! Final Presentation: Guidelines for reading response 3 and the presentation is now linked to from our detailed schedule page. Scroll down to the relevant dates. You will notice that on our last day of presentations which is also our last day of class, potluck breakfast is listed. You are welcome to bring themed breakfast foods inspired by our course reading list to eat and share with friends Wednesday morning. For example, you might bring Nightingale blood for your classmates to drink with tell-tale heart cookies and Mrs. Wright's bread and cherry preserves. Or, a bunch of you might co-host a cocktail, snow cones, or Dr. Jekyll's drug to celebrate a really transformative end to our session. I'll provide cups, plates, forks, knives and napkins. E-mail me what you're bringing so people can see the updated menu.

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Class Time: M 9:30–11:00, W 8:00–9:30

Required Texts

• Coursebook
  
• LiCata, Vince, and Ping Chong. Cocktail. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2009. Print.
• Stevenson, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Surrey: Alma Classics, 2015. Print.
  
• 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