! The Crucible Acts 3 and 4 Session: Acharn Proud will be holding a class session for her students and others who would like to discuss the last two acts of The Crucible on Friday, September 26, 2014 from 4 to 6 p.m. in Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Building room 601/3 (about 30-person capacity).

! Last of The Great Gatsby on Sale: The Great Gatsby is still available for purchase at the Department of English Office (BRK 1110) at a discount price of 74 baht. Only 7 copies left. The Crucible is sold out.
 

! Lit Lunch is on Mondays at the Arts cafeteria from noon to 1 p.m. for all who want to chat some more after class. Look for a table with the "Lit Lunch" sign on it near the teachers' tables.

Class Time: M 9:30–11:00, W 8:00–9:30

Required Texts

• Coursebook (order at BRK Co-op Photocopy Center, on the ground floor of Boromrajakumari Building from Wednesday, August 13, 2014)
  
• Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. 1953. Introd. Christopher Bigsby. New York: Penguin, 2003. Print. Penguin Classics. (discount copies at 274 baht each from the Department of English Office [BRK 1110] are now sold out)
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 1925. London: Harper, 2012. Print. Collins Classics. (available for purchase at a special discount price of 74 baht from the Department of English Office [BRK 1110]; only 14 copies left)
  
• A good dictionary of literary terms such as
• Baldick, Chris. The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. 3^rd ed. Oxford: OUP, 2008. Print.
  
• Cuddon, J. A. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. 5^th ed. London: Penguin, 2014. Print.
• Murfin, Ross, and Supryia M. Ray. The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms. 3^rd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009. Print.
  
• Abrams, M. H., and Geoffrey Galt Harpham, A Glossary of Literary Terms, 11^th ed. Boston: Cengage Learning, 2014. Print.
  

Detailed Schedule

Syllabus (pdf)

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 a midterm, a final exam, and a final paper.

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

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

• 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

• Hay Festival

• Poetry World

• Explodity: An Evening of Transrational Sound Poetry (video clips; Feb. 4, 2009; You might enjoy the play with sound, for example, in "Velimir Khlebnikov's Word Transformations")

• Life and Poetry

• East of the Web

• 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