Department of English

Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University


2202232  Introduction to the Study of English Fiction

 

Puckpan Tipayamontri

Office: BRK 1106.1

Office Hours: W 24 or by appointment

Phone: 0 2218 4703

puckpan.t@chula.ac.th

 

Group 3

BRK 314

M 1012, W 89

 

Tentative Schedule (Group 3)

Week 1

Jun. 4

Introduction

Escape and Interpretive Literature

Reading

Week 2 Jun. 9

Mapping the Action

Reading

Discussion: plot: exposition, conflict, protagonist, antagonist, suspense, mystery, dilemma, surprise

Jun. 11

Mapping Movement

Reading

Discussion: plot: endings, artistic unity, time sequence, complication/rising action, crisis, climax, conclusion, resolution/denouement

Week 3 Jun. 16

Plot

Reading

Discussion: presentation of characters: direct and indirect presentation; show v. tell

Jun. 18

Plot

Reading

Discussion: character: static and developing characters, flat and round characters

Week 4 Jun. 23

Characterization

Reading

Discussion: character: consistency, motivation, plausibility

Jun. 25

Characterization

Reading

Discussion: characterization

Week 5 Jun. 30

Characterization

Reading

  • Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, to Chapter 5 (page 53)

  • Susan Glaspell, "A Jury of Her Peers" (1917)

  • Study questions

    • How is characterization different or the similar in "The Open Window" and "A Jury of Her Peers"?

    • If so much is interrupted or incomplete in "A Jury of Her Peers," how is discovery or disclosure achieved?

    • Compare how the ending of the two stories reveal character through discovery. What information do you discover about the characters? How is that information given?

    • Examine how the two stories characterize characters who are not there. Pick an absent character in each of the story and consider the techniques used to present them to us and how that presentation affects our understanding of other characters and of the story.

    • Explore conflict in the two stories. Choose a conflict that interests you in the two stories. Who is involved? How is the conflict resolved, or doesn't it?

Discussion: characterization

Jul. 2

Shapes of Character

Reading

  • Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, to Chapter 7 (page 68)

  • Susan Glaspell, "A Jury of Her Peers" (1917)

Discussion: characterization

Week 6 Jul. 7

Point of View: Knowledge

Reading

  • Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, to Chapter 14 (page 125)

  • Sally Benson, "The Overcoat" (1939)

Discussion: point of view

Jul. 9

Point of View: Tone, Style

Reading

  • Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, to Chapter 17 (page 149)

  • Sally Benson, "The Overcoat" (1939)

Discussion: irony

Student-led Discussion 12: Pancharle and Piyawan

Week 7 Jul. 14

Point of view

Reading

  • Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, to Chapter 21 (page 203)

  • Sally Benson, "The Overcoat" (1939)

Discussion: point of view

Jul. 16

Point of View

Reading

  • Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, to the end (page 247)

  • Sally Benson, "The Overcoat" (1939)

Discussion: point of view

Week 8 Jul. 21

Test I and II (in class during our usual class time: BRK 313, 1012; Test I will be on a short story that will be distributed a week before the test, and Test II will be on the novel Enduring Love by Ian McEwan; each test, covering plot, character and point of view, is an hour and worth 20 points; read through the tests and budget your time well)

Jul. 23

Midterm Week (July 2125, 2008)

Week 9 Jul. 28

Things and Meaning 1

Reading

Discussion: irony, imagery, simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia

Jul. 30

Things and Meaning 2

Reading

Discussion: symbolism, imagery, irony, setting

Week 10 Aug. 4

Things and Meaning 3

Reading

Discussion: symbolism, imagery, irony, setting

Aug. 6

Things and Meaning 4

Reading

Discussion: symbolism, imagery, irony, setting

Week 11 Aug. 11

Theme

Reading

Discussion: themes: beginnings, narratives

Aug. 13

Theme

Reading

  • Ian McEwan, Enduring Love (1997)

Discussion: themes

Week 12 Aug. 18

Theme

Reading

  • Ian McEwan, Enduring Love (1997)

Discussion: themes

Aug. 20

Theme

Reading

  • Ian McEwan, Enduring Love (1997)

Discussion: themes

Week 13 Aug. 25

Theme

Reading

  • Ian McEwan, Enduring Love (1997)

Discussion: themes

Aug. 27

Test III (in class during our usual class time: BRK 314, 89 a.m.) It will be on the short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. You can order a copy from the BRK Photocopy Center or download it from

Week 14 Sep. 1

Theme

Reading

  • Ian McEwan, Enduring Love (1997)

Discussion: themes

Sep. 3

Theme

Reading

  • Ian McEwan, Enduring Love (1997)

Discussion: themes

Week 15 Sep. 8

Review

Discussion: short stories, Enduring Love, tests 13, final exam

Sep. 10

Conference: Readings of Ian McEwan's Enduring Love (download detailed program as Word file)

 

Session 1: To Have or Not to Have Guilt: A Battle between Joe’s Morality and Instinct (Monchutha, Philailak, Sunisa)

 

Session 2: The Love of Joe Rose through Sternberg’s Triangle (Arthit, Navasorn, Apapan, Punyisa)

Week 16 Sep. 15

Conference: Readings of Ian McEwan's Enduring Love

 

Session 3Limited Freedom, Expanded Horizons: The Paradoxical Relationship between Joe Rose and Jed Parry (Nantamas, Nadchanok, Pornprom)

 

Session 4Aftermath of the Balloon Incident: Reshaped Identities and Relationships (Boonyanut, Manita, Nunchanock, Narisara)

 

Potluck Lunch

Sep. 17

Conference: Readings of Ian McEwan's Enduring Love

Session 5: Judging Parry (Pansiri, Pimchanok, Pimphot, Prakaikaew)

 

Session 6: A Boomerang Character: The Unchanging Change of Parry (Narut, Natthaphong, Pongsanguan)

 

Final paper due, see some guidelines and sample papers below

Sep. 22

Final Exam (8:3010:30 a.m.)

 

 


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