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Week 1 |
12.20.10 - 12.23.10 |
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Monday: |
Basic introduction
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Literary Analysis Process
Guidelines for Reading
Intertextuality
Literary Devices |
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• demo-Critical Analysis and the Reading Process |
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• demo-General Essay Guidelines |
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Types of Conflict
Literary Modes, Movements, and Genres of Literature
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• demo-Conflict and Classifiation |
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Definitions of: Myth • Fable • Parable • Folk Tales |
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Myth: Herakles Wrestling Death from the Greek Myth "Admetus and Alcestis"
Fable: Aesop, "The Old Man and Death"
Parable: Buddha, "The Parable of the Elephant"
Folk Tales: Alabama-Coushatta Native American Folk Tale
>Coyote as Trickster-Animal Spirit Guide |
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Figurative Language • Archetypes and Symbol • Elements of Fairy Tales
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• demo |
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Creating a Literary Analysis |
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• demo: Literary Criticism Overview (pages 1-9)
• demo: Freytag's Pyramid |
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Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm “The Goose Girl” |
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Tuesday: |
Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm “God Father Death”
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Short Story Structure • Setting •
Creating a Literary Analysis-part 2 |
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• demo: Comparisons of Elements
• demo: Literary Criticism Overview (pages 10-20) |
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Group Activity 01 |
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Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis due Tuesday 12.28.10 |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” p 225 |
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• demo: Fertility Symbols ||revised 10.01.10 |
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• demo 2: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Transcendentalism |
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Wednesday: |
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” p 236 |
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• demo-Types of Narration and Irony |
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• demo-Gothic Ideology
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Kate Chopin, “The Story of An Hour” p 246
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• demo-Chopin ||revised 10.01.10 |
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Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p 294 |
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• demo-Hemingway |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” supplemental |
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Thursday: |
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” p 287
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• demo-Definition of Tragic Hero
>Faulkner's Interpretation
>William Faulkner on the Web |
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James Joyce, “Eveline” p 3 |
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• demo-Definition of Anti-Hero
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Week 2 |
12.27.10 - 12.30.10 |
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Monday: |
Richard Wright, “A Man Almost a Man” p 306 |
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Midterm |
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Library Orientation: Literary Databases
Final project outlined: Five page essay, with MLA Work Cited Page , due 01.03.11
Guidelines for Declaring a Thesis
Formal declaration of thesis, due 12.30.10.
Select five articles, for research, due Wednesday 12.29.10 |
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• Student example-paper comparing E.A. Poe with N. Hawthorne |
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Flash Fiction
Virginia Woolf “A Haunted House” supplemental
Sandra Cisneros “Geraldo No Last Name” p 392
Carolyn Forche “The Colonel” supplemental |
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• demo |
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Emily St. John Mandel, "Hint Fiction: Brevity is the Soul of What?" |
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NPR news item: "Hint Fiction Celebrates The (Extremely) Short Story" |
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(To listen to archive recording of item, click here.) |
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Tuesday: |
How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry |
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• demo |
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Eve Merriam "How to Eat a Poem"
William Carlos Williams, "This is Just to Say" |
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English/Irish Folk Ballads |
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• demo-Ballads |
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•video: "Lucy Wan"
•video: "The Unquiet Grave"
•video: "I am Stretched on Your Grave" |
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Poetical Devices and Terminologies
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• demo |
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Haiku p 513-514, supplemental |
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• demo |
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Wednesday: |
William Carlos Williams, “Danse Russe” p 600, “The Red Wheelbarrow” p 601
e. e. cummings, “l(a” “13” supplemental |
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T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 602
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• video: Recitation of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
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• demo |
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Sylvia Plath, “Lady Lazarus” supplemental
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“Miror” p 637 |
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• video: Sylvia Plath Reads "Lady Lazarus"
> Sylvia Plath's son Nicholas Hughes commits suicide || March 16, 2009 |
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• demo |
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Ted Hughes, "Suttee" supplemental |
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Emily Dickinson, “I Like a Look of Agony” supplemental |
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>The Ecstasy of St. Theresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini — closeup and Full image |
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Basic Outline for Analytical Research: Step-by-Step |
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Last Day for Dropping Courses with Grade of “W” |
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Thursday: |
Formal Declaration of Thesis for Final Project due || Continue Research
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William Blake “The Sick Rose” p 573
Two versions of “The Chimney Sweep” supplemental
e. e. cummings, “in Just” p 608 |
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History of the Sonnet supplemental |
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• demo |
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Francesco Petrarch, Henry Howard, Edmund Spencer, attributed to W. Shakespeare |
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Dissection of Two English Renaissance Sonnets |
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Reveiw of Three Popular Sonnet Formulas |
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Other Examples: |
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, “Spiritedly, She Considers the Choice—” supplemental
Lady Mary Wroth supplemental
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Week 3 |
01.03.11 - 01.04.11 |
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Monday: |
William Shakespeare
“Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” p 487
“Sonnet 29: When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes” p 564
“Sonnet 130: My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun” p 566 |
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> Illustration |
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e. e. cummings, three poems supplemental |
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John Berryman, “Sonnet 115” supplemental |
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John Donne, “Death Be Not Proud” p 567 |
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William Wordsworth, “The World Is Too Much With Us” p 575 |
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Marylin Hacker, “You Did Say, Need Me Less and I’ll Want You More” supplemental |
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Final Paper due |
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Tuesday: |
Final Exam
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