ENG 200: Reading and Writing about Literature (#57758)
FAll 2005
Instructor: Dr. Cajsa C. Baldini
Th6:05-8:55 PM Location: LL263
E-mail: | Office LL 547D | Office hours Fall 2005: Th 2:00-4:00 PM, F 9:00-10:30 AM or by appointment.
Course website:
Course readings: Kennedy & Gioia, Literature. An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama; Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein; and online texts and handouts.
This syllabus is tentative and subject to change. Changes will be announced in class or by email. It is the student’s responsibility to make note of changes and adjust his/her reading/writing schedule accordingly.
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August 25
- Introduction to the course, reading list, assignments, and requirements.
- Introduction to the Classical Epic
September 1
- Homer, The Iliad, Book XVI-XVIII
September 8
- Introduction to Medieval Literature
- Dante, Inferno, Canto V (
Canto XXXIII ( )
September 15
- Introduction to Formal Poetry
- Read: Chapter 19: “Closed Form” p. 608-622 (incl. sample poems)
- Renaissance poetry, Sonnets: Shakespeare, “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” p. 533, “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds”, p. 614-615, “My Mistress’s Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun”, p. 841; Ben Jonson, “Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount”, p. 595;
September 22
- Shakespeare, Othello, Act I-III
- Read: Auden, “Iago as a Triumphant Villain”, p. 1093, Bodkin, “Lucifer in Shakespeare’s Othello”, p. 1093-1094; “The Theater of Shakespeare”, p. 988-990, Aristotle, “Defining Tragedy”, p. 981-983
September 29
- Shakespeare, Othello, Act IV-V
- Read: Mason Vaughan, “Black and White in Othello” and Burgess “An Asian culture Looks at Shakespeare”, p. 1094-1096; Chapter 33: “Evaluating a Play”, p. 1189-1191
October 6
- Introduction to literary research and documentation, MLA
- Read: Chapter 40: “Writing a Research Paper”, p. 1469-1496
- Introduction to Literary Criticism
- Read: Chapter 41: “Critical Approaches to Literature”, sections on Psychological Criticism, Sociological Criticism (Marxism), Deconstructionism, Formalism, Biographical Criticism, Historical Criticism.
- Paper I thesis statement due. Submit by email.
October13
- Introduction to Milton
- Milton, Paradise Lost (selections tba)
October 20
- Introduction to Romanticism
- P.B. Shelley, Coleridge, Byron. Selections tba.
- Paper I due. Bring one copy to class for review. Submit copy for grading by e-mail.
October 27
- Introduction to The Novel
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Or, the New Prometheus, p. 1-77
- Articles: Percy Bysshe Shelley, “On Frankenstein” (1817), p. 185-186; Butler, “Frankenstein and Radical Science”
[October 27: “The Creative Economy and the Liberal Arts” –a lecture by Dan Shilling, Curator for the Humanities, Prescott’s Sharlot Hall Museum and winner of the 2005 ASU Alumni Achievement Award. | 4:00 p.m., ASUUniversity Club. ] NB! Student attendanceat this event is voluntary.
[October 28: “The Play’s the Thing”
a multi-genre performance by Department of English faculty, staff, students, & alumni. The evening will feature a staged reading of work by professor and playwright Jay Boyer, including his play Awkward Pauses, and an informal concert by English Department musicians, and 3. A reception. | 7:00--10:00 p.m., ASU MU Alumni Lounge (202).] NB! Student attendance at this event is voluntary.
November 3
- Mary Shelley, Frankensteinp.p. 77-156
- Articles: Veeder, “The Women of Frankenstein”; Gilbert & Gubar, “Mary Shelley’s Monstrous Eve”
November 10
- The short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Masque of Red Death.
