Department of English

Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University


2202235  Reading and Analysis for the Study of English Literature

 

Puckpan Tipayamontri

Office: BRK 1106.1

Office Hours: M 13 and by appointment

Phone: 0-2218-4703

puckpan.t@chula.ac.th

 

Section 1

M 1112 (BRK 614), Th 810 (BRK 507)

 

Tentative Schedule

Week 1

Dec. 12

Makers of English

No Class (Constitution Day observed)


Dec. 15

1: Folk

Reading

Weekly 1 (study questions to help you think about the reading for this week; you may use one that interests you as prompts for a reading response; hard copies are available at the BRK Co-op Photocopy Center)

Week 2

Dec. 19

2: Religion and Science

Reading

Weekly 2 (study questions and exercises to help with reading this second week's materials)

Dec. 22

3: Sea and Home

Reading


Week 3

Dec. 26

4: Convention and Individuality I

Reading

Weekly 3 (study questions and exercises to help with reading this third week's materials)


Dec. 29

5: Convention and Individuality II

Reading


Week 4

Jan. 2

Shaping Taste

No Class (New Year's Day observed)


Jan. 5

6: Business, Politics, and Technology

Reading

Reading Response 1 due in class
Weekly 4

Week 5

Jan. 9

7: Inventions American

Reading

Weekly 5


Jan. 12

8: Inventions Modern

Reading


Week 6

Jan. 16

No class (Intervarsity Games: January 14–21, 2010)


Jan. 19

No class (Intervarsity Games: January 14–21, 2010)


Week 7

Jan. 23

Forming Meaning

9: Intertextuality

Reading

Weekly 6


Jan. 26

10: People and Religion Redux

Reading Response 2 on Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use" will be written in class. You will be given the response questions before you begin. There will be 10 minutes for thinking and planning, and 30 minutes for writing.


Week 8

Jan. 30

No class (Midterm week: January 30February 3, 2012)


Feb. 2

Midterm Exam (8–10 a.m. in class)

The midterm covers material from the beginning of the semester through week 7. There will be essay questions from which you will choose two to write on. As always, it is helpful to take a few minutes to plan an outline before writing your essays. Formulate a thoughtful thesis/argument in responding to the question that allows you to address effectively the requirements of the prompt. For each prompt, you do not need to answer every single question in the cluster in order and separately. The sub-questions are there to help you think about the topic. Cite specific acts, scenes, lines, or words in support of your argument. You will want to show us your critical and analytical skills: demonstrate that you have read closely and understood the material, that you can critically engage with that material, with discussion in class, and with the test question, that you can synthesize material and knowledge gained, and that you can write clear and effective prose. Give your essays a title if you like.

Lecture: (4:005:30 p.m., BRK 707) Tim Crouch, "The Material of Theatre: An Exploration of Theatre's Substance"

Workshop: (7:00–9:00 p.m., Sodsai Pantoomkomol Theatre for Dramatic Arts) Tim Crouch, "Theatre and Audience: Exploring the Role of the Audience in the Making of Theatre" (attendance limited to 30)

Feb. 3

Play: (7:309:00 p.m., Sodsai Pantoomkomol Center for Dramatic Arts) An Oak Tree with Tim Crouch


Feb. 4

Play: (7:309:00 p.m., Sodsai Pantoomkomol Center for Dramatic Arts) An Oak Tree with Tim Crouch


Week 9

Feb. 6

Art: Witness


11: Society and the Personal

Reading

Weekly 7

Feb. 9

12: Events and Expectations

Reading


Week 10

Feb. 13

13: Relationships in Art

Reading

Weekly 8

Feb. 16

14: Stereotypes

Reading

Final paper topic critique; peer critique writing workshop


Week 11

Feb. 20

15: Staging Concepts I

Reading

Weekly 9


Feb. 23

16: Staging Concepts II

Reading


Week 12

Feb. 27

17: Growth of a Poet

Reading

Weekly 10


Mar. 1

18: Ideas of an Other and Torture

Reading

Reading Response 3 due in class. Billy Collins, in his essay "The Ride of Poetry," suggests that "the poem can act as an imaginative vehicle, a form of transportation to a place unknown." Among the works, not even necessarily poetry, in this latter half of the semester, which one especially "spirits [you] away to a new conceptual zone"? Write about the ride that the work has given you, keeping in mind Collins's description that "to view a poem as a trip means taking into account the methods that give a poem vehicular capability. It means looking into the way a poet manages to become the poem's first driver and thus the first to know its secret destination."


