Introduction to the Study of English Literature

Announcements	! Comments on the course will help us make it better. Please write by Friday, October 8, 2010. Your constructive feedback is welcome here: Online Course Evaluation (official Chula form) 2202234 Evaluation Form (Word file; specific form for this course attached to Weekly 12; if you don't want to do both, please include your specific answers to this form on the Chula online form)
Course Outline	Class Time: M 10–12, W 8–9 Required Texts Course packet Carr, J. L. A Month in the Country. 1980. London: Penguin, 2010. Hwang, David Henry. M. Butterfly. 1986. London: Penguin, 1989. Detailed Schedule (updated often) 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 an issue or 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. Four are required but you may write more if you wish, in which case the best four out of the batch will be counted toward your grade. See samples. Weeklies: These are weekly take-home exercises that help you engage with the reading. The Word file of each weekly is uploaded every Wednesday around 1 p.m. on the detailed schedule page. You can order hard copies at the Co-op Copy Center on the first floor of BRK Building. 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 three tests, a final exam, and a final paper.
Studying Literature	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 to 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) How to Evaluate the Information Sources You Find Writing in Literature (Online Writing Lab, includes the writing process, literary analysis and criticism, writing about poetry) Writing a Literature Paper: Guidelines, Suggestions, Strategies Literature (Fiction) Literary Criticism Citation Styles: MLA Key to Correction Marks
Links	Hay Festival Lyrikline 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 Poets on Poets (audio clips of poets reading the work of other poets, sometimes with commentary) Lannan Audio Archives
Essential References		MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009. (library has 5th ed.)
		Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. 11th ed. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 2003.
		Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 20 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989.
		Roget's International Thesaurus. 6th ed. Ed. Barbara Ann Kipfer. New York: Harper, 2001. (7th ed. coming out in August)
		The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Eds. Alex Preminger, Terry V. F. Brogan, and Frank J. Warnke. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1993.