Department of English
Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
2202234 Introduction to the Study of English Literature
Puckpan Tipayamontri
Office: BRK 1106.1
Office Hours: W 13 and by appointment
Phone: 0-2218-4703
Section 1
BRK 309
M 1012, W 89
Detailed
Schedule
Week 1 |
Jun. 3 |
1 Introduction: Challenging the Imagination Reading
Quiet Time: Writing Think about what reading is when you read a poem in this unit. In a paragraph or two, show how that poem has urged you to read in a certain way. |
Week 2 | Jun. 8 |
2 Challenging the Stereotype: What Are Little Boys Made Of? Reading
Quiet Time: Writing Plot, unlike story which is events organized chronologically, is order of events arranged by the author. Choose one of the three works and consider the significance of the author's sequence in presenting events. How does it affect of the story being told? Is the effect comic? tragic? surprising? Does the result reinforce stereotypes of boys or break them? |
Jun. 10 |
3 Challenging the Stereotype: What Are Little Girls Made Of? Reading
Quiet Time: Writing The children's rhyme in unit 2 lists little girls as made of "sugar and spice and everything nice." Discuss what the lists you find in the literary selections in this unit say about girls and whether they challenge stereotypes of girls in any way. You can write about one work or more. |
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Week 3 | Jun. 15 |
4 Challenging Boundaries: Intertextuality Reading
Quiet Time: Writing Texts speak to and are often shaped by other texts. Each of these works presents characters that are informed by extratextual sources. Examine how the character of something or someone is shaped in one of the literary selections. |
Jun. 17 |
5 Challenging Boundaries: Glocality Reading
Quiet Time: Writing
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Week 4 | Jun. 22 |
6 Translating the World Reading
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Jun. 24 |
7 Translating Experience: Pain, Sorrow Reading
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Week 5 | Jun. 29 |
8 Translating Experience: Love Reading
Romeo and Juliet Discussion and Performance (group list and lines assignment)
Quiet Time: Writing What
is love and how do we show/know it? Notice how each
of these texts express dissatisfaction with the rose as a
symbol of love. Choose a phrase or line from one of
the texts and discuss what the poet enables or disables in
the "rose." What does this enabling or disabling allow the
poet to say about love? |
Jul. 1 |
9 Translating Experience: Hope Reading
Quiet Time: Writing Read
Stevie Smith's "Not Waving but Drowning" carefully and then
write an essay in which you discuss how the poet's choice of
point of view conveys the irony of the action(s) of "I." |
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Week 6 | Jul. 6 |
No class (official holiday) |
Jul. 8 |
No Class (Buddhist Lent) |
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Week 7 | Jul. 13 |
10 Translating Experience: Memory Reading
Quiet Time: Writing After
carefully reading Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken,"
write a well-organized essay in which you show how memory is
treated differently in this and in another work we have
read. |
Jul. 15 |
Translating Place: Perceptual Environments Reading
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Week 8 | Jul. 20 |
Midterm (10noon in class) There are two parts to the exam: Part I (20 points) consists of two essay-type questions on the short story "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin which you have in the anthology section of your coursebook; Part II (20 points) consists of two essay-type questions on the material we have covered in the first part of the semester. See below for more exam help.
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Jul. 22 |
No Class (Midterm Week July 2024, 2009) |
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Week 9 | Jul. 27 |
Translating Place: Physical Locales Reading
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Jul. 29 |
Case Study (Poetry): "To Autumn" Reading
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Week 10 | Aug. 3 |
Case Study (Poetry): "To Autumn" Reading
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Aug. 5 |
Case Study (Drama): Cocktail Reading
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Week 11 | Aug. 10 |
Case Study (Drama): Cocktail Reading
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Aug. 12 |
No Class (Mother's Day) |
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Week 12 | Aug. 17 |
Case Study (Drama): Cocktail Reading
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Aug. 19 |
Case Study (Novel): Of Mice and Men Reading
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Week 13 | Aug. 24 |
Case Study (Novel): Of Mice and Men Reading
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Aug. 26 |
Case Study (Novel): Of Mice and Men Reading
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Week 14 | Aug. 31 |
Case Study (Novel): Of Mice and Men BRK 302
Reading
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Sep. 2 |
Case Study (Novel): Of Mice and Men BRK 304
Reading
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Week 15 | Sep. 7 |
Case Study (Novel): Of Mice and Men Reading
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Sep. 9 |
Case Study (Novel): Of Mice and Men Reading
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Week 16 | Sep. 14 |
Case Study (Novel)/Review Reading
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Sep. 16 |
Poetry Recital/Literary Readings BRK 303
Final paper due
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Sep. 21 |
Final Exam (8:3011:30 a.m.) You can order copies of David Ives's short play Time Flies that will be on the final at the Copy Center in the basement of BRK building. There will be two parts to the exam: Part I (20 points) consists of two short essay type questions on Ives's Time Flies and Yeats's poem "Down by the Salley Gardens"; Part II (40 points) consists of four short essay type questions that asks you to pair up different works that we have read this semester and analyze them in a thematic discussion. Dictionaries (electronic or paper) are not allowed in the exam room.
BRK 401, 404
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