Week 13

Mar. 5

19: Secrets

Reading

Weekly 11


Mar. 8

20: Guilt, Shame, Expiation 

Reading

Developing an argument exercise (follow the link to instructions)
Final paper draft due in class (35 pp.; for those who want to submit one for comments before handing in the final version on March 29)


Week 14

Mar. 12

21: Freedom 

Reading

Weekly 12

Mar. 15

22: The Land 

Reading

  • *J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) pp. 96126 (study guide)
    • J. M. Coetzee, "Notebooks," Summertime excerpt


Week 15

Mar. 19

23: Growth of a Writer 

Reading

  • *J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) pp. 12665 (end of Part V) (study guide)
    • J. M. Coetzee, "Sophie," Summertime
Weekly 13


Mar. 22

24: Writing and the Future 

Reading

  • *J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) pp. 16580 (end) (study guide)


Week 16

Mar. 26

Presentations

  • If you are planning to use PowerPoint, make sure it is compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 version. 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, March 23, 2012.

  • 5-minute individual presentation (15 minutes per panel) followed by

  • 10-minute question and answer session

  • Tentative Schedule

1. Ironic Meanings, Contrary Values

11:00–11:25 a.m.

Presiding: Suntipap Waikittipong

Speakers

1.  "Position in 'Good Country People,'" Siros Mahawattanaungkoon

2.  "Goodness in O'Connor's Short Stories," Natthakarn Amatayakul

3.  "Heritage in 'Everyday Use,'" Wilaiporn Chokchaikatanyoo

Respondent 1: Pataranuch Sithivanich

Respondent 2: Orapan Metasade

Respondent 3: Punnapa Stapornviriyakul

 

2. "The Things They Carried"

11:30–11:55 a.m.

Presiding: Punnapa Stapornviriyakul

Speakers

1.  "Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried and 'How to Tell a True War Story' and Change in Attitude," Chalit Chiarakiat

2.  "The Instability of Things in 'The Things They Carried,'" Jamie Sanawat Iangsam-ang

3.  "Capability and Incapability in 'The Things They Carried,'" Thananon Nontula

Respondent 1: Pimpida Pitaksonggram

Respondent 2: Wilaiporn Chokchaikatanyoo

Respondent 3: Kanchana Manalert


Mar. 29

Presentations

Schedule (program pdf file)


3. Potluck Breakfast

7:45–9:55 a.m.

Theme breakfast hosted by 2202235 section 1. Currently on the menu: Vietnamese summer roll, boneless fried chicken, southern potato salad, cake, fresh strawberries, grape juice.

 

4. Cruel Goodness

8:00–8:25 a.m.

Presiding: Natthakarn Amatyakul

Speakers

1.  "The Cruelty of Education," Kanchana Manalert

2.  "The Significance of the Wounded Food and Foot Washing in Waiting for the Barbarians," Orapan Metasade

3.  "Animal Experimentation in Mark Twain's 'A Dog's Tale,'" Punnapa Stapornviriyakul

Respondent 1: Natcha Patcharawetin

Respondent 2: Thananon Nontula

Respondent 3: Kulinthorn Kleephun

 

5. "The Moths"

8:30–8:55 a.m.

Presiding: Orapan Metasade

Speakers

1.  "An External Solution Can Help Solve an Internal Conflict," Suttipong Pibanwong

2.  "Paper Title," Bulwach Sereechaiporn

3.  "'The Moths' and the Rebirth of Chicanas," Pataranuch Sithivanich

Respondent 1: Santipap Waikittipong

Respondent 2: Nattawan Auscharanuwat

Respondent 3: Chalit Chiarakiat

 

6. The Quick and the Dead

9:00–9:25 a.m.

Presiding: Pataranuch Sithivanich

Speakers

1.  "Why Did Kayerts and Carlier Have a Tragic Ending?," Natcha Patcharawetin

2.  "The Relationship between Vladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot," Kulinthorn Kleephun

3.  "Afterlife," Pimpida Pitaksonggram

Respondent 1: Jamie Sanawat Iangsam-ang

Respondent 2: Bulwach Sereechaiporn

Respondent 3: Natthakarn Amatayakul


7. The Quick and the Dead

9:15–9:40 a.m.

Presiding: Thananon Nontula

Speakers

1.  "The Stream of Consciousness in 'The Mark on the Wall,'" Thanwa Poolseree

2.  "Paper Title," Nattawan Auscharanuwat

3.  "Paper Title," Suntipap Waikittipong

Respondent 1: Suttipong Pibanwong

Respondent 2: Thanwa Poolsaereee

Respondent 3: Siros Mahawattanaungkoon

 

8. Literary Readings

9:40–9:55 a.m.

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Final paper due


Week 17

Apr. 2

Final Exam (8:3011:30 a.m.) Dictionaries (electronic or paper) are not allowed in the exam room.


 

 


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