Department of English

Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University


2202235  Reading and Analysis for the Study of English Literature

 

Puckpan Tipayamontri

Office: BRK 1106.1

Office Hours: M 13 and by appointment

Phone: 0-2218-4703

puckpan.t@chula.ac.th

 

Section 1

BRK 307

M 1112, Th 810

 

Detailed Schedule

* asterisked works are mandatory

Week 1

Oct. 28

Reading and Seeing


1: Learning Art and Life
Reading
Weekly 1: Elements in Application

Oct. 31

2: Living Art and Life
Reading



Week 2

Nov. 4

3: Studying History and Life

Reading

Weekly 2

Nov. 7

4: Viewing Family and School

Reading

  • *Ethan Canin, "The Palace Thief" (1994) pp. 180–98

Week 3

Nov. 11

5: Second Chances 

Reading

  • *Ethan Canin, "The Palace Thief" (1994) pp. 199–209
Weekly 3

Nov. 14

6: Discoveries and Decisions

Reading

  • *Ethan Canin, "The Palace Thief" (1994) pp. 210–27


Week 4

Nov. 18

Reading and Critiquing

7: Shakespeare: The Drama of Sonnets
Reading

  • William Shakespeare
    • Sonnet 15
    • *Sonnet 116
    • Sonnet 138
    • Sonnet 145
    • Don Patterson, "Introduction," 
      • Billy Collins, "Introduction to Poetry," Sailing Alone Around the Room ()
    • Thomas Wilson, ""
    • George Puttenham, ""
Weekly 4

Nov. 21

8: The Legacy of Shakespeare's Drama and Poetry

Reading

  • John Milton
    • "On Shakespeare"
    • Sonnet 19
      • King James Bible
        • Matthew 20:114 (The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard)
        • Matthew 15:1430 (The Parable of the Talents)
  • Carol Ann Duffy, "Anne Hathaway" (1999)

Week 5

Nov. 19

The Space of History and Literature


6: Meetings: Literary and Personal
Reading

*Reading response 1 due in class (Question:


Nov. 21

Lecture: Radha Chakravarty, "Multilingual Contexts: The Indian Novel in English" (6:00-6:30 p.m., room 105, Maha Chulalongkorn Building)


Nov. 22

7: Meetings of Cultures

Reading

  • *Alice Walker, "Everyday Use," In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973; study guide)
    • Alice Walker, "Am I Blue?" (1988)
  • Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies (2008) excerpt
Lecture: Amitav Ghosh, "Where China and India Met: Canton (Guangzhou) in the 18th and 19th Centuries" (9:35-10:30 a.m., room 105, Maha Chulalongkorn Building)

Discussion: Amitav Ghosh, Wasana Wongsurawat, and Verita Sriratana, "Amitav Ghosh: A Dialogue" (10:50 a.m.
-noon, room 105, Maha Chulalongkorn Building)

Nov. 23

Lecture: Jahnavi Barua, "Looking East--From the Land of the Morning Sun" (7:30-8:00 p.m., room 105, Maha Chulalongkorn Building)


Week 6

Nov. 26

8: Meeting Venues
Reading


Nov. 29

9: Meeting the Inspector

Reading

  • *J. B. Priestley, An Inspector Calls (1947; study guide) act 1

*Groups perform their "Meeting the Inspector" scene from act 1 pp. 169-74

Week 7

Dec. 3

10: Meeting Oneself

Reading


Dec. 6

11: Meeting Others

Reading

  • *J. B. Priestley, An Inspector Calls (1947; study guide) act 3

    • An Inspector Calls, dir. Michael Simpson, perf. Bernard Hepton (1982 BBC TV drama; video clip, 1 hr. 19:12 min.)
    • An Inspector Calls, dir. Guy Hamilton, perf. Alastair Sim (1954; video clip, 1 hr. 16:54 min.)
*Reading response 2 due in class (Question: In Priestley's An Inspector Calls, which inspection session or method yields surprising results? Who is being inspected? By whom? What insight is revealed from the inspection?)

Week 8

Dec. 10

Contesting Ideas


No Class (Constitution Day
)


Dec. 13

12: Whose War and What's at Stake?

