Reading and Analysis for the Study of English Literature

Announcements	! Section 1 Final Presentations: The schedule of final presentations is updated. Currently on the menu for our themed potluck breakfast Thursday morning: butter cake, chocolate cake, falcon mini sandwiches with grandmama's pickles, almond roast cookies, tiramisu twist cookies, Singapore cookies topped with cashew nuts, roasted almonds, Palmiers, Frankenstein cake pop, and Talents. Let me know what else you are bringing and just for fun, you can label your food with a defamiliarized name. ! New Final Exam Date: Please note that, due to changes in national holiday announcement and consequently the Chula finals week schedule, the final examination date for this course has been moved from originally May 4 to May 6, 2015. Double check your travel and other plans for conflict. ! Blog for Discussion: This semester we are using the blog Roundtable Conversation as an additional venue for exchanging ideas. Follow and join discussion on various works that we are reading there.
Course Outline	Class Time: M 11–12:30, Th 8–9:30 Required Texts Course packet (available at BRK Photocopy Center) David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly (1988) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1831) Syllabus Detailed Schedule 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 two tests, a final exam, and a 3–5-page final paper.
Studying Literature	Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. 3^rd ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2008. Print. (Law Q180.55.M4 B66c 2008) Graff, Gerald, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst. They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. 2^nd ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 2011. Print. 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
Writing	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
Links	British Library: Online Gallery London Theatre Guide Playbill Reading Room ("Conversations about Great Books"; blog) Hay Festival Littoral (online journal of the Key West Literary Seminar) 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 Electronic Databases JSTOR Project MUSE Academic Search Complete Art Full Text Oxford Journals Online Cambridge Journals Online
Essential References		MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7^th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009. Print.
		Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. 11^th ed. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 2003. Print.
		Oxford English Dictionary. 2^nd ed. 20 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989. Print.
		Roget's International Thesaurus. 7^th ed. Ed. Barbara Ann Kipfer. New York: Harper, 2010. Print.
		The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4^th ed. Eds. Roland Greene, et al. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2012. Print.