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Survey of English Literature (I)
Spring 2003
106 Oesolkwan
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 1:00-1:50 a.m.
Section: AL186-03
Instructor: Inchol Yoo
Office: 509 Jonghapkwan (Office of English Instructors)
Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday 11-12 a.m.
Office Phone: 2123-4707
Email:
Course Description
This is a sophomore survey course of English literature covering the Middle Ages up to the eighteenth century. Particular attention will be given to major English authors but we will try hard to include minor ones as well. Although this course is mainly designed for the first-time reader of early English literature, it will also bring new perspectives to those who have already had some experiences in it.
Texts
The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Vol. One. 7th edition. M.H. Abrams
and Stephen Greenblatt, eds. New York: W.W. Norton , 2000.
Recommended Text
조신권.정신사적으로본 영미문학:중세편. 한신문화사 (1994).
Grading Formula:
Explicationexercises: 12 pts.
Attendance, in-class writing, assignment
and class participation: 8 pts.
Mid-term and final exams: 80 pts. (40 pts. each)
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TOTAL 100 pts.
Descriptions of Explication (3 pts. x 4 = 12 pts.):
Your explication should be double-spaced, and wordprocessed or typed. Use 12 font-size. Take 5 to 10 lines from ONE of the works we discussed in the previous weeks, and write 2-page explication about the passage in English or in Korean. Your explication should demonstrate your in-depthinterpretation of the literary work.
Class Schedule (subject to change with prior notice)
[Old English Literature]
Week 1
3/3 (M) Introduction to the course.
3/5 (W) Bede "The Story of Caedmon" and "Caedmon's Hymn" (24-26)
3/7 (F) The Dream of the Rood (26-28)
Week 2
3/10 (M) Beowulf "Prologue"(l1.1-85); "Heorot Is Attacked" (ll.86-188);
"The Fight With Grendel"(ll.662-835)
3/12 (W) Beowulf "Beowulf Fights Grendel's Mother" (ll.1383-1650);
"Beowulf's Funeral" (ll.2821-3180)
3/14 (F) The Wanderer (100-102)
[Middle English Literature]
Week 3
3/17 (M) Legendary Histories of Britain (115-24)
3/19 (W) Marie de France Lanval (127-40)
3/21 (F) Ancrene Riwle (154-55); Explication #1 due
Week 4
3/24 (M) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Parts 1 & 2 (158-81)
3/26 (W) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Parts 3 & 4 (181-210)
3/28 (F) Chaucer The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (215-35)
Week 5
3/31 (M) Chaucer The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale "The Prologue" (253-72)
4/2 (W) Chaucer The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale "The Tale" (272-81)
4/4 (F) Chaucer Retraction (313); Lyrics and Occasional Verse (314-16)
Week 6
4/7 (M) Langland The Vision of Piers Plowman "The Prologue" (319-22)
4/9 (W) Julian of Norwich A Book of Showings (356-66)
4/11 (F) Kempe The Book of Margery Kempe (367-78)
Week 7
4/14 (M) Malory Morte Darthur (421-39); Explication #2 due
4/16 (W) Medieval Drama Everyman (446-67)
4/18 (F) Review
Week 8: Mid-term Exam
[The Sixteenth Century]
Week 9
4/28 (M) Spenser The Shepheardes Calender "October" (617-22)
4/30 (W) Spenser Faerie Queene Book 1, Canto 1 (628-42)
5/2 (F) Sidney Astrophel and Stella (917-31)
Week 10
5/5 (M) No class (Children's Day)
5/7 (W) Marlowe Hero and Leander (971-89)
5/9 (F) Shakespeare Sonnets (1029-43)
[The Seventeenth Century]
Week 11
5/12 (M) Donne Songs and Sonnets (1236-54);
Walton The Life of Dr. John Donne (1583-87)
5/14 (W) Donne Holy Sonnets (1268-72)
5/16 (F) Jonson Epigrams (1393-99); Explication #3 due
Week 12
5/19 (M) Herbert The Temple (1597-1615)
5/21 (W) Vaughan Silex Scintillans (1617-29); Crashaw (1630-43)
5/23 (F) Herrick (1644-55); Marvell (1685-1704)
Week 13
5/26 (M) Milton L'Allegro, Il Penseroso (1782-90) cf. Johnson (2739-40)
5/28 (W) Milton Lycidas (1791-96) cf. Johnson (2738-39); Sonnets (1812-15)
5/30 (F) Dryden An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (2114-18)
[The Eighteenth Century]
Week 14
6/2 (M) Pope An Essay on Criticism (2509-25)
6/4 (W) Pope The Dunciad (2574-79)
6/6 (F) No class (Memorial Day)
Week 15
6/9 (M) Johnson The Preface to Shakespeare (2725-36); Explication #4 due
6/11 (W) Johnson A Dictionary of the EnglishLanguage "Preface" (2719-23)
6/13 (F) Review
Week 16: Final Exam