November 17
- Introduction to Victorian Poetry
- Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”
- Elizabeth Browning, “How Do I Love Thee?”; Lord Tennyson, “Tears, Idle Tears”, p. 508; H.W. Longfellow, “Aftermath”, p. 483; Coventry Patmore, “The Angel in the House”,excerpt,
November 24: Thanksgiving. No class
December 1
- Modern Poetry, cont.: Modern Poets in Dialogue: Robert Pinsky, exerpts from Dante’s Inferno (handout); Walt Whitman, “To a Locomotive in Winter”, p. 452; Allen Ginsberg, “A Supermarket in California”, p. 799;
- Allen Ginsberg, “Howl”, excerpt (handout).
- Paper II due
December 8: Exam. 6:05-7:30 PM LL 221.
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Course Policies
Books and readings:
Kennedy & Gioia, Literature. An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama; Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein; and online texts and handouts. Some of the readings for this course will be available online. With works posted online, you will need to print the primary texts and bring the printout to class for reference. To save paper I recommend you print double-sided if possible. You should always bring the current readings of the day with you to class.
Books are available in the ASU Bookstore. If you already own a different edition of any of the listed works, please see me to discuss if this edition is acceptable for this course.
Attendance & Participation:
Attendance at all classes is mandatory. Students who miss four or more class meeting will be dropped one whole letter grade on final grade. Students who miss six or more class meetings cannot pass this course.
Classroom Protocol/Participation:
We will spend much of our class time in discussion and analysis of the works we are reading. Regardless of the class format, you are expected to be prepared, to listen, to contribute, and to participate in an interested and knowledgeable fashion. As literature is a highly audible art form students will be required to recite and read out loud in class. Always bring the texts of the day with you to class.
Grading:
Participation / 200Quizzes / 200
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Paper I[1] / 150Paper II (Research Paper)* / 250
Exam / 200
Total points / 1000
A=901-1000; B=801-900; C=701-800; D=601-700; E<600
+/- grades are awarded at the discretion of the instructor.
(Late) Paper/Assignment Submission Policy:
Assignments will be reduced ½ grade for every day they are late. All assignments are due by midnight on the due date. All written assignments should be submitted by e-mail (.doc or .rtf) to the instructor, and will be marked up and graded in MS Word. Assignments are due at midnight on the due date.
Essay/Paper Format:
Use MLA Format for citations. Paper I should be about 8-10 pages in scope. The final paper (Paper II), a critical research paper, should be approximately 10-12 pages in length. You should use at least four secondary sources for each paper. Only one of these sources may be an online source. For more information on how to use MLA style, visit the WritingCenter resource site A separate worksheet will be distributed for each writing assignment.
Quizzes and Exams:
Reading quizzes will be given frequently, and deal only with the primary readings due that day. Quizzes will be given the first 10 minutes of class, and cannot be made up if you are not present or arrive late.
The final exam will cover the primary and secondary readings, and lecture materials of the entire semester. Written course examination will be held on December 5, 10:40 – 11:30 AM in LL248.
E-mail policy:
I will frequently communicate important information to the class by e-mail. It is each student’s responsibility to a) provide me with a functioning e-mail address in a timely manner b) check his/her e-mail frequently c) make sure that my e-mails can be received (not having an overly full inbox, or intercepting spam-filter).
Academic Honesty:
A student who plagiarizes part or all of a written assignment will receive an E for the assignment and further disciplinary proceedings at the instructor’s discretion. Plagiarism occurs when a student claims credit for work s/he has not done personally, and includes submitting assignments produced by another student or writer, or putting sentences or ideas originally expressed by someone else into a paper without noting their source. At the college level of study, you ought to have mastered the ability to properly distinguish in writing between your own and other writers’ ideas using quotations, paraphrase, and in-text citation of source materials. If an assignment is found to be even partially plagiarized that assignment will automatically receive an E. Be aware that I am quite proficient with a search engine and with anti-plagiarism databases. In short, if you can find it online, so can I.
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[1] Separate worksheets with detailed instructions will be distributed for these assignments.