| Announcements |
! Curtain Up:
Holiday plays at the Sodsai Pantoomkomol Center
for Dramatic Arts December 13–16, 2016. See program
and details, and download brochure
with play synopses.
! Course Evaluation: This course is reviewed
by the department every academic year to consider
changes to the teaching team, coordinators, course
structure, content and offering schedule, among other
things. Your comments, giving us the learners'
perspective, are helpful in making our decisions and
policies. Please give feedback on our class this
semester to help us learn what worked or didn't work,
what new things we could try, and other improvements
we can make to this required course for the English
major and elective for non-majors. Thanks!
- CU
CAS (online common Chula form, available until
the end of Friday, December 23, 2016)
- Course evaluation form
  (234 2016a
specific form; e-mail the completed form under a
different name for your anonymity to
puckpan.t@chula.ac.th or put the hard copy of
your comments in the envelope marked "234
Evaluation" on the door of my office, BRK 1106)
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| Course Outline |
Class Time: M 9:30–11:00,
W 8:00–9:30
Required Texts
- Coursebook (available
on August 8 from 7 a.m. in front of the 3rd fl. student
elevator, BRK Building)
- Atwood, Margaret. The
Edible Woman. 1969. London: Virago, 1980. Print.
- A good dictionary of
literary terms such as
- Baldick, Chris. The Oxford Dictionary of
Literary Terms. 3rd ed. Oxford: OUP,
2008. Print.
- Cuddon, J. A. The Penguin Dictionary of
Literary Terms and Literary Theory. 5th
ed. London: Penguin, 2014. Print.
- Murfin, Ross, and
Supryia M. Ray. The
Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms.
3rd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009.
Print.
- Abrams, M. H., and
Geoffrey Galt Harpham, A
Glossary of Literary Terms, 11th ed.
Boston: Cengage Learning, 2014. Print.
Detailed Schedule
Syllabus (pdf)
Requirements and Expectations
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Reading Responses: Aside from occasional writing of other
kinds, reading responses are useful exercises that
attempt to explain, discuss or comment on a question
that you pose about the reading. No more than one page
double-spaced is expected per response but it should be
well thought out. See samples.
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Attendance
and Participation: Discussion of the texts will be
a big part of this class and students are encouraged to
express their opinions, share observations and ask
questions. Come prepared to discuss the reading
material.
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There will
be a midterm, a final exam, and a final paper.
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| Studying Literature |
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Klarer,
Mario. An
Introduction to Literary Studies. 2nd
ed. London: Routledge, 2004. Print. (CL 820.9
K63I)
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Brooks,
Cleanth, and Robert Penn Warren. Understanding
Fiction. 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs,
NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998. Print. (library has 2nd
ed.)
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Undergraduate Guide for
Studying Literature (How well do you understand what you have
read?, keeping a reading journal, critical terms for
discussing literature, guidelines for writing essays,
what the grade on your essay means, what to do with your
marked essay, marking symbols and abbreviations; also
has downloadable pdf file)
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Literary Resources on the
Net
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| Writing |
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| Links |
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| Essential References |
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MLA Handbook for Writers of
Research Papers.
7th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of
America, 2009. Print. |
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Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary.
11th ed. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 2008.
Print. |
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Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 20 vols.
Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989. Print. |
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Roget's International
Thesaurus. 7th
ed. Ed. Barbara Ann Kipfer. New York: Harper, 2010. Print.
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and
Poetics. 4th
ed. Eds. Roland Greene, et al. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP,
2012. Print. |