Introduction to English Literature (35576-04)

Spring 2023

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

Class : ECC B132, 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 open for everyone except the freshmen in the Division of English Language and Literature. This class will be conducted in Korean.

Text: The Norton Introduction to Literature (Shorter 13th Edition, 2018) 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 In-Class Writing 20%, Class participation and Attendance 10%.

Attendance: If you fail to attend 10 classes or more, you will automatically get F. Being late more than 10 minutes for the class two times will count one absence. If you think you are ill with an infection of Corona 19 Virus, please stay home. You can be excused up to three weeks without any penalty with a document issued by the hospital where you were diagnosed or treated.

Tentative Reading Schedule *

March

3 General Introduction: What is Literature? What does it do?(1)

7 A Brief introduction: How to write a literary essay

Reading Fiction

10 Plot: James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”(91)

14 Continued

17 Continued

21 Narration and Point of View: Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado”(173)

24 Continued

28 Character: William Faulkner: “A Rose for Emily”(658)

31 No Class due to the fire

April

4  “A Rose for Emily”(658)

7  Continued

Reading Poetry

11 Continued

14 First In-Class Writing

18 Midterm Exam.

25 Defining Poetry(730), Poetic Subgenres and Kinds(734)

28 Speaker(769): A.E. Stallings, "Hades Welcomes His Bride" (771), Margaret Atwood, "Death of a Young Son by Drowning"(773)

May

2  Dorothy Parker, "A Certain Lady"(776)

5  No Class(Children's Day) 

9  Situation and Setting: Rita Dove "Daystar"(795)

12  Tone: W. D. Snodgrass, "Leaving the Motel"(831)

16   W. H. Auden, "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone"(837)

19  Elegy continued

23 Language: Word Choice and Order: Theodore Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz"(857)

Reading Drama

26  Picturing: Visual Imagery and Figures of Speech: William Shakespeare, "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"(866)

30 Second In-Class Writing

June

2 Elements of Drama(1221)

9 Sophocles, Antigone (1602-1634)

13 Continued

16 Continued

16-1(15:30-16:45) Review and Q & A

20 Final Exam.