Introduction to English Literature (35576-01)

Spring 2017

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

Class: 205 Hakwan, 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 for the freshmen in the Division of English Language and Literature only. This class will be conducted in English.

Text: The Norton Introduction to Literature(Portable Eleventh Edition, 2014) 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 Quizzes 10%,  Two Short Papers 10%, Class participation and Attendance 10%.

Tentative Reading Schedule

March

3           Introduction I: What is Literature?(p.1)

7          Continued

10        Introduction II: Why Study Literature?(p.10)

14        Continued

17        Plot: James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”(p.73)

21        Continued

24        English Department Workshop at Go Sa Ri Education Center

28        Point of View: Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” (p.107)

31         Continued

April

4           Character: William Faulkner: “Rose for Emily”(p.298); Quiz I

7           Continued

11         Setting: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”(p.307)

14        Continued

18          Symbolism: James Joyce, “Araby”(p.321)

19-21    No Class: Midterm Exams for Core Courses

25        Continued, First Paper due, Q & A I (in Korean)

28         Midterm Exam

May

2         Araby continued and What is Poetry?

9         Presidential Election

12        Speaker: Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess” (p.667)

16        William Wordsworth, “She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways” (p.491)

19          Setting: Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” (p.505)

23         Seamus Heaney, “Mid-term Break” (p.687)

26        Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias”(p.710); Quiz II

30          Tone: William Blake, “London”(p.535) 

June

2          Language: Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz”(p.552);

9          Figures of Speech: Emily Dickinson, “Because I could not stop for  Death—“(p.566), Rhyme and Meter: William Shakespeare, “Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore”(p.606)

13           Anonymous, “Sir Patrick Spens” (p.608), Second Paper due.

14          Q& A II (in Korean), Supplement I(Children’s Day)

15          Q& A III Supplement II(Memorial Day)

16         Final Exam.