Announcements

! 2202235 Students: All grades are in. Thanks everyone for an intense semester of ideas. Come say hi some time, and please don't forget to give comments on the class. See below.

! Course Evaluation: We will be reviewing both courses 2202234 and 2202235 very critically over the summer and would greatly appreciate your feedback. Please find forms you can download below (Word files), fill them out, and have a friend e-mail to acharn Puckpan to keep your anonymity. Thanks very much for your help in designing courses that are better and better.

• Evaluation Form for 202234 Introduction to the Study of English Literature

• Evaluation Form for 202235 Reading and Analysis for the Study of English Literature

• See past comments and reviews

Course Outline

Class Time: M 11–12, Th 8–10

Required Texts

• Coursebook

• J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)

• Jennifer Vanderbes, Strangers at the Feast (2010)

• Lynn Nottage, Ruined (2009)

Syllabus (Word file)

Detailed Schedule

Requirements and Expectations

• 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.

• 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.

• There will be quizzes, a midterm, a final exam, and a final paper.

Studying Literature

• Klarer, Mario.  An Introduction to Literary Studies.  2nd ed.  London: Routledge, 2004. (CL  820.9 K63I)

• Brooks, Cleanth, and Robert Penn Warren.  Understanding Fiction.  3rd ed.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998. (library has 2nd ed.)

• 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)

• Literary Resources on the Net

Writing

• What Is Plagiarism? (friendly explanation of plagiarism with examples from Georgetown University; make sure you read the entire article; you  will be severely penalized for plagiarism in this course)

• The UVic Writer's Guide (well-organized, easy to follow guide with examples)

• The OWL at Purdue (Online Writing Lab, includes the writing process, grammar and mechanics, literary analysis and criticism, writing about poetry)

• How to Evaluate the Information Sources You Find

• Basic Steps in Writing a Literature Paper

• Citation Styles Handbook: MLA

• MLA Style FAQ

• Paper Guidelines 1 and 2

• Literary Criticism: Principles

• Model Criticism (some essays by F. R. Leavis; a couple of obsolete links)

• English Help

• Key to Correction Marks

Links

• London Theatre Guide

• Playbill

• Reading Room ("Conversations about Great Books"; blog)

• Hay Festival

• Littoral (online journal of the Key West Literary Seminar)

• Drama Glossary (see also Drama Glossary, Terms for Discussing Drama, Glossary of Technical Theatre Terms, Glossary of Basic Literary Terms)

• The Web Concordances and Workbooks

• Poets on Poets (audio clips of poets reading the work of other poets, sometimes with commentary)

• Lannan Audio Archives

Essential References

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.  7th ed.  New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009.

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.  11th ed.  Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 2003.

Oxford English Dictionary.  2nd ed.  20 vols.  Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989.

Roget's International Thesaurus.  6th ed.  Ed. Barbara Ann Kipfer.  New York: Harper, 2001. (library has 3rd ed.)

The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.  Eds. Alex Preminger, Terry V. F. Brogan, and Frank J. Warnke.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1993.