Romanticism and Modern Literature(36151-01)

Fall 2024

Chankil Park(ckpark@ewha.ac.kr, 316 Humanities Bd., Office Hour: Fri 15:30-16:30 by Appointment, Tel: 02-3277-2160)

Class: 210 Hakkwan, Tue 12:30-13:45/ Fri 14:30-15:15.

Course Description: This is an introductory lecture on the literary works produced in Britain during the Romantic period in which the idea of modernity was first conceived. The canonical poems by the six major poets are still the main targets of course, but they will be explored in the context of the modernity that has expressed itself in all aspects of British society after the French Revolution. Main emphasis falls on a close reading of the key texts such as "London," "Tintern Abbey," and "Ode to a Nightingale," but they will be read more as a part of artistic expression of the modern mind we still share in the 21st century.

Text: Norton Anthology II(8th edition) or any other downloadable texts from electronic sources

Language: This course will be taught in Korean.

Requirements: Two Exams

Evaluation: Attendance and Class Participation 10%, Midterm Exam 45%, Final Exam 45%.

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 Introduction: British Romantics and the Romantic Poetry

6 Blake: Revolution

10 From Songs of Innocence and Experiences: “The Chimney Sweeper” “London”

13 From The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

20 Wordsworth: The Growth of Mind

24 “Tintern Abbey”

27 Continued.

October

1 From “The Ruined Cottage”(ll.54-93, ll.152-185, ll.221-237, ll.447-538)

4 Continued.

8 From The Prelude(1850)(ll. 105-305 in Bk 11; ll. 208-335 in Bk 12; ll. 1-62 in Bk 14)

11 From The Prelude(1850) Continued.

15 From The Prelude(1850) Continued.

18 Coleridge: Dream

22 Biographia Literaria

23-25 No Class: Midterm Exam Period

29 Continued

31 Midterm Exam

November

5 "Kubla Khan"

8 Byron: Europe

12 From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage(Canto I: 1-4, 25-27; Canto II: 72-73)

15 Continued(Canto III: 5-7, 12, 15-16, 97, Canto IV: 137-138)

19 Continued

22 Shelley: Eternity, From “Adonais”: Stanzas 1-4, 21-22.

26 From “Adonais"

29 continued

December

3 Keats: Beauty, "Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art"

6 "Ode to a Nightingale"

10 Continued

13 General Review

17 Q & A

20 Final Exam

*Reading Schedule is only tentative and some changes can take place also in the list of poems, which will be announced at the first class.