Department of English

Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University



2202235  Reading and Analysis for the Study of English Literature

 

Puckpan Tipayamontri

Office: BRK 1106

Office Hours: M 13 and by appointment

Phone: 02218-4703

puckpan.t@chula.ac.th

 

Section 1

BRK 307

M 11:0012:30, Th 8:009:30

 

Tentative Schedule

Week 1

Jan. 7

What Is a Text?
1: Textual Form and Reading
Reading
Discussion: Text definitions; text form/genre and its relationship to reading
Jan. 10

2: Medium and Meaning

Reading

Discussion: The relationship between a text and its medium or media; ways containers for texts affect the texts and their meaning; self-fulfillment; coming of age
Week 2 Jan. 14 No class (Intervarsity Games: January 14–18, 2019)
Jan. 17 No class (Intervarsity Games: Janaury 14–18, 2019)
Week 3
Jan. 21

3: Text and Versions

Reading

Discussion: Text variation; versions and editions; primary and secondary texts in reading and analyzing literature; where does meaning in a text come from?; sound, sense, nonsense and interpretation; parody; themes; self-reflexivity; text and interactivity

Jan. 24

4: Text and Reproductions

Reading

Discussion: Unique texts and reproductions; Blake's illuminated texts; variations on allegory, repetition and reproduction; the function of meter and rhyme in the poem's narrative


Writing: (40 minutes): For a poem that Blake initially called “Christian Forbearance,” “A Poison Tree” teems with verbs and fervent action. Likewise contrastingly, the illustration depicts significantly barren branches for a tree that is so encouraged to grow and bear fruit. Are these discrepancies? Explain.

Week 4 Jan. 28

5: Experiments
Reading

Discussion: typography; technology; imagery; pace; consonance; modernist aesthetics; concrete poetry
Jan. 31

6: Experiments
Reading

  • Aimee Bender, "Tiger Mending," Black Book (2004)
  • James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, "Slipstream, the Genre That Isn't," Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (2006)
  • Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues (1996, 2001; video clip of the HBO movie of the play, 1 hr. 16:14 min.)
Discussion: realism and nonrealism
Week 5 Feb. 4

What Does a Text Do?

7: Banned Books

Reading

Discussion: Explanations/reasons for banning books
Feb. 7

8: Challenged Books

Reading

  • Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993)
    • "Introduction"
    • "Indian Education" (study guide)
      • Howard Zinn
      • Smoke Signals, directed by Chris Eyre (1998 film; watch at MCS Learning Commons)
      • The People Speak, directed by Anthony Arnove, Chris Moore, and Howard Zinn (2009 film of live readings; watch at MCS Learning Commons)
  • "Top Ten Most Challenged Books Lists," American Library Association
Discussion: Issues at stake in censorship debates; claims about Alexie's book and what the stories offer; historical contexts; character development; humor

Unseen Analysis: Each student brings to class a text that provides a good case study for considering what a text is or what it can do. Explore first other poems, short stories, plays, or novel excerpts by authors on the syllabus. If their experiments are not ideal for our unseen exercise, extend your search outside our syllabus. What is a good text that challenges our ideas about what a text is? What is a noteworthy banned or challenged text? Why are the reasons for its ban or challenge provocative for discussion? You can send me a link to online texts or print out a hard copy, either way is fine so long as we can view the text comfortably in class.

Lit Breakfast (7:30–8:00): Bring your breakfast, questions, ideas to our informal pre-class hang-out.
Week 6
Feb. 11

9: Required Reading

Reading

  • Alfred Tennyson, "Ulysses" (1833, 1842)
Discussion:
Feb. 14

10: Changing Canons

Reading

Discussion:
Week 7
Feb. 18
11: Alternative Reading
Reading
Discussion:
Feb. 21

12: Danger

Reading

Discussion:
 
Quiz 1 (30 minutes, 10 points)
Week 8
Feb. 25

13: Benefit

Reading

Discussion:

Review Quiz on The Pillowman:
  • Quiz The Pillowman quiz
  • Sample student responses The Pillowman sample responses
Feb. 28
14: Consequences
Reading
Discussion:
Week 9
Mar. 4

Test 1 (Midterm week: March 4–8, 2019)

(10 minutes for planning, 1 hour for writing; 25 points) In test 1 you will be given an essay-type prompt on material before the midterm except The Pillowman.

