Reading and Analysis for the Study of English Literature

Announcements	! Course feedback welcome: We'd appreciate your frank and fair impressions, comments and suggestions for the course to help us make it better. You can download the evaluation form, fill it out digitally or in writing, and mail it back to acharn Puckpan with someone else's e-account to keep your anonymity or put the print out in the brown envelope in acharn Puckpan's box at the end of the hall past her BRK 1106 office. On the online CU-CAS evaluation, students originally in section 5, please evaluate acharn Tapanat first, then if you also want to comment on another instructor, write in the optional further comments section. Thanks very much for a stimulating semester. It's been fun working with you all. ! Midterm Marks: All sections click here to see how you did on the midterm. Marks are identified by student ID in ascending order. Scroll to the last line for the course mean of each question and the total and percentage. ! Lit Lunch happens every Monday. All are welcome to bring lunch and come chat about literature and anything else during the noon hour in the Arts cafeteria. Look for a table near the teacher's tables with the "Lit Lunch" sign on it.
Course Outline	Class Time: M 11–12, Th 8–10 Required Texts Course packet (available at BRK Co-op Photocopy Center) J. B. Priestley, An Inspector Calls (1947) Neena Beber, Misreadings (1997) J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) Syllabus (download pdf file) Detailed Schedule 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 3–5-page final paper.
Studying Literature	Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. 3^rd ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2008. Print. (Law Q180.55.M4 B66c 2008) Graff, Gerald, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst. They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. 2^nd ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 2011. Print. 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
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) 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
Links	British Library : Online Gallery London Theatre Guide Playbill Reading Room ("Conversations about Great Books"; blog) Hay Festival Littoral (online journal of the Key West Literary Seminar) 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 Electronic Databases JSTOR Project MUSE Academic Search Complete Art Full Text Oxford Journals Online Cambridge Journals Online
Essential References		MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7^th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009. Print.
		Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. 11^th ed. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 2003. Print.
		Oxford English Dictionary. 2^nd ed. 20 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989. Print.
		Roget's International Thesaurus. 7^th ed. Ed. Barbara Ann Kipfer. New York: Harper, 2010. Print.
		The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4^th ed. Eds. Roland Greene, et al. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2012. Print.