Department of English
Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
2202234 Introduction to the Study of English Literature
Puckpan Tipayamontri
Office: BRK 1106.1
Office Hours: M 1–3 and by appointment
Phone: 0 2218 4703
W 11–1 (BRK 309), F 8–9 (BRK 414)
Tentative Schedule
Week 1 |
Oct. 28 |
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. |
Oct. 30 |
2 Playing with Form: How to Tell a Story? Reading
Quiet Time: Writing Plot, unlike story which is events organized chronologically, is order of events arranged by the author. Choose one work 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 storytelling conventions or break them? |
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Week 2 | Nov. 4 |
3 Playing with Form: What's a Good Story? Reading
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Nov. 6 |
4 Playing with Form: Where Does It Happen? Why? Reading
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Week 3 | Nov. 11 |
5 Translating the World Reading
Quiet Time: Writing What are the challenges of translating the world into verbal form? Focus on at least one text we're reading for this week and examine what (in the world) the author is translating and how he manages to do it. |
Nov. 13 |
6 Translating the World Reading
Reading response 1 due |
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Week 4 | Nov. 18 |
7 Translating Experience: Pain, Sorrow Reading
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Nov. 20 |
8 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 5 | Nov. 25 |
9 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. |
Nov. 27 |
10 Translating Experience: Love Reading
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? |
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Week 6 | Dec. 2 |
11 Translating Place: Physical Locales Reading
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Dec. 4 |
12 Translating Place: Perceptual Environments Reading
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Week 7 | Dec. 9 |
13 Numbers Reading
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Dec. 11 |
14 Hair Reading
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Week 8 | Dec. 16 |
15 Words Reading
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Dec. 18 |
16 Legacy Reading
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Week 9 | Dec. 23 |
(Midterm week: December 21–25, 2009) Midterm (10:30–12:30 in class BRK 309)
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Dec. 25 |
No class (midterm week: December 21–25, 2009) |
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Week 10 | Dec. 30 |
Case Study (Poetry): "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" Reading
Final paper topic presentations |
Jan. 1 |
No class (New Year's Day) |
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Week 11 | Jan. 6 |
Case Study (Poetry): "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" Reading
Final paper topic presentations |
Jan. 8 |
Case Study (Poetry): "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" Reading
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Week 12 | Jan. 13 |
Case Study (Drama): M. Butterfly Reading
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Jan. 15 |
Case Study (Drama): M. Butterfly Reading
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Week 13 | Jan. 20 |
Case Study (Drama): M. Butterfly Reading
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Jan. 22 |
No class (Intervarsity Games: January 22–30, 2010) |
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Week 14 | Jan. 27 |
No class (Intervarsity Games: January 22–30, 2010) |
Jan. 29 |
No class (Intervarsity Games: January 22–30, 2010) |
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Week 15 | Feb. 3 |
Case Study (Novel): Of Mice and Men Reading
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Feb. 5 |
Case Study (Novel): Of Mice and Men Reading
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Week 16 | Feb. 10 |
Case Study (Novel): Of Mice and Men Reading
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Feb. 12 |
Case Study (Novel): Of Mice and Men Reading
Final paper due
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Week 17 | Feb. 17 |
Case Study (Novel): Of Mice and Men Reading
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Feb. 19 |
Review |
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Week 18 | Feb. 25 |
Final Exam (8:30–11:30 a.m.) Dictionaries (electronic or paper) are not allowed in the exam room.
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