! Final Exam: There are two parts to the final: Identification and Essay. More on what each entails on the Detailed Schedule page.

 
! Midterm Marks: Your midterm exam results are here, with marks identified by student ID.

! Week 16 Feedback: What are your thoughts on our presentations and discussion this week? Please e-mail to me as usual, that is, 1) What struck you the most about the week's reading and/or discussion, and 2) anything you want to say to me.

! Lit Lunch on Mondays at the Arts cafeteria from noon to 1 p.m. for all who want to chat some more after class. Look for a table with the "Lit Lunch" sign on it near the teachers' tables.

Class Time: M 10–12, W 8–9

Required Texts

• Coursebook
  
• Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey (New York: Harper Perennial, 2003)
• Arthur Miller, The Crucible (New York: Penguin, 2003)
  
• A good dictionary of literary terms such as
• Chris Baldick, The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, 3^rd ed. (2008)
• J. A. Cuddon and C. E. Preston, The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, 4^th ed. (1999)
• Ross Murfin and Supryia M. Ray, The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms, 3^rd ed. (2009)
• M. H. Abrams and Geoffrey Galt Harpham, A Glossary of Literary Terms, 10^th ed. (2011)

Detailed Schedule

Syllabus (pdf)

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 final paper.

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

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