Mar. 7

Test 2 (Midterm week: March 4–8, 2019)

(10 minutes for planning, 1 hour for writing; 25 points) Test 2 is on The Pillowman.

Week 10
Mar. 11

Who Reads a Text and How?

15: Time
Reading

  • David Harvey, "Money, Time, Space, and the City," Consciousness and the Urban Experience excerpt (1985)
  • Ted Chiang, "Story of Your Life" (1998; study guide)
Discussion:
Mar. 14

16: Time

Reading

Discussion:
Week 11 Mar. 18

17: Place

Reading

  • David Ives

Discussion: perspective; comedy (vs. tragedy); humor; plot; irony

 

Performance: Ten Ways to Read/Perform The Philadelphia: What is the Philadelphia? What constitutes a place? Are heptapods and humans in the same universe? Are Mark, Al and the waitress in the same place? Ten pairs of students will, through their acting, explore what place means. Where the segment calls for it, pairs will invite another classmate to play the waitress. Panuwat plays twice, in segments 5 and 7. Partners and lines are given below:

  • 1: Arpawan and Thammasil: Beginning (p. 69) – "So be it. (WAITRESS exits)" (p. 70)
  • 2: Kulatida and Nopparuj: (MARK enters, looking shaken and bedraggled.) – "Wow..." (p. 71)
  • 3: Kaewsakul and Pattanun: "And that's the kind of weird thing" (p. 71) – "You're in a Philadelphia. That's all." (p. 72)
  • 4: Pimlada and Prapa: "But I'm in—" (p. 72) – "you're only gonna get hurt, babe" (p. 73)
  • 5: Pimdarin and Panuwat: "So what do I do?" (p. 73) – "Olympic-sized." (p. 73)
  • 6: Puthita and Marisa: "But your job?" (p. 74) – "Uh-huh." (p. 75)
  • 7: Panuwat and Pornchewa: "So. Would you like a Bud?" (p. 75) – "Okay, what'll you have? (Takes out her pad.)" (p. 75)
  • 8: Kanidarpa and Kritsana: "Excellent." (p. 76) – "Gimme a Bud!" (p. 77)
  • 9: Chonlada and Piengfa: "(To MARK) Anything to eat?" (p. 77) – "They're practically the same." (p. 78)
  • 10: Pitchpisit and Panas: "(WAITRESS enters with a glass)" (p. 78) – "(Leans across the table with a smile.) So." (p. 79)


Creative Writing: The Bangkok: If a Philadelphia is where "you can't get what you ask for" (74), a Los Angeles is where "life is beautiful" (73) and a Cleveland is "like death, without the advantages" (79), what is a Bangkok like? Write a two-minute play that explores the experiences of this, our City of Angels. What is life like in a Bangkok, and how might one thrive there? Post your creation using your etymological pseudonym as a reply to the blog post on Roundtable Conversation.

Mar. 21

18: Place

Reading

Discussion:

Week 12 Mar. 25

19: Aesthetics

Reading

Discussion:

Quiz 2 on Time Flies (30 minutes; 10 points)
  • David Ives, Time Flies, Time Flies and Other Short Plays (2001)
  • Quiz Quiz 2
  • Discussion Quiz 2 discussion
Mar. 28

20: Aesthetics

Reading

  • Helena María Viramontes, "The Moths," The Moths and Other Stories (1995; study guide)
Discussion:
Week 13 Apr. 1

21: Glocality

Reading

  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias" (1819; study guide)
  • Gillian Clarke, "Neighbours," Letting in the Rumour (1989)
Discussion:
Apr. 4

22: Biography

Reading

  • Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken" (1916; study guide)

Discussion:

Quiz 3 (10 points)

  • Margaret Atwood, "There Was Once," Good Bones and Simple Murders (1992)
  • Quiz Quiz 3
  • Discussion Quiz 3 discussion
Week 14 Apr. 8
No class (Chakri Memorial Day observed)
Apr. 11
23:
Reading
  • Michael Ondaatje, Warlight (2018)
Discussion:

Library Exploration: Class meets at Central Library; our meeting point at 8 a.m. is on the 4th floor in the reference section. After that you will be in various places as you complete your discovery sheet for the period. At 9:10 a.m. a campus shuttle will meet us at the Property Management (PMCU) stop to take us back to the Faculty of Arts. If you wish to return by bus, make sure you are at the stop on time.
Week 15 Apr. 15
No class (Songkran)
Apr. 18

24:

Reading

  • Michael Ondaatje, Warlight (2018)

Discussion:


Quiz 4 (10 points)

Week 16 Apr. 22

25: 

Reading

  • Michael Ondaatje, Warlight (2018)

Discussion:

Apr. 25

26:

Reading:

  • Michael Ondaatje, Warlight (2018)

Discussion:

Week 17 Apr. 29

27: Literary Investigations

  • If you are planning to use PowerPoint, make sure it is compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint 2013. 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. Friday, April 26, 2019.
  • 5-minute individual presentation (15 minutes per panel) followed by
  • 10-minute question and answer session
  • Guidelines (includes topic suggestions, review checklist, and final paper and presentation guidelines)

Tentative Schedule

1. Time Flies
11:00–11:25 a.m.
Presiding: Arpawan Chaiyaraj
Speakers:
1. “Paper Title,” Kulatida Sukthana
2. “,” Thammasil Saikaew
3. “,” Kanidarpa Aromdee
 
Respondents:
1. Prapa Srivilairit
2. Pimdarin Neamsakul
3. Kritsana Siriarpakul
 

2. Poem Voyages
11:00–11:25 a.m.
Presiding: Porncheewa Lakpech
Speakers:
1. “Where Does The Bed Book Take You?,” Panas Atthawan
2. “Here and There in 'Ulysses,'” Puthita Padklang                
3. “Addonizio’s ‘What Do Women Want?,” Piengfa Chumwangwapee
 
Respondents:
1. Pattanun Arunpreechawat
2. Pitchpisit Sriatikul
3. Pimlada Chamsomboon
 
3. Trick Acts
11:30–11:55 a.m.
Presiding: Panuwat Kummaboot
Speakers:
1. “,” Kaewsakul Supanchanaburi                                       
2. “,”  Chonlada Taweeapiradeevarakul                                  
3. “Sisters in 'Tiger Mending,'” Prapa Srivilairit         

4. “Dependence,” Kritsana Siriarpakul
Respondents:
1. Porncheewa Lakpech
2. Arpawan Chaiyaraj
3. Nopparuj Sriratsirikul
4. Marisa Chatanamongkolsakul



May 2

28: Literary Investigations

7:30–9:25 a.m.
Theme potluck breakfast hosted by section 1. Currently on the menu: Snack bed automat snack (Nutella and bread), Mama Luna's quesadillas, coco'gnat' water.

Tentative Presentation Schedule


4. Indian Education
8:00–8:25 a.m.
Presiding: Puthita Padklang
Speakers:
1. “,” Pitchpisit Sriatikul
2. “Family,” Pimdarin Neamsakul
3. “Victor,” Marisa Chatanamongkolsakul
Respondents:
1. Panuwat Kummaboot
2. Kaewsakul Supanchanaburi
3. Kulatida Sukthana
 

5. Startling Education
8:30–8:55 a.m.
Presiding: Pitchpisit Sriatikul
Speakers:
1. “Conversation Piece,” Nopparuj Sriratsirikul
2. “Tiger Mending,” Pimlada Chamsomboon
3. “Misleading Title in ‘Indian Education,’” Porncheewa Lakpech
Respondents:
1. Kanidarpa Aromdee
2. Chonlada Taweeapiradeevarakul
3. Thammasil Saikaew
 
6. Weighty Education
9:00–9:25 a.m.
Presiding: Kulatida Sukthana
Speakers:
1. “Magical Realism and Inprobable Juxtaposition: A Way to Show an Alternative to an Accepted Reality in Helena Viramontes’s 'The Moths,'” Panuwat Kummaboot
2. “Schwer,” Pattanun Arunpreechawat
3. “Active Silence in Warlight,” Arpawan Chaiyaraj                                              
 
Respondents:
1. Panas Atthawan
2. Piengfa Chumwangwapee
3. Puthita Padklang

Week 18
May 7

Final Exam: (8:3011:30 a.m.)
The exam covers material from after the midterm. There are three parts: 1) unseen text, 2) short stories, plays and poems, and 3) Warlight.

 

 


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