 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 beginning of the semester. Other materials will be provided at my website(www.armytage.net). Unless specified otherwise, supplementary reading materials and/or handouts will be posted online prior to the class.  Visit our cybercampus regularly for additional announcements.

Language: This course will be taught in Korean.

Evaluation: Attendance and Class Participation 10%, Three One-page Papers 15%, Three Exams 75%.

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
2    General Introduction.
6    Classical Mythology in English Literature.
13      Orpheus: an introduction-how the story of Orpheus was accepted in the history of English Literature.
16   Orpheus in Classical Literature: Ovid, from the Metamorphoses, c. AD 10(81), Book I
20   Ovid, from the Metamorphoses, c. AD 10(81), Book II
23 John Milton, from "Lycidas", 1637 and Paradise Lost, 1667.
27 Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'Orpheus', c. 1820.
30 Continued

October
4  Continued and Review
7   Exam I
11 Venus and Adonis, an introduction-how the story of Venus and Adonis was accepted in the history of English Literature.
14   Venus and Adonis in Classical Literature I: Ovid, from the Metamorphoses, c. AD 10. Trans. A. D. Melville, 1986.
18   Venus and Adonis in Classical Literature II: Ovid, continued.
25   William Shakespeare, from Venus and Adonis, 1593.
28 Continued

November
1     Continued.
4     Continued.
8     Continued.
11    Continued.
15   Q & A 
18 Exam II
22 Pygmalion, an introduction-how the story of Pygmalion was accepted in the history of English Literature.
25     Pygmalion in Classical Literature: Ovid, from Metamorphoses, c. AD 10
29 Bernard Shaw, from Pygmalion, 1912.

December
2       Continued.
6      Continued.
9     Robert Graves, 'Pygmalion to Galatea', and 'Galatea and Pygmalion', 1938.
13    Angela Carter, from 'The Loves of Lady Purple', 1974.
16 Continued.
20 Exam III

*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.