Introduction to English Literature (35576-04)

Spring 2024

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

Class: Hakwan 411, 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 45%, Final exam 45%, 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. 

Tentative Reading Schedule *

March

Introduction

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

8 A Brief introduction: How to write a literary essay

Reading Fiction

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

15 Continued

19 Continued

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

26 Continued

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

April

2 “A Rose for Emily”(658)

5 Continued

Reading Poetry

9 Continued

12 Review and Q & A

16 Midterm Exam

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

23 Speaker(769): A.E. Stallings, "Hades Welcomes His Bride" (771)

30 Margaret Atwood, "Death of a Young Son by Drowning"(773)

May

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

7 Continued

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

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

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

21 Elegy continued

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

Reading Drama

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

31 No Class(Foundation Day)

June

4 Elements of Drama(1221)

7 Sophocles, Antigone (1602-1634)

11 Continued

14 Continued

18 Final Exam

*Reading Schedule can be updated during the semester.