English Literature Plus(38041-01)

Fall 2024

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

Class: 654 Hakkwan, Tue 15:30-16:45/ Thur 12:30-13:45.

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: 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%, Presentation(s) 30%, Three 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.

5 Classical Mythology in English Literature.

10 Orpheus: an introduction-how the story of Orpheus was accepted in the history of English Literature.

19 Orpheus in Classical Literature: Ovid, from The Metamorphoses, c. AD 10(81), Book I

24 Ovid, from The Metamorphoses, c. AD 10(81), Book II.

26 John Milton, from "Lycidas", 1637 and Paradise Lost, 1667.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'Orpheus', c. 1820.

October

1 Continued

8 Presentation I

10 Exam I

15 Venus and Adonis, an introduction-how the story of Venus and Adonis was accepted in the history of English Literature.

17 Continued

22 Venus and Adonis in Classical Literature: Ovid, from The Metamorphoses, c. AD 10. Trans. A. D. Melville, 1986,

23-25 No Class: Midterm Exam Period

29 Continued.

31 William Shakespeare, from Venus and Adonis, 1593.

November

5 Continued.

7 Continued.

12 Continued.

14 Continued.

19 Presentation II

21 Exam II

26 Pygmalion, an introduction-how the story of Pygmalion was accepted in the history of English Literature.

28 Pygmalion in Classical Literature: Ovid, from The Metamorphoses, c. AD 10,

December

3 Bernard Shaw, from Pygmalion, 1912.

5 Continued.

10 Continued.

12 Angela Carter, from 'The Loves of Lady Purple', 1974.

17 Presentation III

19 Exam III

*The number of presentations will vary according to the number of the students.

*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.