Reading

*Two-minute play due via e-mail (Write a nano-play or sketch inspecting something. Throughout this first half of the semester we have looked at Milton inspecting his own life in a sonnet, Poe scrutinizing the human psyche in a short story, scholars investigating history and literature in academic papers and presentations, Silvestrini and his Protein dance company examining contemporary love and relationships in dance theater as well as Priestley and O'Brien questioning social occurrences and giving a penetrating look at the human experience. Using the dramatic form, explore its possibilities and strengths to engage with an idea, issue, emotion, problem, relationship, characteristic, memory, place, action, person or thing that you feel would be interesting to dissect and analyze. Experiment with how humor, word play, setting, actors, sound, spatial dynamics, pace, etc. might help to bring points of inspection across to us, your intelligent, perceptive, and receptive audience. Have fun!)


Week 9

Dec. 17

13: How to Tell Truth and Fiction

Reading

  • Tim O'Brien, "How to Tell a True War Story," The Things They Carried (1990)
  • Howard Zinn, "The Impossible Victory: Vietnam," The Twentieth Century: A People's History (1980)
  • High Ground, dir. Michael Brown (2012 documentary about U.S. soldiers climbing a Himalayan peak after their return from war in Iraq and Afghanistan; video clip of trailer, 2:20 min.)

Dec. 20

14: Newnesses: Which Means What? 

Reading


Week 10

Dec. 24

No Class (Midterm week: December 24-28, 2012)


Dec. 27

Midterm Exam (2 hours, in class) There will be three essay-type questions that ask you to draw upon your reading of the course materials up to and including An Inspector Calls, class discussions, and any other relevant thinking and exploring you have done this first half of the semester. One essay will involve reading a passage from Priestley's play and analyzing it. Read instructions carefully and follow them. Decide which works you can write well on for which topic, and pace yourself. It is helpful to take a few minutes to plan an outline before writing your essays. Formulate a thoughtful idea or argument in your response that allows you to address effectively the requirements of the prompt. Cite specific acts, scenes, lines, or words in support of your analysis to build your case. For each prompt, you do not need to answer every single question in the cluster in order and separately. Rather, your writing should be designed as a coherent unified piece, not unconnected answers to different questions strung together. The multiple questions are there to help you brainstorm on the topic and to spark critical engagement with it. You will want to show us your critical and analytical skills: demonstrate that you have read closely and understood the material, that you can critically engage with that material, with discussion in and outside of class, and with the test question, that you can synthesize material and knowledge gained, and that you can write clear, effective, and compelling prose. Give your essays a title if you like.


Week 11

Dec. 31

No class (New Year's Eve)


Jan. 3

Reading and Writing

15: Conrad's Business of Writing

Reading


Week 12

Jan. 7

16: Frost's Wildness

Reading


Jan. 10

17: Beber's Live Processing

Reading

Final paper consultation sign-up


Week 13

Jan. 14

No class (Intervarsity Games: January 14-18, 2013)


Jan. 17

No class (Intervarsity Games: January 14-18, 2013) 


Week 14

Jan. 21

18: Writing about the Past, Present, and Future

Reading

*Reading response 3 (respond to the classmate's question that you've drawn from the green container in front of my office and make 21 copies to distribute for peer critique in class)


Jan. 24

19: Prior Texts and History

Reading

Peer Critique of reading response 3
  • Kankanid Mitrpakdee, "Martha's Role in 'The Things They Carried'"
  • Patpicha Tanakasempipat, "Significance of Things Soldiers Carry"
  • Mamika Mongkolsiri, "Significance of Things Soldiers Carry"
  • Burassakorn Gitipotnopparat, "Do Kayerts and Carlier Bring Civilization to the Congo?"
  • Apisa Tangjattanasirikul, "How 'Imagination Was a Killer'"


