Introduction to English Literature (35576-04)
Spring 2025
Chankil Park(박찬길, ckpark@ewha.ac.kr, 316 Humanities Bd.,
Office Hour: Wed 15:30-16:30, only by appointment, Tel: 02-3277-2160)
Class: Hakwan 205, Mon 15:30-16:45, Wed 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?
10 A Brief introduction: How to write a literary essay
Reading Fiction
12 Plot: James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”
17 Continued
19 Continued
24 Narration and Point of View: Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado”
26 Continued
31 Character: William Faulkner: “A Rose for Emily”
April
2 Continued
7 Continued
9 Continued
14 Review and Q & A
16 Midterm Exam
Reading Poetry
21 Defining Poetry(730), Poetic Subgenres and Kinds
28 Speaker(769): A.E. Stallings, "Hades Welcomes His Bride"
30 Margaret Atwood, "Death of a Young Son by Drowning"
May
7 Dorothy Parker, "A Certain Lady"(776)
12 Situation and Setting: Rita Dove "Daystar"
14 Tone: W. D. Snodgrass, "Leaving the Motel"
19 W. H. Auden, "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone"
21 Elegy continued
26 Language: Word Choice and Order: Theodore Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz"
Reading Drama
28 Picturing: Visual Imagery and Figures of Speech: William Shakespeare, "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"
June
2 Elements of Drama(1221)
4 Sophocles, Antigone (1602-1634)
9 Continued
11 Continued
16 Review and Q & A
18 Review and Q & A
23 Final Exam
*Reading Schedule can be updated during the semester.
