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Class Time: W 11–1, F 8–9

Required Texts

• Course packet (order from Chula Co-op Copy Center in the basement of BRK Building)

• John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (1937)

• David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly (1986)

• M. H. Abrams and Geoffrey Harpham, A Glossary of Literary Terms, 9th ed. (2009) [Available at CU Book Center, Siam Square and Sala Prakiaw branches]

Syllabus (Word file)

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 4–6-page final paper.

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

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