Week 15

Jan. 28

20: Torture and Writing

Reading

Final paper draft due for those who want feedback for revision


Jan. 31

21: Psychological Impressions

Reading

  • *J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) pp. 49-81 (study guide)
    • J. M. Coetzee, Boyhood chapter 16
Peer Critique of reading response 3
  • Juthaporn Jiajanpong, "Games in 'Games at Twilight'"
  • Wilasinee Siriboonpipattana, "Education vs. Civilization: 'An Outpost of Progress' and Misreadings"
  • Tonfon Bunket, "Techniques in 'The Things They Carried'"
  • Nattamon Amponsin, "Kemp's 'The Ballad of Donna Quixote' and Women Nowadays"
  • Pornchanok Seetubtim, "William Blake's 'London'"
  • Arpharat Lin, "The Idea of Misreading in Neena Beber's Play"


Week 16

Feb. 4

22: The Character of Nature

Reading

  • *J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) pp. 82-95 (study guide)
    • J. M. Coetzee, Youth chapters 1, 3 and 4


Feb. 7

23: Freedom

Reading

  • *J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) pp. 95-126 (study guide)

    • J. M. Coetzee, Youth chapters 1, 7, and 17

Peer critique of reading response 3

  • Liu Ngarmchee, "The Expectations They Carried"
  • Nutthida Uthikumporn, "'Civilization' in 'An Outpost of Progress'"
  • Utsanee Yenchai, "The Major Theme of 'An Outpost of Progress'"
  • Pamin Amorntepparak, "Unrealistic Scenes in 'The Things They Carried'"
  • Srirat Pornpisuttivorakul, "Cross's 'Hating Kind of Love' and Burning Letters"
  • Ariya Jhiinapengkad, "Failure of Virtues"


Week 17

Feb. 11

24: Writing the Unwritable

Reading

  • *J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) pp. 126-46 (study guide)

    • J. M. Coetzee, "Julia," Summertime (2011) excerpt


Feb. 14

25: Writing for the Future

Reading

  • *J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) pp. 146-80 (end) (study guide)

    • J. M. Coetzee, "Sophie," Summertime (2011)

Peer critique of reading response 3
  • Krittaporn Reungwattanakul
  • Bodindecha Wilamas
  • Araya Chantarapratheap, "Why Does Kayerts Commit Suicide?"
  • Laksameekanit Sukwat, "Ted Lavender"
  • Chorkaew Dahlan Chanthanakorn, "Maggie and 'Life Always in the Palm of One Hand'"

Week 18

Feb. 18

Presentations

  • If you are planning to use PowerPoint, make sure it is compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 version. Also embed or include files of any nonstandard fonts that are in your presentation.

  • Let me know of any other audiovisual needs by 4 p.m. Wednesday, February 13, 2013.

  • 4 to 5-minute individual presentation (15 to 20 minutes per panel) followed by

  • 5 to 10-minute question and answer session

  • Tentative Schedule

1. Place and People

11:00-11:25 a.m.

Presiding: Juthaporn Jiajanpong

Speakers

1.  "The Rise and Fall of Progress," Patpicha Tanakasempipat

2. 

3.  "Isolation Is in the Air: Setting and Change in Carlier and Kayerts," Wilasinee Siriboonpipattana

4.  "Misreadings," Srirat Pornpitsuttivorakul

Respondent 1: Bodindecha Wilamas

Respondent 2: Pamin Amorntepparak

Respondent 3: Mamika Mongkolsiri

Respondent 4: Chorkaew Dahlan Chanthanakorn

 

2. The Weight of Things

11:30-11:55 a.m.

Presiding: Nattamon Amponsin

Speakers

1.  "From Waste to Weight: Ted Lavender and Simone," Ariya Jhiinapengkad

2.   "The Function of Things in 'The Things They Carried,'" Utsanee Yenchai

3.  "Games at Twilight," Apisa Tangjattanasirikul

4.  "Death in 'Games at Twilight,'" Liu Ngarmchee

Respondent 1: Arpharat Lin

Respondent 2: Tonfon Bunket

Respondent 3: Araya Chantarapratheap
Respondent 4: Juthaporn Jiajanpong


Feb. 21

Presentations (download pdf file of forum program)

Themed potluck breakfast hosted by 2202235 section 1. Currently on the menu: potato salad.

 

3. Active Readings

8:00-8:25 a.m.

Presiding: Wilasinee Siriboonpipattana

Speakers

1.  "Simone in Misreadings," Arpharat Lin

2.  "Ruth's Reading," Kankanid Mitrpakdee

3.  "Misreadings," Tonfon Bunket

4.  "Misreadings and Miscommunications: How Language Might Show You a Way to Read," Pornchanok Seetubtim

5.  "Misreadings," Krittaporn Reungwattanakul

Respondent 1: Laksameekanit Sukwat

Respondent 2: Apisa Tangjattanasirikul

Respondent 3: Srirat Pornpisuttivorakul
Respondent 4: Burrassakorn Gitipotnopparat
Respondent 5: Patpicha Tanakasempipat

 

4. Short Unsimple

8:30-8:55 a.m.

Presiding: Apisa Tangjattanasirikul

Speakers

1.  "Reading in 'An Outpost of Progress,'" Pamin Amorntepparak

2.  "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," Juthaporn Jiajanpong

3.  "London," Chorkaew Dahlan Chanthanakorn

4.  "The Tell-Tale Heart," Laksameekanit Sukwat

5.  "Free Your Mind and Fight for Freedom," Nutthida Uthikumporn

Respondent 1: Pornchanok Seetubtim

Respondent 2: Wilasinee Siriboonpipattana

Respondent 3: Utsanee Yenchai
Respondent 4: Kankanid Mitrpakdee
Respondent 5: Liu Ngarmchee

 

5. Self-Expressions

9:00-9:25 a.m.

Presiding: Liu Ngarmchee

Speakers

1.  "Losing Oneself: Ginny in 'M & M World,'" Burassakorn Gitipotnopparat

2.  "The Objects of Ideas and Actions: A Study of Ginny in 'M & M World,'" Araya Chantarapratheap

3.  "Division and Egoism in 'An Outpost of Progress,'" Nattamon Amponsin

4.  "Sheila Birling," Mamika Monkolsiri

5.  "Everyday Use," Bodindecha Wilamas

Respondent 1: Ariya Jhiinapengkad

Respondent 2: Krittaporn Ruengwattanakul

Respondent 3: Nutthida Uthikumporn

Respondent 4: Nattamon Amponsin

 

6. Literary Readings and Variety Showcase

9:30-9:55 a.m.

Speakers

1.  "Work Title," Author(s)

2.  "Work Title," Author(s)

3.  "Work Title," Author(s)

4.  "Work Title," Author(s)

5.  "Work Title," Author(s)

6.  "Work Title," Author(s)

7.  "Work Title," Author(s)

8.  "Work Title," Author(s)

9.  "Work Title," Author(s)

10.  "Work Title," Author(s)



Week 19 Feb. 28 Final paper due

Week 20

Mar. 4

Final Exam (8:30-11:30 a.m.) The final covers material from the second half of the semester (from "The Things They Carried" to Waiting for the Barbarians). There will be two parts: identification and essay. Read instructions carefully and follow them. For identification, you will be given excerpts (words, phrases, passages) from the literary works we have read. You should be able to identify the title and author of the work as well as (if applicable) speaker, location within larger work (ex. the opening chapter; the very last line of the inspector in the play, in act 3), and any other relevant context (such as what or who is the quote about, what is going on). Then you will be asked to write a couple of sentences on the significance of the quotation. For part 2, you will be given three prompts to write three essays. Here is where you have the best opportunity to show not only information recall, but also thinking skills--your ability to reason, create, apply, analyze and synthesize. The prompt may consist of several questions but what the entire prompt does is give you a topic with a scope. You should formulate an argument/thesis in response to that topic within that scope and structure your essay around your argument, citing specific acts, scenes, lines, words or information to illustrate and support the points you are making. Again, you do not need to answer every single question in the prompt cluster in order and separately. Rather, your writing should be designed as a coherent unified piece, not unconnected answers to different questions strung together or a bulleted list. The multiple questions are there to help you brainstorm on the topic and to spark critical engagement with it. You should draw on your own close reading of the material, your discussion about it in and outside of class, and relevant reading and research you have done. Think critically about the material we have encountered and be prepared to think critically on the topic prompted by the test question as well. When writing, follow academic conventions and try to be as legible, clear, effective, and compelling as you can. Rest well, eat clean good food, arrive at least fifteen minutes before exam time, and make sure your student ID, watch, and writing implements are in order. Good luck!


 

 


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